When it comes to choosing a theme for your WordPress-based website there are three options you can take:
- Design one yourself
- Hire someone to design you a theme
- Buy a template
Most people will place an instant, mental evaluation next to each of those options. Such as:
- Design one yourself ( $0 )
- Hire someone to design you a theme ( $500+ )
- Buy a template ( $100 )
Designing a theme yourself has to be cheapest, you’re doing all the work, right? Wrong. To design a website you need design software, and the most popular design software (Adobe Photoshop) costs over $500. Suddenly designing your website doesn’t look so cost effective any more. This is without taking other factors into consideration, such as the countless hours which must be spent learning design.
Hiring someone to design your theme is a fantastic option, providing you find the right designer and you have the budget. However, not all of us have the budget, so we’re not going to focus on that today.
This leaves us with buying a template. Buying templates is great, you get a professionally designed theme for a fraction of the cost. Sure, someone else will have the same design but unless they are in your industry you may never visit their website, and you can always customise your template a bit – it’s a lot easier than completely designing and coding a theme from scratch!
There is only one WordPress template company we recommend and that is the fantastic WooThemes. Each and everyone of their themes is of exceedingly high quality and they are available in multiple colour schemes for that extra touch of customisation.
And how much will it cost you, $75. $75 for not one, but two themes as they are running a buy one get one free offer. So essentially you are receiving two themes at $37.50, exceptional value for your money.
WootThemes have over 50 themes for you to choose from and each theme comes with instructions showing you how to get the theme live on your wordpress blog within minutes.
But don’t take out word for it, head over to their site and check out their brilliant designs and their brilliant theme designs, you will be impressed!
