Bloggers Passion

Now you have decided to become a serious blogger, have selected the niche for your blog and have bought domain name and hosting, what next? Your fingers might be itching to start blogging right away. But wait; have you checked the default WordPress theme? If yes, don’t you find it very simple and boring? Being a WordPress blog with an own domain and hosting, your blog deserve much better than this.

There are hundreds of WordPress themes available on the internet divided in two categories.

1. Premium WordPress themes- these are specially developed themes for professional

A week ago, I stumbled upon a new blog to read- SiteSketch101. I found the blog very interesting in every way. The content, the design and the layout, everything was perfect. What impressed me the most about the blog was the navigation of the blog? The blog admin is using some custom built theme for his blog and I am damn sure that every penny he has spent on the blog’s theme is proving its worth. He has the best theme for his blog and I have become the fan of his navigation style.

Navigation has always been a neglected part by majority of the bloggers when it comes to theme designing. They pay full attention to

Blog contest is one of the best ways to get huge amount of traffic and increase the number of RSS subscribers. I have participated in few blog contests and was lucky to grab last prize $25 in one of them. And this is what I learnt about holding a contest to gain maximum benefits from it.

1. Promote your contest hugely- a contest will die as soon as you start it if you do not get participant for it. Promote your contest like mad blogger. Spread it in orkut, Facebook, twitter, digg, and stumble upon, wherever you can. Dedicate a separate contest page and tweet it everyday. Include the contest link at the bottom of every post. Add your

Shifting to WordPress was very exciting for me for many reasons. I was very happy to get my blog running with my own hosting. Secondly, it felt very nice whenever I thought of installing new plugins and administering my blog. And third reason, not that important but important enough for me to get carried over, I will get to choose the theme of my blog and monitoring every stage of its development. But the search was tough once I started looking for free themes. It was a tough decision to make and I have to make one.

I got the theme I was looking for (not exactly) and after a month or so