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Written by Blog Theme Editor
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 Choosing a blog template is a fun part of preparing the look of your new blog or the re-design of your exisitng blog. Searching for blog templates can produce many results and you might be a little confused about the advantages of certain templates over others. Selecting your blog template is just the first step of customizing a new blog template to fit your blog theme. For corporate, professional, and commercial blog themes we highly recommend you invest in a professional designer to style or customize your blog theme.
Free blog templates are a popular choice and the blog themes are usually presented free based on the author credit that is retained by the blog designer. One of the factors you'll want in your new blog template is a widget ready template. This allows you to put widgets and information in the sidebar with a simple drag and drop.
Many of the new blog templates available at major blog template / theme sites will also have typography examples and a live template demo so you can play with the theme to see if it fits your blog concept.
General Blog Template Sites:
BlogSkins.com - Free skins for Blogger and Movable Type
Blogger-templates.blogspot.com - Blogger geared Templates
Blogtemplates.org - Free blog tempaltes
eBlogTemplates.com - Blogger and Wordpress Premium Templates
Blog.Templates.com - Website Geared Templates with Some Blogger Resources
DreamTemplate.com - Dream Template is a Premium Template Provider
CMS based templates and paid templates usually offer a better fit with the planned blog publishing system to be utilized. Wordpress, Typepad, Squarespace, Blogger, and MovableType offer theme communities with plenty of templating options.
For paid templates, expect to pay about $12 to $50 for a quality template. Even with a paid template, if you are starting a blog for a commercial business or entity you should pay a designer $200 to $2000 to provide the custom enhancements that will make this tempalte unique to your commercial purpose.
For a completely custom designed template, you can higher a freelance template designer for around $50 to $500. For a professional designer with demonstrated design examples and capabilities you should expect to pay $5000+ for a completely unique and custom blog theme for your business. For businesses that can afford this type of investment, you will be rewarded many times over by creating a unique design and supporting your corporate marketing and branding guidelines within this new brand element. Remember, a blog should also demonstrate a more candid and creative form of communication with your public audience than your website homepage.
If you're not sure how to search for templates based on the niche you plan to blog, here are some new blog template search ideas. Use a similar concept phrase to find other potential templates that might be a fit for your own theme. If you are starting a blog about the Colorado Mountains, then also consider using "Skiing Blog Templates" as a target phrase.
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Once you have located your blog template, don't forget to consider hiring a freelance designer to perform some tweaking to your specific blog purpose. If you do select a free blog template, look at the blog template author first as an option for a customization to your own specific blog theme.
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