Comments on: Selecting Blog Design Options – Free / Premium / Custom

By: Syed Balkhi

Syed Balkhi — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 00:21:00 +0000

sometimes you need to invest some into your business. I have learned that from all my experience. I used to keep all of my revenue and save it. Advertise only via free methods. Than I realized, that doesn’t work best. I started investing in promotion and more, and then I saw better results.

By: Dr. Teeth

Dr. Teeth — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 00:04:11 +0000

I would rather go with a free template, since the designers charge a lot and that’s out of my budget

By: UK

UK — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 11:50:33 +0000

It really depends on your level of experience, your target market and the content (to some degree). If you are blogging about the latest technical breakthrus in the gaming industry then you should be looking at a unique blog – one about your person trials and tribulations then there are enough free ones to be getting on with.

Thanks for the heads up about the revolution theme, I’ll be taking a closer look at those

James.

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By: Syed Balkhi

Syed Balkhi — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 22:00:35 +0000

Not true. Because most of the times people won’t take you serious if you run on a free template. I won’t probably even remember your site. Because there are too many like it on the web. So you will never get famous. Waiting to get famous is silly…

By: Syed Balkhi

Syed Balkhi — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 21:57:16 +0000

Yup the niche of the blog matters. Perhaps I should write a post about that also

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Make money online — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 21:13:00 +0000

unless you are successful, you can go with free themes..

By: Ultimate Blogging Experiment

Ultimate Blogging Experiment — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:58:27 +0000

Blog design is very important. I think it is always better to have a blog is on that someone else will not have. So I would not recommend going with a free blog design. You can go with a free blog design as long as you change a lot of the graphics and colors. It is pretty easy to change this with CSS on WordPress.

By: Justin Dupre

Justin Dupre — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 11:39:54 +0000

That is all really down to what you are pushing on your blog. There is no reason to use a custom theme on a blog that you don’t need a shiz load of visitors for, like personal diary type blogs.

However, if you are marketing a product or unique content that could add to leads, it might be something you want to think about.

Justin Dupre
http://justindupre.com
Affiliate Marketing with an Attitude