Theme Shopping
One of the great things about WordPress is how easily you can customize the look of it. Right away I wanted to ditch the boring default theme. But I wanted something that would represent the absolute craziness of my life. Good luck!!!
I went through lots of themes that I really liked. I started out looking for something with a clock in it, but had no luck. I did find Watch2, but that was too serious or something. A Method of Life is nice. I like the graphic of the girl, except she’d need to have red hair. Also, I decided it was way too calm for me. Coffee Chick is cute and I dig the retro vibe. I really, really like my coffee, so that’s why I considered it. But, again, it just didn’t fit my overall theme.
I finally settled on the current theme, Working Girl. It is fun, but seems to communicate the frenzy of trying to get my work done. Really, she needs to have another arm with a feather duster, another arm with a baby, another arm stirring a pot, etc. And (how is this for meant to be?) it was just posted on my birthday! So, I’m sticking with this for now. I’d really like to work up my own soon, though.
I am completely overwhelmed by the sheer number of themes that are available. How does one ever find just the right one? I tried searching the official WordPress theme site using keywords like “mom”, “mommy”, “work”, “kids”, etc. but really didn’t come up with much that struck my fancy. I googled like crazy and still didn’t come up with anything. There has to be a better way! Or, are you just supposed to hire someone who will build what you want? Maybe that’s the idea, I don’t know. I would just say that if someone can come up with one site that has all of these themes with sane keywords assigned (other than “left sidebar”, “blue”, etc.) and make the whole bloody thing searchable, that would be awesome!