Overview

What we will do in this lesson:

• Individualize the WordPress blog

Now we will answer the question why we picked a Wordpress blog while there are a lot of more comfortable ways of publishing blogs. It´s all about the oportunities to individualize the design of the wordpress blog.

Our target:

The first impression of the website is not to look like a blog, that means it should look as professional as possible!

Go to http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/ and search through the 1000+ database of free themes. Pick one which supports widgets. You can also take a look on this site

If you found a good looking theme download it. Regular it is a *.zip file. Do not open the file.

Go to your WordPress Blog to “Appearance” -> “Add new Themes” -> “Upload” -> choose the zip file

After uploading the new theme press the “Activate” button and the new theme is installed correctly.

That was the simple design changing

But there are some more complicated changes you can do to let your blog look like a regular non-blog website. WordPress provides the opportunity to change ALL php files, but only use this funktion when you know what you do. One more note: This is a wordpress blog too as you can see on the botom of the page. Do not remove the label, WordPress is freeware and part of the GNU project.  Let this footer being visible.

But you can change the style of the Template Index PHP file to individualize the main look. This one is diffrent in every theme, so I can not help you in this point.

Before changing something, always make a backup!

Have a individual look now? Continue with lesson 5