Wow! WordPress Themes are everywhere.  Do a search, you will have no trouble at all finding themes available for you to use.  The thing is, which one?

There are literally thousands of themes available, and most of them are free. Free to the point that the creators rarely even ask for a couple bucks for their work.  Often times you are asked to keep the credits intact.  The credits include a link to the authors web page, which gives the creator more "link juice" for SEO reasons.

Most free themes are pretty basic, 1 column, 2 column, 3 column, widget ready or not and etc.  The colors are mixed up and header and background images look different, other than that most of the free themes are basic.

With a free theme normally you need to do a lot of modifying with the graphics, css layouts, widgets, and installation and customization of plugins.

This is all fine for someone who knows how to turn a free theme into a fine tuned pimped out self-customized theme, which can be very rewarding.  But for someone who wants to make a splash and create a large and in charge presence on the web, without the knowledge to customize a theme, a premium theme is your answer.

For example, check out the Revolution Theme site.  While it might not be immediately evident without installing the theme and seeing all the extra tabs in WordPress that it gives you for easy WSIWYG editing, but that is why paying a few bucks for the theme is worth it.  It saves you hours of time, more like days and weeks, believe me.

I know that after looking at another premium theme like Omni, that the depth and complication of the layout on the demo pages looks like a designers headache.  The thing is, with some extra work at properly coding a theme, the options in your WordPress admin appear and make it easy as click here and type here.

There are many more reasons that if you are serious about publishing a web site using WordPress for the back end that it make sense to get a hold of a theme that someone has really put a lot of work into to make your life better and easier, but I will point those out in another post.

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