Aside from the free templates, the site has some pretty good stuff on it. First of all, their gallery has some amazing sites in it, which they say they pick themselves. You can browse the gallery according to category or color. They also have some fabulous free wallpaper, which could spice up your desktop, as well as interesting links in their News section.

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If you hover over a thumbnail, it tells you the name of the theme, and if you click on it, it takes you to the post page for that theme, where you can see a bigger screen shot and a short description of the theme. There, you can click on the theme and go to the theme’s home page.

In addition, the bottom of the site has descriptive tags for all the themes. So if you’re looking for a theme with a certain width, color, or style, you just click on the tag and you get a screen full of thumbnails of themes for that tag.

Here’s are a few themes that I saw there that I thought were pretty nice:

• Freicurv
• Shifter
• PocketT
• Rhea

Nothing is set in stone, so we can always go back, but I kind of got sick of looking at the old theme.

But I’ve rarely heard people say that a fantastic blog design will be the key to blogging success. Well, Blogsolid is a good case study of how a unique and beautiful design can bring in torrents of readers.

Blogsolid officially launched on July 31st. The content on the site is pretty good, but not anything out of the ordinary. By August 9, the blog was picked up by a bunch of web design galleries. The onslaught of visitors crashed the poor guy’s servers for 12 hours.

Blogsolid’s design and architecture are brilliant. The blog has three categories, which appear on the home page as options for entering the blog. You can also enter the general blog by clicking on the header (this should probably be made clearer somehow – I think there should be four options for entering the blog, i.e. the three categories plus the blog with everything).

Of course, the guy/gal behind Blogsolid is a graphic designer, and it shows. As we’re not all graphic designers, we can theoretically pay someone for a unique design. However, blogging is not always the most profitable of activities, so this is often not viable. But this case study just goes to show how significant design can be in the success of your blog. So try to make sure your blog is presentable and professional, either by creating your own design, or carefully selecting and customizing an existing theme.

(I am working on customizing a new theme for WordPressGarage as we speak – even I can’t stand the way this blog looks anymore!)

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