Maintaining your own website or blog is becoming more popular. More and more companies are moving online and discovering the possibilities of e-commerce. The Webmaster Profession is in Demand. However, anyone can master the creation of sites at a basic level., more precisely, I would say to make a good prototype for myself, to try to go online to sell your services or products.

The most successful choice for your own blog or information portal is WordPress CMS. You can read more about the technical aspects of the “Engine” on my website, and this article is more of an overview and my thoughts on choosing a template and when it may be necessary.

The platform is as simple and intuitive as possible. With the help of built-in functions and plug-ins, you can implement a variety of possibilities.. If you do not understand the technical aspects of developing high-quality sites and it is difficult for you to explain, what should your site look like to a developer, then you can always choose a theme and try to create a site based on it, and only then give the prototype for high-quality study to the programmer.

Choose a WordPress Template for Your First Website

When creating their first WordPress site, many are faced with the problem of choosing the right design.. By design, color solutions, content and media placement meets template or theme. At the moment, there are several thousand of them in the WordPress directory., and various marketplaces have even more, so choosing a topic for beginners becomes a real challenge. Of the paid sites, I would advise ThemeForest due to the wide range of topics.

Tips for Choosing a WordPress Theme

It is possible to make the task easier, if you follow simple tips:

1. Define template requirements

Probably you have mentally imagined the future site more than once. What should he be? What topic? What content is planned to be placed on it? To make things easier, make a plan or draw a diagram of the site on a regular sheet of paper. Based on clear requirements, it is much easier to find a topic. Many details of the future theme can be selected using the filter in the repository or marketplace, where tick the desired blocks.

2. Pay attention to content placement

The growth in the number of sites dictates increased requirements for their quality.. Search engines have now learned to identify hastily made resources with inconvenient navigation and content wandering around the page. To avoid this, choose a theme according to your theme. To know, how pages look in the template structure, articles, galleries possible, by viewing the demo on the developer's website.

3. Define theme functionality

This point overlaps with the first tip.. It can be difficult for a beginner to immediately determine the functionality of the theme.. Design and placement visible to all, but the functions become known later, when, for example, is found, that the site does not have “breadcrumbs” or does not maintain links with pages in social networks. Such "usefulness" can be implemented with plugins., but theme developers often add them to paid versions of templates. For a beginner, it is better to choose a paid theme with built-in functionality.. It's important not to overdo it. A site overloaded with all sorts of effects will repel visitors and make the site slow, and search engines, as is known, love fast sites.

4. Feel free to contact the developers

WordPress Themes Don't Randomly Appear. They are created by programmers.. And it's a share of their earnings. Every developer wants to have more clients. Therefore, theme creators offer help in customizing the template. This should not be neglected. Even if the theme is free, a good programmer will always give at least a minimum of information, and sometimes for little money will help you set it up, the main thing is that you clearly understand, what your site will look like or have a clear site layout.

5. Reviews and topic posting time

Reviews will help you choose a good theme. It is important here not to succumb to emotions and evaluate information critically.. Quality templates may have negative reviews from beginners, who are not understanding the settings, write about the flaws of the creators. Therefore, when evaluating the topic from the side, it is better to listen to the opinion of familiar webmasters or people, who do you trust. It is also important to watch new topics with a lot of positive feedback., usually such themes look much better and are of better quality.

I would not advise you to make sites on themes all the time and hope to break all competitors, though the templates work, and also get into the search, but they will not be able to really compete strongly with the TOP competitors of search results, since their speed will always be lower than that of a site made from scratch. Advantages of a site made from scratch with a good design, including vector elements and prepared images, high-quality adaptive layout made for retina displays, professional stretching of the template on CMS.

I'd like to note, that with proper development and stretching of the site theme from scratch, the admin panel has only the necessary and convenient elements, and the engine itself is not overloaded with additional plugins, scripts and styles, template sharpened under your business, not under everything. The loading speed of a site made from scratch will be from 3 before 12 times faster, if you do everything right.

I still advise using site templates more as a prototype, to explain, what do you want to see on the website of your developer.