Do I Need A New Blog Template? Thesis Is Here

UPDATE – 27 May 2010 - I felt compelled to discuss this article because I’m seeing many affiliate marketers do the same big mistakes when they build their first blog. Now you’re probably wondering what this mistake is. The answer is simple. The answer is: They use a bad web site template.

In my long blogging journey(4 years right now), I’ve tried a lot of free templates, especially when I was a newbie blogger, and I must admit some of that were good templates. However, I realized immediately that something’s missing with a free templates. They do not had both widget and support, which are two important factor to consider if you want get serious with affiliate marketing.

Do I Need A New Blog Template?

As my esperience with affiliate marketing is grown, I had needed of a new template that could simplify my workday.

If you want to make money from a blog, you need to customize layout and design, often and quickly, and without using professional web templates become very hard to do if you don’t have technical knowledge of PHP and CSS.

Customize Your Blog Template With Thesis Is Very Fast

thesis-theme

Often, I’ve noticed, there are a lot of bloggers that try to make money online with their blog by using a bad template, maybe even outdated. For instance, with my first WordPress theme, I need to change the PHP code each time I want to customize the layout for my website, change the background colors, font, and so on. Whenever, the entire process taking me a lot of time and effort before to complete it.

Recently, I’ve tweet a question about which are the most complete WordPress theme for affiliate marketers. Well, I’ve received a few direct messages on TwitterDeck where some people have answered they were using Thesis Theme.

It’s not the first time I talk about it. This is a very powerful theme for WordPress blog that has been developed by Chris Pearson. I can attest this because I use it on my latest site cabinrentalsideas.com as you can see.

If you don’t have enough PHP and CSS knowledge, this theme can give you a great hand to help you to create and manage a professional blog without effort. You can customize your blog design, and definitely does optimize it for search engines and give you a lot more features to your blog rather than the default WordPress theme.

Thesis Overview

Before you go spending you money you need know what is better for your business, right? First and foremost, Thesis theme has three main positive aspects:

Simple to Use – Thesis is quite intuitive, and is easy to use and I’m sure Chris will continue to add new features and ways to use the theme.

Design – Looks very clean.

SEO – Thesis allows you to optimize any blog post in order to rank well in Google.

It has had a lot of reviews around the blogosphere and it is no wonder – because it’s full of great features such as:

People can select the number of columns of sidebar, and the width as well.
Choose the font, size and type in all the different sections of the theme.
The theme also allows you to choose either version within one overall theme.
The SEO control is another great options that allows you to control the seo of each post.

With Thesis theme you are able to have a great control through two control panel menus. Also, has a free support forum, that compared to others premium theme support is very active, and queries are very quick. With over 21,000 webmasters and bloggers you can get a great help from Thesis Certified Designers, and a lot of your peers who simply enjoy lending a helping hand.

It’s easily customizable. Chris has create a theme that has rich options(image below), such as support for custom CSS, can have different backgrounds and much more.

Here, a sum of the main features:

Choose between 1, 2, or 3 column layouts and select the size of each column
Create strong navigation menus
Thumbnails images, and teasers
Create a magazine-style layout
Customize colors design without code
Edit font types and sizes
Display rotating multimedia
. . . and much more

Below is a demo video from DIYthemes showing how it works but it’s very simple in concept.

Though it may have seemed like a long post, it’s just the tip of the iceberg on functionality that you have acess to through Thesis.

Thesis Theme has a lot more options and features to justify the non-free price, $87 for the basic version and $164 for Multi-use Package. Thesis is very professional theme with great admin panels. For common sites is a great choices.

Tags: template, theme, thesis

This work is licenced under a Creative Commons Licence.

Nicola Deiana

My name is Nicola Deiana, started blogging in August 2006, and I’m a full time Blogger making living from this new technology. I’m a honest blogger who want tell you all that you must know to be a freelance publisher writer and how I made to make money online from this job.

4 Responses to “Do I Need A New Blog Template? Thesis Is Here”

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Jonny says:

March 6, 2010 at 9:47 pm

I bought Thesis and it is quality gear.

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Jonny Reply:
March 6th, 2010 at 9:49 pm
@Jonny, I’m very happy with Thesis, especially after I used it on my blog cabinrentalsideas

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carl says:

April 6, 2010 at 1:06 pm

Another thesis fan here.This theme is excellent, very easy to use and customize. Thanks for review.

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Nicola Deiana Reply:
April 6th, 2010 at 1:10 pm
@carl, Thanks Carl!

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