How To Find The Best Template For Your Blog

Believe it or not, your current template can be pushing people away, decreasing traffic and reducing your chances of reaching the largest possible audience. Templates don't need to be complicated to navigate, or to use and it's a good idea to choose a template through testing and paying attention to users comments.

One of the most important factors in choosing a blog template is to completely understand what your intention is. This means making sure that you are clear on what you want to accomplish with your blog, whether it be to provide information or simply to express yourself. Your purpose should dictate how your blog is laid out. A blog made to showcase products will therefore have a much different layout than one that is featuring your poetry.

Another important factor to consider is how comfortable you are making edits to your blog. If you're a relative novice with computers and the Internet, you may want to stick with templates that are premade and easy to use, like those created for the Wordpress or Joomla platforms. These each have user friendly interfaces that don't require you to be a genius to get started blogging. If you'll be adding images or other objects, using a pre-made Wordpress or Joomla theme can make it easy to configure and upload them. 

When choosing a theme for your personal blog, you also want to keep it as simple as possible. Bells and whistles are nice, but they don't increase traffic and they can, in fact, frustrate visitors, making them avoid your blog. Sound can annoy people too, especially if you've chosen for it to play automatically when a visitors lands on your home page. Allow visitors to have control over whether they want to experience bells and whistles like music or snazzy graphics. 

Most important when creating or changing your blog template is to test the template regularly. Don't wait for user interest and visits to drop like a rock, act like a user and see how easy your blog template is to load and navigate. Make changes and monitor user comments and traffic in response. You won't be left to guess which template is most suitable for your personal blog.