One of the fun things about blogging is that you get to give your blog a theme. Whether you’ve picked what you’ll be writing about and need a graphic theme (aka layout) for your blog, or you need a topic you’re going to blog about, giving your blog a theme can be great fun. A lot of times, the topic of your blog is going to affect the theme your blog has.

WordPress is the platform that uses themes for the most part, although you can change layouts/themes on Blogger, LiveJournal etc as well. If you happen to use Nucleus, that also allows you to use themes although theirs are different from WordPress themes. Basically the theme is the graphic interface of the blog – the graphics and colors that visitors see when the visit your blog. The theme can be a big part of what makes people come back. Interesting themes, changed often, but not too often can bring visitors back. On the flip side, your content should be the real reason people are coming back, but we’ll talk about that later. Some people like to put up one theme and not change from that theme, feeling that the theme helps “build the brand” of their blog. This is fine as well. It is definitely the preference of the blogger.

Now for a quick example of choosing a theme. Let’s say your blog is about sleep. You love sleep and you want to promote it, talk about it, etc. You might choose a theme featuring the sleep number bed or you might create a theme that shows a sleeping person or a bed on it. You might simply choose a non-graphic theme in soothing colors meant to enhance your feeling of tiredness/sleepyness. It’s up to you. But if at all possible, your theme should be able to reflect your blog’s niche.

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