How To Choose A Good Theme/Template For Your Blog

Wether you are a Blogger using WordPress or Blogspot you no doubt at a point had to decide which theme suits best for your website. You might have also had a hard time making a choice and probably ask others for recommendations. The truth is that when it has to do with choosing a theme such decisions such not be made hastily. The themes or templates you choose for your website can go a long way to either affect your website positively or negatively. That should remind on how important a good theme is and how a bad one can damage your website.

What are Themes or templates? Themes also referred to as templates are pre-designed appearance of our your blog would look like. Each templates has their unique navigation, menu and structure. There are both free and premium templates available on the internet each with a demo of what you website will look like if you were to download and upload it to your website. I believe we all have different taste when it comes to design. However, when it has to do with website templates it isn't just about the looks but also how it functions.

That being said, today we are going to talk about characteristics of a good theme which help you decide which one's best for you. We'll also specifically mention best themes you can make use of. Make sure you read this article to the end so that you fully understand everything.

1. Good Navigation Theme

 Your reader or visitors are the first categories of people you must consider while designing your blog. You obviously wouldn't want them to be stranded upon coming to your website and not knowing where to start from. A bad navigation website template can have pages of a website unnecessarily scattered all over and thus making it hard for visitors to navigate to your pages such as the About Us page, contact us, etc. And even the categories on your website. Yes, even though you have arranged your pages and categories prior to installing a new theme that new theme can misplace them if it's a bad one. This is a very crucial part on your website and can deeply hurt your SEO.

When you have a good theme your visitors would no doubt enjoy their stay. It's also very satisfying when one clicks on categories or pages and it leads you to the right one. There are many themes out there that are not meant for you no matter how beautifully coloured it might be. But this doesn't mean that you shouldn't install beautifully coloured theme but it means that one of the first thing you must look at is the quality of navigation a theme carries. Fortunately you can always delete every bad template you don't need and install a new one. But take not that before you upload any new template always backup the previous one incase something goes wrong.

A good template will help you arrange your site navigations accordingly espdifficultmnx se important pages and categories you want displayed to your visitors. When visitors enjoy good user experience because of your website navigation they will be encouraged to visit it again. Sometimes it could be difficult to find a blogspot template that's perfect since they aren't developed like that of WordPress. Thankfully though in recent times developers has turn attention to blogspot templates by pushing in new ones in the market. These templates can either be downloaded for free or purchased.

2. Clean And Tidy Templates

 When we say clean and tidy templates it has to do much with theme colours and arrangements of items. Some templates do exhibits combination of distracting colors that's certainly unappealing. This type of templates do not in anyway encourage a user to visit again. A template that is not tidy is also discomforting. Such a template would scatter contents carelessly on the website and readers or visitors will find it hard to understand your contents.

So to that end, i urge you to use a template that has receptive colors - one that will capture the attention of your visitors. One thing you must know is that it is not just your contents that makes people come back but user experience matters a lot. So that means that you should not be careless about how your website look like just because you have quality contents. Otherwise you might end up sending your visitors away.

3. Responsive Theme

Another type of theme that you should go for is a responsive theme. What is a responsive theme? A responsive theme is a theme that that can adjust every contents of the website (writings, images, videos,etc.) to fit in every screen or monitor of every person that visits your website matter what device he or she is using. Imagine that a person is using a desktop to visit the website you created with your mobile phone. Ignorantly you might think that the contents would not fit in well in his desktop but with a responsive theme you have nothing to worry about because it will certainly handle itself.

To help you understand fully how a responsive theme works take for example a man watching movies on TV between another person watching movies on his mobile phone. They both are watching the same contents on significantly different sizes of devices but still those contents fit well on their monitors. The modern technology has an inbuilt responsive indicator so that whatever device you make use of contents will be the same. Another responsive example we find in technology is the mobile games we play. A mobile phone user and an iPad user playing the same game would both have their games fit to their screen. So that's a detailed explanation of how responsive themes works. A responsive theme can also be termed as SEO-friendly for the fact that it covers most aspect on SEO.

List Of Recommended SEO-Friendly Theme For Your Blog

Now that we have spent quite some few minutes talking about what type of themes to avoid and which ones to use, here are some list of the good ones you can choose from.

1. Astra

2. MH Magazine

3. Generate Press

4. Newspaper (v11)

5. Zox News

6. Jannah

7. Genesis

8. Divi

9. SEO Crawler

10. Newsmag

Those are the ones I'll recommend that you make use of. There might be other good ones that i didn't mention. And there are so many but i chose to mention just a few.