I’ve been putting up WordPress blogs for years. In fact, I recently converted the whole Helping Moms Connect site to a WordPress blog. They are easy, configurable, and FREE. Plus, they have great Search Engine Optimization capabilities. But I got tired of looking for free WordPress themes. Most of them were either too hard to customize or broke with the plugins that I wanted.

When I launched Chocolate Picnic, I decided that I was willing to pay a little to get a better them. After searching for days, I decided on the Thesis Theme. It was affordable and customizable. Plus, I saw that I would be able to get support.

A few months later, I was launching another new site and started looking around for themes again. After a lot of searching,  I stumbled upon a theme that I liked and clicked on it to order it. I vaguely recognized the name and started looking through my other sites. Sure enough, I had come across Thesis again for a totally different site and loved it again!

Each of my sites with Thesis is different. Some of them have the picture on the left and some the right. I use different numbers of columns. I customize with pictures from istockphoto. Then I play with the color formatting. It’s a beautiful thing.

In the end, I upgraded to a Developer’s license so that I could use Thesis across all of my different sites for the cost of only two licenses. I highly recommend Thesis and WordPress to those of you who are looking to set up a low-cost but customized blog. You’ll be amazed at the Search Engine Optimization that you will get (which equals free traffic!) and you will want to launch even more sites.