Technology Reports

Most blog sites are powered by Wordpress - the blog software that powers this site. Now everyone who gets into blogs is looking for the elusive unique theme to give them their own look and feel.

By default, it comes with 2 themes as part of the install, but there are literally hundreds of other themes available for you to install. You can go looking for a theme, find what you want and install it. You could either create a unique Custom theme or get someone to create one for you.

If creating your own theme sounds like a lot of hard work, you could get one that is published and customise it to your liking. That is what I have done for this site. While reading other Blogs, I liked the look of the “Freshy” theme, but wanted something a bit unique as well. So, I installed the theme and then set about seeing what options it has.

This is one of the better ones in that it has a decent set of config options so you can get it looking how you want it. So, I set it up, and didn’t like the choice of Top banner images that were available. With 10 images, I figured that they would have been used at least once each and using one of them would not give me the look I was after.

I had 2 choices - Go to a stock photo site and pick out an image that I could use or take one of my own. As luck would have it, I had recently been taking a few photo’s of my bike. I looked at the size of the images and set about to create something that would fit and would give a decent, unique feel to the site. I wanted Techno and retro all at the same time, and the whole chain that is made up of (web) links was my answer.

A little bit of editing a photo I fortunately had and that is how my site became what it is. I know the site is unique for the simple reason I took the photo - nobody else will be using the picture I am on their site. So, next time you create a blog site, grab an existing theme and customsie the colours and images to give it your own personal touch.