How to choose a design template for your blog

If you choose to use the freely available design templates provided by Blogger.com you can put some thoughts on how you should select them based on your niche topic. It is basically finding a template that can be used to reflect what your blog is all about.

Design templates typically work on the concept of themes. Themes are designed in many different colors, shapes and sizes. But generally in terms of overall presentation they would work with just about any content that you would want to post on your blogs. It's only a matter of choosing the most effective or the right template to work.

If your niche is about positive and vibrant thoughts of life for instance, try to use a template with very fancy designs and color schemes. If you blog about memorable events of the past or something nostalgic, a soothing color scheme with scenic background image may just be perfect to reflect that.

Another way is trying to link the keywords of your blog with the design template. For example, if you are blogging about youth lifestyle, look for a template that gives you a feeling of being "youthful". You can also look for symbols in the design that goes along with "lifestyle" in addition.

I personally think that choosing one that works is relatively easy but might be confusing if you're just beginning to blog and it can be worse if you don't have a niche topic to blog about. It can be difficult to match a template with various topics posted in your blog. It would not be appropriate if you choose a very striking or vibrant color like templates when you are blogging about your home gardening, fishing and camping all at the same time.

Thoughts on blogging and Blogger.com

Have you started your blog yet? Have you thought of the things that you would like to blog about? Think about your interests. They can be many but that is good because you have many blogs to create. Each can be used to discuss on a specific "niche" topic, tailored to only readers with the same interest.

If you're reading this, then you are reading a post that is hosted on a free blogging platform called Blogger.com. It's a Google product with features or plugins that I love more than what a free Wordpress.com platform could offer. But do take note, if you want to have your blog hosted, Wordpress is no doubt a wiser choice. Tonnes of customizations that you can do in comparison.

But that only matters if you want to fully monetize your blog. I am not saying that you can't monetize your blog on Blogger.com. The word "fully" as aforementioned in my opinion only means that you can have additional cool things that you can do such as SEO or Search Engine Optimization features and so forth. Wordpress platform is free to use and the plugins created are free as well. Only the hosting part is not free as you have to consider buying and registring a domain name and pay for a web hosting service.

Back to Blogger.com. I love the intuitive interface and features that Blogger.com has. Writing a post is a snap and the features are very well organized. It is indeed fast. The preview feature is good. In fact, I see a lot of improvements made compared to previous versions of Blogger.com. You can add cool widgets and Adsense can be implemented very easily.

For now, I am going to look more into design templates that can be used for Blogger.com. I would like to see how cool can other design templates for Blogger.com be. Until then, get yourself a blogger account and start blogging.