In choosing the best WordPress theme or template for your project, sometimes the entire process can be very overwhelming and daunting, because there are literally thousands and tons of free and premium themes to choose from the WordPress gallery. With different category of themes available to you, and with so many different sources from which you can choose from, how do you know which is the best option for you? Here is a full checklist of the things you may need to consider before starting your WordPress project Journey.
Keep A Professional Appearance
Developing a professional looking website or blog for your project is very important if you are using WordPress to do it. This is because you probably want to prove to your viewers or audience that you are committed to your business and will certainly provide high quality services at every cost. Therefore, you would want to portray a high level of professionalism so viewers or target audience will hopefully place their trust in you and keep coming back for more business with you.
A few things to consider when choosing a theme or template is to choose natural colors that flow together well to create smooth transitions between the different sections of your site. Try and look out for a template that will keep a sensible organized look to your site. You don’t want to have chunks of data everywhere, and a total feeling of disarray because users will become confused with your site.
Relevant Is Needed
Obviously in your project, you would not want to choose a WordPress template that are not relevant to the type of project you are in or service that you offer. Picking a template that gives the users an idea of what it is that you actually do will keep their attention on your site, and keep you from losing potential visitors to a competitor with more relevant theme or template design. In other words, just avoid template designs that have nothing to do with the project in mind, or the product you are trying to sell.
Make It Functional
Now that you have gotten visitors to your website, that’s great, so what supposed to be the next thing in your mind? The question to ask yourself is, what are they going to do when they finally make it there? There must have been some reason that they came to your website in the first place, so it’s really important that you make that reason readily available. It generally a good idea that you keep your site project functionality really simple. So that visitors don’t get lost in all of the information and gadgets that you might have on your pages. The simplicity of any WordPress template is one that has been made to be free flowing and easy to use. So try and keep it that way for your visitors.
Additionally, another function or feature that you may need to consider having on your site is an area for social bookmarking opportunities. Many web master are making this their top priorities so having these features available on your site will certainly increase your site of gathering links to your site, and most important of all, popularity.
Finally, have fun exploring all the ‘themes’ or ‘template’ which are out there, whether they are free or paid templates and decide which one will look best for your project. A very good tip is to look at the footer of some of the site projects that you admire, oftentimes they will tell you which template was used, so you can find it for yourself and reap up more about them.