New clothes for your blog

Do you agree that the quality of clothes you wear has direct relation to the degree of impression that you create in someone's mind. Its a kind of ratings effect. Likewise when someone lands on one of your blogs pages, the first thing that his mind will register are the images and colors that your site present to him. If you have a great post but your blog theme has registered a negative impact on the visitors mind he is not likely to remember your blog. He may not bookmark it. Your blog fades from his memory and you have lost a potential long time client. So what should I do about it, you ask? To put it simply, get some new clothes for your blog. A great mind in shabby clothes will not create a lasting impression. Get some great looking template for your blog. Dress it up and watch as you begin to retain those drifters from the WWW.

While surfing through the net, I stumbled upon a great looking template for blogs. It has impressive colors, great color contrast which emphasizes your posts and best of all its free. Here's how it looks like;


Doesn't it look nice and impressive. By the way you can see it installed here as a demo.

Its been named Blogy Puerto by the developer and here is your link to the developers page about this template. There is one problem though. The page is in Spanish. So for those poor folks who cannot read Spanish, here's another link. Yes that's our great friend Google to our rescue. This link will translate the original page into English for us (although the translation is not perfect as its based on word for word translation, maybe the algorithm will evolve in future).

Its a three column theme, so you can put lots of stuff above the fold on each page (otherwise some stuff we would like our visitors eyes to catch never achieves what is expected as the visitor might leave without scrolling down). Its for those blogs which are hosted by blogger.com at blogspot.com (i.e. for folks like me and my other neighbors). It also has tabs, which allows for better organization (something lacking from Blogger templates). The only thing that I don't like about the template is that, it does not show the blogger navigation bar. As you know, that the blogger navigation bar allows some useful features such as, searching your site, moving onto some other blogger blog (now this is a source of good traffic, and blogger's with nav bar turned off do not qualify for this free traffic), blog customization link and link for creating a new blog post.



Anyway, here the link to download the template. Its only 7KB, zipped file. You'll find the template in the xml format inside the archive. There are some helpful links on the developers page regarding template installation in general; a video (Oh God, its in Spanish again (and this time even Google can't help us, just get your clues from the visuals)), FAQ and installation guides. Read them carefully before tampering with your existing blog (or if you are thinking about starting a new blog, don't waste your precious brain ATP's (energy) (Blogger only has a few templates to choose from).

So hop along, dress up your blog and start dating those fleeting visitors (and convert them into permanent relations). Happy blogging!