In my experience working with WordPress and a few other blogging platforms, I’ve found it’s tough to find really easy to use and content friendly themes. Yea, they may look good with the temporary demo content but it’s supposed to look that way. The fact is when you plug-in your own content, it bites. Some themes just aren’t flexible and tough to customize. That’s where Themble comes in.
Themble is designed to help you make your site yours. It may sound like a simple idea, but think about it. When people are looking for an authoritative site, they have to weigh a few factors in their head as to which site they want to believe:
- Search Engine Ranking
Let’s face it, these days, people aren’t looking on Page 2 of their Search Results. If they can’t find the information they’re looking for on the first page, they try their search again. - General Site Design
If the content doesn’t look clean or the page is littered with messy advertising blocks and un-aligned images, most readers discredit it’s content instantly. Why would an “authoritative site” have a messy and lazily designed website? It wouldn’t. - Easy to Understand Navigation
When you reach a site for the first time, it’s rare you land on it’s home page. You most likely land on an article with the content you were looking for. If a reader can’t even understand where on their site they are, how do you expect them to come back? If you entered a store and couldn’t find which isle the item you were looking for was in, would you return to that store?
Obviously there’s much more to it than those basic items, but it’s a good start. On this site, we’re going to strive to make each site unique in it’s own right.
This is why choosing the right theme is crucial to your site’s success. Downloading and using a free theme is perfectly fine, if you want your site to be good enough, but chances are good that there are several sites out there that are going to have that same exact theme on their site. That doesn’t really make you look like an authoritative source, it just makes you look lazy.