I don’t suggest bloggers to spend a lot of money on wordpress themes. There is no limit to the amount of money you can spend on making your blog beautiful. I am in love with open source. I use linux, wordpress and thematic theme framework. Online community is promoting thesis theme framework a lot as its making them a lot of money. Thesis is good, really good but that doesn’t make it incomparable to others. People who keep chanting ‘you get what you pay for’ , why do they forget that wordpress is open source which is the best blogging platform built ever and wordpress doesn’t need affiliate programs to promote. For making money online, my tip is make others part of your products market but try not to be part of their products markets. Its a cruel blogging world out there, big blogs thrive on selling products to new bloggers.
For themes, I would suggest try developing your own themes. Thematic theme framework is as powerful and as good as thesis. Matt Cutts uses thematic. But, sometimes people like me with very weak aesthetic sense can’t design themes very well. I use a free thematic theme but you wouldn’t want to use a theme already used by thousands of blogs online. So, lets take the middle path of buddha and have a look on these cheapest $20 premium wordpress themes from themeforest.Add $2 if you are not using prepaid credits. These themes are all compatible with wordpress 3.0 and their functionality is blog. They are good enough themes. You can use them till you develop your own themes or buy thesis. If you rely more on quality of your blog content and SEO than theme designs, you can use them forever.
- The Better Blogger
- Stylez WordPress Theme
Theme Preview Price $20 9 different skins Dark, Simplistic Dark, Light, Simplistic Light, Blue, Brown, Green, Purple, Red
- Paper And Wood
- Karma WordPress Theme
- Inki – Elegant Blog Theme
- Gazette
- Design Blog
- Affair
Theme Preview Price $20 A fully automated homepage using the most recent articles from every category. A jQuery-powered drop-down menu system (supports second level child pages from WP). Manageable RSS and email subscription capabilities. Dynamically-cropped and captioned Feature images using the TimThumb script from Tim McDaniels and Darren Hoyt.
Theme Preview Price $20 7 Different Backgrounds selectable from the Theme options page
Theme Preview Price $20
10 vibrant color choices
Theme Preview Price $20
Theme Preview Price $20 2 Different Colour Options to Choose From Dark Version Light Version
Theme Preview Price $20 10 vibrant color choices
Theme Preview Price $20
well-designed themes, I like the stylez one…wish you a lot of customers)))
Hi Toby, I am not the seller nor an affiliate.