Themes - looking good online

Ok - so the first thing your likely to do when you get your WordPress blog is make it look good. Now if your able to, it is possible to completely design and build your own blog, WordPress kindly provides instructions explaining how the skeleton of WordPress is structure which allows you to change the code to create your own masterpiece. But if you don't have these skills, worry not, there are 1000's of themes available online so you will surely find something that matches your taste and whats better is, installing them and using them is probably easier than choosing them!

Getting your theme
This is easy, jump on over to the WordPress site (www.wordpress.org) and visit the extend section (or click here - www.wordpress.org/extend). Once there, hit the Themes link and start searching for your perfect theme.

Bringing it to Life
Found your theme? Excellent, ok lets bring it to life, this is very easy, simply download your theme, un-compress it and then you have to ftp it into the wp-content/theme folder - make sure you ftp the theme folder and its contents up not all the files loosely.

Next step to make it visual
Finally log-in to your WordPress control panel, head to the appearance section and surprise surprise there should be a preview of your chosen theme, click the image, and then in the top right of the preview screen which loads will be a Activate "theme" link, click and your new theme will be rolled out across your blog.

See it's so easy - next of course you need your widgets