One of the best things about Wordpress is all the themes that are available, which you an easily get hold of and apply to your site in just a few clicks. Ok, there's nothing new there - we all know that. But I just gave a site a total new look and thought I'd share the example.

I started a personalised gifts website in the months before Christmas and applied a Christmas theme. Now with Christmas out of the way, the site has regenerated like something out of Doctor Who, and with a few clicks, now has the look of a personalised gifts website for Valentines Day.

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After...


Once the new theme was applied, there was a bit of tinkering to be done to get it just right, and I need to edit the text on a couple of pages where it directly mentions Christmas, but essentially I have a totally new look website all ready for the next major gift giving occasion with virtually no effort.

Here's a great 101 on Wordpress over at Kirsty's blog. By the way, after putting that link to Kirsty's site, I couldn't remember the origin of the term "101" so Googled it and found this out from Wikipedia: "101 (one hundred [and] one) is the natural number following 100 and preceding 102". Thanks Wikipedia, where would we be without you!

p.s. Happy new year.

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