Updating your blog theme is both easier and harder than you think

Nearly a month ago I decided to launch a new blog - but this one would be focused on the ski industry. I spend a significant amount of time on snow in the winter - and usually a few weeks in the summer too. I’ve enjoyed writing for this blog so much; I figured it would be double the fun to add a second.

Thanks to the power of the interweb 2.0, it literally only takes about five minutes to setup your own blog through a free service like blogger and wordpress.  Unlike in the old days, sites are now longer built as stand-alone pieces of art. Sites today are built on content management system (CMS) which means that content lives separately from the function and design of your website. This means you can update the “theme” of your website easily and quickly without affecting your content.  Before CMS based websites, you had to update each page seperately offline or by playing with page masters in web developer applications such as dreamweaver. It used to take me hours or days to roll out a new site theme. Now it can take seconds.  

A CMS website also means you can repurpose your content for other purposes - like setting up RSS feeds or creating a mobile version of your site. Want to learn more about this? Check out this classic:

After registering a new domain for my ski blog and auto-installing the blog scripts, all I had to do was pick a theme and I would be ready to add my voice to the ski industry online. I started by doing a google search for “wordpress templates.”

Within 5 minutes of research I forgot about my ski blog and found myself drifting towards a new theme for this blog.

Three weeks, 50 sites, and over 1,000 themes reviewed later, I was thrilled to activate a new theme…for this blog over the weekend.

Although it’s really easy to update your theme, the hard part is finding one that matches your brand and the tone you’ve established with your published articles. It’s taken me nearly a month to land on the current theme…so I hope you like it. 

Now back to that ski blog…