Hi guys, this is a quick post to inform you all about the Thousand Birdies Giveaway by Gis, my blog-friend and designer. She is celebrating 1000 RSS feed readers. ( Blog of Small Things reached 100 feed readers last week )

If you win, you will get your blog redesigned by her, for free. If you are on blogspot, or using self hosted wordpress blog, do checkout some free themes on her blog ; I should say free and cute themes.

Wish me good luck guys !

So, thinking about moving to “self hosted wordpress blog” ?  learn how to find, upload and edit your themes

There are tonnes of themes available for you to download. Most of them are free. They are free themes way better than some paid ( or premium themes ). So, think twice ( or more than that ) before you purchase a paid theme.

The best way, will be to google a little. Try Google or you can go to  WordPress’ Official Website. Also, there are brilliant theme designers, with themes that will fall in love with. Here is one of my favorites, pearsonified.com

ps: I will keep updating you guys about beautiful themes that I find during my theme hunts, so subscribe to the RSS feed, for more

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You guys know that I am crazy about blog design and themes etc, but I am not a designer.

I realize, that blog designing is not just about colors and header images but lot of other things, including information architecture and user experience.

I do follow a lot of blogs by wordpress designers. I enjoy reading about their experiences and experiments ; I get to learn a bit about blog layouts, blog architecture and blog designing ( at least I know these terms.right? )

I get enough inspiration from them, especially when I read something like this.

“You might find this difficult to believe…
But 2 years ago I didn’t own my domain name, had never touched a piece of WordPress code and knew nothing about blog design. In other words, everything I’ve done with WordPress and blog design in the past year has been self taught, using trial and error.”

So, it’s possible to learn wordpress designing and coding if you want to. But I was too lazy to try it out myself. Still, after following their blogs for few months, and trying different themes almost on a daily basis, I have learned enough to judge a wordpress theme, even though I can not design a theme on my own.

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