Choosing & Installing A Theme For Your Website
What Are WordPress Themes?
The whole beauty of WordPress is the ability to create fully operational and great looking websites in a matter of minutes (once you get the hang of it). There are thousands of WordPress themes available for free that can be applied immediately to your website, once installed, your WordPress website will take on the form of the installed theme, meaning you do not have to spend hours manually designing the look and layout of your site, as this work has already been done for you by the original designer of the theme. Most of these themes are fully customizable, meaning you can change the colours, fonts, logo etc and if you are technically minded, you can also change C55 coding to further change the website.
Things To Think About When Choosing A Theme
1. What type of site are you building? A small business website?
A portfolio site?
A blog?
An e-commerce store?
There are themes for all of the above and also a lot more.
2. Do you need to be able to change the sites main colours?
3. Do you want it to be "Responsive" (mobile friendly)?
4. Do you need more than one sidebar?
If this is your first time building a website I wouldn't worry about the theme too much for now, you can always change your theme without losing any of your work and if you don't like it - just change it again!