Foreign Perspectives

One very easy way to eat up a whole day (or sometimes days) is to start thinking that you’d like a new theme for your blog and then get going on looking through what’s around.

There seem to be thousands of themes knocking around these days and nearly all of them free which makes for something of an overwhelming range of options.

Narrowing them down is far from easy. OK, you can usually rule out those with one column (no sidebars to play with so the screen content seems to go on forever) and four columns (too wide for most screens around these days) but beyond that there’s not much you can do to thin out the numbers.

Sure, they are all tagged with keywords but the relevancy of many of them is very debateable so you end up having to work through large numbers of them to find what you’re looking for. Oh, and do you really know what you’re looking for in the first place?

Finally, there’s the “small” problem that you don’t really know how your blog will look ’til you try out the theme. Net effect of this is that I’ve downloaded about 50 this afternoon and started looking through them.

So far, I’ve a short-list of three for On A Postcard (now flying with the new theme) and something similar for this blog although I’ve not quite got the “perfect” one for Foreign Perspectives yet.