Once you have your site well underway, you may need to take a good look at your theme.  There are some well established very popular blogs that utilize very simple themes.  That may be the right choice for you.  But there are so many great looking themes available for WordPress that you might want to take a look and see what is available.

When I am checking out themes there are a few things that I look for:

• Attractive
• Functional
• Ease of use
• SEO Minded

Some themes look great, but they are so hard to install that it makes them unusable.  Other themes set up pretty easy, but don’t adhere to basic SEO principles.  Some of these themes can be made SEO friendly, but again how much work it takes is a factor.  I have a couple of themes that I use that are “Premium Themes”, which means that I paid for them.  They were relatively inexpensive and I like the way they look.  They really wouldn’t work for a niche site because they take some effort to set up.  I have been working with a new free theme that I like.  It’s called Massive News and it is available at www.wpelements.com.  It is one of the easiest magazine themes I have worked with.  It is worth checking out.

I also just stumbled upon some free themes that look promising.  They are located at www.wp-magazine.se/free-theme-wp-pixels/ I haven’t had a chance to check them over to see if they are workable or not, but they have promise.  If you get to them before I do, let me know how they stack up.