Speaking of Blogging Mistakes… In case you didn’t notice, today is NOT Monday. I started a new series last week called Blog Mistake Mondays, but then forgot that it was Monday already yesterday when I posted 8 Ideas for Blog Posts. Opps.
So I guess that you could say that there’s a bonus lesson in this weeks’ edition of Blog Mistake Mondays: When you start a series, stick to it. Even though Monday has come and gone, I’m not forgetting about my commitment to this series. So let’s pretend for a couple moments that it’s still Monday… and enjoy this weeks edition 
This week, David of The Three Dog Blog has graciously offered to share with us a mistake that he has made in the past. I hope that you enjoy and learn from his experiences on choosing a theme for his blogs.
Being fairly new to the world of blogging I couldn’t wait to get going.
I had ideas written down all over the place and I was so keen to get my Blog off to a good start. I had the hosting, I installed wordpress and all the plugins I thought I needed at the time and then…….. BAM.
What theme?
This is where I made my first of many mistakes. I got completely bogged down with trying to pick from the thousands and and thousands of different themes available.
I just could not make up my mind.
I downloaded, uploaded, unzipped and tried out way too many different themes, all the while this was eating in to my time and stopping me from doing what I should have been doing, blogging.
So many looked good, but was there a better one?
In the end I just said to myself, pick one, stick with it for a while and maybe change it later if you really don’t like it.
So, my advice to others is, pick a theme that looks good but DO NOT waste too much time over it. In the early days concentrate on your content. Don’t waste countless hours looking for that ever elusive perfect theme.
Create content that will keep bringing back the readers and worry about that “perfect” Theme at some later date.
- – - – The Three Dog Blogger
Thanks you David, for sharing your words of wisdom! I think that many of us bloggers are able to relate to just how much time that we can invest in something that isn’t as important as the bigger picture.
How have you developed your blog’s theme over time? Did you start out in the same boat as David? What would you have done differently as it relates to your theme from the beginning?