Want to market yourself as a competent web designer? Spread the word that you are open for business?
Then I recommend designing a free unique and stylish Wordpress theme. Not only is this a perfect opportunity to show off your web design skills, design the theme mind-blowing enough and you'll have a great number of webmasters using it in no time.
Visitors by the thousands will flood your online portfolio in search for a hi-quality free Wordpress theme or freebie as it is also referred to. In fact, free hi-quality Wordpress themes are so hard to come by nowadays, it's like gasoline in Mad Max, so don't be surprised if Smashing Magazine themselves make space for your theme. This popular online web design magazine is devoted in bringing Wordpress freebies to their readers. If you theme is hot enough, they'll surely pick it up.
Your site will also get better ranking in search engines thanks to the link you've included in the theme footer leading back to you the creator. More potential customers will find you site and contact info hopefully leading to more work for you.
In any case, making a Wordpress Theme of great quality and top notch web design will at least prepare you for future web design projects. Already a market has expanded around the Wordpress CMS with more and more websites using it, thus increasing the demand on unique and differentiating themes. Becoming a Wordpress Theme devoteé is entirely realistic as there are whole agencies doing it already.
Here are 2 examples of freelancing web designers who have gotten great recognition thanks to their impressive designs of free Wordpress themes:
Andrew Lindstrom, WELLMEDICATED - created free theme ZinePress that got picked up by Smashing Magazine and embraced by the Wordpress web design community.
Paul Bennett - creating the Viewport theme this web designer not only broke new web design territory with an innovative theme design, but used the good name of Wordpress to prove his skills and potential.
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Commented by: arnel, 4 March, 2009
good info
Commented by: Websites That Succeed, 20 March, 2009
Thanks for the information. There seems to be a never ending about of information on the net. I love learning new stuff, especial if it will help my website.
Commented by: Searchgo, 18 April, 2009
Thanks great post.