Buying a premium template
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Can your templates be used as a website as opposed to a blog. Can i use my own domain name with your premium templates ? Do you need technical experience to build a website ? If i want to host elsewhere can i take the website with me?
Blog url: http://theinvestigationchannel.wordpress.com/The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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You cannot build or use your own custom theme built from scratch at WordPress.com.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/ftp-access/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/themes/adding-new-themes/The only themes we can use are those found here > Appearance > Themes This is a multiuser blogging platform. All blogs wearing the same theme are using the same underlying template and we cannot access the underlying files and edit templates or themes. http://en.support.wordpress.com/themes/editing-themes/
There are two free themes, Sandbox and Toolbox designed to allow maximum flexibility for CSS editing and creating new “skins”. Toolbox is more modern and includes a lot of support for CSS3 and HTML5, so it is really only limited by your skills and knowledge.
If you have CSS editing experience the annually renewable upgrade will allow you to stylize the appearance of themes you find here > Appearance > Themes, but will not allow you to change the functionality, by editing the underlying template. It does not allow you to remove footer links to the theme designer or to WordPress.com. Also note that CSS is theme specific, so you cannot use the CSS stylesheets from other themes with the themes at WordPress.COM. http://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-design/custom-css/
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Do you need technical experience to build a website ?
A blog is a website. More accurately stated a website is a lame blog with a page based structure that sucks big time when it comes to SEO. Many are further crippled by the creation of a static front page.
A WordPress blog can either be structured as a page based website or its conventional post based structure can be retained. That’s why understanding the differences between posts and pages, comprehending the SEO implications of creating a page based structure, and knowing how to use custom menus are key to decision making when selecting a theme, and setting up your WordPress.com blog.
Static Pages sit outside the blog structure. Static pages cannot have Categories and Tags assigned to them. Pages do not appear in our RSS feeds. Most Pages do not have date stamps in their URLs. They have very little “google juice” Other bloggers rarely if ever backlink to static Pages in their published posts. Consequently, Page structured blogs have a very difficult time:
1. securing traffic;
2. securing comments;
3. securing backlinks;
4. achieving authority in their niche;
5. achieving Google PageRank.
http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2010/05/12/better-blogging-at-wordpress-com-pages-and-posts/If i want to host elsewhere can i take the website with me?
You can export the content out. But the theme is not exportable.
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Can your templates be used as a website as opposed to a blog.
Yes. See here for Using WordPress.com to Create a Website
http://en.support.wordpress.com/using-wordpress-to-create-a-website/Can i use my own domain name with your premium templates?
Yes. See here for domain mapping
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