Help With Themes?

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  simonalisa · Member · Jul 5, 2011 at 6:11 pm

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  I want my blogs to look like they are on a journal page, but I don’t know how to do that. If someone could explain it step by step or send me a link that would be great.

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  mmadfan · Member · Jul 5, 2011 at 7:05 pm

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  Here is the page with the Themes Showcase:
  http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/

  You can filter your search by what features you want and use the “preview” function to see how your own blog will look on a particular theme. Many people set up a second free blog to “play with” and test out different functions. I have one that I imported my blog to and that I keep marked “private” — I can play with background colors, widget positions, different themes, and so on, without making any changes to my primary blog. I use “fake” placeholder (text) widgets and some of the other available widgets in order to see how widgets look in various spots.

  I’m not sure what you mean precisely by a “journal page,” since you might have a different image of that than I do, but Notesil, Mystique, and Albeo might be possibilities for you.

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  mmadfan · Member · Jul 5, 2011 at 7:07 pm

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  Quentin is also a nice theme — very simple, very classic “journal” style to me. Jentri’s nice, as well.

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  mmadfan · Member · Jul 5, 2011 at 7:14 pm

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  Links to the themes:
  http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/quentin/

  http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/jentri/

  http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/notesil/

  http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/albeo/

  http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/mystique/

  You can also set up any of the blogs to display only one post at a time, if you prefer. Go to Settings > Reading and set the number in “Blog pages show at most” to 1.