Believe it or not (!!), I’ve started up some new blogs! 
So I spent quite a few hours looking over my options. I checked out Drupal, Joomla, and b2evolution platforms for possible choices… but Drupal was difficult to manage and had very limited choices. Joomla looked too complex, and b2evolution was too plain. So I reverted back to WordPress. When it comes to blogging, I really need a variety of nice themes. I’m willing to slog through technicalities and database manipulating, but when it comes to nice themes, I draw the line. By FAR, WordPress has the best themes around. And there are plenty of exceptional-quality themes, too. Here’s one: Template Lite WordPress Templates. (This is not a sponsored post!). I have used some of their themes, and I think they are beautiful. They are very artful, and free! I’m going to use one o their new ones, Sunset Farm, on my new blog very soon. I’ll be sure to let you know about the grand opening. 
Check out Template Lite for free WP themes. I’m very impressed with what’s there.
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WordPress rules. I resisted it for the longest time because – for the longest time – it didn’t do everything I wanted in a website/blog, and I couldn’t figure out the administration panel. So I was using Joomla instead, or just sticking with traditional html (I’m an old school website builder – I started building them in 1997). For some reason, I could grasp Joomla’s backend better than WordPress’s in the mid-00′s. But in the past couple of years, Worldpress has become a really powerful Content Management System; meanwhile Joomla has become a hacker magnet. Sparkle’s html-only website, which I started in early 2003, badly needed an uplift, and while I learned how to run Drupal, it is far geeker than I like to be, so I went with WordPress. I am thrilled with it! Now I’m in the middle of having a hired hand move my three Joomla sites over to WP (a task I’m incapable of doing myself). Definitely a WP convert!
And thanks for the link to Template Lite – I am still in search of new themes for my ex-Joomla sites.
As a photographer and amateur designer I like the appearance of this blog, and wonder if you can help me improve my own. I cannot afford much, but do not expect help for nothing. My header is an own photo edit with Photoshop, but the blog is not up to much with my limited knowledge. Hope you can help.