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Free Blog Themes and Website Templates

Most of the sites that offer free blog themes and website templates also have premium offerings for a price and lots of ads that look like part of the site directory so be careful where you click, but if you are willing to sort through mountains of themes and templates you are bound to come up with one that you'll like.  I have tried to include mostly sites that are clean, clear and easy to navigate.  One caution, during my investigation I opened many of the themes in both Firefox and IE and found that they definitely displayed better in one or the other.  Not a bad idea to check how the theme performs in several different browsers before you download, especially if you decide to choose a pay theme. 

If you are planning to use Google AdSense or another affiliate ads program on your blog, you would be best to choose a theme that is ready-made for that purpose to avoid distortions in your blog theme by placing ad code in random places. Most of these sites have themes designed specifically for this purpose.  I tried and failed with several ad plugins on my blog with a theme that was not ads-ready before giving up and installing the current theme.

Please note that WordPress.com is a hosted blog service and does not permit the uploading of themes or plug-ins.  The free theme offerings will only work with your self-hosted WordPress.org blogs.  Do you need clarification on the distinctions between WordPress.com and WordPress.org?  Please visit this WordPress.com support page.  

Regarding Blogger, it would appear that most of the themes/templates available for Blogger are reworked WordPress themes and are not as easily downloaded and installed as WordPress themes.  Many require at least some template code editing and special configuration.  Read the fine print and make sure your abilities are equal to the challenge of getting the theme you choose to work properly.

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blogthemes

This site offers a small, but quality selection of free WordPress themes, with a larger selection of premium themes.  The site has an option to choose themes for Blogger, but when I clicked on it there were no themes available so I'm guessing they have plans to addBlogger themes at a later date.

Free WordPress Themes

As the site title states, this is all about WordPress.  Free WordPress Themes purports to provide the top free premium WordPress themes.  I don't know about that because I am just beginning my search, but I was impressed with the styles and the wide selection.  

freewpthemes.net

An impressive collection, 208 at the time I visited, of really nice free WP themes available for download in standard .ZIP format.  Most of the themes are also available as CSS templates at another of the designer's sites.  I really like the way this site displays it's demos--clean, clear and easy to see what you are getting. 

wordpressthemesbase.com

A wide selection of themes that can be searched by category (animals, music, books, etc.) and/or properties (no. of columns, fluid or fixed, plugins, etc.).  Each theme presents with a user star rating which may help you with your decision.  This site claims to offer the freshest, most appealing and unique themes. At this point, I have seen so many that I cannot validate or invalidate the claim, but they do have some great choices.

WordPress.org

WordPress.org has it's own collection of some 995 free downloadable themes which can be searched by name or through a new filter and tag interface.  
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