Last week, I took out a total of US$241 or about RM870 from my PayPal account to make two online purchases — US$164 for the developers’ option of the Wordpress theme called Thesis, the theme I am currently using, and the other, US$77 for an online affiliate marketing course.
That has been the largest spending online I made in a single day, all in the name of taking my online game a little further.
Why Thesis theme, and why the developers’ option?
Flexibility is the main reason why I chose Thesis. The theme is anything you want it to be. You can tweak it to your liking — make your blog run on a single column, two-column or three-column layout — even if you don’t have any html or CSS knowledge.
You can also have the freedom to arrange the columns and sidebars and align them to the left or right or have the content in the middle and the sidebars on the sides. This is just one out of dozens of other customisations you can employ on the theme, making your Thesis completely different from the next guy’s.
To demonstrate this point, head over to the Thesis gallery showcase and see “killer customisations” from around the Thesis community.
In there you will see several high PR blogs using the theme. You can also see how different one Thesis theme is from another even though they are from the same source — Thesis theme, the same one used on this blog.
You can also set the width for the content and sidebars and all the Thesis “universe” will automatically align according to the width you have chosen, without causing the sidebars to “fall” or resulting in other design anomalies.
For a better idea about how flexible Thesis is, head over to the Thesis demo site and see the Thesis theme in action.
I could have bought Thesis’ personal option for US$87
But I choose to pay for the developers’ option of US$164 because I want the freedom to install unlimited number of the theme across my current blogs and future blogs which I may want to set up.
The personal option only allows me to install Thesis on a maximum of two blogs. Actually, at first I bought the personal option, installed it on two of my blogs and liked so much that on the same day I pay US$77 to upgrade to the developers’ option.
That is a demonstration of how powerful Thesis theme is. Now I no longer need to change my theme. All I need to do is tweak the current theme I’m using and come up with a fresh design.
To me, Thesis theme is an asset. I can now have a “core” design engine for all of my blogs.
Affiliate marketing course
I’ve also decided to enroll in an online course about affiliate marketing. It’s not that I want to be an internet marketer anytime soon. It’s just that I don’t know a thing about affiliate marketing and thought that it would be good if I know something about it.
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