#8 - Custom Blog Templates

Money Making Tip #8 - Custom Blog Templates:

Learn how to design blog templates. Blogging has become popular, even more popular than "forums" that have information or "howto" topics because in a forum, they would have to search through hundreds or in some cases "thousands" of posts just to find the answer they were looking for. The good thing about blogs for this type of information is you can organize these "posts" into categories and make it easy to link to them for others to find with minimal effort.

So what does this have to do with blog templates? Nothing really, just comparing a blog to a forum..thats all. But anyways, there are alot of bloggers out there. Most of those bloggers have very little knowledge of web design, coding, or SEO. These bloggers are writers looking to get traffic, sell ad space, and earn revenue. They will pay for a good blog template, if you can customize it to there needs.

What to do:

1. Buy a domain and web space from iPage.com (cheaper-$25 for a blog)
2. Build your blog to advertise your business, make it attractive and make people want to do something when they get to your blog, "call to action."
3. Write articles on how to create blog templates, make videos, whatever you can do to get content on your blog.
4. Submit your blog to search engines.
5. People will come to your website looking for information on how to create a blog template. Once they follow your tutorials, make sure you have ads beside them advertising your service. After they get frustrated, which they will, they will click on your link and see what you have got to offer, and how much it is.
6. If the price is reasonable, you will be in business! To learn how to make templates for different software, just google for tutorials. Here are a few software programs that have a need for profession templates that people would want to buy.

phpBB.com   - Forum Software

wordpress.org - Blog Software

Drupal.org - Content Management System

joomla.org - Content Management System

vBulletin.com - Forum Software
invisionpower.com - Forum Software

Now two of the above software are not free and require a yearly license. Those would be vBulletin, and Invision Power Board. Wish you success and would like to read your results. Also note, learning the php coding language would help to loads with working with this idea, and building your templates. HTML and CSS would help too!