One of the most daunting tasks for any Wordpress blogger, particularly beginning bloggers, is picking out a theme for your blog. One can search weeks or months just to find a theme that is actually suitable, only to be unsatisfied a week later and back on the hunt.

This problem applies more to the non-tech savvy Wordpress users. To clarify, by non-tech savvy I mean bloggers with no programming experience (HTML, CSS, PHP), and by Wordpress users I mean bloggers who use Wordpress on their own domains, and not those with blogs hosted at Wordpress.com.

Tech savvy bloggers often create their own templates, giving attention to every minor detail so the end result is almost always to their liking. Non-tech savvy users, on the other hand, are forced to search around for Wordpress themes if they are not satisfied with the default Kubrick theme.

The problem with using someone else’s template is that quite often it won’t be up to your standards in terms of what your ideal Wordpress theme would contain. And, without any coding knowledge, they’re basically stuck between a rock and a hard place and are forced to settle for less.

All is not lost! There is a Wordpress theme generator that makes creating your own theme as easy as customizing your MySpace profile (if you can’t customize a MySpace profile, you probably shouldn’t be blogging). The generator gives bloggers the ability to choose what they want and where to put it. Such properties which can be specified are: site name or logo, body size, sidebar location and size, menu layout, background scheme, text scheme and distribution. Within each of these properties are numerous sub-properties which can also be defined.

I’ve yet to try this thing out but perhaps I will give it a whirl on Carin’s blog. Otherwise, please let me know if any of you play around with it and post links to what you’ve created.