Best Travel Blog WordPress Themes
Posted By Luana on July 15, 2011
People have been keeping journals and diaries about their traveling experiences since the dawn of time. Today, everyone seems to keep their journals in online blogs on WordPress and elsewhere for the world to see. On the web, appearance is at least as important as content. Juanita Harrison and Jack London may have published their fascinating world tours in plain, ordinary-looking books, but today people are much more likely to read something if it’s attractively packaged. Your readers don’t just want to read what you have to say about trains in Istanbul or hotels in central London; they want images that provide an atmosphere.
Take a look at Traveltastic. The antique-looking map, colourful postcards and postmarks give the site a unifying ambiance. Links are placed in graphics shaped like luggage tags. At the same time, the way the images are arranged attract the viewer to the text at the centre of the page. It gives the reader a sense of being in on something. This theme is brought to you by Expedia.co.uk.
WordPress offers many customizable themes with text and images beautifully balanced. One of the nicest themes for a travel blog is Adventure Journal. With this style you can easily control the number of columns per page, insert your own header images and backgrounds, and display photos and art showing places you’ve been or would like to go. It even has support for French and German. Travelogue and Trans-Travel are less customizable but well-arranged and inviting, while Khaki Traveler uses colours and images that evoke a sense of backpacking and “roughing it”. Word press offers a variety of widgets and plug-ins that allow you instant access to your Flickr photos, maps, and even Youtube videos.
Other themes are not specifically designed for travel blogs but can be used for this purpose. You can use any clean, simple style that lets the reader know instantly where he is and what to expect. If you customize the header image, make it something that immediately tells the reader what the blog is about. Show a picture of railroad tracks, country roads or a view of fields and houses from high up in an airplane. Use colours that entice but do not distract from your words and pictures. Give the reader a sense of exciting journeys to exotic foreign locales, or to little-known treasures of the American landscape.
Be sure to provide information about the best ways to get there, restaurants and shops, cultural exhibits, historic landmarks and natural wonders. Upload photos of the unusual, less well known sights, or find hidden treasures in otherwise well-travelled spots. Write about the interesting people you meet and tell their stories. An entry or two about forms of politeness in foreign lands is a good idea, along with a list of the best language lessons or guides.
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