One of the selling points for individual bloggers to go with WordPress over any other blog platform is WordPress’s community. The community that contributes to WordPress in many different ways: some help out in forums, others write plugins, and many design themes (also called blog designs). In this post I will talk about WordPress themes. The most obvious and popular place to go is WordPress site itself, where you can find a little over 1,100 themes. All of the themes listed on WordPress site are free, and come with a screen shot and a live preview.

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Every other person I talk to asks the million dollar question — which blog platform do you recommend, WordPress or Movable Type? First of all it’s nearly impossible to describe and list the features of both applications in a single blog post. There are many books published on Movable Type and WordPress, and in the end it all comes down to personal preference, specific needs, the server you are on, and even budget. Before I go ahead and recommend one or the other let me briefly introduce you to both of them, and tell you what I think.

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Dear FirmDot Customer,

We’re excited to announce a new name in blog consulting — namely, BlogConsulting.com. We’re adopting the new name to better reflect who we are: your partner of choice for understanding how to get the most out of your blog.

What does this mean for you? It doesn’t change the way we do business, or what you can expect from us. You can still access our site at FirmDot.com, in addition to BlogConsulting.com. Our invoices and other communications now read BlogConsulting.com, but you can continue to pay us the same way you always have. We’re working on a new Web site to introduce the name, along with a suite of new services to better serve our customers, and we’ll notify you when it is available.

We appreciate your business, and we look forward to providing you with even better service as BlogConsulting.com.

I will be in San Francisco on July 20th, meeting some folks from Adobe to discuss blog hosting and custom blog services by Blog Consulting. This will be my first time in San Francisco. I hope someone can recommend interesting places I should see while I’m there.

Next day I’m flying to Los Angeles to check on our new data center, and to make sure things are running smooth.