I recently interviewed Adii from adii.co.za. He is a master at designing wordpress themes, and has done work for Unique Blog Designs. If you need a blog design, you MUST at the least consider him to do the work. By looking at his portfolio, I don’t know how you couldn’t! So, here is the interview:

When did you start your blog adii.co.za? Is it hobby or something you hope to monetize?
I started the blog in January this year and it really started out as a hobby / experiment in experiencing the whole blogging phenomenon and even though monetizing the blog has never been my first priority, I’d be lying if I said, that I didn’t even consider it!
 
Your work designing wordpress themes is amazing! What got you started in blog design?
Thanks for the kind words! I guess I’ve always felt that I’m more creative than I got credit for and blog design was an outlet for my creative energy / ideas. Fact is, that I needed to pay my own studies this past year and I had identified blog design as a viable source of income - and the business opportunities involved probably inspired me to work as hard as I have.
 
Do you do any online marketing?
Yes, I do. A big part of my online marketing campaign depends on social networking (connecting with some personalities more well-known than I am) and word of mouth - but lately, I’ve also started looking at establishing some advertising relationships around the web, whilst also sponsoring a few theme competitions with copies of my Premium News Theme.
 
Why do you think blogging has become so common?
People love to blow their own horns and have their say… Blogging allows you to do just that!
 
For someone interested in getting a premium theme designed by you, could you explain the process?
I assume that by “premium theme” you mean a custom design, right? My roots are in business strategy and a client’s goals and outcomes for the design project is thus of the utmost importance when establishing their requirements for the design. I normally combine these goals & outcomes with some kind of “visual guidance” on their part in terms of pointing me to design examples they like. And once I come up with a mockup, I generally go through a few rounds of revisions and fine-tuning the mockup.
 
Why do you think a custom unique theme is so necessary for a blog to become successful?
Simply because there is so many blogs online and you need to separate yourself from the crowd / noise!

Thanks to Adii for doing the interview! Check out his blog, and his wordpress work!
 

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