The great thing about having wordpress is all the free templates you can find online. TBW uses one so I can show readers how great and versatile they can be. However its hard for me to find them based on the requirements I have for 3-4 columns. No one really makes 4 columns that work well and aren’t made for personal sites however but using free templates are great.
1. They make it easier for you as the blogger to update, upload, chmod, tweak and you’re set.
2. You can skin your site with multiple free layouts
3. If you get a free layout, you have a starting point
Amy from www.asastar.com started out with a free template and then redid it to suit her sites needs and and got rid of the sultry image of a model in her underwear and replaced it with a cute graphic of hearts.
There are so many free layout places its hard to list all of them, I compiled a short good for now list and am looking for resources that do not display the same layouts over and over again. It’s hard to find those though, a lot have broken links and I am shifting through as to not give you “filler” content and list tons of things and never check back for dead links. If you ever see anything dead let me know. It’s down immediately and monitored for life signs :P