Most modern content management systems use a "theme" based system, which is basically a series of web templates. It does not matter whether you are WordPress, Joomla, OS Commerce, Drupal, Mambo, PostNuke, or even use a forum – use them all the "issues".

In the beginning when you are building your website, try the theme that you do best, maybe you're looking for a free find, maybe you even have a designer to create one for you. Inevitably, what happened, you get tired of the conceptThey have, and you want a new one. You search and search and finally found the perfect new theme for your blog or website and you can make the switch. Are you really ready? Do you know what happens when you flip the switch "on the new design? What you need is a small checklist to make sure that you know in advance what will happen can afford.

Above all – if you once the new design, you should test it for a while to make sure everything is in order. If youWordPress allows you to test without anyone knowing, simply by using the Theme Test Drive plugin. On other systems, you can create a plugin, as you have this quest, but if you do not find out, maybe you will want to install a test version of your site in order to test the first time. You want to make sure that you work out any errors before the new design live!

Make list of all the things that has the old theme and make sure that your new theme it has. If not, consider the establishment of the necessary pagesBased on the new index (home) page.

– Do you have a search?
– If you have not found an error 404 (page) page?
– Do you have archive pages?
– Do you have class and / or tag pages?
– Do you need to adjust your comments section?
– Do you have page templates you create (from the old topic)?
– Is anything in your old theme codes (AdSense, special plugins or modules, style code)?
– Are all your plugins up to date?

This isalso a good time to look through the plug-in modules or repository for your CMS system and see if it can be something new available to take advantage of you. Maybe you can do something to manage your diet, make a calendar, add, edit a mailing list, or better: Categorize your posts and pages.

If you are starting a new topic, then my advice to you is the first backup everything, make a list of to do, and make sure that at least a few sets of eyes (besides yours) Test your entireBlog before you put it live! Consider your friends with a Mac or an older computer so you see it, and have a few people try it out at work. In this way, you can not only get more eyes on it, you can do it so far in so many versions of Firefox, Safari and Internet Explorer as possible!