After switching from “www.adventuresaroundasia.wordpress.com” to the shiny new “www.adventuresaroundasia.com” I set about making my blog beautiful. I spent hours picking out a theme and redesigning to my heart’s content. While I chose a free theme (Catch Kathmandu), many people choose to invest in a premium theme.
A premium theme will give you more options to customize, and may offer things that the free themes don’t. For example, scroll up and look at that picture of me in the top right. Most premium themes come with a small “author bio” widget you can place up there. My theme didn’t, so I had to make mine from scratch using html. It was not fun.