You can get free skins or themes for your Wordpress blog, but truth be told, only a few of the free Wordpress themes that I see are all that pretty, and none of them have any SEO components built into them.

So, I've resorted to buying themes for each of my Wordpress blogs. Listed below are the design services where I've bought themes and templates.

• Brian Gardner
• WooThemes
• BoxedArt

Brian Gardner's Themes

I use Brian Gardner's Revolution News themes here on Net Profits Today and Roamsters.com. The one here on NPT has been highly modified, but Roamsters remains closer to the original design.

Brian's themes come with uniquely-styled homepages, archives, section and post pages. I particularly like the 'newspaper' look and feel of the Revolution News homepage, on which you can display recent posts from categories of your choice, in any order you like, which is infinitely preferable to the endless 10-post homepage scroll on most blogs. The primary and secondary top navigation bars allow you to highlight pages and categories that you particularly want your visitors to see and visit.

I love Brian's themes - primarily because his designs are fresh and fabulous and better yet, they encourage visitors to poke around the site longer. You can read more about what each theme includes and how my average visitor duration increased after I started using his themes.

Or, you can visit Brian's Wordpress theme site and check them out at the source.

WooThemes

WooThemes was formerly Premium News Themes by Adii. Pictured below is the Fresh News Theme which was designed and coded by Magnus Jepson. You'll notice some similiarities between this and Adii's other themes as it was built on the framework of previous Premium News themes.

I use the Premium News theme on RosalindGardner.com (ignore the wonky search button - I was playing around with the CSS and haven't gotten around to fixing it yet) and what I especially appreciate about these themes is that features such as Flickr, Feedburner and banner ad management are fully integrated.

WooThemes offers Wordpress themes in the following categories:

• Business
• CMS
• Magazine / News
• Personal Blog
• Portfolio

To see the themes themselves and everything that is included with these themes, visit WooThemes.

BoxedArt

The design on Sage-Hearts.com used to be a beautiful template from BoxedArt and some elements of that template still exist. However, when I installed the Wordpress blog, I morphed the rest of the design to look more like the blog.

Boxed Art offers the world's largest collection of Original Web Templates, Flash Templates, Print Templates, Graphic Elements and Wordpress templates.

Most of these templates are absolutely beautiful - however - complete beginners or anyone unfamiliar with HTML may want to check out the simpler template offerings available at the sites listed above.

Visit BoxedArt.com

Those are just 3 sources for professional Wordpress themes. Keep checking back as I add more when I find them.