You gave some really good tips on keeping it clean, I tried to follow them as well, I'm still working on it.

I think it's really important that the design makes the content stand out. Something else along the same lines that I tried to do was design it so that the blog header and title (which you did mention) was the focus upon landing on the page as well. Header for branding and title to catch interest and hopefully be read.

The design makes it quite easy to do if you are aware, your tips are very helpful. Coupled with the effort to get some fantastic pictures, it has the makings for some good stuff!

I'm really happy with my choice to go with the frugal theme.

My stores are set up on Network Solutions Pro Ecommerce Packages. NS is the absolute BEST ecommerce host I've found. Years ago, I tried out Yahoo's stores, Homestead, eBay's pro stores, etc, but none of them could touch NS. I've been with them for 4 years now and don't plan on leaving.

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I think your plan is exactly on point! I tried to do that with my store Theme Bathroom (if you visit it, you should see a link in the nav for a blog), but I never kept up with it. Properly utilizing a blog could definitely make your store a success!

I'm wondering if you can use this theme for an ecommerce site? Ideally, I'd like to create a robust ecommerce site (similar to yours) with a blog component. My thinking is that if I post informative, relevant, and fun content, that will only help promote my entire site and lead people to click over to the ecommerce module.

Does that make sense? Do you know of any good ways to do this?

Thanks!
Raza

My stores are set up on Network Solutions Pro Ecommerce Packages. NS is the absolute BEST ecommerce host I've found. Years ago, I tried out Yahoo's stores, Homestead, eBay's pro stores, etc, but none of them could touch NS. I've been with them for 4 years now and don't plan on leaving.

You can learn more about them here: http://www.fresheventure.com/recommends/network…

I think your plan is exactly on point! I tried to do that with my store Theme Bathroom (if you visit it, you should see a link in the nav for a blog), but I never kept up with it. Properly utilizing a blog could definitely make your store a success!

I'm wondering if you can use this theme for an ecommerce site? Ideally, I'd like to create a robust ecommerce site (similar to yours) with a blog component. My thinking is that if I post informative, relevant, and fun content, that will only help promote my entire site and lead people to click over to the ecommerce module.

Does that make sense? Do you know of any good ways to do this?

Thanks!
Raza

Even if the layout is similar (thousands of theme layouts are identical), I would say the colors, lack of images in the design and customization capabilities make frugal unique. It's a nice, clean canvas to work with.