Templates to Custom: From Theme to Fully You

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A quick, practical take on Templates to Custom: From Theme to Fully You. Every custom personal page starts the same way: you pick a theme, fill in the form, and it looks fine. Then you notice three other people using the same theme, and the fine stops being fine.

What matters in practice:

• What a theme actually buys you: A theme is a set of decisions somebody already made: type scale, spacing, where the image sits relative to the text, how a section breaks on a phone. On custom homepage design, you rarely beat a good theme on those points. The theme author spent weeks on the spacing. You have an evening.
• The three things worth customizing: Everything else ranks far below. Fonts are the most common place people lose an afternoon, and the payoff is close to zero. A reader notices whether text is legible. They do not notice which serif you picked.
• Theme customization, and where it stops paying: Theme customization has a curve, and it turns down earlier than most people expect. The first hour of tweaks makes the page yours. The fifth hour usually makes it worse, because by then you are changing things that were already working, just to feel like you did something.

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