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5 months ago
I’m actively doing this, just listing it here to remind myself it’s really important that this gets done in a timely fashion.
How to redesign my blog
It made me
happy 
"I merged my travel and food blogs at www.roamingtales.com and implemented a new premium Wordpress theme."
How I did it: I had two blogs - my food blog at www.thegooseberryfool.com and my travel blog at www.roamingtales.com. I decided to merge the two blogs, since there is quite a lot of crossover between travel and food.
I exported the gooseberry fool posts to www.roamingtales.com and then redirected the www.thegooseberryfool.com URL. Then I changed my theme and categories so I could have separate channels for food and travel displaying on the home page, as well as a category for professional articles.
Lessons & tips: Wordpress is very flexible and customisable but you do need a little technical know-how to do it myself.
Resources: www.wordpress.org (blogging software) & various plug-ins
www.studiopress.com (theme)
www.elephantcloud.com (designer to tweak my logo)
www.flickr.com (for photos)
www.dreamhost.com (domain registration and hosting)
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