You seem to be trying out every since niche now, first forums, then url shortner, webhosting and now failblogging. And yet, this is another bad idea in your case, you seem never to think through on your ideas and you are trying things now years after failblogging niche has been explored... first of all, to start of a failblog you need a huge community, and EVEN Xisto doesn't have a HUGE community -- millions of people visit FailBlog.com every month, how are seriously going to compete with that? Where are going to get the fail pictures? They have to be unique and users have to submit that pictures to you. But anyways, you should really think this through? And what is your site name going to be? You better think of good one Ash. But if you are really going through with this idea then, I'll be glad to help you find your theme. As of now, Wordpress 3.0 is still getting developed on and most themes aren't supporting it already, but if you want you can use 2.0 ones that are just the same but you have to do all the tweaks like headers and footers by yourselfs. Another thing is whether you are going to be needing a PREMIUM THEME which is paid or a FREE THEME which are usually crappy. There are many premium theme clubs now,the best so far being Woothemes.com , Rockettheme.com . Both of these clubs have PAID and FREE themes. The FREE THEMES in these are especially good and they are very customizable. They have many themes which are suitable for all kinds of websites and you can find the that fits you, I especially like the free theme called 'AfterBurner' which is really fast (claimed to be the fastest wordpress theme) and you can have any color preset you like. Creating you own theme requires high quality images and very high CSS, PHP AND HTML coding work -- these are very complicated for anyone, even people who are professionals. I like to create them using the 'Sandboxes' which are just basic themes and you can easily customize them by coding them, they have all the basic codes but you have to addon where you want to the images and footers and widget boxes. There is also a new project called 'Divine' which you can add on to your Photoshop CS3+ and it can convert a Photoshop .PSD theme into a wordpress theme, just draw any theme you like and it can convert it, right now it is in beta testing and it is free and you should grab it before it goes into sales. It works most of the time, and it requires a little getting used to but after after a while you can get the hang of Divine and you can tweak it to your likes. I have used Grid Focus once and hated it, they use alot of 'extensive' coding it is hard to decipher them and code them again and they usally never update their themes to fix bugs.