that acrosmin.com theme looks pretty sweet and clean. Yeah, when I get to that point, I would sure like to spend on a designer to create a custome sweet looking blog.

For starters who want to test out the water, I found some of the blogg*er templates to be pretty good ... keeping in mind here that the main focus is the ease of setup and maximizing the click through.

Simple changing the background to a related repeated gif can sometimes easily make the site look better.

Here's one such example
hxxp://cupcoffeemak*er.blogs*pot.c0m/