Lubith is a service aimed at people who want to create their own customized WordPress theme, rather than use a premade one. What's nice about Lubith is that it doesn't require any sort of coding skills or CSS knowledge; all you need to do is drag and drop things, pick colors, set a few fonts if you like, and you're done--Lubith generates a valid WordPress theme for your website. It's available in a free version and in an $87 one-year subscription.

Unfortunately, I can't say Lubith is powerful. Even if you utilize its full power, dragging things all over the canvas and changing colors with abandon, you are still going to end up with something that looks fairly generic. It allows for roughly the same level of customization you can get with highly customizable free theme WP Paintbrush--and just like WP Paintbrush, it is eclipsed in features by Artisteer, a downloadable program for creating themes for a number of content management systems.

If you think you'll be coming back to Lubith in the future, you might want to pony up for a one-year subscription (currently $87). A paid subscription saves any themes you created with Lubith on the server for as long as the subscription is valid. Of course, even when using the free version, you can simply export the theme you're creating and continue working on it outside of Lubith using other tools.

There's no denying it: Any blog you create using Lubith will end up looking like a fairly standard WordPress blog. Still, if you are just looking for a basic way to customize a WordPress installation, Lubith is free, easy to use, and very fast.

--Erez Zukerman