Comments on: Things to Consider Before Buying Thesis

By: deborah.woehr

deborah.woehr — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 01:21:47 +0000

You’re welcome, Raju. Yeah, I can now spot a Thesis theme a mile away, along with WordPress and Blogger designs. Thanks for the constructive feedback on my design. I haven’t quite figured out how to customize the sidebar yet. That’s definitely going to be a trial and error project.

Thanks for stopping by!

By: Raju

Raju — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 00:59:34 +0000

Thanks a lot for quoting me! I am glad you found it worthy enough to have a discussion around it. I agree to most of the things you have written over here. I like Thesis for the plug-n-play hooks they provide, but they aren't as easy as they project them to be. SEO, as you have rightly mentioned is over hyped. I have achieved better results with other themes as well. Typography is good, but again, its way too common. What you have done with your header is really nice, but then the body still looks like million other sites running thesis .-= Raju´s last blog ..10 Ways to Watch The Vampire Diaries Online for Free! =-.

By: deborah.woehr

deborah.woehr — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 04:13:54 +0000

Ben: If there is one thing that I could redo over the last four years it would have been to learn CSS and HTML the right way.

Karen: Glad you enjoyed my article and my blog’s new look! Now that I have the design customized the way I want it, my next project involves tackling my About page and updating my old content. I’ve decided to tackle it little by little each day so that I don’t get overwhelmed.

By: Karen Lee Field

Karen Lee Field — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 03:20:04 +0000

Excellent post, Deborah. I must admit that I was thinking of buying Thesis myself, but when I did a bit of research I found that all the sites look very much alike, which put me off. But…having said that, no matter what theme you install, there will be plenty of blogs on the internet that look similar to it (mine is a prime example).

I couldn’t find proof that I could customise Thesis completely without having to go into the code and if I have to do that then why buy it as I’m already doing that?! That’s the reason I didn’t buy it.

Now, going back to my first paragraph, all the sites I saw was so alike, yet then I come across you site and it’s different to all of them…and it does look “clean” (which I love).

I’ll be reading your posts with interest.
.-= Karen Lee Field´s last blog ..Cut…It…Out! But What If…? =-.

By: Benjamin Solah

Benjamin Solah — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 00:27:51 +0000

Thanks. Designing and modifying my new theme was certainly more difficult as the code was really different to my old free theme. I kind of taught myself CSS and HTML as I went along so I had to relearn a lot of stuff with this one. .-= Benjamin Solah´s last blog ..Writing Update: Outlining Zombie Novella =-.

By: deborah.woehr

deborah.woehr — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 00:22:03 +0000

I like what you’ve done with your theme. It fits very well with the topics you write about.

I tinkered with many of the free themes, but could never quite achieve the result that I wanted. What bugged me the most about the free themes was that the code was always different, which forced me to hunt for specific items in order to modify the theme. I should have sat myself down and taught myself CSS and HTML years ago. Too busy writing, though.

By: Benjamin Solah

Benjamin Solah — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 23:31:51 +0000

The way I worked with my design was to download a very basic free theme and make the centre of the theme, my custom header. Whilst, the nuts and bolts of the theme aren't that original, I believe my header image makes it stand out and the design seems like my own. .-= Benjamin Solah´s last blog ..Writing Update: Outlining Zombie Novella =-.