Comments on: Themes – To Premium or Not to Premium? http://wpcoop.org/themes-to-premium-or-not-to-premium/ Global Association of Wordpress Professionals Thu, 03 Jun 2010 05:06:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Featured WPCOOP Member http://wpcoop.org/themes-to-premium-or-not-to-premium/comment-page-1/#comment-61 Featured WPCOOP Member Wed, 14 Oct 2009 03:48:33 +0000 http://wpcoop.org/?p=371#comment-61 [...] opportunity to contribute and provide some excellent articles to the WPCOOP blog including “Themes – To Premium or Not to Premium?” and “New WordPress Installation? Here’s 3 Must-Have [...] [...] opportunity to contribute and provide some excellent articles to the WPCOOP blog including “Themes – To Premium or Not to Premium?” and “New WordPress Installation? Here’s 3 Must-Have [...]

]]> By: Nick Armstrong http://wpcoop.org/themes-to-premium-or-not-to-premium/comment-page-1/#comment-17 Nick Armstrong Fri, 25 Sep 2009 05:13:00 +0000 http://wpcoop.org/?p=371#comment-17 Jeff - Picking a theme is not THAT monumental. I changed themes at least once a week on my first blog. Now, once a year. You have to live and learn, pick one that you really like, one that you can manage, and then switch as the situation comes up. But do plenty of testing before you switch - it's the switching at whim that leads to disaster. If you don't know much coding, Thesis is probably your best bet. You can get almost everything done within the admin menus. Thematic takes a little bit more programming and prodding to get things where they need to go. Also, try searching for "free premium themes" and try to skin 'em if you're good with graphics. Those can sometimes be timesavers. Thanks for the comment! -Nick Jeff –

Picking a theme is not THAT monumental. I changed themes at least once a week on my first blog. Now, once a year. You have to live and learn, pick one that you really like, one that you can manage, and then switch as the situation comes up.

But do plenty of testing before you switch – it’s the switching at whim that leads to disaster.

If you don’t know much coding, Thesis is probably your best bet. You can get almost everything done within the admin menus. Thematic takes a little bit more programming and prodding to get things where they need to go. Also, try searching for “free premium themes” and try to skin ‘em if you’re good with graphics. Those can sometimes be timesavers.

Thanks for the comment!

-Nick

]]> By: Nick Armstrong http://wpcoop.org/themes-to-premium-or-not-to-premium/comment-page-1/#comment-14 Nick Armstrong Thu, 24 Sep 2009 22:29:37 +0000 http://wpcoop.org/?p=371#comment-14 Jayson, Glad to hear it! :-) I checked out your blog, nice mod on Thesis. I like the idea of function before design, but you have to remember to use grid-based design so you don't shoot yourself in the foot down the road. I have a bunch of template pages for Thematic ready to go, so customization is really easy; a naked theme isn't really that important for me. Thesis can do the same thing. -Nick Armstrong Jayson,

Glad to hear it! :-) I checked out your blog, nice mod on Thesis.

I like the idea of function before design, but you have to remember to use grid-based design so you don’t shoot yourself in the foot down the road. I have a bunch of template pages for Thematic ready to go, so customization is really easy; a naked theme isn’t really that important for me. Thesis can do the same thing.

-Nick Armstrong

]]> By: Jeff @ Sustainablelife blog http://wpcoop.org/themes-to-premium-or-not-to-premium/comment-page-1/#comment-13 Jeff @ Sustainablelife blog Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:55:47 +0000 http://wpcoop.org/?p=371#comment-13 Great article nick. Ive been toying with the thought of a layout or theme change for my blog for quite some time, but read today to pick one thing and not mess with it or change it too much. Taking that advice, I feel like it's a fairly monumental decision to pick a theme, and dont want to pick the wrong one. I dont know much coding, so I think building one is out of the question. Thanks for the recommendations with the thesis and thematic themes. I'll have to look into each of them. Great article nick. Ive been toying with the thought of a layout or theme change for my blog for quite some time, but read today to pick one thing and not mess with it or change it too much. Taking that advice, I feel like it’s a fairly monumental decision to pick a theme, and dont want to pick the wrong one. I dont know much coding, so I think building one is out of the question. Thanks for the recommendations with the thesis and thematic themes. I’ll have to look into each of them.

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