Comments on: How To Choose A WordPress Theme – Free, Paid or Custom? http://www.webtrainingwheels.com/2010/02/how-to-choose-a-wordpress-theme-%e2%80%93-free-paid-or-custom/ teaching you how to market your business online Tue, 07 Sep 2010 15:44:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: lucy http://www.webtrainingwheels.com/2010/02/how-to-choose-a-wordpress-theme-%e2%80%93-free-paid-or-custom/comment-page-1/#comment-335 lucy Mon, 22 Feb 2010 07:09:06 +0000 http://www.webtrainingwheels.com/?p=432#comment-335 Thanks for your input Doron! Good to know those differences between Frugal and Thesis. I tried to skew this article toward regular folks and their theme choices - but looking at it from a designer/coder perspective would be interesting also. Cheers! Thanks for your input Doron! Good to know those differences between Frugal and Thesis. I tried to skew this article toward regular folks and their theme choices – but looking at it from a designer/coder perspective would be interesting also. Cheers!

]]> By: Doron Orenstein http://www.webtrainingwheels.com/2010/02/how-to-choose-a-wordpress-theme-%e2%80%93-free-paid-or-custom/comment-page-1/#comment-334 Doron Orenstein Mon, 22 Feb 2010 06:39:49 +0000 http://www.webtrainingwheels.com/?p=432#comment-334 Great article Lucy! Another 'blank canvas' theme I like is Frugal (http://frugaltheme.com/). Thesis is awesome, but if you're a coder looking to get your hands dirty with exact CSS positioning, Thesis defines many of the widths using .em's (as opposed to pixels), which means it's going to be a slow and tedious process getting your site to look pixel-perfect if you're a designer with a keen eye towards perfection. I haven't played with Headway that much, so I can't say too much about that one. I personally recommend ALWAYS using premium themes, just because we're dealing with technology here, which means you're almost definitely going to get stuck at some point, and free themes often mean that you have nobody to turn to when you do get stuck. Plus, the premium themes usually look so much better (in my opinion). Here is a great site that I always send folks to for a premium theme: http://wpbest.com/ (and no, wpbest.com is not my site, although that would be nice...) Thanks Lucy! Great article Lucy! Another ‘blank canvas’ theme I like is Frugal (http://frugaltheme.com/). Thesis is awesome, but if you’re a coder looking to get your hands dirty with exact CSS positioning, Thesis defines many of the widths using .em’s (as opposed to pixels), which means it’s going to be a slow and tedious process getting your site to look pixel-perfect if you’re a designer with a keen eye towards perfection. I haven’t played with Headway that much, so I can’t say too much about that one.

I personally recommend ALWAYS using premium themes, just because we’re dealing with technology here, which means you’re almost definitely going to get stuck at some point, and free themes often mean that you have nobody to turn to when you do get stuck. Plus, the premium themes usually look so much better (in my opinion). Here is a great site that I always send folks to for a premium theme: http://wpbest.com/ (and no, wpbest.com is not my site, although that would be nice…)

Thanks Lucy!

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