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dogboy

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Re: Wordpress Themes
« Reply #15 on: June 18, 2013, 11:36:27 PM »
http://wordpress.org/themes/responsive
"Responsive" By ThemeID by CyberChimps.comVersion 1.9.3.2

I like this one because it has a simple primary call to action, and then it has 3 detail areas at the bottom.  After I took out all the blog crap, it cleaned up nice and simple.

Also very fluid... nice mobile experience on an iphone.
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Re: Wordpress Themes
« Reply #16 on: June 19, 2013, 11:36:39 AM »
I've been using this theme on one of my sites with good effect - http://themeforest.net/item/cuckootap-responsive-single-page-wordpress-theme/3512405

Like it because in essence the homepage becomes one big easy to manage sales page with woocommerce being added for that final sale ;)
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Re: Wordpress Themes
« Reply #17 on: June 19, 2013, 05:26:24 PM »
Quote from: bill on June 20, 2011, 06:05:08 AM
Are these paid themes really that much better than what's available out there for free?

I look at it in terms of hours. I use a rather passe paid theme (blanking on the name) for several sites. Genesis (which I haven't used yet, but plan to purchase as soon as I have time to actually act on the purchase) is $60. If you value your time at $1/hour it has to save you 60 hours of effort... but if you value your time at $60, if it saves you one hour, you break even.

I've found that if I see a paid theme and it is close to what I want, meaning it might save me 10 hours...

$60/hour * 10 hours = 600
Genesis cost           =  60
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Net value               = $540

If, on the other hand, it's a pain to use and takes me an extra ten hours to figure out....
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Re: Wordpress Themes
« Reply #18 on: June 19, 2013, 10:14:30 PM »
I have used Genesis for a few sites. Some of the child themes are pretty sweet looking but nearly all of them take quite a bit of customization. If I was better at CSS and PHP it wouldn't take too long but for me it would usually take at least a couple hours of changing the CSS, reloading to see what I broke, and then going back and fixing. Still better than starting from scratch with something basic though.
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Re: Wordpress Themes
« Reply #19 on: June 20, 2013, 02:07:02 AM »
DrCool - that being the case, you may find it faster to churn out sites with Artisteer. They tend to have a similar look and feel, but even when I don't plan to use the generated theme, I used to use it just for the fact that you can hit buttons and it will randomly cycle through colors, fonts and things like that either singly or all at once. It can be a great idea generator and you can get a decent theme with little effort.

I never installed it on this machine... and maybe not the last one. I haven't used it in a while.
http://www.artisteer.com/
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