Sharon Hurley Hall´s last blog post…Seven Steps To A Professional Bid

@Alex: Pristine coding behind the scenes is definitely a must, not only for beginners, but the rest of us too. If it wasn’t for Gardner’s themes I may not have continued to work with code. The Revolution series did a lot to help me learn how it all works and now I find myself enjoying it a lot.

@Alik: Hey, stick with what works, right?

@Basho: Too true, anything web related is going to change at the speed of light. With so many designers and developers out there the landscape is changing minute by minute.

It looks like you did a fine job of it too. One suggestion though? See if you can get your text to wrap around your images in your posts. The white space breaks up the flow too much.

@Sharon: There’s always room for improvement no matter who you are. One thing you could consider is widening the content area. Right now the two columns are nearly matched for width, if you reduce the size of the right hand column that would draw the eye over to the content.

Sharon Hurley Hall´s last blog post…My Six Word Memoir

1. It was the technological cutting edge at the time I bought it.

This is more important than you think. The rate of progress for CSS and PHP is almost astronomical. By choosing a brand new theme I was able to keep up with this progression and use Gazette for as long as possible.

2. It was new and unique.

Leading on from point 1, I feel it is important that your blog stands out from others. Any good free theme release quickly becomes flavour of the month and by using such a release you are also losing one of your USP’s. Not many people had Gazette and less got it to work properly. I was in the leading showcase for the theme for 6 months.

3. It was ultra professional.

By going for a theme that was very ‘hard’ and ‘professional’ my customising was all in one direction; softening. Like sculptor, I chipped away at the stone of the theme to reveal the shape I wanted. ‘Hard’ themes always come across as authoritative and, although I do little selling through my site, I wanted to keep that edge to the final version. This has meant that when I do write a sales based post, say a review of my watch with an affiliate link, my message is strengthened by the themes core professionalism.

That’s just a few thoughts on the subject, thanks for the interesting post!

Regards,

Basho

Basho´s last blog post…A online year in review

Alik Levin | PracticeThis.com´s last blog post…Kaizen Parents – GTD Kids

Good coding structure/explanations = great theme.

Alex Fayle | Someday Syndrome´s last blog post…Why bother with authenticity?

I use the Flexx theme for my two webpages and like it. It’s great that it’s so easy to use as I’ve only recently started blogging. I had a “normal” website before and realised that a WP theme would give me so much more freedom.

The only thing with the Flexx is that when you get it there are no comments enabled on the blog page, which is a bit weird. You have to add code to enable it to allow comments in your blog. They might have changed that now, not sure.

Heike Miller´s last blog post…“Your social media journey starts here”