Does anyone have experience in the famous Thesis WordPress theme? Is it easy to use and customise or do you need CSS or other programming skills to manage it?
Thesis is an Awesome theme ! Its easy to use and its easy to customize!! You have lots of Tutorials for thesis! I am Thesis User! If u are bad in coding you can HIRE ME
If you are good at CSS and can understand the 'hook' system that they have developed it's one of the most powerful themes out there. However if you are looking for something that looks good and is easy to use right out of the box with little to no effort put into it you'd probably be better looking elsewhere. For a coder Thesis is the perfect theme out there and one of the most powerful in terms of flexibility it offers. If you don't know how to code though and aren't able or willing to learn it'll just give you a constant headache. Hope that helps!
In my opinion, Thesis is the best wordpress theme. You don't need to be good in coding to change the layout.
Thesis is good, then how can you explain the fact that major bloggers are using it. All designers want to make more handsome themes but the reality is that bloggers want something not fancy but customizable. See how many still use the default blogger theme. You can read more about why you should use thesis at http://www.flamescorpion.com/2010/07/watch-and-learn-from-top-bloggers/
I guess Thesis is the best premium theme at the moment. It is also depending on what you want to do, i prefer uncomplicated theme, that i can modify here and there. But if you don't need to do this, then Thesis good to go with.