I keep hearing people say that this is a very good theme, but everytime I run across a site using it, it doesnt look so hot...I even watched the video, and from what I can tell, all you are pretty much doing, is changing colors here and there, color background...so in the end, the theme still looks like it was done by someone new, generic is what I am looking for. Am I missing something here? What do you guys think?
it just aims to a diffrent type of people who want a full control over their blog, i think eventually you are right and those people might have tried other themes as well that look much better. I don't think people should turn into designers and design their own themes, so offering too much control might be a bad idea as well.
you mean control over something that looks like this: http://www.thinkdave.com/skins/affinity/ I mean, its below avg ok...but there is nothing here that would jump out at me and say, read me, i am an interesting blog... Just dont see it.... I guess i am in a catch 22 If I just run any theme, and I wanted to change something, then I would have to dive into the theme coding. I guess with thesis, you have those options where you can change colors, background, fonts, text, etc... but when you are done with those options, your blog still looks sorta plain... or a custom job which can really run $100's of dollars...one thesis designer says he charges $700+ Why would anyone pay $80 for thesis, then turn around and pay another $700 for a custom thesis theme? why not just hire a normal coder that creates custom wp themes? thesis also looks like it has a ton of options...I would bet the avg joe could not figure out half of them, much less code anything extra into the extra slots that would require more coding....
Thesis is not just a theme , its a framework. If you want a theme customize with your design. Then thesis will be your best bet. Dont upset about the first look. You can customize so many thing from theme option of your wp dashboard without having any programming knowledge. Also the theme is seo friendly.
thats the thing, I do not want to have to customize anything, I want it to jump out of the box looking great hahaha... but that is not going to happen, and I do not want to learn on what option goes best with another, or what color goes best with another color...