Comments on: Why Pre-made?

By: Simon

Simon — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 09:54:20 +0000

I have always designed my own themes for my website. Photogabble has had a good few douzen over the past few years. However I like my current one too much to overhaul it with a new one — the past year I have simply made it better (in my eyes).

By: Kristina Brooke

Kristina Brooke — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 15:10:49 +0000

Forgive my many typos in my previous cooment. Learning to type on a iTouch. I was trying to say that I design for a living so when it comes to my site I use premades that I tweak. I started a design from scratch for myself but never seem to have time to finish.

By: Kristina Brookr

Kristina Brookr — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 05:48:12 +0000

When designing for custmets, I do so from scratch uless they ate on a tight budget. Fort on site I use a premade because I never have to complete my own theme.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 22:36:32 +0000

@C, I agree, EE does a lot of stuff out of box that I wish WP would do and vice versa. I do miss the member module, the easy template system/weblog system. However WP is a lot more “friendly” in terms of the user/fan base, most of what I want to do is out there, via plugins, heck stuff I didn’t even know I wanted to do, there’s a plugin for it lol.

@Damita that is FANTASTIC!! If you need any help or advice lemme know!

@Leslie, I know I repeat myself, but I swear it’s two different “issues”. Graphic design / CSS / XHTML and THEN WordPress itself. WordPress doesn’t do design and design doesn’t automatically work with WP. I hope that makes sense?

By: Damita

Damita — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 15:59:48 +0000

I managed to make my own wordpress layout :) Ha ha, I tried today, its half done so far but I am pleased all because of your post!

By: C

Fri, 07 Aug 2009 13:28:55 +0000

Oh, I think I understand the seperation of design/coding but for me, Wordpress doesn't seperate them well enough. I also think EE does a lot of stuff out of the box that Wordpress requires plug-ins for which I just can't be bothered about. I guess some if it is that I'm too lazy to learn another system and because EE does what I want it to in a way that is organic for me, I ALWAYS go back to it.

By: Leslie

Leslie — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 03:30:37 +0000

I use pre-mades as a base and personalize them for myself. I’m not good enough with WordPress to code my own sites.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 18:40:51 +0000

lol I don’t know if I am going to be able to keep up with the comments!

Hmm from what I gather some of you associate creating a design or “theme” with having to know how to code PHP. I guess it’s really again, two seperate parts. Design and Coding (graphic design, XHTML, CSS), and then the WP template system.

It also brings up another question to me, what brings you to a blog in the first place? The content or design? Personally the design sucks me in first, then the content. Naturally the content has to be good to KEEP visitors, especially in our day of the glorious RSS Feed lol, but just to get you to stick around to READ the content in the first place, I am all about the shiny.

By: Terri

Terri — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:47:26 +0000

I’m the same as Caity — I like making my own, but I often feel I can’t get the ‘right look’, or I get bored very quickly with it and then can’t be bothered making another. It’s either that, or I just don’t have the time.

By: Damita

Damita — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 10:10:36 +0000

I use pre-made because I haven’t had chance to give making a wordpress theme ago (I think I did it once but there was already a template), I really need to learn PHP as I will need it for next year of uni :)

I do want to give it ago, just don’t know how or where to start, I love yours btw!