Cozying Up to a WordPress Theme
Killer theme.
I’m not in love with too many software programs, but one I’d be happy to escort to the prom is Thesis, the theme I use for this WordPress blog, for my homepage, and, well, for pretty much every website I own.
Part of Thesis’s appeal is its idiotproof versatility. Mere mortals unschooled in the arcana of html can work with the simple tools Thesis provides to twiddle your blog into life. You get to be Dr. Frankenstein with a friendly monster. A click here, a choice there, hit the Big Ass Save Button, and you’ve got a spiffy new look for your blog.
Best of all, you can websiteify your blog using Thesis—i.e., make a mere blog look like a for-real website. I’m sure a pro could work greater wonders with my authorial homepage, bobhowells.com, but considering I’m an utter tech layperson, I think I’ve done well with it.
Thanks, of course, to Thesis.
But my affection for Thesis goes way beyond that. Its developer, Chris Pearson, is a super creative guy and relentlessly helpful. He’s created a community around the theme where wonks and regular folks alike hang out and answer questions. I’ll never forget the time one of my sites vanished before my eyes. I sent a desperate e-mail to Chris on a weekend, and I was up and running again in minutes.
And the Thesis blog is a fount of free information and inspiration—useful stuff that can help you with your business if you use the Internet in any form.
More about that later. For now, I just wanted to say, Well done, Thesis.
Oh, yeah: There’s a Big Ass Link over there in my right sidebar if you want to sidle over to Thesisville to have a look.
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Thesis rules! Use it on a number of sites and it’s strong, versatile and easy to customise!
I too am completely helpless when it comes to computer problems, and there have been several times when my first blog, http://www.makingmyownwork.blogspot.com, on blogger.com simply shut down on me for a week at a time, and I could not get ahold of anybody to help me fix it.
I just started this new writer’s blog, conundrum, yesterday, and am already having trouble with it. Another thing I don’t like about Blogger is that it lets me know how many people are reading my posts, but doesn’t tell me if it’s the same people. So I think I’m going to try your Thesis and see if it works better for me. Thanks for the heads-up.
@Mark: Great site! @Marly: You’ll love Thesis. I’m always playing around with it. Pretty much everything that bloggers complain about is solved in Thesis.