If you read my posts frequently, surely you know that from time to time I browse through the web in order to find best Wordpress themes to use on new websites. Honesty, when I do a search usually I find lots of craps. So I’m contented when I read that sponsored themes are out from Wordpress.net.
Wordpress software is on the wave of popularity, so many damn tips-writers advises: “Wanna nice number of free backlinks for SEO? Develop your own Wordpress theme!” So what the crowd does, they develop 10,000 hopeless Wordpress themes with a batch of stinking links within the footer, and then - the crowd proudly cramps all available repositories. And when you are looking for a theme, you are forced to browse through the sea of abbreviated pieces of crap. It doesn’t make sense, don’t you think so?
That’s why I totally agree with Matt. Wanna develop “sponsored themes“? At first you will have to build your own theme repository. Alternatively you can establish a place where you will be able to spread it and get the ball rolling, like Jacob and David at BloggingPro, for instance.
August 21st, 2007 #
I’ve looked at hundreds of themes. Most of them are rubbish. I’ve seen only about six themes that I’d call good looking. I mean freely available themes. Not the ones used on the super professional blogs.
August 21st, 2007 #
I totally agree with you, Marc. Web design & web developing are far away from being easy, usually advanced ones are simply not interested in sharing their work with other people for free. This is the major reason why 95% of free themes suck, they are all made by noobs that enjoy learning new things and sharing it with others
August 23rd, 2007 #
Most of them just seem to be the same thing over and over again with just the colours changed around!
I like modifying themes. I don’t know why. I do it often enough these days to call it a hobby.
August 23rd, 2007 #
Coding makes fun, your hobby is understandable