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	<title>Comments on: Veerle Pieter&#8217;s Abstract</title>
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		<title>By: БAKИHEЦ</title>
		<link>http://www.woothemes.com/2008/12/veerle-pieters-abstract/#comment-20997</link>
		<dc:creator>БAKИHEЦ</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2009 00:19:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Просто отлично - очень интересные мысли. Разжевано специально как будто для меня :)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Просто отлично &#8211; очень интересные мысли. Разжевано специально как будто для меня <img src='http://cdn.woothemes.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: Exhighsog</title>
		<link>http://www.woothemes.com/2008/12/veerle-pieters-abstract/#comment-9283</link>
		<dc:creator>Exhighsog</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2009 01:14:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>продам Форд-Фокус  2008 года    за 200 тр.   торг возможет.  срочно!!!
+7 960 200 9209</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>продам Форд-Фокус  2008 года    за 200 тр.   торг возможет.  срочно!!!<br />
+7 960 200 9209</p>
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		<title>By: Matt</title>
		<link>http://www.woothemes.com/2008/12/veerle-pieters-abstract/#comment-8942</link>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 06:18:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Woo, you&#039;ve done it again. Another great Woo theme added to bestwpthemes.com, where we list the best WordPress themes around the web. Congrats!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Woo, you&#8217;ve done it again. Another great Woo theme added to bestwpthemes.com, where we list the best WordPress themes around the web. Congrats!</p>
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		<title>By: biofir</title>
		<link>http://www.woothemes.com/2008/12/veerle-pieters-abstract/#comment-6291</link>
		<dc:creator>biofir</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2009 20:42:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>nicetheme. Great work WooThemes ..... I love it...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>nicetheme. Great work WooThemes &#8230;.. I love it&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: Adii</title>
		<link>http://www.woothemes.com/2008/12/veerle-pieters-abstract/#comment-5366</link>
		<dc:creator>Adii</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Dec 2008 09:18:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@Bryan - Thanks for spotting that. We&#039;ll be releasing a bug-fixed version ASAP! :)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@Bryan &#8211; Thanks for spotting that. We&#8217;ll be releasing a bug-fixed version ASAP! <img src='http://cdn.woothemes.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: Bryan</title>
		<link>http://www.woothemes.com/2008/12/veerle-pieters-abstract/#comment-5235</link>
		<dc:creator>Bryan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 20:47:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I like the overall design of the Abstract theme. It&#039;s got that awesome flair from Veerle and a bit of whimsical feel to it. It&#039;s good stuff.

One thing that I&#039;d like to point out is that every variation of the theme other than the default has an issue with the tiling background. Although I can&#039;t tell on the Creme version, the others you can definitely tell that the background doesn&#039;t tile properly. Just thought I might mention it, since it should be an easy fix.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I like the overall design of the Abstract theme. It&#8217;s got that awesome flair from Veerle and a bit of whimsical feel to it. It&#8217;s good stuff.</p>
<p>One thing that I&#8217;d like to point out is that every variation of the theme other than the default has an issue with the tiling background. Although I can&#8217;t tell on the Creme version, the others you can definitely tell that the background doesn&#8217;t tile properly. Just thought I might mention it, since it should be an easy fix.</p>
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		<title>By: Adii Rockstar</title>
		<link>http://www.woothemes.com/2008/12/veerle-pieters-abstract/#comment-5227</link>
		<dc:creator>Adii Rockstar</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 17:08:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@Taylor - And just to reiterate if it wasn&#039;t obvious from my comments: We LOVE to be engaged and challenged by our users in a constructive and objective way, because that way we can improve our themes, support, service etc. So your comments are very valuable in these neck of the woods! :)

And for anyone else interested - you can read Veerle&#039;s own run-down of the project and the design process here: http://bit.ly/hLqj</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@Taylor &#8211; And just to reiterate if it wasn&#8217;t obvious from my comments: We LOVE to be engaged and challenged by our users in a constructive and objective way, because that way we can improve our themes, support, service etc. So your comments are very valuable in these neck of the woods! <img src='http://cdn.woothemes.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>And for anyone else interested &#8211; you can read Veerle&#8217;s own run-down of the project and the design process here: <a href="http://bit.ly/hLqj" rel="nofollow">http://bit.ly/hLqj</a></p>
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		<title>By: Taylor</title>
		<link>http://www.woothemes.com/2008/12/veerle-pieters-abstract/#comment-5218</link>
		<dc:creator>Taylor</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 15:27:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>:) Fair enough Adii

I can&#039;t wait to see what you guys have coming down the pipe!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p> <img src='http://cdn.woothemes.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />  Fair enough Adii</p>
<p>I can&#8217;t wait to see what you guys have coming down the pipe!</p>
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		<title>By: Adii Rockstar</title>
		<link>http://www.woothemes.com/2008/12/veerle-pieters-abstract/#comment-5217</link>
		<dc:creator>Adii Rockstar</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 15:12:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@Taylor - I hear you, I hear you. But obviously not all of the Beatles&#039; songs went to #1 and so all of our themes won&#039;t be hits either... :)

Also consider that you might not think THiCK is a superior quality theme, but one of our THiCK users might not think Fresh News is that great - so our approach is to try cover *most* of our bases *most* of the time (which we seem to be doing).

That being said, I expect that you&#039;ll be back as a subscriber in January, when you see the string of top notch themes that are in the pipeline... :)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@Taylor &#8211; I hear you, I hear you. But obviously not all of the Beatles&#8217; songs went to #1 and so all of our themes won&#8217;t be hits either&#8230; <img src='http://cdn.woothemes.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>Also consider that you might not think THiCK is a superior quality theme, but one of our THiCK users might not think Fresh News is that great &#8211; so our approach is to try cover *most* of our bases *most* of the time (which we seem to be doing).</p>
<p>That being said, I expect that you&#8217;ll be back as a subscriber in January, when you see the string of top notch themes that are in the pipeline&#8230; <img src='http://cdn.woothemes.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: Taylor</title>
		<link>http://www.woothemes.com/2008/12/veerle-pieters-abstract/#comment-5188</link>
		<dc:creator>Taylor</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2008 17:44:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi Adii - my personal issue is with the overall quality.  I totally get that you can&#039;t do ALL business themes or ONLY stuff like Fresh News, but after reading your long tail analysis I&#039;m even more convinced your most popular themes are such because they&#039;re exceptionally high quality and incredibly versatile.  

&quot;Fresh News is by far our most popular theme, followed by VibrantCMS, Gazette Edition and Over Easy.&quot;

I would add Papercut and Flash News to that list as well, and by the graph they appear to be doing moderately well.

Some of your more recent themes, including Thick, Blog Theme and now Abstract just don&#039;t measure up and really resemble any number of free themes you can get anywhere else (this is also reflected in your consumption graph).  It&#039;s because of this I haven&#039;t renewed my themes club membership - instead I&#039;m waiting for some more work equal to the stuff mentioned above.  Regardless of a theme&#039;s end use - it&#039;s the apparent quality that I really appreciated about Woo themes.  You guys have a great thing going on here, and I am a HUGE fan.  But it&#039;s like a popular band - they have to continue putting out great songs and albums to stay popular and relevant.  

Thanks for listening!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Adii &#8211; my personal issue is with the overall quality.  I totally get that you can&#8217;t do ALL business themes or ONLY stuff like Fresh News, but after reading your long tail analysis I&#8217;m even more convinced your most popular themes are such because they&#8217;re exceptionally high quality and incredibly versatile.  </p>
<p>&#8220;Fresh News is by far our most popular theme, followed by VibrantCMS, Gazette Edition and Over Easy.&#8221;</p>
<p>I would add Papercut and Flash News to that list as well, and by the graph they appear to be doing moderately well.</p>
<p>Some of your more recent themes, including Thick, Blog Theme and now Abstract just don&#8217;t measure up and really resemble any number of free themes you can get anywhere else (this is also reflected in your consumption graph).  It&#8217;s because of this I haven&#8217;t renewed my themes club membership &#8211; instead I&#8217;m waiting for some more work equal to the stuff mentioned above.  Regardless of a theme&#8217;s end use &#8211; it&#8217;s the apparent quality that I really appreciated about Woo themes.  You guys have a great thing going on here, and I am a HUGE fan.  But it&#8217;s like a popular band &#8211; they have to continue putting out great songs and albums to stay popular and relevant.  </p>
<p>Thanks for listening!</p>
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		<title>By: Brooce</title>
		<link>http://www.woothemes.com/2008/12/veerle-pieters-abstract/#comment-5187</link>
		<dc:creator>Brooce</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2008 17:43:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Being familiar with Veerle Pieters&#039; work for a long while, it has been some time since I&#039;ve dropped in on her website. Perhaps she should consider using Abstract for her own site (which looks out of date, and messy to me). Presumably she could use Abstract for free, but would she be allowed to drop the link to Woo ? ;-)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Being familiar with Veerle Pieters&#8217; work for a long while, it has been some time since I&#8217;ve dropped in on her website. Perhaps she should consider using Abstract for her own site (which looks out of date, and messy to me). Presumably she could use Abstract for free, but would she be allowed to drop the link to Woo ? <img src='http://cdn.woothemes.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: Adii Rockstar</title>
		<link>http://www.woothemes.com/2008/12/veerle-pieters-abstract/#comment-5179</link>
		<dc:creator>Adii Rockstar</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2008 11:24:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>After commenting a few times in this discussion about the viability of this theme, I decided to write a more in-depth post that looks at the popularity of our individual themes. The outcome of that analysis is The WooThemes Long Tail ---&gt; http://bit.ly/4wOeys</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>After commenting a few times in this discussion about the viability of this theme, I decided to write a more in-depth post that looks at the popularity of our individual themes. The outcome of that analysis is The WooThemes Long Tail &#8212;> <a href="http://bit.ly/4wOeys" rel="nofollow">http://bit.ly/4wOeys</a></p>
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		<title>By: Adii Rockstar</title>
		<link>http://www.woothemes.com/2008/12/veerle-pieters-abstract/#comment-5174</link>
		<dc:creator>Adii Rockstar</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2008 09:49:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@Taylor &amp; @Rand - As Magnus mentioned, this theme has definitely proved popular with our club members, as well as new users getting in on the 4for1 action. I think it is important to note that our themes are all aimed at different users; and somebody that would buy Abstract, would not necessarily have a use for Fresh News (and vice versa).

So all our themes should be judged objectively on their design and functionality; not on whether an individual has a use therefor. They should also be judged in a way which considers our club members, who gets access to all our themes - if we were to produce 3 Fresh News replica&#039;s a month, the value for our club members would decrease significantly.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@Taylor &#038; @Rand &#8211; As Magnus mentioned, this theme has definitely proved popular with our club members, as well as new users getting in on the 4for1 action. I think it is important to note that our themes are all aimed at different users; and somebody that would buy Abstract, would not necessarily have a use for Fresh News (and vice versa).</p>
<p>So all our themes should be judged objectively on their design and functionality; not on whether an individual has a use therefor. They should also be judged in a way which considers our club members, who gets access to all our themes &#8211; if we were to produce 3 Fresh News replica&#8217;s a month, the value for our club members would decrease significantly.</p>
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		<title>By: Taylor</title>
		<link>http://www.woothemes.com/2008/12/veerle-pieters-abstract/#comment-5152</link>
		<dc:creator>Taylor</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2008 17:26:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Magnus, thanks for the update!  Glad to see it is getting downloaded/sold - can&#039;t argue with that.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Magnus, thanks for the update!  Glad to see it is getting downloaded/sold &#8211; can&#8217;t argue with that.</p>
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		<title>By: Magnus Jepson</title>
		<link>http://www.woothemes.com/2008/12/veerle-pieters-abstract/#comment-5141</link>
		<dc:creator>Magnus Jepson</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2008 15:01:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@Rand - You always have Busy Bee ;)

@Taylor - It&#039;s hard to please everybody, but the we are trying to please another type of crowd with this one. Judging by the amount of club members who have downloaded it along with initial sales, this is a very popular theme indeed. But thanks for backing up Fresh News ;)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@Rand &#8211; You always have Busy Bee <img src='http://cdn.woothemes.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>@Taylor &#8211; It&#8217;s hard to please everybody, but the we are trying to please another type of crowd with this one. Judging by the amount of club members who have downloaded it along with initial sales, this is a very popular theme indeed. But thanks for backing up Fresh News <img src='http://cdn.woothemes.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: Taylor</title>
		<link>http://www.woothemes.com/2008/12/veerle-pieters-abstract/#comment-5132</link>
		<dc:creator>Taylor</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2008 05:01:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I have to agree with Jason above.  I don&#039;t know who Veerle Pieters, but I can&#039;t imagine this being her best work.  Should be a free one.  

And I agree with Rand above in regard to the Fresh News theme.  That theme is what endeared me to you guys to begin with - it&#039;s VERY professional, very clean and can be used in 100 different ways (as is proven by the showcase).  Over Easy and Vibrant CMS are other great offerings.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have to agree with Jason above.  I don&#8217;t know who Veerle Pieters, but I can&#8217;t imagine this being her best work.  Should be a free one.  </p>
<p>And I agree with Rand above in regard to the Fresh News theme.  That theme is what endeared me to you guys to begin with &#8211; it&#8217;s VERY professional, very clean and can be used in 100 different ways (as is proven by the showcase).  Over Easy and Vibrant CMS are other great offerings.</p>
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		<title>By: Rand</title>
		<link>http://www.woothemes.com/2008/12/veerle-pieters-abstract/#comment-5130</link>
		<dc:creator>Rand</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2008 04:51:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Not really loving this theme.  For a premium theme it lacks a LOT and looks no different than any number of free themes you could find at wordpress.org&#039;s theme directory.  Nothing particular good-looking about it and it&#039;s not versatile for other non-blog uses.

Where are the great themes like Fresh News?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Not really loving this theme.  For a premium theme it lacks a LOT and looks no different than any number of free themes you could find at wordpress.org&#8217;s theme directory.  Nothing particular good-looking about it and it&#8217;s not versatile for other non-blog uses.</p>
<p>Where are the great themes like Fresh News?</p>
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		<title>By: Greg Willer</title>
		<link>http://www.woothemes.com/2008/12/veerle-pieters-abstract/#comment-5103</link>
		<dc:creator>Greg Willer</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2008 13:01:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I need to have a look on my computer when I get to work but so far I real like this design and if it fits a project I&#039;ll pitch it. I would like to see mobile themes come out to come along with the new themes. That would be killer!!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I need to have a look on my computer when I get to work but so far I real like this design and if it fits a project I&#8217;ll pitch it. I would like to see mobile themes come out to come along with the new themes. That would be killer!!</p>
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		<title>By: shadoukat</title>
		<link>http://www.woothemes.com/2008/12/veerle-pieters-abstract/#comment-5064</link>
		<dc:creator>shadoukat</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 20:35:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>really cool artistic theme, but I noticed that the PSD doesnt come with all the color options and it&#039;s a lot harder to try to customize that some of the other themes.

Is there any plan on creating a more ecommerce theme in the near future?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>really cool artistic theme, but I noticed that the PSD doesnt come with all the color options and it&#8217;s a lot harder to try to customize that some of the other themes.</p>
<p>Is there any plan on creating a more ecommerce theme in the near future?</p>
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		<title>By: Adii Rockstar</title>
		<link>http://www.woothemes.com/2008/12/veerle-pieters-abstract/#comment-5020</link>
		<dc:creator>Adii Rockstar</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 06:43:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@Felicia - We have two new business / CMS type themes coming, which should be available in January. Preview them...

Cushy ---&gt; http://bit.ly/plH3

The Station ---&gt; http://bit.ly/wR0o</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@Felicia &#8211; We have two new business / CMS type themes coming, which should be available in January. Preview them&#8230;</p>
<p>Cushy &#8212;> <a href="http://bit.ly/plH3" rel="nofollow">http://bit.ly/plH3</a></p>
<p>The Station &#8212;> <a href="http://bit.ly/wR0o" rel="nofollow">http://bit.ly/wR0o</a></p>
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