Comments on: Good news

By: Tiffany

Tiffany — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 18:14:51 +0000

I think its a great theme. Great themes are simple and allow the end user greater flexibility and I believe this theme achieves both.

How do you add the thumbnails and featured posts though?

By: Premium Theme Info

Premium Theme Info — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 15:22:08 +0000

Woothemes always release nice themes that make me surprise!

By: Magnus Jepson

Magnus Jepson — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 09:50:03 +0000

@DR – Sales stats are what we go by, and I think that most who buy a theme will use it. So sale = being used

By: DR

DR — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 09:48:00 +0000

I read with interest the comments made in this post. I will not say whether I like the it or not but I am glad that the theme has some features that indeed make it unique. I mean take a look at the Gazette theme and Newsport. Both have a unique design; ultimately the choice is made based on personal taste. Also thumbs up for redesigning the main page of the Irresistible theme.

Oh and one more thing: stats can indeed offer an insight to users’ likes and dislikes and can thus help you guide your business decisions. However, what really matters in the end is whether the theme is actually used. Stats should therefore always be interpreted carefully.

By: Magnus Jepson

Magnus Jepson — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 06:10:51 +0000

@fgfollow – Ever since WooTube? Don’t you like WooTube either? What about Cushy? They have both been really popular from a statistical view, so I don’t think the quality is lacking in them.

As for Newsport and Irresistible, they are both WooContest themes, and as we’ve stated before, we think they serve their purpose very well.

By: fgfollow

fgfollow — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 02:03:29 +0000

I have to say that the new themes are very much UNimpressive compared to the old ones.
I understand that there is a need for every taste but honestly ever since wootube it seems like the quality is going down big time.
Now I am looking at Newsport and please no offence to the designer, but this is nothing great at all. Sorry, I like to speak my mind. – And of course this is a personal opinion, I just can’t find this new theme any better than some free theme that can be found anywhere else.

By: kat

kat — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 14:55:45 +0000

@imran — Actually, you missed the point completely. It’s not about money. It’s about painting one’s content in the best possible light and making it easy for the user to access it. As the rockstars above mentioned, personal preference is one thing, constructive criticism is quite another. Saying things like, “it’s not up to the mark” is an opinion to which you are entitled but certainly not objective and not specific. Everyone is also free to come up with their own theme or modify this one.

The great thing about the world is we’re all different, and that’s beautiful

@Magnus, Armono and Adii, I appreciate all the hard work, forethought and coding you put into your themes.

By: Imran Jafri

Imran Jafri — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 12:50:48 +0000

@kat, oh yea now i got the point, also this might not be ‘sexy’ but it can help generate very good money to high traffic blogs since it’s got too many well placed ad spaces!!!

By: Drew Geraets

Drew Geraets — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 15:22:55 +0000

I like it. My only criticism is that the tabber section sticks out in a bad way. Maybe a lighter color for the background? But there’s nothing from stopping someone from changing that on their own implementation. Love what you guys are producing. Keep it up!

By: ZooWorx

ZooWorx — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 14:08:01 +0000

I like and love your themes. But not all of them. Peace!:-)

By: Ross

Ross — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 13:39:43 +0000

In my opinion, this is a very nice theme. Personally, the more Vanilla in flavour it is, the better it is. This gives the opportunity to change it as you need. The more frill, the less value it has on a larges scale to me, someone who would be using it on a client site, not my own.

Design is subjective. Adii, Magnus, don’t let it bother you. Take it constructively, but as you know, the amount of business you do with the theme is more important than the minority’s opinion in the comments.

By: Adii Rockstar

Adii Rockstar — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 13:24:40 +0000

@ZooWorx – I just wanted to highlight that there is a difference between criticism and critique. In this regard critique is objective and not based on personal preference.

So everyone is allowed to have that personal preference and an opinion based on that; we will also gladly accept that criticism. But realize that criticism doesn’t necessarily have influence, wheres objective critique may actually change our minds on a matter!

By: Magnus Jepson

Magnus Jepson — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 13:16:53 +0000

BTW, anybody who thinks the gap between the menu and content looks like an error, simply remove this line from the style.css

#main {
margin:15px 0 0;
}

By: Magnus Jepson

Magnus Jepson — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 13:08:07 +0000

@ZooWorx – The gap between the content does not look like an error to us, nor the designer of the theme. I can agree that the tabber section isn’t exactly sexy, but we wanted to go with the designers original design and keep it basic.

The theme looks finished to us, and looks like a top notch news theme, but as always, if you want to disagree with 6 designers, that is up to you

Myweblog is right around the corner, just need to iron out some bugs.

By: ZooWorx

ZooWorx — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 13:01:04 +0000

@magnus, @kat,

But the Navigation looks strange for me. The Gap between Navigatiton and Content looks like an Error. The Tabber Section can be more elegant. The whole Theme seems in my opinion unfinished.

If you invite us to deal out criticism you must take criticism

Your most themes are really awesome. but this one is the poorest one, i think.

sorry!

I wait for “myweblog”.

By: Magnus Jepson

Magnus Jepson — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 12:29:38 +0000

@kat – Could not have said it better myself

By: kat

kat — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 11:19:35 +0000

I disagree with most everyone and agree with Adii. From a personal blogger’s point of view, this may be a “boring” or vanilla design. But as someone who gets more than 3000-5000 hits a day on a content-heavy Web site and is seeking to attract and keep users while making it a good experience for them (which is, by the way, who it’s about), this design and the functionality packed into this theme are intelligent and well thought out.

Users looks for three things — fast loading, ease of navigation and good content — and take a whole 3 seconds to form an impression. This theme achieves everything, plus it’s clean and less is more. If you want the superficial bells and whistles, have at your CSS and customize it.

By: Adii Rockstar

Adii Rockstar — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 07:15:10 +0000

We hear you guys, but you need to consider that your criticism in this regard is based on personal preference and not objective business facts. Judging by the amount of sales / downloads of Newsport already, I can assure you that it is one of our best-selling themes ever in the first few days of release…

By: Imran Jafri

Imran Jafri — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 02:05:07 +0000

seriously not up to the mark as compare to other themes @woothemes

By: ZooWorx

ZooWorx — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 23:41:21 +0000

Ugly. The other themes looks better. I also agreed with Matthias.