That happened to me on a past sale. So I became a member instead. Pulled in by Woo marketing ? Maybe, but it’s great to be able to pick and choose from any theme as projects come up, and also to be happily surprised when a new theme or two suddenly pops up.

But their 2 & 3 column layouts, different ways of treating main images (e.g., Busy Bee vs. Vibrant CMS), etc, are exactly the sorts of things I’m always looking for and rarely finding for small biz work.

If you think of a dry cleaner, an electrician, a 30-person pharmaceutical company, etc., a lot of these sorts of companies are looking for a Gazette sort of home page, only without “read the full story” postings approach. They don’t want a giant image on the front, necessarily, and want to get a few different sales messages covered on the home page that aren’t snippets to another page. They need a full-width nav bar with 2-3 child levels. Maybe even a little less modern and a little more conservative.

I think that’s what many magazine themes offer, but I don’t think they’re easy to transform to a business CMS site. If “Gazette” were CMS page-based, I think it would be a huge hit for small biz sites. Gazette, Gotham News, I would already be using those for small biz if I could…they are just perfect in many ways!

I hope it’s this sort of approach you’re looking at in the next few months for biz CMS…layouts that are more like what I’m describing here, rather than more riffs on the same basic layout approach, with a giant slider always full-width at the top.

The reason I mentioned left-vertical nav is because some business clients need more content than a horizontal nav can contain. So a left-vertical nav with slide-out child levels would be a very, very useful thing to find in a template. I rarely see that sort of nav, and I’m not sure why.

Want to make sure, again, that I’m not coming across as unappreciative of what you guys are doing, just yearning/giving a little customer feedback.

Great news to hear about the business themes in development!

You said 3/4 days, right? Right?

But we totally agree with you, and have 3 biz themes lined up currently, but they are all still in the Photoshopping stage, as we are busy getting out our back catalog of themes and trying to please everybody

I beg you, though, to consider ramping up efforts to create more business-focused CMS themes…emphasis on pages vs categories…different sorts of home image presentations besides the slider…even vertical left-side navigation instead of horizontal, if that is possible. Full width nav bars (clients often have a lot to say). Home tops with 2/3 image and right column, rather than the image taking up all the width.

I’d say The Station is the closest to what I’m talking about, is some regards.

I think there is a huge market for using WordPress as a small-biz CMS solution, but it really amazes me how few really biz-ready WP themes are generally available out-of-the-box. Not just here…just generally. My impression is that personal to biz themes must be 80% vs 20%, if that, on premium sites.

There’s some good money in that area to be had…for everyone.

Again, great job and love the themes. Just am dying for more business CMS variety to choose from, where one solution looks nothing like the other…

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