How about a new skin for the backend. Not just a theme-specific page, but a fully fledged admin or community oriented skin, like many offer albeit in HTML.

I do understand that Woothemes probably wouldn’t have the time or the market the fitting demand, but with a community so large it could come in handy.

Mansoor

I definitely want future releases to be available through my subscription! you can have a tiered subscription even with MAXIMUM $25 a month for Developer edition with EE access.

As it stands right now i wont be buying the EE, and probbaly will not even consider it untill its actually available through my subscription!

Mansoor

But I see we’ll have to agree to disagree.

I’m not really agreeing with the typography opinion. We have used many top name designers, and will continue to do so, and I think they bring a great deal of typography expertise to the table.

I used EE for a few years and would rather use a cheese grater on my genitals than touch it ever again. But Drupal might be tempting – some data-heavy theme ?

But tell me you like my typography idea

Currently the EE and other CMS themes aren’t included in the subscription, but must be purchased seperately.

TimThumb is widely used by all theme authors, and the new version compresses to small size JPG files, so you should upgrade to v1.11
Until WP adds dynamic resizing in WP 3.0, we will still be using timthumb for our dynamic resizing as it’s the best solution out there.

Looking into doing e-commerce themes too

In the “small things” department, I’d really like to see your demo theme pages showing more realistic content. The content in Daily Edition, for example, is very carefully tweaked to fit the theme’s limitations.

Your bloatware thumbnail script is also a royal pain. A quality outfit like Woo should replace it with something that doesn’t produce 50K thumbnails.

And while I’m complaining, I might as well make a request: How about hiring an artist with specific typographic expertise to spec out one of the your upcoming themes ? This is not to insult your current efforts at all, but you’d be amazed what a real type artist can achieve. I’ve met many artists and designers who were fantastic with graphics, but have a bad attitude toward type: they see it as a visual only, and the readability and communication suffers as a result. I think it’d be an interesting experiment to see what the return-on-investment was by using real typographic expertise. I think it’d be a winner for Woo.

I also wonder whether you might consider partnering with one of the interesting plugin authors for a theme or two ? Maybe for advanced e-commerce or large database handling ? A few themes that really extended the power of WordPress would be more valuable imo than a scattergun selection of themes on different platforms.

On the plus side, the new framework and the new nav system are two things I’m very excited about !

And we will be exploring Joomla in the year as well. We don’t have a concrete gameplan as of yet, but that will evolve during the next couple of months.

We are close to integrating the WF2 into all of our themes; so keep watching this space!

I am so very excited about the upgrade to the new framework for all the older themes; been checking this site (and my themes’ changelogs) on a daily basis since the start of January! Hope you’re at the finishline for that one soon, and I wish you the best of luck with the rest of your projects.

I guess Joomla is not in the cards?

Best,

John