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Re: Why I Promote the HELL out of Thesis

micro sd card — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 03:59:19 -0000

I would highly recommend to anyone in the market for a new theme thesis. Research before, I just free themes I have used online which is nice, but nothing like the thesis was found. And for the price, all the power it gives you is a steal.

Re: Why I Promote the HELL out of Thesis

Stefan Suarez — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:15:52 -0000

Trying to figure out what to buy: Headway or Thesis... ended up trying to figure out what GPL really means and seeing the people I'm starting to follow.. argue :) Kinda fun.. in a nice educational way.

Re: Why I Promote the HELL out of Thesis

Darren — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 13:34:35 -0000

Adult fanboyism ftw! I learnt loads from just the comments! Thanks everyone! :P
HJave to say i love thesis too :P

Re: Why I Promote the HELL out of Thesis

Andreas Duess — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 14:48:21 -0000

It's not even that - I do have a paypal account, a merchant account, but I don't want to use it for purchases.

The thing that's annoying is that a: the pay by credit card link tends to be hidden away and that b: I always get a page telling me that I have a paypal account and why aren't I using it? This then requires one more click to tell them to go away and allow me to use my Visa card.

Re: Why I Promote the HELL out of Thesis

Cynthia LaLuna — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 13:17:30 -0000

Hi Andreas,

Just a quick note about PayPal. If the user has established a merchant account with PayPal (as opposed to just a personal account - it's free and only requires a few more methods of identification) - then the buyer does not have to sign up for PayPal. My own account is set up that way. I'm not sure if it works that way for international buyers, but it certainly does for domestic. Urge people you buy from to take that extra step!

Re: Why I Promote the HELL out of Thesis

Andreas Duess — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 21:57:36 -0000

I hate, hate, hate the way paypal tries to force you to use/open a paypal account when all you want to do is pay via credit card - because, you know, my credit card gives me consumer protection paypal can only dream of.

I understand why vendors use paypal - trying to open a proper merchant account is no fun - but they are indeed the devil's spawn as far as I am concerned.

Re: Why I Promote the HELL out of Thesis

Des Walsh — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 21:52:11 -0000

Tell me about PayPal for us foreigners! In 2007 at BlogWorld I paid $10 for membership of IBNMA. PayPal froze my account because the transaction was in the US and I live in Australia. When I finally got to speak to someone at PayPay they assured me blithely that they would do it again and no, they had no capacity or intention of emulating the credit card people who let you flag your travels and don't block your transactions when they come from where you said you'd be.

I know this is peripheral to the main topics here, but it felt good to write that. :)

Re: Why I Promote the HELL out of Thesis

Brian Clark — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 08:55:56 -0000

Andreas, OK... found the transaction... looks like you purchased yesterday close to 4pm eastern, which means it might have been after our support hours when you contact them... please give us time to respond. ;-) Our support team usually gets back the next morning US eastern time.

Secondly, PayPal is reviewing the transaction. They do this for security purposes (usually for people outside of the US), and it's totally their call, not ours. When they clear the transaction, everything will become available on our end.

Sorry about the delay, but again, this is something PayPal has done based on the source of funds, not us. Sit tight... hopefully PayPal will approve the transaction today.

Re: Why I Promote the HELL out of Thesis

Andreas Duess — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 06:42:26 -0000

WIll do. Still, please check what went wrong there. I am happy to send you screenshots of a: a paypal receipt b: me following you on twitter and trying to contact you over there c: me sending you two emails to your gmail account.

I am totally confused why none of my attempts to contact you - once I figured out how to actually contact you - did make it thorugh. One failure, like email being down, I understand, multiple I don't.

Re: Why I Promote the HELL out of Thesis

Brian Clark — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 00:02:51 -0000

Andreas, forgive me, but we have no record of any emails from you.

No tweets to me either.

Why not email me directly via Copyblogger?

http://www.copyblogger.com/...

I'm a little confused how you didn't take that option before this comment.

Re: Why I Promote the HELL out of Thesis

Andreas Duess — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 23:57:01 -0000

Hi Brian

Sent two emails to the address on my paypal receipt - payment went through fine. Sent you a message via twitter.

No response yet from any of these channels, no resolution when I log into my account. Forgive me for being less than impressed. I am feeling slightly stupid for having to use Chris's blog comments to get a reaction.

Re: Why I Promote the HELL out of Thesis

Brian Clark — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 17:23:24 -0000

Hi Andreas, if the payment went through, your PayPal receipt contains the support email address. If you didn't get the email, your payment likely didn't go through.

We're on Twitter @diythemes

You can also contact me here:

http://www.copyblogger.com/...

Or @copyblogger on Twitter

Or @pearsonified on Twitter

Hope this helps.

Re: Why I Promote the HELL out of Thesis

Andreas Duess — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 17:12:17 -0000

Chris, I paid for a thesis license via paypal, using their payment page. The payment went through no problem but when I got redirected to my thesis account page the license had not been applied.

No big deal, I thought, I'll contact support. Except, I can't.

Unfortunately there is no support email address posted, there is no way to contact the developer. No big deal, I said again, I post in the support forum. Which, it turns out, I can't because the payment has not been registered against the account.

There is no contact page, there is no twitter account, there is absolutely nothing that I can see.

So the theme might be just wonderful, but I have no way to find out because I can't access it and I can't tell anybody there's been an error because there's no contact details. Not good.

If there has been no communication from them by tomorrow the only action left open to me seems to be disputing the payment.

Re: Why I Promote the HELL out of Thesis

Apolinaras Sinkevicius — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 19:16:01 -0000

Hmmm... I thought Thesis was run by professionals. Apparently not. All I see is pissing match between egos. Maybe it is time to step away from dirt slinging and act in a professional manner, especially in public forums.

Re: Why I Promote the HELL out of Thesis

Wesley Craig Green — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 17:17:04 -0000

I would highly recommend Thesis to anyone in the market for a new theme. Before Thesis, I just used free themes I found online which were good but nothing like Thesis. And for the price, it is a steal for all the power it gives you.

Wesley Craig Green
The Geek Entrepreneur

Re: Why I Promote the HELL out of Thesis

Jason Benfield — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 16:30:14 -0000

I agree with everyone and no one at the same time! lol

I was/am and avid Thesis them fan. Great theme especially for SEO purposes. Although I have to admit that with my no programming/CSS knowledge it got a little frustrating to break out of the 'Thesis Box' until I actually started to understand the open hook feature...

When you download the Thesis Open Hook Plug In in your wordpress backoffice it literally opens up the world of easy customizations. You never have to touch code and you can get amazing design results...

BUT, I do find myself as well switching to headway... because of the amount of variations you can get easily on the fly... If you want a 'Thesis' type look you can get it, but if you want to design ANY type of website you can as well...

I really didn't understand about how drastic the customization options were until I looked at...

http://dannybrown.me/

and then I saw a site from a lady that used headway with NO DESIGN SKILLS...

http://lawyersarah.com/

If you want a bad a blogging theme go with Thesis hands down, if you want flexibility to get a zillion different layouts... go with headway...

That's my 2 cents...

Re: Why I Promote the HELL out of Thesis

John Haydon — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 15:07:56 -0000

David - I have to agree with you on the Thesis user forum. I found the folks in the forum very helpful - especially Rick and Kristarella.

Re: Why I Promote the HELL out of Thesis

John Haydon — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:51:23 -0000

Re: Why I Promote the HELL out of Thesis

John Haydon — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:24:56 -0000

The big difference between Thesis and Headway is that Headway can create radically different layouts with a visual editor (no coding - really). You can even have various different side bars on single post pages, category archives and pages (not posts), as I've done with my site.

I think they're both great themes, and it all comes down to personal preference.

Re: Why I Promote the HELL out of Thesis

Brian Clark — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:23:44 -0000

Matt, there's a difference between recommending and trash talking. I thought we had a gentleman's agreement based on our discussions, but I'm finding gentlemen few and far between in this business.

Re: Why I Promote the HELL out of Thesis

Mary Motz — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 10:29:08 -0000

Hey Danny - I like Brian Gardner too! I like the idea of floating different themes to the client so they have more choice and more flexibility.

Thanks for replying! ;-)

Re: Why I Promote the HELL out of Thesis

Cindy King — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 10:23:00 -0000

The story behind the sale is definitely linked to other important topics too... like how to create loyalty. I'd love to see the recipe written down about how the story influences the community etc.

Re: Why I Promote the HELL out of Thesis

rtolmach — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 10:22:01 -0000

Thesis looks great, but I couldn't find an answer to my question on their site. Perhaps someone here can advise. I have an existing WordPress site. Don't want to change the design or functionality at all, but I like the SEO, etc elements built into Thesis. Can I migrate over to get those benefits without having to recreate the site?
Thanks!

Re: Why I Promote the HELL out of Thesis

Danny Brown — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 10:04:47 -0000

What can I say? You got me - you are my design hero ;-)

Re: Why I Promote the HELL out of Thesis

Danny Brown — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 10:03:46 -0000

Oh you can still get your hands very dirty with Headway, Cindy - developers and coders weren't forgotten about :)