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Eric Mesa That is SO awesome! Earlier this year I read about Twenty Thirteen and for the first time in the nearly 10 years I’ve been blogging I thought about theme design. Oh, sure, I’d looked at themes and figured whether or not they were for me, but the heuristic I used couldn’t be put into words. I dove into what I liked and disliked about Twenty Thirteen and I learned new terminology to describe what I liked. Also, and this is not meant to be disrespectful to the hundreds of free theme designers, it was important to see a professionally commissioned theme in Twenty Thirteen and realize that the fonts and nearly everything else about the theme I had in my blog were horribly, horribly wrong. In the end, I found Twenty Thirteen to be absolutely perfect for my personal blog (which you can see by clicking on my name), but I have another website (http://www.comicpow.com) which is more news-based and would benefit from a magazine theme. For now I am using what is essentially a shareware version of a pay theme that I like (Destro), but when I came across Further, I knew I would buy that theme eventually, once Comic POW! started making money and I could justify the expense. When I watched the State of the Word and Matt said it would be a magazine theme I told myself, “Well, I don’t really NEED further. Twenty Thirteen has renewed my faith in WP default themes. (I hated Kubrick and it’s banal generic-ness) I’ll just use Twenty Fourtheen.” So to hear that it’s actually based off of Further is AWESOME!
Eric Mesa
That is SO awesome! Earlier this year I read about Twenty Thirteen and for the first time in the nearly 10 years I’ve been blogging I thought about theme design. Oh, sure, I’d looked at themes and figured whether or not they were for me, but the heuristic I used couldn’t be put into words. I dove into what I liked and disliked about Twenty Thirteen and I learned new terminology to describe what I liked. Also, and this is not meant to be disrespectful to the hundreds of free theme designers, it was important to see a professionally commissioned theme in Twenty Thirteen and realize that the fonts and nearly everything else about the theme I had in my blog were horribly, horribly wrong. In the end, I found Twenty Thirteen to be absolutely perfect for my personal blog (which you can see by clicking on my name), but I have another website (http://www.comicpow.com) which is more news-based and would benefit from a magazine theme.
For now I am using what is essentially a shareware version of a pay theme that I like (Destro), but when I came across Further, I knew I would buy that theme eventually, once Comic POW! started making money and I could justify the expense. When I watched the State of the Word and Matt said it would be a magazine theme I told myself, “Well, I don’t really NEED further. Twenty Thirteen has renewed my faith in WP default themes. (I hated Kubrick and it’s banal generic-ness) I’ll just use Twenty Fourtheen.” So to hear that it’s actually based off of Further is AWESOME!
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