<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><DIV>On Mar 23, 2007, at 2:19 PM, Kevin Reynen wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Monaco" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Monaco">Do you think that the reason a large number of free, quality themes</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Monaco" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Monaco">don't exist is it is easier for people to sell those?<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Why would a</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Monaco" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Monaco">designer spend the time genericizing a theme to upload Drupal.org,</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Monaco" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Monaco">when he/she can showcase it or their own site and sell it?</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV>Why would a designer develop a theme to sell more than once? I suppose there's some sort of market for that, but when you're talking about the Drupal marketplace, how many people want to buy a design like a pair of designer jeans?</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I think the reason there aren't a large number of high quality themes in Drupal contrib is because it's not easy, especially when you do it right, with semantic CSS, minimal hacks, etc. Theming for Blogspot or Wordpress is low-hanging fruit compared with theming for a CMS. IMHO.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Best,</DIV><DIV>Laura</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></BODY></HTML>