[consulting] What is "theme design" anyway?

[Kevin Reynen]

10 Themes for $100... act now!

http://www.cmslounge.com/template-store/drupal-templates

How many modules would cost $25 if that was allowed?

- Kevin

On 3/23/07, Laura Scott <laura at pingv.com> wrote:
>
> On Mar 23, 2007, at 2:19 PM, Kevin Reynen wrote:
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>
> Do you think that the reason a large number of free, quality themes
>
> don't exist is it is easier for people to sell those?  Why would a
>
> designer spend the time genericizing a theme to upload Drupal.org,
>
> when he/she can showcase it or their own site and sell it?
> 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?
>
> 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.
>
> Best,
> Laura
>
>
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