Any thoughts on or experience with Socrates WordPress theme?

How about changing your designer then if you prefer to outsource (perhaps after this last one is finished) - not suggesting you use us as there are plenty of great WP designer members of the WF for you to look at but our typical turnaround for a WP site is 1 week but it can be as little as 1 to 2 days depending on the requirements.

Perhaps your designer just has too many jobs?

Not seen the Socrates WP theme yet so can't comment there, sorry.

Cheers
Sue

I have not used the Socrates Theme myself but it looks interesting, i have used thesis which is great but requires some understanding of CSS and HTML to customize it.
Headway theme is what i am using now it is super easy, basically drag and drop and you can customize just about any part of your blog.
It is a bit more expensive than Socrates but well worth it for you to check it out.

I purchased the Socrates Wordpress theme two nights ago. I was so impressed with it I wrote about my experience with it on my blog at Socrates Wordpress Theme Review. Here it is in a nut shell. Compared to other themes that have tried to do the same this one is far superior. I found a few minor bugs and inconveniences such as incompatibility with some of the plugins I use and the navigation system is a little different. I'm still experimenting with it.

I emailed them about my problems so will see how responsive they are. But overall I plan on changing out 80% of my affiliate sites because it was so easy to work with.and is very easy to monetize. Plus with all of the header graphics I'll easily pay for the theme with the money I save from having graphic designers do my headers.

Hope this answers your questions.
Mike

The type of theme you use depends on the type of site you are building.
A month to design your theme is too long in my opinion
Depending on the style I do them in a couple days to one week.
You may want to find a different designer.

Depending on the function of the site, themes like the Socrates theme maybe too "heavy".
I just saw the theme for the first time today and I liked what I saw but I have no experience with the functionality or ease of use.
For an out of the box flexible style theme I personally like the flexibility theme and its sister the flexsqueeze templates - just google them to find them.

I've had several clients use those but once again it all depends on the function of the site.

Hope that helps

I personally LOVE the Socrates theme. I have bought other "flexible" themes, and they are always pretty confusing to figure out the customization of it. Socrates is very, very easy.

an option to take would be 'headway theme'
its a great theme, that doesn't require any coding knowledge to make it pretty unique...

Otherwise, dump you designer..
he/she clearly does not value your business.
I work with a great programmer and get my designs to her and she codes them for me within a couple of days..
hit me up if you're stuck...

I have been experimenting with wordpress theme for some time now. Mostly because I need a theme that is easy to use, flexible and can be installed/used on multiple blogs without sacrificing the unique character of each blog. When I discovered Socrates theme it was everyting I needed... and then some. I would even go so far as to say that it is currently the best wordpress theme available.

Let me just give you some examples. It is everything wordpress usually gives you PLUS it is SEO optimized, Clickbank integrated and then there is the header cretaor! And the header creator alone is worth. Within a few clicks you create a unique header for your site - including graphic, title and subtitle. And then you can change the size and colour of the text with the click of a button to create thousands of unique designs.

And that is just to wet your appetite. Once you see it all you will know why I say that it is a no brainer. this is the best wordpress theme. And it will only get better as time goes on.

If you need more detail, pop over to my website (bestwordpresstheme.net) to get more details.

PS: Of course their will be a learner curve to master the theme. And their might be some glitches for now. Once you have mastered it, you will be able to create as many blog websites as you like... very fast and with the click of a few buttons.

Just an update from my review at Socrates Wordpress Theme Review. I wanted to post my update here first before adding it to my blog. After installing the Socrates WP theme on multiple sites I noticed what I thought were minor bugs. But after talking to Dan at Socrates he informed me that the navigation and the Google analytics issues were not bugs but actually designed to make your life easier when setting up the blog for the first time. Now that I got my head around it my next blog took about 12 min to setup and I already had two sales from affiliate products within 48 hours. That was pretty cool!

Hi,
I was also looking at the Socrates theme. Can anyone tell me if you can import your own headers or do you have to use the ones supplied.
Raymond

From what I have studied so far Socrates comes across as pretty nice theme.

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Pass

would like to ask why in Firefox, the sites listed here looks ok but when It is loaded on IE, some of them look distorted, out of alignment or other appearance issue ?
Thanks