Can You Believe This? + Who's a Really Good Custom WordPress Theme Designer?

Hi, Jason. Very unprofessional behavior!

I'd be happy to work with you. You can see part of my portfolio here. (Those examples are mostly theme adaptations, but I do fully original work also.)

Steve

For a designer, I'd recommend these people -

Creating Gorgeous User-Interfaces since 05'

FantasyCreative.com

Affordable Blog and Web Design from Staffordshire, UK; by Onvo

James (#1) is a very good friend of mine and comes up with some really nice designs.

For a coder, you can go with Gary at PSDtovB - PSD to vBulletin Skin Coding

There are many talented kids to be found on gumtree.com

I sent a guy once a web layout as a jpg and he turned it into CSS/html. Also worked with one to tweak a WP theme also.

If you are looking for a custom WordPress theme use a specialist. A regular website designer probably has little experience of producing custom WordPress themes. If you find one who claims that they do make sure that they show you at least four or five that they have produced.

Also a tip that may save you a huge amount of hassle in future. If you have a custom theme written for you ensure that the copyright in the theme is assigned to you.

Hi Jason,

Sorry to hear that... hope you got your money
back or something.

Anyway, I'll send you a PM for a recommendation.

Asher

Hi Jason,

Please check your PM.

Hakan

I would think any web developer could put a WP theme together for you with out much trouble.. It's pretty straight forward. It took me weekend to figure it out and build one from total scratch, and that included learning php.

This is all excellent information. Thanks a ton. ...You never know who to trust from a Google search, but you can almost always trust Warriors.

Why not just get Artisteer and then you can customize your own and own the copyright. My students have been making some great themes and lots are now making them for their own customers so all in all a good investment.


Quentin

Here's my humble take on it:
I personally would not reccommend Artisteer. It is just about designing cosmetic appearance at the front end, but not about creating versatile and easy to use themes. For example, while most themes work just fine pasting category code like <?php
wp_list_categories('exclude=10,7,8&title_li='); ?> in the menu bar, Artisteer won't without losing the formatting you came up with. You end up having to work write code in functions.php and style.css to do that or resort to using some plugin to do it. Quite a hassle.
On the other hand themes like Thesis or Hybrid, the brilliant (and free) theme by Justin Tadlock, and others, are far superior to Artisteer in functionality, allowing the user to easily have an array of desired effects and flexibility of appearance, be it magazine style or whatever. However, if you're a programmer and comfortable adjusting complicated code, and happy to add basic functionality from scratch, then sure Artisteer might be something to consider. If you want a site that you can easily adjust with lots of functionality, Thesis or Hybrid Theme are better than Artisteer.

It's actually a good question:
With Hybrid, a child theme is a theme that you upload and activate after uploading (but not activating) the main theme. Some of these are child themes of Hybrid (the first one is the main theme):
Themes

Why wouldn't someone simply create and name the new theme, zip it up and upload that to WP? I think I must be missing something.

Hi Jason,

If you still need help with a custom WP theme, let me know. I design them (did my own at www.ielectrify.com and everyone keeps asking me where they can download it - haha)