No offense to you or any of the other blog designers out there, but you all miss 90%+ of the features of wordpress. If you knew what you were doing, you could perform an overhaul on your blogs and get MUCH more out of it. Maybe it's because many of the blog designers here only have experience in the templates themselves instead of actually working with wordpress ugly codebase.

Ok, I agree with you, and seeing how I am trying to learn every aspect for WordPress and the coding, would you mind making some suggestions? What would improve them? What other WP features would you suggest? I'm open to all options here and would love the opportunity to work with the WP code more...so any and all suggestions are appreciated.

Hit me up on icq or email me: [email protected] and I'll help ya out.

Word.

Definitely do some dark skins.

E-mail sent. Thanks!!

It's in the works...now do you have any suggestions of color schemes? Do you want Dark & Moody (all dark shades) or Dark & Cheery (dark backgrounds, bright accents)? Do you want one column, two column, three column, more? Any other suggestions appreciated also.

Hit me up I need a custom one

black / dark gray

Slam, let me know about what we discussed earlier.
Nice themes.

E-mail sent. Thanks!

50..........

Sounds good to me. We'll see what we can do.

Thank you very much for the compliment bangman...you have no idea how much it means to us. As for what we talked about earlier, did you get my e-mail about having to wait to talk to my partner about that? My e-mail has been spotty today, so I wasn't sure if you got it or not.

I disagree with you completely for several reasons.

1. It's fundamental to the WordPress concept that appearance (theme) and coding are separate, so I don't see any rationale - except in the case of much more expensive custom requests - for designers to get involved in the codebase.
2. Changes to the codebase inevitably bring whoever does it into the area of support. It simply isn't reasonable to expect that from a sub-$50 product.
3. Unless the customer has specified (and therefore knows) what codebase changes he wants (and realizes this might mean going back for more work in future, or getting under the hood him/herself), he/she is much better off getting a totally standard codebase as a starting point. Otherwise as soon as he starts doing any mods or installing plugins and hits problems, they could be very difficult to fix.

I discussed this with mrkris last night, and he has some good suggestions. The codes that he thinks should be implemented wouldn't be too intrusive to the end user. I do agree with you though, if you went crazy with the code there would be no way that the end user would be able to make any changes at all.

Bump for the bloggers who haven't seen this yet.

Special Friday Night Drunken Deal!!
 

Ok everyone...it's 9:00PM Friday night...I'm watching Smackdown and drinking Bud Light...and I'm feeling like doing some dealing! Soooooo...for the next 4 hours only...all Bloggie templates are BUY ONE GET ONE FREE!!

Buy a Pink Bloggie for $25.00...get a Blue Bloggie absolutely FREE!
Buy a Purple Bloggie for $25.00...get a Red Bloggie absolutely FREE!

Mix and match the colors however you want!! And as a special added bonus, for the next 4 HOURS ONLY...

Buy any 2 Bloggies for $50...get the other 2 Bloggies absolutely FREE...plus I'll throw in the UNRELEASED Orange Bloggie!! That's right get all 4 released colors, plus the unreleased Orange Bloggie all for $50 until Midnight tonight!!

Hit me up at [email protected] to order yours now!!

Ok, this is my last bump of this thread. Weekenders check it out!!

To the person that just bought the "Pretty N' Pink" template...clear out your e-mail. lol. It keeps bouncing back to me. Thanks!

Sent you a new customer.. keep making new ones.

Thanks, I haven't heard from anyone today, but maybe they'll contact me later or something. I've also set up a page with working demos and a shopping cart so that people can buy them more easily...www.slamdesigns.com/Bloggie/index2.shtml. And, because I'm pretty much willing to whore myself in every way possible right now, I'm also selling them on eBay...http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...MESE%3AIT&rd=1.

Thanks again for sending me another customer!!

Quick question Slam. Is the positioning within the templates done with CSS or are you using tables?

It's a combo of both, heavy on the CSS.

nice work sir

Nice dude, good templates!

Mmm. Okay, thanks.

Thanks guys...glad you all like them. FYI...the offer in the first post has been extended pretty well indefinitely. My business partner is shacked up with a stripper right now and hasn't been to the office for days. Soooo...me being the "don't give a fuck about money" type have decided not to raise the price until I'm forced to. So until then...templates are $25.00 each or $75.00 for all four!!

Grrr.. i missed the special

Yeah, but they are still really awesome templates at a really awesome price! (Damn, did that sound conceited?) I know, I know...you wanted that Orange Bloggie though...so I'll cut you a deal. Buy 3 color Bloggies for $75.00, I'll throw in the 4th color PLUS Orange Bloggie for free! Offer goes for anyone...I'm in a dealing mood...plus I love Orange Bloggie and want to see it on a site!! lol

When do the dark ones get finished? :)