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A Review of Brian Gardner’s WordPress Themes

You may know that I have taken a lot of interest in creating WordPress themes for the WordPress blogging community. So in part of doing that, I have been searching around the sphere a little bit for other WordPress theme designers. Specifically, I wanted to check out the different flavors of themes that are available.

While you might think it’s silly of me to write a post like this, you might think, “Garry is getting in the business of making themes, so why would he write a post about his competition?” I don’t really look at it this way. For me, making my own WordPress themes is very much a form of creative art. I feel fine talking about other designer’s work while also developing my own work. This isn’t like the make money online niche where everything is cut-throat, sneaky and misleading.

I really like Brian Gardner’s work. I spent about an hour on his site and downloaded quite a few of his free WordPress themes and I am truly impressed with his quality craftsmanship in designing WordPress themes. It was very inspiring visiting his site. In my opinion, designing WordPress themes reflects on your level of creativity. If you have the tools to extract the art that you vision in your mind onto digital paper, you have a WordPress theme.

The tools needed with making WordPress themes are a very good understanding of WordPress code and a fluent understanding of CSS. If you have these two skills, then you can make themes. Really the only fuel that can help make your designs catch on fire is your level of creativity. I think Brian is very talented and has a full fuel tank in the creativity department.

So why would I write a post about Brian Gardner if I am attempting to do the same thing? Simple. Of all the different designers I have visited, I like his work the best. Secondly, even though I too want to start making my own WordPress themes, I still want to provide my readers with resources that I feel will help enhance their blogging experiences.

Brian Gardner’s themes are so good that I actually sat back in my chair for a few minutes and considered using one here on my own personal blog. So I am not going to say that I have serious competition, but I will say that I do feel that I am a very creative individual like Brian, and that my challenge in making themes will be in continuing to expand my knowledge in the tools needed: knowledge of CSS and WordPress functionality. My hat goes off the Brian and his countless hours of hard work and contributions to the WordPress blogging community.

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Fred @ Newest on the Net Wrote a Comment:

Date/Time: 6-29-2008 05:07:54 Comment #16264

I love Brian’s Copyblogger theme. I use it on a lot of my websites.

 
DotDriven Wrote a Comment:

Date/Time: 6-29-2008 07:23:53 Comment #16267

Garry, I wouldn’t worry about what anyone things if you are posting about “competition”. Brian has been around long enough and done enough awesome themes to be well respected by anyone. I love his free themes as they are very clean and easy to set up but his premium themes take it to a whole new level…they are amazing.

And if anyone needs any extra motivation for making free themes to give out, you can get an idea of what providing great themes for free can do for your sites linksbacks and PR. Check out the PR of his site and theme blog (hint PR8 !!! and PR7!)

 
DotDriven Wrote a Comment:

Date/Time: 6-29-2008 07:24:51 Comment #16268

“anyone things” = “anyone thinks” (not sure how I messed that up lol)

 
Randy Brown Wrote a Comment:

Date/Time: 6-29-2008 14:45:28 Comment #16286

I’ve been using Brian Gardner’s Vertigo Blue theme for a year or so now.. It, like me, is simple and to-the-point.. It’s also (unlike me) nice, trim, and lightweight..

Garry Conn Wrote a Comment:

Date/Time: 6-29-2008 14:49:01 Comment #16287

Ha Ha!! All comes with the territory of growing up my friend. The 2:00 A.M. pizza isn’t working very well for me anymore either. ;)

By the way, awesome interview the other day on Search Feature:

http://searchfeature.com/blog/search-featured-randy-brown-from-grownupgeekcom/

 
 
JK Swopes Wrote a Comment:

Date/Time: 6-30-2008 06:46:08 Comment #16306

Yeah man, he really has some very nice themes. I haven’t used them yet, but I am familiar with them.

 
Brian Gardner Wrote a Comment:

Date/Time: 7-2-2008 09:28:03 Comment #16449

Hey Gary, thanks so much for the review, and also to those who left comments regarding my work! My advice to those who want to get into the theme market is to keep things simple on the coding - as those who download free themes need for them to be easy to understand so they can work with them.

The other, and more important piece of advice is to put support high on the priority list - establishing trust and relationship with users goes a long way!

 

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