I’ve known about the Thesis theme for WordPress awhile now, but never gave it a try. It was hard for me to make the leap because I have been developing WordPress templates for years. I always thought Thesis was for someone who wanted to do a custom WordPress theme, but didn’t know how to make one. After playing with it for a few hours I have to say I’m pretty impressed with it.
What I like about it is that the code is pretty solid, and there is a lot of customization options. I’ll be using this in the future with any client’s that have WordPress installs and want a custom design, but want to be able to change things on their own.
When I get some time I’m going to attempt to do a custom design using Thesis to see what the results are like. I have a feeling the more custom CSS code I do the less the customization options will work. I’ll see what happens and do another blog post about it.