Just getting caught up from the show and saw the incoming link. Yeah, I’m very happy with how the re-design came out and I’m getting a 65% lift in email signups with this layout. Kudos to Chase Reeves, the designer who really hit the nail on the head with this one.

Maggie, I think if you would actually pay more attention to Marie’s ideas, rather than the way they are presented, you’d be less critical towards her.

I mean, you can’t argue about the taste, some people like dancing in the videos, some people don’t, but Marie has built a very successful business, helped a lot of other women do the same and is very respected among successful online entrepreneurs (really, take a look at her “Praise” page, there are some big names there). Probably there’s something more to it than visions boards and juicing, don’t you think?

Don’t be so quick to judge a book by it’s cover.

“Gets the red out” is from an old Visine advertisement, for eye drops.

And don’t forget there are a ton of resources and tutorials right here on the diythemes.com site. The user community has been extraordinarily active.

It’s nice to see snippets in the forum and I know you can get third-party skins and such but it would be nice to have a really good training area to take you from 0 – infinity with his product.

That being said,,,,It’s still one of the best out there

db

Caroline,
Enjoyed your comment. Seems like you have talent to manage both image first and then “geek side” copy for the ‘die-hard readers’ ready to read ‘truth illuminating’ stuff. I get that you are ntelligent, caring and [witty] (and cute to boot). Two out of four fit my self evaluation also.

Thanks for the chuckle, Peter. You sound like a guy I once spoke with who admitted buying a box of yellow cake mix expecting to open it and pull out a Twinkie.

Thesis has a User’s Guide, a forum full of incredibly talented and generous users willing to share tips and advice, plus there are plenty of reputable sites on the Internet with info, plus free and low cost skins to save you the trouble of customizing most anything.

You don’t need a Thesis framework on which to build your site. Head to a site bakery and design chef and buy yourself a finished cake.

Anyway – good stuff. Entertaining.

The real question is: why doesn’t my killer Thesis framed site ever make it into any of these lists?

If I told you the number of leads it captures and the REVENUE it generates year after year, you would probably use it as Case Study #1.

LOL!