Dear Otto,<div><br></div><div>Thank you. That is one thing I understand much better. As for the cookie-cutter statement, I never thought about that since my main focus was to do things "right". I am forced by medical circumstances to change occupations. I did buy adobe master collection and have a very steep curve ahead of me. But, I wanted something that would work for me until I can get my skills up to par.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks!<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
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Message: 2<br>
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 12:44:08 -0500<br>
From: Otto <<a href="mailto:otto@ottodestruct.com">otto@ottodestruct.com</a>><br>
Subject: Re: [theme-reviewers] searching for themes<br>
To: <a href="mailto:theme-reviewers@lists.wordpress.org">theme-reviewers@lists.wordpress.org</a><br>
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You won't find any themes for things like "animal" or "art" or<br>
"cooking" on the theme directory. That's not really what a theme is.<br>
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There are no "themes that are out of the box ready and don't need to<br>
add my own photos to finish the appearance of the theme."<br>
<br>
See, what you're describing is "content". A theme doesn't provide<br>
content, it provides a blank space in which to fill your content. It's<br>
not going to give you that content, because most people don't use that<br>
sort of default content anyway. Do you really want your website to<br>
look like a cookie cutter site, with the same stuff as every other<br>
site?<br>
<br>
Themes are like a chalkboard. You can make a chalkboard that has a<br>
bunch of predefined spaces and colors and ways to fill it with things,<br>
but you still need to pick up that chalk and fill up the given space<br>
yourself.<br>
<br>
Even the images provided on the screenshots are often example images<br>
only. You need to use your own content to make the site about<br>
something.<br>
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-Otto<br>
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