Comments on: Free Custom WordPress Themes

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Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:37:37 +0000

[...] Hit Box is offering free custom-designed WordPress themes provided your blog has a Pagerank of 4 or higher, it’s at least 8 months old, your rss [...]

By: Jordan

Jordan — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 18:08:42 +0000

Well, you get what you pay for… & I’m sure you can figure that one out on your own.

By: Fath

Fath — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 04:01:21 +0000

I agree with n-blue. Really poor in design.

By: Rob

Rob — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 13:26:55 +0000

Jim - thanks for the nod.

If my theme doesn’t look good in IE it’s my fault, not Ant’s. I’ve added some stuff to the theme that was delivered to me - I’ll look into it. My only complaint was from an SEO point of view that it needed some tweaking.

By: Neil Duckett

Neil Duckett — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 02:31:42 +0000

Nice designs that’s for sure. Hey Jim, how can i get you to plug the free theme i’m giving away? Check it out, hop you like it!

By: Is it the theme? « Gormful

Is it the theme? « Gormful — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 22:09:29 +0000

[...] one of WLTC’s post, I learned that Turk Hit Box is giving away a free custom WordPress theme, designed from scratch. [...]

By: Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 18:56:03 +0000

Ah, an exciting new definition of ‘Free’ is being used, where the lucky recipient gets a permanent advert on every page and a potential smack from Goog for paid links.

By: Turk Hit Box » Blog Archive » Shamus just killed me!

Turk Hit Box » Blog Archive » Shamus just killed me! — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 18:32:59 +0000

[...] I checked my logs only to see that my design give-away has been published in weblog tools collection and the author is Shamus himself. I didn’t know he was an author in weblog tools collection [...]

By: Simba

Simba — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 18:24:03 +0000

@Carson: his first language isn’t English.

By: Simba

Simba — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 18:21:29 +0000

If you look at the author’s page, he said that his current design is not IE6 compatible. Other than that it looks good on IE7 and Firefox.

By: Mark Ghosh

Mark Ghosh — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 18:02:01 +0000

Asish, it was NOT a paid review or anything of that nature, I assure you. I am sure that Jim had the best of intentions when he posted it and I am also sure that we will be more careful in the future.

By: Ashish Mohta

Ashish Mohta — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 17:23:20 +0000

pretty nice way to get link backs from pr 4 blogs. Did any body reported google about this. I am sure authors site pr will go down if google comes to know about it.

well i did not feel right having this kind of theme get publisized here……and the design suck..

Honestly was it a paid review ?

sorry but i really admire this blog but this kind of things well not any more

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 15:57:57 +0000

Ha!

How ironic. A wordpress designer and their own site’s design sucks. it’s off the screen, toolbars, the whole deal…

someone needs to start using standards

By: Carson

Carson — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 14:24:13 +0000

Why would you want a theme designed by someone who writes like a fifth-grader?

By: shearyadi

shearyadi — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 09:13:57 +0000

Yeah, if he really honest want to give something for free, why he would asking for any page ranking and rss subscriber? To leave his link in tact is reasonable, but the other ‘catch’ is ridiculous

By: Simba

Simba — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 08:50:48 +0000

I think the designs are superb, they fit the current fashion among blogs! John Chow style!

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 08:15:58 +0000

I give you money, you give me link to show.
I give you theme, you give me link to show.
Same thing.
If not, then why care about the PR?

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 05:42:16 +0000

This is a terrific idea. I recently hired a designer that I found by clicking on a footer link. His work was displayed on a popular site - I went looking for the creator - he got a new client. I imagine TurkHitBox will see similar results.

By: SasaVtec

SasaVtec — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 05:33:03 +0000

It’s always nice to give something away, but I don’t know if they did the coding or someone else did. In IE6 (using it at work) everything is off balance sidebars, posts, header, everything is all over the place. Since most of the internet users use IE6 they should really look into fixing these issues, haven’t looked at it in FF or IE7 yet though.

By: n-blue

n-blue — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 05:31:58 +0000

Oh, Jim. Two mentioned blogs are realy poor in design. I think it waste of time. People better deal with a theme and mordify it to the look and feel they want. My blog is using Simpla with modification and it have unique look.