Just 2 days ago, i finally made my decision to buy the Thesis wordpress theme from DIYTHEMES, INC. Well, Blognamic will be built on this powerful awesome, and flexible framework. With alot of factors taken into consideration; the loading speed, the scalability, the ease of use and of course the most important factor, seo benefits, thesis theme is no doubt a worthwhile investment for serious wordpress blog developers/designers.
I would say that to understand Thesis framework, you would need to have some basic understanding of html/css/php. However, if you have none of the mentioned experience, don’t worry as after all it isn’t that hard to understand to framework totally, you just to take some time and explore the scripts, asking questions in their populated support community. For the plans now, Blognamic will be built using wordpress platform ( Using Thesis theme framework) with a customized bridge to VBulletin 4.0 ( To take advantage of the social community feature). I’m still deciding on the various commerical software that can possibly bring the best social community features out of Blognamic. The reason why we won’t develop our own communtiy software is due to the time contraints factor and money. You know, why bother to create something that you can purchase in the market already? Save time, save effort and of course, money$$.
For me, i have spent a few hours these 2 days, customizing Thesis theme, including our brand logo, trying out the Thesis theme’s functionality. It totally rocks. Now, Blognamic are already reaping the SEO benefits from Thesis Theme. Compared to the old theme, with thesis theme, our code for the blog are now alot cleaner and neater and having neat codings is a crucial factor that affects how search engine spiders crawl your website. Our traffic has increased by at least 20%, having an increase of 100+ unique visitors for the past 2 days daily. ( Confident it will stay consistent). That’s pretty good results right?
One big mistake that alot of websites make is the failure to develop a unique style to differentiate itself from others. If you don’t believe me, just google ” blog using thesis themes”. I would say that majority of the existing sites uses the same thesis default style. In Blognamic, we wanted to be different, therefore i will be designing a unique theme for Blognamic in the coming weeks. Having a unique style will definitely build value to the site. 
If you are a wordpress blogger and you ain’t using thesis theme, i would surely recommend you to make a switch. It’s worth the investment.
Beautiful Unique Thesis Theme
Below is some thesis theme designed by some of the awesome designers on the net. Just see how flexible each thesis theme can be.
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First wordpress theme is the best!!! Good job Derek, thanks,
@Kolorowanki, Yea, i love that design too. It’s a design for a corporate website having wordpress as their content management system. You see that wordpress is evolving so much that it’s not just a blogging software anymore. It’s so much better. Many companies now even use wordpress as their cms to power their corporate websites. For your information, wordpress just won the open source cms award for year 2009.
From my point of view this theme look great. I like especially the “Firke Files” one. It is so warm and give some feelings of safe environment. Visually – fine job.
Very interesting article. WordPress is great tool, I like it really. Thanks!