Another cool premium Wordpress theme, Unique Blog Design’s Citrus
Some time ago the Thesispremium Wordpress theme was launched and today we have another interesting one. Unique Blog Designs are the guys ‘responsable’ for a lot of blog design, including hot shots like Shoemoney or John Chow and the Citrus theme is available in 6 different colors with pricings starting at $79. There are three packages available:
Single-Use Package - $79
This package allows you to use Citrus Theme on one (1) website or blog. This theme comes pre-installed with the three (3) original flavors - Mandarin Orange, Lemon Lime and Pink Grapefruit.Multi-Use Package - $99
This package allows you to use Citrus Theme on unlimited websites and blogs. This package also comes with all six (6) color schemes - Mandarin Orange, Lemon Lime, Pink Grapefruit, Blueberry, Tangerine and Rotten Tomato.Web Developer Package - $149
This package allows you to use Citrus Theme on unlimited website and blogs, as well as develop it for your clients sites. This package comes with all six (6) color schemes - Mandarin Orange, Lemon Lime, Pink Grapefruit, Blueberry, Tangerine and Rotten Tomato. This package also comes with the original Photoshop (.PSD) templates of Citrus Theme.
Can’t really compare it to Thesis, becaus I think they’re very different. It depends a lot on what your blog needs.
Is it worth paying for a premium theme?
Well, it depends. If you have good coding skills (php, css) than you should be able to fully customize a Wordpress theme and you can use the extra money for something else. However, if you don’t, then you really should think about getting one. Considering that custom designs are pretty expensive (can start from $500 and go up to a few thousands bucks), a premium theme might just be the right choice for you. Especially with almost every premium theme out there offering support, which is very important in case your coding skills suck.
Why do I need a custom theme?
Actually, you do! You can always use a free theme (there are hundreds available), but just think about how many times you were surfing on the net and came across a blog with an uncostomized theme. In how many cases you closed the tab in less than 5 seconds? Maybe the content was great, but the fact that the owner didn’t bother to create a customized theme makes me think that he’s really not interested in the blog. Yeah, it’s true that car blog readers are not that tech savy and might not care whether your blog uses a free or premium theme, but remember that it’s just like in real life: there are a lot of great products that don’t get noticed because the package sucks.
And by the way, if you want the chance to win a free $97 ‘Citrus Theme’ package from John Chow, you can head over to his post about the theme, drop a comment there and hope you might get lucky.
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6 Comments, Comment or Ping
Serge
Sounds like you’re trying to sell this themes.
The truth is - there are so many great and free themes out there that are much much better then the payed ones. And unless it’s a really popular theme - you won’t find many blogs using the same theme. But the great thing is that you can customize the theme yourself, so it will look very very different from the original.
Oh, by the way, I’ll give you an example of an old theme (it’s not trendy, but it’s still fine): I just found a web-site using the BlueBox theme, here’s the original demo version: http://www.eblogtemplates.com/demo/ and here’s how the professional blogger modified it: http://www.winningtheweb.com/ And here’s how I modified the same theme for one of my blogs: http://www.bookwinetour.com You see they all look different and if I wouldn’t point at it - you probably wouldn’t even notice.
If you can invest some of your time, free themes can be much better than payed ones!
Sep 9th, 2008
Vlad Balan
I’m not trying to sell anything and if you’ll read the post more carefully, you’ll see that I said the same thing: “If you have good coding skills (php, css) than you should be able to fully customize a Wordpress theme and you can use the extra money for something else”.
But for some people, premium themes are simply more convenient than all the hassle of customizing a free theme.
Sep 9th, 2008
Serge
Even, if you did try to sell, that’s totally normal. And yes, you’re right, for some people it’s more convenient to buy.
Sep 9th, 2008
Vlad Balan
There are a couple of affiliate links in the post, but that’s not the point of this article.
Sep 10th, 2008
Sire
I’ve used a lot of free themes, and I’m also running Thesis on one of my blogs, but my other seven blogs are all running on the same professionally designed theme and yes I did pay for it and yes it was worth every cent.
Jul 21st, 2009
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