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I am considering using thesis, but am not a techie. I can only do the most basic stuff in wordpress… add a widget or plug in. Upload a post etc.

How many hours would it take me to be able to convert my blog to thesis and use it on my own?

Also, I'm taking quotes for someone to convert my site to thesis and then I would maintain it.

All help is accepted. Email me with quotes barbfriedberg@gmail.com

Thank you

Post edited 1:43 pm – October 27, 2011 by NarrowBridge

It is easy but overwhelming to move to Thesis. I am glad I did it, but it is not a magic solution to make your site look pretty out of the box. If you know what you want it to look like, Thesis is good. But you have to have an idea of the design before you start.

I am happy to help answer questions for you or give guidance (free). I would do it pretty cheap to set it up for you and get the basics going and looking nice. You can look at any of my blogs (in my signature) for what I have done.

PS – Here is my Thesis affiliate link if you decide to buy it The Thesis Theme for WordPress

Email me and we can chat more about details.

Barb, I am having Jesse from PF Firewall update my site to Thesis as we speak.  Totally reasonable price too.

Something to think about…

Kris

I've thought about hiring someone to transport me back over to WordPress and a good theme at some point.  I'll be following this closely :)

Jason@LiveRealNow said:

Barb Friedberg said:

I am considering using thesis, but am not a techie. I can only do the most basic stuff in wordpress… add a widget or plug in. Upload a post etc.

How many hours would it take me to be able to convert my blog to thesis and use it on my own?

Also, I'm taking quotes for someone to convert my site to thesis and then I would maintain it.

All help is accepted. Email me with quotes barbfriedberg@gmail.com

Thank you

I'm an evangelist, so feel free to ignore me….

If you're non-techie, consider Headway.

Headway can be done entirely drag & drop.   It's great for people who aren't programmers.  The learning curve isn't bad, and the tutorial videos are awesome.

Here's my affiliate link: http://liverealnow.net/headway   It's at least worth the time to check out the demo video.

Barb- Don't know if you made up your mind yet but here's my two cents.  Thesis is fantastic and does allow you to customize absolutely everything (once you know what you are doing).  I've started using it for all sites going forward.  I created the art design for Don't Do It Yourself and then paid a developer to convert it into Thesis and I love the result.   The cool thing is I can easily go in and tweak stuff in my layout which might have been a lot more difficult if I had converted the design into a custom WordPress theme.

That said, it does require some technical mojo for some changes and if you can't get what you want through their GUI options you may have to hire someone to help if you don't know CSS or PHP.  I've heard good things about Headway as Jason suggests and if you can tweak that without developers, that may be a much more cost effective option to consider. 

If you want to see what Thesis looks like on the backend shoot me an email and I'd be happy to walk you through some screens sometime.