Where to find good themes

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In the past I have used Drupal, Joomla, Wordpress, and I personally have liked each one because of the wealth of templates, features, and community support available. My clients who aren't tech savvy haven't been as satisfied. I have a couple of websites that we are considering converting/creating with concrete5.

When I view the showcase of concrete5 sites athttp://showcase.c5mix.com/ I see several that are pretty cool. (I find the ones in the concrete5 marketplace too simplistic - I don't want to spend a lot of time customizing the theme)

Is there either another location that has concrete5 themes for sell or download, or can I convert an existing website or theme from say wordpress to concrete5 in a couple of hours?

Thanks and keep up the good work.

sceva
 
Fernandos replied on at Permalink Reply
Fernandos
Yes you can convert the theme, it's even possible in a matter of minutes, but that is depends on ones talent.

If you really want a good theme, you shouldn't rely on those "fabric" themes and let a (ui-)designer/developer create you a theme that fits to your corporate identity. A good theme needs professionalism and a good amount of work.

You're free to convert any theme on the world to a concrete5 theme. That's really a simple process. The hard part is not the theme! It is getting a theme to work as one wants. Imagine you have a picture frame, but no picture. What's it worth without the picture?

What I want to tell you is that you allways need to put effort into a site. What Concrete does for you is making that process easy as possible for you. And it's making a pretty good job at that point.

I can tell youhttp://www.oswd.org is a good place where people submit their themes for free in most cases. (Allways read the licenses!)

Regards
Fernandos
sceva replied on at Permalink Reply
sceva
Thanks Fernandos. I understand about putting time into the website, but my skill are not in the UI/design side, and most of my clients are not able to spend a large sum of money on the design, but are able to purchase a theme/template in the $25 to $99 range.

I just don't see many concrete5 themes that are web 2.0'ish - rounded corners, clean, lots of white space - other than the concrete5.org site itself...
c5mix replied on at Permalink Reply
Check out my themes here:
http://c5mix.com/concrete5/themes...
sceva replied on at Permalink Reply
sceva
Yours are very good. I had seen them before starting this thread. I like the latest ones you have, and the NorthEast Commercial Flooring one you/your employer designed. I just wanted a couple more for the client to review.

Thanks.
MatthewSchenker replied on at Permalink Reply
Hello,
I am really impressed with a lot of the sites that appear on c5mix.

Which theme was used to create the Inner Optics site (http://inneroptics.net/)? I'd definitely be interested in purchasing that one for some of my work! Was that a cutsom theme, or can it be done by editing one of the themes you already sell?

Thanks,
Matthew
Tony replied on at Permalink Reply
Tony
glad to hear you like the inneroptics design, but that's a theme i developed specifically for that site. If your interested in having me make you a custom theme along the same lines, you can hire me to do so:http://portfolio.inneroptics.net...

thx
cannonf700 replied on at Permalink Reply
cannonf700
Here is a theme that we just had added to the marketplace you can see how it looks/works and even download a copy for yourself:
www.www.rynomediaonline.com/concrete5/black-accents/...

lots of flexibility in this theme and changing colors isn't to hard either.