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One day while searching for a Drupal® theme solution I stumbled upon the Drupal® themes at Template Monster. I was so excited at the thought of a quick and attractive theme, I immediately downloaded the free Drupal® theme. I was delighted that it worked so I purchased several themes in hopes they would work for simple brochure sites. Wow, was I disappointed.
My first complaint is with the layout of the themes. It is accomplished with tables. Tables are not search engine optimized, are inflexible, non-collapsible, and really limiting. Second, I really object to two-three defined regions which are not collapsible.
I could provide a laundry list of personal complaints, but would like to encourage you to take a look at this blog post by Top Notch Themes and the comments that followed. I wish I had read and believed Steph before I made my purchases!
To best illustrate the theme take a look at this installed Template Monster theme. If you are on an extremely tight budget, want a simple one or two page site, and are not that concerned about search engine rankings, then Template Monster may be the right fit for you. However, really take a look at the fonts, spacing, layout, and code before you buy. Make sure you know what you are buying before you grab your credit card.
Personally, I wanted to love them but found that they were awkward, clumsy, limiting, inefficient, and hard to manage. In fact, they reminded me of the band/icons "KISS". Loud and cosmetic; while it works for "KISS" it doesn't work for themes.
TemplateMonster really lives up to the name!
About Drupal Sun
Drupal Sun is an Evolving Web project. It allows you to:
- Do full-text search on all the articles in Drupal Planet (thanks to Apache Solr)
- Facet based on tags, author, or feed
- Flip through articles quickly (with j/k or arrow keys) to find what you're interested in
- View the entire article text inline, or in the context of the site where it was created
See the blog post at Evolving Web