• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • The Famous Blog
    • Blogging
    • Social Media
    • SEO
    • Marketing
    • Design

Famous Bloggers

How To Blog and Start a Business

  • Contribute
    • Submit News
  • Login

Home » The Famous Blog » Thesis Skins The Problem and Solution

Thesis Skins The Problem and Solution

December 28, 2010 - Last Modified: April 1, 2014 by Hesham Zebida 1,882

Thesis Skins

A few months back I wrote an article by doing a fast one question interview with top niche web designers, I asked them to give their opinion about Thesis Theme as a framework for WordPress CMS platform, I got amazing responds plus magnificent opinions. I visit this article from time to time, I really enjoy reading it over and over.

Probably this was the motivation behind my new project as I realized a big problem and I was trying to find a solution.

Today, I am introducing -for the first time- our new Thesis Skins membership site and our new Awesome Options Panel for all Thesis Themes lovers in our community.

Thesis Theme is kind of expensive for some people, especially for those who are starting a new business blog in a very low and limited budget. I must remind you that no body can earn money from nothing, you need to spend on your business some hard cash, your goal here is to create a better blog, and if you can do it by yourself, then you must know that Time equals Money, and this is the un-sexy truth about blogging that most of us try hard to find ways to escape from.

Alright, Probably you never heard this story!

I haven’t told this to anyone before, I would love to tell you about what happened to me right after I bought Thesis Theme!

After I got my copy of Thesis Theme, I installed it on FamousBlogger, the blog was ugly and has no life, I mean really ugly, and looks like 100s of other blogs out there, and maybe I don’t need to tell you this, but it was true. I was having hard times customizing the skin for Famous Bloggers, even being a web designer didn’t help that much. I was lost and trying to find my way like a blind person working on something he never had any experience with. I knew later that even the most professional web designers will put their feet in it, so I am fine, the problem is’t something related to my design skills, it’s hard to deal with Thesis theme at the first time!

So, I decided to shake my wallet, I contacted a Thesis Theme designer, I asked him to solve my problem, I asked for a custom skin for FamousBloggers, I asked him to give me his best price, but in my mind I was ready to pay whatever money to customize my Thesis theme. I was going BANANAS! And guess what?

Yes… Exactly! (like always) The web designer I’ve contacted was busy and not accepting design work!

I was lost again, I didn’t know what to do, but I never lose my hopes.

After a few months I found an awesome premium Thesis Skin, I said to myself.. This is it! I decided to buy it immediately, and I did! I paid $50+ for it!

What happened after that?

I thought I had solved my blog design problems, but then I found out that everybody is using the same skin! I said to myself no way! FamousBloggers will never dress like any other blog, it will never look like any other blog, it has to get a unique design!

So, I decided to forgot about it, I didn’t use it, and yes I’ve paid $50+ for a Thesis Skin and I haven’t use it , I don’t even remember where it’s saved on my laptop! I mean … I just forgot about it!

How to solve this ridicules problem?!

For each problem, there must be at least one solution, and some times there are more than one solution for same problem! I decided to provide the solution!

Yes! I decided to take an action and work behind the scenes to solve Thesis Theme design problems, not only my own problem, but I decided to solve everybody’s problem.

What I thought of was a combination of several goals that could bring benefits in so many ways, let me tell you what I am thinking of:

  1. I want to help you redesign your blog
  2. I want also to Support our community
  3. And, of course Earn Money
  4. Not only this, but.. I want YOU also to earn money with me!

Yes! you will be able to redesign your thesis theme exactly like I did for my blog, you will be able to add new features to your blog, and get a unique skin customization in a low price and reasonable support. So, let’s go across the points I’ve mentioned above!

1- Do you need a New Blog Design?

If this is something you need, then you will get it in no time, and it’s super easy, you will even choose the best layout for your blog, and if you like to play with codes and get to know how things works, then you are the master! Being part of the community will help you to increase your skills.

We think that ThesisAwesome.com was made to be different and to stand out as a membership site for bloggers, marketer, designers and developers, it’s more like a Skin Framework, or at least this is how I think about it, you will know what I mean by Skin Framework when you put your hands on it and see how awesome your blog can be! You will be able to generate several designs with some little experience and support.

You don’t know how to code? Not a problem! You will be amazed by the new control options panel we have created for Thesis Theme, more is coming soon about it!

2- How we will support the community?

We will try to make things look more beautiful than they already are. I mean.. Let’s face this fact, Thesis Theme created an amazing opportunity for most of us, our blog skins will not work as a stand alone product, and to get Thesis you have to spend $87 for it’s personal option, also this price could go higher soon when Thesis 2.0 arrives, so there is no better time to get your hands dirty with Thesis theme than today!

My plan is simple, if you have design or development skills why not work together? I’ve made a system with almost everything we need to do the job, you can start designing and let me help you with selling your amazing work! it’s a little long story, so if you are into business then contact me right now and let’s discuss, maybe we can work something nice out together!

I believe that growing this community will help us to bring some new designs to Thesis world with lower price to serve our community.

3- How I will make money?

I’ve created a system, this system will allow me to sell my thesis skins. The good thing is the affiliate program, this should increase sales depending on how many members like the designs and are welling to promote it.

We now have 4 awesome skins, and the 5th is coming out in a few days. We have two options, personal and developer options. Both options will allow unlimited downloads to all available skins, and any new skins we will deliver during the membership. For developers it’s going to be fun, developers can download all skins plus the ability to use Thesis Awesome Skins freely on their client’s sites which will allow them do the job faster and work less.

There is  more news for you!

4- How You will earn money?

This is the best and most interesting part of every business, it’s where we discuss on how we will earn money. There is more than one way to make money together on this project:

  1. Get A Skin developer membership and deliver better customization to your clients.
  2. Designers and Developer can place their Thesis Skins in our network. (More details coming soon!)
  3. Join ThesisAwesome affiliate program. enjoy 50% commission.

What we did?

thesis skins gallery
Thesis Skins Gallery

What we did was try to find a good solution by providing an affordable membership site. Becoming a member in our community will change your blog and the way your visitors will look at it. You will get a new blog design, more features in your blog skin, you will learn a lot from this experience if you like to play with codes, and you will earn money by referring new members to join our community and buy our Thesis Skins.

What we did was creating a complete new site, I call it ThesisAwesome.com maybe because I was thinking that one day we can make Thesis Theme customization much easier and affordable for everyone, and This is Awesome! because we have got a website now that we can work together through it.

What Makes ThesisAwesome.com different?

As you know, there is no other membership site that will allow you to download all Thesis skins they provide. So… let’s think about it, you will get your hands on 4 skins once your become a member, this is not all, you will also get not less than 3 new skins during your membership, we will try to create one skin every month or two depending on the amount of support we provide to the community, keeping our promises for a good thesis skins support is the main goal of this project. This means you will have around 7 skins at the end of your membership which is one year from subscribing!

I am sure if you own Thesis Theme and you own many blogs this will sound good to you! This is also a great option for developers and services owners, it will for sure open new door for more business opportunities.

The second huge difference is the commission and payouts, we will give 50% commission to our affiliates, so… mm.. I will let this for your imagination!

What Makes our Awesome Thesis Skins Different?

Alright, you might be asking yourself this question!

Basically, I design thesis skins for bloggers in the blogging and marketing niches so far, those guys need to save every minute of their valuable time and focus on what really matters for their online business, here it comes my part, I design and code so they don’t have to, I design thesis skins considering you are planning to profit from your blog, and you can actually make money from it, and this is the main reason I thought of creating the Thesis Skin Framework model. Actually things went more far that that, I will tell you the exciting news as development reached a good level in the last a few days.

I was able to implement a control panel to add more features to thesis theme with no coding required at all, yes.. Zero coding! 0% coding skills.

Is it good to be true ?

It’s really good.. And it’s true! And, I am going to save you weeks of hard work, pain, headaches, and more!

You will no longer need to jump between 1000s of Thesis Theme tutorials on the internet to see what works for real and what dose not work, you will not need to get your hands dirty by coding anymore, my new Thesis options panel will take care of that with a  few clicks on check boxes!

Introducing Thesis Options Panel

This is a screenshot from the new options panel for Thesis theme, it will simple change the way you look to your blog, loads of features with no coding or dealing with hocks anymore, it’s just awesome and it will blow your mind!

thesis option panel
Thesis Options Panel

I’ve included amazing features in the new thesis options panel, all what it takes to create an amazing blog in an extremely easy way is included, I actually got theses features from FamousBloggers blog as it shows a big success during the first year of blogging, so I thought to add features that I am sure you are interested in, and it can not be found elsewhere this easy!

Do we have a special offer?

We live in a special offer! When we were thinking about the price, I put in mind time and effort!  I knew since the beginning that price will depend on how much time and effort we have to put in this project, but we were actually doing our best not to go high with our pricing, I personally prefer to charge what I deserve, and at the same time help our community to earn together by giving a good affiliate commission which is 50% of each skin or membership, so… If you are asking about the price, and whither if we will give special offers for the new skin or not, the simple answer is “I am not sure about that”, maybe because we -right now- are living in a big special offer!

It all depends on the market, time and effort we put in the project!

Join us Today!

There is no need to think twice, check those Thesis skins, there is demos for each skin, make your mind and take action, be part of our community, it’s a good idea to subscribe for the newsletter over ThesisAwesome.com to stay tuned.. I am coming very soon with an update for the progress of the new skin and the new options panel!

Have any questions? I will be glad to answer it!

ShareTweet

Filed Under: Affiliates, Design, Thesis Theme, Wordpress

About Hesham Zebida

Follow @hishaman

I create websites with WordPress, and I develop Schema Plugins to help SEOs. I am a social network lover. I am also the night creature who works hard to keep this project up. Owner and founder of the Famous Blog.

Reader Interactions

Related Posts

  • Is a Custom Design Essential to Your Blog’s Success?
  • Social Media Makes Sales Enablement Easy By Showing How Smart Business Can Be
  • Marketing WordPress Site14 Tips To Help You In Marketing Your WordPress Site
  • Divi 3.0 Special Discount: 20% OFF Divi Theme from ElegantThemes

{ 57 Responses }

  1. lalit says:
    Good stuff Hesham, it’s nice to see more these ready made blogs helps to make money online
  2. Jose says:
    Hi, I am planning to offer Thesis theme and a skin as a bonus for my SEO ebook (written in Spanish). I actually reached your site looking for a skin solution which would fit well with my package. What I'm planning to offer is a Thesis license with wordpress blog install, a selection of the main plugins for affiliate blogs, and the possibility of choosing from a selection of skins. The issue is that I do not know of anybody selling 'developer rights' skins. If you have any idea, that would help me a lot.Thank you so much for your time,Jose
    • Hesham says:
      We have a skins developer package at ThesisAwesome.com , check it out!
      • Jose says:
        Thank you so much Hesham! This is the option I was looking for. Now I have to figure out the whole campaign, as I want it to be a success. I am going to sign up as an affiliate; this will be a good move, I think.Thank you again,Jose
        • Hesham says:
          Great, make a good plan! And thanks for joining the affiliate program, I hope you will make some good sales.
  3. Richard Pastor says:
    After conducting a ton of research online, it looks like ThesisAwesome has extremely competitive prices and a solid offer. Also, I think they are setting themselves apart by offering affiliate commissions as well. This will help give people a financial incentive to create a community online. Keep up the good work guys!
    • Hesham says:
      Hi Richard, By the way, we don't offer competitive price or anything from that! I think that the BlogSkin is the most expensive thesis skin out there! But we do offer solid skins with features that never exists before in any thesis skins by other providers!
  4. AJ Clarke says:
    Have you considered contacting Thesis and providing bundles with the "skin & thesis" together? I think this would be really cool and would interest a lot of people. Paying $80+ for Thesis and then $40+ for a skin seems a bit insane, when there are already awesome themes on ThemeForest that are just as or more customizable and SEO friendly. But if you cold provide a Thesis+Skin bundle for like $100, that could be cool...And people would only have to go to your site. Unless of course you think you will make more money by referring people to Thesis then selling a skin for it.
    • Hesham says:
      Hey AJ, I've tried this before, even better than that I offered free skin with Thesis purchase! But it doesn't make sense to me now as this could offend some of my friends marketers who affiliate Thesis as well! Just thinking that I am not alone in this world makes me more comfortable with what I do, and I prefer to give chance for others to find their way! I remember , I've asked you once to promote ThesisAwesome.com when price of memnebership was very low as $29 to get access to everything! You said price is to low at that time...!! The funny thing is I have a few members who actually took action, and they are the most spoiled in my membership site now as they put their hands on everything I produce without having to pay $1 extra! Now, I don't think it' a good idea for my model to bundle with Thesis itself, Anyways, I've always thought about this model as I am selling my support and time, not just a few codes and design elements, this keeps my members happy to be around!
      • AJ Clarke says:
        That makes sense. Especially if people aren't satisfied with the normal Thesis support. Then they can use you. Plus your "famous" :)
        • AJ Clarke says:
          Oh, I forgot to add, I said it was too cheap before, because I was under the impression it included thesis. I thought you had some crazy license that let you re-sell it with your skins.
          • Hesham says:
            Oh! I can not sell thesis theme or distribute it! no rights for that!
  5. Karan Labra says:
    Count me in. I am collecting money to buy the blogskin theme and will join as developer member asap.
    • Hesham says:
      Well done Karan, I'am working on a new skin that I am pretty sure you will like so much! Drop me an email at any time to give you a sneak peek :)
  6. Shiva says:
    Thesis Awesome is really so much Awesome. I love the skins that you have for sale in Thesis Awesome and if I need any skin for any of my new blog, I am certainly going to buy one of those. Thanks a lot Hesham for making Thesis Beautiful
    • Hesham says:
      Hehe.. probably this is why I name it Thesis Awesome as this is what I was thinking... Awesome stuff :) You will love the new BlogSkin Shiva, and there is a lot of development to put in this skin, so stay tuned!
  7. Mani Viswanathan says:
    Thats certainly an Awesome package man. I'm Currently designing a skin for my blog. Will join the ThesisAwesome Developmental theme, if I'm pleased with my own design :P
    • Hesham says:
      Great! Looking forward to see it!
  8. Brian L. says:
    I think Thesisawesome's Developer package that costs $260 per year is overpriced. If a customer has that budget, he would much rather spend it on the Pro-Plus package of Studiopress where it only costs $249.95 one-time fee to gain access to the Genesis framework and all current (20+) and future child themes.
    • Hesham says:
      Hi Brian, Good point, but my clients are using Thesis already, I think non of them would take a decision to make the move to StudioPress that easy! ThesisAwesome Developer Package is for those who runs a lot of client's sites and need a one to one support that saves them time! So.. simply it presents the cost of my time which I value it!
  9. James Johnston says:
    Hesham, Its good you are spreading the word about ThesisAwesome, the site looks good, the prices are competitive and since you did the work we know it will do what its suppose to do. Can't wait for the next one to come out...
    • Hesham says:
      I can't wait to see you using Thesis on your blog ;)
  10. James Pruitt says:
    Thanks Hesham. I have been ripping my hair out over thesis since I got it. I am NOT a designer, and its good to know that someone who is has trouble with it too. I agree, my blog is one of those that looks plain and boring, and I wanna change that. Will definitely check it out.
    • Hesham says:
      I know the pain of Skinning a framework as I have been through all this, and this is exactly was the motivation for me to create an easy to use options panel for my skin! The new skin is ready now, I've just published a new post today! Have a wonderful day buddy
  11. DiTesco says:
    Rather than leaving a comment, I will say it out loud.. THESIS AWESOME ROCKS :) My site was developed, designed and tweaked by Hesham (via Thesis Awesome). I agree with you buddy, having a unique design is what makes you stand out from the others. Thesis Theme is an excellent choice however it does require some knowledge of coding and if you are not up for that, then you are in trouble. Fortunately there are guys like you that makes this task a tad easier. I have checked out your new skin and that cPanel is a life saver. You have definitely taken Thesis to another level and non tech savvy guys can now enjoy having a great looking website that has so many features, it will blow their minds. Guys, this is probably more of a testimonial rather a comment, but really, I totally recommend you joining Thesis Awesome, specially if you have or thinking of having your website powered by Thesis.
    • Hesham says:
      Thank you DiTesco , this is really great testimonial, I appreciate it!
  12. Pritam Nagrale says:
    I have already bought a developer option in Thesis for big $160+ and thesis skin from thesistheme.com. Even the skin did not help me much as it was stated on the site that you can easily customize thesis through this. Please tell me how much I have to pay in case I go for this site. Can I get direct discount from this site and the most important is that I don't know much about web designing so how can I use that.
    • Hesham says:
      Oh dear, I am sorry to hear that Pritam! I assure you that BlogSkin is extremely easy to customize through it's options panel, you will not believe how easy it is until you see it from inside! I made a limited offer discount over ThesisAwesome.com, check it out! also check my coming post, it talk about it's features!
  13. Extreme John says:
    Good stuff Hesham, it's nice to see more Thesis ready made themes coming out. All though I have a custom blog design for my personal blog I have a very basic design for my business blog and I hate it, I also hate the idea of making changes on that blog as well. Maybe I'll give this a shot after the new year and see what my designer can do with one of the ready made themes.
    • Hesham says:
      Hey John, With the new options panel, your designer can rock it and you still can enjoy it's features! check out my latest post to find out about the features!
  14. DB Baker says:
    Hesham, This is simply AWESOME :) Thesis is great but only if you are able to change some things around and since I am no website designer or coder this was a big problem for me. I am thinking about changing my blog look for sometime now and your new skin seems to be what I was looking for! I sure hope I will finally be able to have the look I want for my blog. Thanks
    • Hesham says:
      Hey Baker, The new skin will really make your blogging more fun, I've just release it! And I am going to develop it more in coming version and add more options!
  15. Aakash says:
    I read somewhere that your blog is now on Genesis ?
    • Hesham says:
      Hi Aakash, I am not using Genesis here on FamousBloggers.net, I am still using Thesis!
  16. John says:
    wow Hesham this is awesome! I had bought a license for Thesis for a site I'm working on, so this is right on time. I'm definitely going to look at your offering here. I'd love to contribute something to the effort so I'll shoot you an email about that. I also think there's plenty of room out here for theme designers. Heck look at the Envato network, if anything was going to clog up the field it would be them lol. Anyway I can't wait to see how this all unfolds. You're always moving on something man, it's pretty impressive. Peace!
    • Hesham says:
      Hey John, this is awesome! I've just uploaded the skin files and make it available in the skin gallery page! Email me at any time :)
  17. Devesh Sharma says:
    Awesome Story Hesham. I guess the theme that you brought was Blogussion ! I love the idea of making thesis awesome. The Site looks super awesome. There are so many great skins. I love the new skin that looks like FB! The option Panel looks great. You're the man !! Few suggestions for that blogskin (http://blogskin.thesisawesome.com/) ~Add a navigation menu links above header ~Add google search option ~Add a background image/color, the current one is not good. Thanks for making the thesis theme awesome. Keep rocking Hesham!
    • Hesham says:
      Thank you for the feedback buddy, I've done some changes!
  18. Kunal says:
    Hi Hesham I have seen your designs. They look awesome. Just to mention you have written thesis personal license it available at 78$ but I guess it is available for 87$ (I've paid this amount last month for my thesis theme). Thesis is awesome if you have got some tricks in your pocket if not than loads of ready made skins like yours can help the newbies.
    • Hesham says:
      Thank you Kunal, Actually my new skin will not require any additional tricks, all is included and probably more than anyone need to create an awesome blog, so it's ideal for those who don't know how to code or they just don't want to code :) Oh.. yes.. thanks a lot, yes the price is $87 , I did a mistake while typing! I fixed that.
  19. Tia says:
    The best part of this is the options panel. Having just a few different options available for customization goes a long, long way! I tested out the skin and LOVE how much time it saves. No hunting around for social sharing tools, integration Facebook comments or Twitter's @anywhere, etc. Smart entrepreneurs will see and understand the time and frustration that this skin is going to save them.
    • Hesham says:
      Hey Tia, Glad you liked the options, and thank you so much for your feedback, much appreciated! I can not forget that it was inspired by you :)
  20. Peter J says:
    Sounds like your going to have big competition now with Alex's (from bloggussion) Kolakube coming out on the first. This will be interesting :D
    • Hesham says:
      Hey Peter, Alex is a great designer with no doubt, and I love his work! The world is so wide my friend, it should have room for both of us and anyone else who want to jump in :)
  21. Nasrul Hanis says:
    This is awesome, buddy. This site can help both developers and clients to boost their potential and their sites as well! Hope Thesis Awesome can grow up from time to time! Support!
    • Hesham says:
      Nasrul , I will try to help everybody if I can, but I need all the help I can get ;)
  22. Kevin says:
    I just bought a skin from thesis awesome about a week ago but I couldn't use it :( There's no control panel when I bought it. So is it available now? I know very little coding and that control panel would help me a lot. I like the new skin. I might buy that one also if there's a control panel for it. What's going on with commentluv? It's not picking up any of my post?
    • Hesham says:
      Hey Kevin, all skins that we are offering has no options panel, but maybe I will implement the new panel into them, it will take some time! The new "Blog Skin" is the one that has the panel, it's not on the site yet as I am finalizing the code and doing more tests, I will release it as soon as possible! I will solve your problem, so don't worry about it, just give me some time to finish with the new skin, it's going to be super easy to deal with! I will contact you soon!
      • Kevin says:
        Yeah I assumed it has a control panel. I can deal with the CSS but the PHP will give me a problem. I bought the "Thesis Skin Clean" I really like the setup of the new skin. So yeah let me know when the control panel is available for all the skins. I really want to use it :)
    • Hesham says:
      For CommentLuv, I am not sure, I've tested it now and it's working fine for me, try to un-tick the checkbox and tick it back or refresh the page before you add your comment comment!
      • Kevin says:
        I actually got the commentluv fixed thank God! I guess my URL was banned or something so I fixed that. :)

Primary Sidebar

Our Newsletter

Our Newsletter

Join our mailing list to receive the latest news and updates from our blog.

You have Successfully Subscribed!

Popular Articles

  1. How to Set Half Rating Scale 1-5 (Poor to Excellent) by Words 116,562 views
  2. Top 10 Sites Where You Can Get Paid to Write 115,890 views
  3. How to Get Targeted Twitter Followers Fast 92,105 views
  4. 66 Awesome Social Media Quotes 78,425 views
  5. 50 Traffic Sources You Should Milk Like Crazy 75,144 views
Schema Structured Data for wordPress
  • Blog
  • Contribute
  • About Us
  • Contact Us
  • Disclosure Policy

Copyright ©2020 · FamousBloggers - All Rights Are Reserved · Powered by Genesis Framework

  • Login
Forgot Password?
Lost your password? Please enter your username or email address. You will receive a link to create a new password via email.
Go to mobile version