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November 30, 2014 at 3:40 am #133251minifigureMember
Hello Studiopress, I'm new to this forum and to WordPress frameworks, and have narrowed down to assess Genesis and Thesis.
I'm hoping you can help me understand if Genesis and the associated themes can do what I need, or if there's a better framework for it, or if I'm barking up the wrong tree completely.
How do you rate Genesis for building sites that are:
1. For companies, which may contain a blogroll or a small Woocommerce shop outside the home page?
2. Quite different from the themes in the showcase. Many of our sites are quite similar to this:
http://demo.qodeinteractive.com/bridge20/ or this
http://demo.qodeinteractive.com/bridge7/...including all the 'one-pageness', content types, parallax, animations, menus, responsiveness and Retina graphics shown in these?
3. Unique looking, but able to be constructed easily in a GUI dashboard, with minimal/no code and minimal, straight-forward CSS?
4. Are able to have a full screen video, and full width map sections.
So far we have just been using and adjusting premium WP themes, but wondering if a framework, and specifically Genesis, is a better option.
Your thoughts will be appreciated.
December 1, 2014 at 9:21 am #133334anotherusernameParticipantI don't think that genesis is the right framework for you.
Genesis is great, but it is really for people who are willing to get their hands dirty and do some coding.
If you are looking for lots of eye candy, then you might want to go in a different direction.
You can certainly do all the things that you are looking for in Genesis, it's just that it might be harder to do than a theme / framework that already has lots of built in modules / features.
Hope this helps.
December 1, 2014 at 1:34 pm #133359TomParticipant1. blogroll or a small Woocommerce
Woocommerce is not theme-dependent, but there are a couple dozen child themes designed with Woo in mind:2. Quite different from the themes in the showcase. Many of our sites are quite similar to this:
Your examples use a lot of javascrip/JQuery for motion effects, transitions, etc. These can all be achieved with Genesis using the right library, plugin or code. zigzagpress.com, Themedy.com, PWD (and other themeshops) provide some examples. See the link in my .sig to a catalog of over 350 Genesis child themes. You can use these to customize and tweak to produce almost anything.3. Unique looking, but able to be constructed easily in a GUI dashboard, with minimal/no code and minimal, straight-forward CSS?
Some Genesis themes have more detailed GUI dashboards, but themes based on Genesis tend not to be over-stuffed with options to choose from. They don't try to be all things in one package, but can typically be easily tweaked to produce different design requirements - and there are hundreds of Genesis tutorials available to help you get there. Having all those other options is kind of dead weight.4. Are able to have a full screen video, and full width map sections.
These can be acheived with any Genesis theme.So far we have just been using and adjusting premium WP themes, but wondering if a framework, and specifically Genesis, is a better option.
Genesis users/designers/builders tend to rely on the strengths outlined here which are important for every situation. If your current theme choices deliver this for you plus provide the built-in multi-option design features you want to use, I'd second what @anotherusername mentions. There are several Genesis plugins available to make many customizations very simple, and tutorials abound for code-based tweaks.
Using Genesis means that coding to achieve a result can be simple, even ridiculously trivial. It is a powerful foundation to build upon, but you need to know something of the design and construction before you use it versus selecting from multiple panels of built-in options. I'd suggest that unless you're willing to understand something of hooks, filters and relatively simple code, Genesis probably doesn't match your requirement.
(I also think your stated alternative of using Thesis would take you even further away from your desire for point and click options.)
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