Genesis queries

[PhilMurray]

Hi,

I am trying to get a few heads-up answers to some Genesis queries below. If anyone who has good Genesis experience could reply I would appreciate it.

Genesis Queries
1. I want to be able to Create & deploy child themes with Genesis as the parent theme – is that how most designers generally use Genesis Framework? Ie: it forms the basis but you develop a unique child theme for each client?

2. with one purchase of Genesis are you free to use for as many client sites as you want?

3. i want to develop sites that do not look template or framework based - Is genesis a great framework to allow for each site to be designed and customised individually?

4. Any problems updating the wordpress install across sites with Genesis running?

5. Any problems running plugins across Genesis - especially plugins not on the StudioPress plugins list?

6. I have been using SlideShowPro for photo gallery solutions for my clients. However it is flash based and I am concerned that flash is being phased out effectively -- so is there a really good jQuery photo gallery app that you prefer or would recommend? preferably one that allows for images to be uploaded to a remote location [ie: with slideshowpro you take out a hosting account giving unlimited image uploads - rather than loading the photos into the media library of wordpress. Then you just embed code into the wordpress theme to display the gallery fo images.] Is there something equivalent to this but using jQuery, that you are aware of Chris?

7. Do you find tech support for Genesis to be good?

8. It appears that StudioPress are continually developing genesis - which is great - is it a reliable, stable, flexible long term solution that i can use for my clients?

9. How easy is it to provide Smart Phone, Tablet and iPhone versions of a web site using genesis? Is here a plugin you use to convert a Genesis built site into one that works across all mobile platforms?



Thanks

Phil Murray