I generally agree with what you say. But the implementation of the Theme Maker has annoyed many people because of the volume of new themes, the perceived poor quality of many, the increased backlog of XML approvals, and lack of timely answers from Google to the questions which were being raised. I don't believe Google were prepared for any of this. Much of the bad feeling could be avoided by Google simply having an area to post timely news items to let users know what is happening. Directing users to this Group for help with problems, when nobody has any answers, simply creates a community of disgruntled users. I'm sure it will all settle down in time.
The category list is a great idea, and when we get it to work in our XML we can proceed to get our themes sorted into the appropriate categories and coded accordingly. No answer from Google yet on how to make this work, or when updates will be applied to our themes, or how long the backlog of submissions actually is - we live in hope! At least the Theme Maker doesn't appear to have any facility for putting personal themes into categories so, for the time being, one hopes the categories will only contain themes with wide appeal. Dave On May 26, 12:37 am, Art4theWeb <[email protected]> wrote: > I think what some of us are missing here is; Google is geared to the > masses, not to the few. The artistic and technical development value > that the original developers brought to "Google Themes API" made this > program a popular attraction to the everyday user. A win for the > Google brand and a win for the developers. Now that the everyday user > can upload their own photos and graphics to create a homepage that > reflects their likes and interests is a good thing. And now that > Google has devised a way to recognize and make discoverable the works > of the developers who put so much time and creativity into the program > makes for a more level playing field for the developers. Hopefully the > Google API team will follow through and expand the categories and > actually publish the updated xml files, that the developers have to re- > submit to fit the categories, in a timely fashion. > That said, a few suggestions for the category list that the Google API > team (if there still is one) may want to consider: > Seasons and Holidays > > Patti --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Themes API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-themes-api?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
