I agree with you on this one Dave. That is why I rarely submit my themes which I create from scratch (XML) document. The reason is that they get totally lost in the maze of garbage and poor quality themes created by the Theme Maker. Nobody even has a fighting chance to use my themes if they so wish cause the themes disappear in not time under the tons and tons of poor quality themes. I see absolutely not much point in submitting for this reason. Don and I asked repeatedly for Google to make a category for more elite themes (where the person uses a bit more creativity) but they only choice to make a Games category. Thus my own site for theme selections.
On May 26, 5:43 pm, BlueQuoll <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
