Beautiful, but Broken.

  • Worst theme I have ever used. With misleading advertising, this theme has many bugs which took me a long time to go through and fix—until I realised that I’d missed a fatal error, in that the store does not work on mobile view.

    It is not responsive; the buy buttons do not work on mobiles, and the cart does not display (though sometimes it’s drop-down turns up instead of the menu, when clicked). There are many other visual glitches as well, such as buttons becoming vertically misaligned. With web users on mobile now growing to 60% or more of the audience, functional mobile displays are vital for modern websites.

    Bootstrap.CSS also overrides much of the Style.CSS link formatting ( .a ) in both parent and child derivatives; many links are bootstrap-blue, not matching gold, and receive their own text formatting as well, contradicting the rest of the design.

    As to misleading advertising, the sample .png clearly shows a header image with call-to-action text and button. In the actual theme however, this is not the case. What you get is a slider; the design scourge of the internet when it comes to user experience (see “banner blindness”) and conversions (plenty of statistics there).

    In summary, this appears to be a far-too early (half-finished) release of a premium theme. But, after what I have experienced, I would not touch Yudlee with a long stick—and certainly not fund their future development endeavours.

    City Store has put me off free themes entirely now. It has been poorly tested before release.

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  • Theme Author yudleethemes

    (@yudleethemes)

    Hi,
    Thank you for the feedback. A well written bad review is worth more than a blank good review.
    We apologize that your experience with our theme wasn’t as you would have expected.
    There could have been issues, with the theme, but there are some things, that were probably not looked at properly.
    Like the banner. For a theme to be listed on www.remarpro.com a the banner must look like how the site will look with the theme active.
    If you look at the banner, it is exactly the same that theme provides. The slider arrows hide when the mouse isn’t over the banner. Which is why it feels like a banner with a CTA, but it is actually a slider with CTA.
    Similarly, the theme is responsive, there are some issues, that we fixed, but mostly works fine with any devices.
    As for bootstrap, overwriting the styles, could you maybe let us know where, so we could fix? That would be of help because a half-finished product is not something we would like to send out as well.

    Thank you again for taking time to add your comment.
    We really hope, we do not scare you off of free themes.

    Regards

    Thread Starter Four Legged Bagel

    (@riannas2)

    I try to be honest. If you have fixed these issues then I wish you all the best; the design WAS beautiful. I really think your team just released it waay to early. Yes, it is free, but when I looked at the premium version it looked very different also.

    For the bootstrap overrides, this was a while ago now but I remember I was trying to edit superficial things like font settings and colours. I used a lot of #important! tags to get it to work, and then the bootstrap was just using a lot of bulky blue text for some reason.

    Sorry this last bit is so vague.

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