It depends on what you mean by BUGS? A lot of the problems faced by Essential were in Moodle. These have been fixed. As far as I know all the problems people reported in Essential have been fixed in the latest version of Essential. DOWNLOAD ESSENTIAL ZIP
@ Mary: Thanks for your reply.
I have been thinking of doing this for a while now, so I have subscribed to this thread to 'listen' to the conversation, and I saw lots of comments about these 2 themes. I haven't read them all, but it's good to know that most were related to moodle and fixed.
Thanks for the link.
@Harmut: I didn't think about it like that but I appreciate your input. I am very visually oriented so I'm drawn to both themes. I think Elegance looks nicer, but this is relative... maybe it is because I looked at essential for longer and Elegance is fresher. But I understand your advice and it makes sense to go that way. (although I really like Elegance more! hehehe)
@Julian: Hey Julian, thanks for stepping in too. Thanks for both contributions, both themes look really nice. Really appreciate your work. )
I'm also entertaining the idea of hiring a dev to maintain it in the future (if needed)...so my question is: Based on your experience designing these themes, do you think that a web designer with no Moodle specific knowledge can maintain these themes in the future?