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Selling templates - do you?

#1 User is offline   Sam G 

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Posted 20 April 2009 - 11:51 AM

Do designers on here make and sell their own templates (i.e. for websites, WordPress, etc.)?

I'm just wondering if I'm missing out on an opportunity to make a few extra quid or not lol :)
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Posted 20 April 2009 - 12:08 PM

imo its over crowded and its stupid hard to get heard over the crowd. however, you could make them for free with a link to your site and then sell another footer link there. you might make £500+ pa from that.
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Posted 20 April 2009 - 04:29 PM

We never sell templates.
Mainly because the ones we produce are unique - and they wouldn't integrate with another site easily since the systems are built around the design specifically.
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Posted 20 April 2009 - 05:26 PM

I noticed on Template Monster they have an option where you can sell multiple copies or only one of any template you have.

Things like WordPress templates seem to be the best templates to design, if you wanted to design templates, from what I can gather.
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Posted 20 April 2009 - 05:57 PM

View PostSam G, on Apr 20 2009, 22:56, said:

I noticed on Template Monster they have an option where you can sell multiple copies or only one of any template you have.

Things like WordPress templates seem to be the best templates to design, if you wanted to design templates, from what I can gather.


most good template cost money and require customisation...

hence it seems practically to create one of for yourself and customised it ..
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Posted 21 April 2009 - 07:55 AM

OK. I think for the time/effort involved in making them and the little return made on them, it sounds kinda pointless going down that avenue. :)
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Posted 22 April 2009 - 01:05 PM

I think that, like all of these things, the key is in the quality of the design.

If your WP designs stand out there is certainly good money to be made in going down that route...
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