Sorry for the somewhat late post today, I’ve spent the morning finishing up a wordpress template I’d been working on over the weekend. I’m glad to say that after hours of trying to fix one stupid-ass little bug in IE 6, I was finally able to wrap it all up, and put up the “for sale” sign on it. I expect to make somewhere from $80-$100 on it. Maybe more, who knows. Depends on how the auction goes. So far this summer however, making proxy templates and wordpress templates, I’ve probably made a somewhere around $300. That’s only with about 4 or 5 templates, in total. Imagine if I actually worked at this and made 1 or 2 REALLY nice templates a week…
Designing website templates really isn’t that hard… at all. I mean, if you know how to make a link or embed a picture into an html file, you’re basically there. CSS isn’t a hard language to learn, nothing like php or MySQL or any of that nonsense. The code for it is usually basic English, unlike other languages. For example:
#box{
background-color: red;
text-align: left;
font-size: 12px;
}
That’s a simple CSS div being created right there. The name of the div is “box” and it’s properties are self explanitory… The color of the box is going to be red, the text will be 12 pixels in height and will be aligned to the left. Then all you’d have to do is put this into your html file:
<div id=”box”>Stuff Here</div>
That’s it, you just created a small section of a website. All websites - well, at least the ones made properly - are made up of dozens and dozens of divs. Here, let me show you in a picture, I’ll dissect forthelose’s template real quick:
All red squares are different divs nested in each other. Together, they make a functioning website.
Like I said, learning web design isn’t hard. The hardest part is getting your hand on a program like Photoshop to design all of the graphics. Once you’ve gotten over that hurdle, all you need to do is learn the basics of html and css. There are plenty of sites that offer tutorials on this. I’ll list a few at the bottom of this post.
Once you’re making templates, all you need to do is sell them. There are dozens of sites and forums around the internet that allow you to throw up the templates you made for sale, and because of their popularity, your topic will be seen by hundreds of potential buyers. If you produced a decent theme, you’ll have bids within a few hours. Here are a few of my favorites:
Learn CSS / Web Design:
Good luck n’ stuff!
July 14, 2008 @ 10:49 am.
In my experience, it’s more profitable to make websites themselves. Making Wordpress templates is kind of dull (I’ve tried), so I prefer making websites. Not to mention I get paid way more.