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Template from ThemeForest are what I use to add some polish; plenty of people will criticise for using themes, but in my opinion, and coming from someone with z
by mootothemax 16y ago
Template from ThemeForest are what I use to add some polish; plenty of people will criticise for using themes, but in my opinion, and coming from someone with zero design skills, they get you in a better place right from the start :)
So, most of my sites are written using Kohana and a couple of themes from ThemeForest - one for the sales side, and one for the admin area itself.
Edit: and really, that's nowhere near to being a stupid question - I only found out about options like TF when a friend told me a few months ago :)
- gabriele 16y agojust curious, did you use the Facebook Oauth 2 Graph API for Kohana 3? I'm the author. [http://forum.kohanaframework.org/discussion/5772/ http://forum.kohanaframework.org/discussion/5772/]
- mootothemax 16y agoI didn't. I looked through the available modules and whilst they looked decent for a long-term project, for my needs of knocking something short-sighted out pretty quickly, I found writing my own code a bit less demanding.
- vs2 16y agoI agree, I can do the programming but not the design and themeforest has a selection of excellent themes. Used it on one called http://www.venturesocially.com http://www.venturesocially.com
- utops 16y agoJust a question about the theme from ThemeForest - which I didn't know about until now. Looks like you're using this theme: http://themeforest.net/item/freemium-saas-wordpress-cms-blog-theme-ii/114695 http://themeforest.net/item/freemium-saas-wordpress-cms-blog... $30 is a great deal if the license covers a single commercial app (I assume you need to buy it each time you use it in an app?) but when do you need to pay for the "Extended License" which is $1500?
- akavlie 16y agoFrom my cursory reading of the licensing, the key difference is that the Extended License allows you to distribute the theme with your app (the regular license would be limited to a hosted app). http://themeforest.net/wiki/support/legal-terms/licensing-terms/ http://themeforest.net/wiki/support/legal-terms/licensing-te...
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- mootothemax 16y agoI accept that I could be doing it wrong, but my general idea is to buy a fresh license for every site that I create :)
- akavlie 16y agoOh man, you have no idea how helpful this is. I'm working on a web app myself, and design is my biggest hangup... I've thought about hiring someone, but not sure I can justify the expense. For some reason I didn't consider seeking out premium themes like this. Looks like there's a lot of great stuff on ThemeForest... only problem now is the paradox of choice. Too many good themes to choose from.
- dstorrs 16y agoThere's also http://www.freecsstemplates.org/ http://www.freecsstemplates.org/ which is, as the name says, free.
- akavlie 16y agoThanks for pointing that out. In this case though, I think you get what you pay for. Most of those don't look nearly as good as the Themeforest stuff. There's another site along these lines that used to be pretty good -- Open Source Web Design (http://www.oswd.org/ http://www.oswd.org/). Unfortunately they stopped updating it several years ago.
- mootothemax 16y agoMost of those don't look nearly as good as the Themeforest stuff. See, this is the crux of the matter for me: would I rather mess around with a truly free template to get it looking decent, or pay someone the huge amount of $20 to have it instantly. Obviously, by and large, the latter wins.
- nyellin 16y agoHow does ThemeForest compare to WooThemes? I am planning on buying one of WooTheme's Wordpress themes and adapting it into a Django template.