ThemeForest Review
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ThemeForest is an Envato Marketplace. At ThemeForest you can buy and sell HTML templates as well as themes for popular CMS products like WordPress, Joomla and Drupal with prices ranging from just $5 up to $47. Items are priced on the complexity, quality and use of the file. The site is home to a bustling community of web designers and developers and is the biggest marketplace of its kind. It is a community filled with at a total of 489,680 members and 55,828 items listed to date.
PS : This website theme(wpfreethemes.org) is purchased from Themeforest and we can give you an honest overview of good and bad about buying themes from Themeforest.
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ThemeForest Overview
If you are setting up a new site, you’ll probably be looking to save some money on designs. If you want some great designs to use whether it is for HTML, Joomla, WordPress, or Drupal, ThemeForest is the perfect place to look. The site has tons of templates available for all the popular CMS platforms and the prices start at $5.
You can start by searching for categories. The categories that are available are Joomla, WordPress, PSD templates, site templates, email templates, and others (such as MySpace, Drupal, Typepad, and more). You can also search between different industries such as business, marketing, photography, art, travel, shopping, electronics, and more.
If you want to know what files are being bought, you can look at the weekly top sellers for ideas. If you happen to find a user that has similar needs and tastes as you, you can access the collections section to see a list of what they recommend. You can also look through the featured files (picked by the site editors) and view the top authors to see what they are selling.
To get started with ThemeForest, you can sign up and deposit cash into your account. The minimum deposit is $20 and the maximum is $100. You’ll notice that the designs have different licenses. The regular license will allow you to use what you bought for yourself or for your clients. The extended license will allow you to package your purchase into something else that you sell (this does not give you resell rights). After you make a purchase, the item will be available in the download area.
If you are a developer and wanted to sell something in the marketplace, you can start out by taking the author quiz. Once you pass, you can start selling in the marketplace. For every item you sell, you will receive 40% to 70% of the sale depending on the sales volume. If you are not selling exclusively in ThemeForest, you get a reduced percentage of each sale in the community.
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- ThemeForest is an amazing resource for both developers and buyers.
- There are so many great templates and designs available for rock bottom prices.
- You will be able to get some top quality work for a fraction of what you should pay.
- Developers will get access to the big community of buyers without paying a dime. Although you may have to price your products lower, you will make the profits up in volume if your product becomes popular.
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- The author(developer) who is normally provide with the support. If you are lucky enough, you get instant reply. We are not that lucky after all, the author didn’t bother to answer our questions. However, the common questions are already answered on the “Comment/Discussion” section. We highly recommend you to check it out BEFORE you make a purchase.
- Upgraded version not available for some themes – Due to their low sales or busy with other projects for some authors, the author did not provide most updated version to fixing bugs or increasing security on the themes.
- Cross platform theme not available – You might start to take out your credit card from your pocket, but you had just realized its not available on WordPress platform.
Conclusion
Anyway, we still highly recommend ThemeForest because of their Amazing themes and price. You just need to be a smart shopper! Beware! ThemeForest is an addictive site, you will get ‘hooked’ to check out the newest theme available every day. Happy Shopping!
