Comments on: Making Money with Free Web Design Templates

By: SiteLogic

SiteLogic — Tue, 13 May 2008 09:17:03 +0000

I have seen a few free WP templates where footer.php has been encrypted… stops people removing their links and who knows what else… maybe controlling links remotely… allowing them to rent links out in your footer

By: Joe Splogs

Joe Splogs — Mon, 12 May 2008 23:10:54 +0000

I noticed a lot of people are creating WP tpls and including links to their commercial sites with the link text and other people who are putting affiliate links in the tpls.

I bet there are some people who also put hidden links in the pages too.

Any good developer should know that WP is a hackers wet dream. It would not be hard to release WP templates (which arent really templates but botched HTML and php – real templates should use some sort of tpl engein) and then insert some php in there for you to be able to insert links etc.

By: Angie

Angie — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 21:35:21 +0000

I love your fresh approach to this tired topic! Indeed, why reinvent the wheel? It is a much more wise use of my time to simply customize or update something that exists. But, your reminded to leave the link to the original designer is something more people need to heed. It’s just the right thing to do.

By: SiteLogic

SiteLogic — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 19:33:12 +0000

For sure, that market is over… people still buy them as they are not aware of the free sites, but that will change rapidly IMO.

Also the quality of some of these templates is very high, higher than a lot of the paid templates… and the authors revise them for emerging browsers… like ie7.

Free designs for Joomla! are still tricky to come by though, most of the free ones are poor… people are still maing money selling those…. or running template clubs…

By: Shaun

Shaun — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 00:35:12 +0000

Yeh prety much webdesigning templates for a price will be non existant in a while.