Templates
Greetings good people!
I want to start making some website templates for things like Joomla to sell but I'm totally new to all this and I have many questions
What are the best websites to get Fonts, Clipart and Images free for me to use and include with the template?
I want to give my templates away for free for websites that make no profit, but if they make anything through Ads or Services, then I want to be paid for my work. *shrugs* How do I go about doing this?
I will need to setup a very simple shop with paypal to sell the templates, does anyone have any recommendations for a basic php script I install?
Thanks everyone!
cmoyer posted this at 01:41 — 12th June 2009.
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As far as fonts go you should base your designs off of the fonts listed in Megan's article Here.
If you are going to sell the designs for profit it wouldn't hurt to buy stock images that you can than own the rights to. As far as a simple shop I havn't used any professionally yet but I know drupal has a few plugins and there is zencart and a few others as well to chose from, so I suggest installing a few locally and see which one you like the best.
If you want free images you could try the site sxc.hu, you need to read the terms first though!
SHARDIK posted this at 15:41 — 12th June 2009.
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Interesting article
Although I think I may have explained myself incorrectly. Some of the text on my site are Images, so the font will not need to be included unless the user wants to change the text on the original (for making it in another language for example).
If I was to buy the images as you suggest, can you advise on the type of license I should be looking for? There are a few different types of license out there and I feel overwhelmed by it all.... or maybe that just my inexperience
1,000 thanks for you help
Megan posted this at 14:10 — 12th June 2009.
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For images one way would be to look for creative commons licensed images that allow commercial use. This is the tricky part of what you're trying to do - it's easy to find free or low cost images for one time use, especially for non-commercial uses. If you're redistributing the content that's another matter altogether. It kind of makes sense - if you're profiting from their work those people are going to want a piece of the profits.
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SHARDIK posted this at 15:44 — 12th June 2009.
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Yep that's the problem with a lot of the stuff that will be included in the template. Font's and Images
If I can find out the name of the License I should be looking for that would be a great help too
Have a great weekend!
mark spenser posted this at 13:20 — 25th June 2009.
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i think you should go to templatemonster.com
you can get good images from istockphoto, iconbus
etc...
why do not your search in google for all these...
you can also go to css galleries for template inspiration...
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