Show HN: My weekend project, written on Friday and Today

Re:Show HN: My weekend project, written on Friday and Today by mootothemax on Sunday February 20, 2011 @01:06PM (#2242521)

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 :)

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Re:Show HN: My weekend project, written on Friday and Today by akavlie on Sunday February 20, 2011 @03:42PM (#2242995)

Oh 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.

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Re:Show HN: My weekend project, written on Friday and Today by dstorrs on Sunday February 20, 2011 @03:51PM (#2243024)

There's also http://www.freecsstemplates.org/ which is, as the name says, free.

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Re:Show HN: My weekend project, written on Friday and Today by akavlie on Sunday February 20, 2011 @05:08PM (#2243288)

Thanks 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/). Unfortunately they stopped updating it several years ago.

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Re:Show HN: My weekend project, written on Friday and Today by mootothemax on Sunday February 20, 2011 @07:54PM (#2243735)

Most 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.

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Re:Show HN: My weekend project, written on Friday and Today by gabriele on Sunday February 20, 2011 @02:26PM (#2242729)

just curious, did you use the Facebook Oauth 2 Graph API for Kohana 3? I'm the author. [http://forum.kohanaframework.org/discussion/5772/]

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Re:Show HN: My weekend project, written on Friday and Today by mootothemax on Sunday February 20, 2011 @07:45PM (#2243701)

I 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.

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Re:Show HN: My weekend project, written on Friday and Today by nyellin on Sunday February 20, 2011 @06:18PM (#2243477)

How does ThemeForest compare to WooThemes?

I am planning on buying one of WooTheme's Wordpress themes and adapting it into a Django template.

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Re:Show HN: My weekend project, written on Friday and Today by utops on Sunday February 20, 2011 @03:27PM (#2242935)

Just 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...

$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?

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Re:Show HN: My weekend project, written on Friday and Today by akavlie on Sunday February 20, 2011 @03:46PM (#2243007)

From 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-te...

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Re:Show HN: My weekend project, written on Friday and Today by mootothemax on Sunday February 20, 2011 @07:55PM (#2243738)

I accept that I could be doing it wrong, but my general idea is to buy a fresh license for every site that I create :)

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