I am working on a custom blog script that will be sold form my site. I have 2 layouts that I would like peoples oppinions on the look and what price to sell them for. One being the scripts default layout that will be free after buying my script and the other just a theme. I want to sell the default layout for a low price to non owners of my script. Also they aren't 100% finished yet. Default home: http://cgiwebtools.com/demos/blog/index.shtml Default permalink page: http://cgiwebtools.com/demos/blog/permalink.shtml Orange-glory home: http://cgiwebtools.com/demos/blog/orange-glory/index.shtml Orange-glory permalink page: http://cgiwebtools.com/demos/blog/orange-glory/comments.shtml I want to know what could be added, improved, and/or changed aswell as your first and overall impression. Also I haven't had much luck selling templates in the past, so if you could help by suggesting a price for them as coded and as uncoded themes.
I'm a fan of strong contrasts and I'd use black for the post's text. I'd also remove the "(ie: Awesome, Lame)" from the comment form. Topics/categories are missing. both in the sidebar and in the post meta data.
I think both of them are nice layout. But the top banner size may be reduced 1/4th. It is too big and also attracting than the content...
I like the dark one, but to be honest, you can also get similar layouts for free, maybe put nice plugins and also give something for free ( like a counter ) if the costumers purchase a template. Also put a link into the counter, so you'll get a backlink to your site. Hope that helped you.
Thanks for the suggestions. I will work on reducing the banner sizes in a few days. But right now I am busy with other things.
The $title$sitetitle is the code to put the page title and then the site title into the title tag. Example title: Register - Mysite.com The actuall code is: <?$title$sitetitle?> HTML: And thanks for warning me about the spelling mistakes.