Lately I’ve been wondering about this. I figured I’d start a poll to make sure that my values are in line with everyone elses when it comes to developing premium WordPress themes. It should hopefully also give other theme developers an idea of what to spend the most time focusing on.
So what makes you feel that a premium theme is worth it over a free one, if anything? Don’t just fill out the poll, I’d love to hear your thoughts on this as well!
Thanks for the responses everyone! The poll is now closed and the results have been published in an article titled The Most Important Features For Your Premium WordPress Theme which you should definitely check out.
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I’d like to see more creativity in the design community at large. It seems everyone is churning out these basic full width header and footer themes that look like the same thing, different color. I used to like that look, but now it’s just getting so tired, especially the super graphic intensive sites like Blogussion that beg readers to look at everything but the content.
Frankly, graphic design is fun to look at, but it does virtually nothing for you. It can be a great asset to your brand, but it shouldn’t distract the reader from the content in any way shape or form.
At the end of the day a great design needs to do a couple things:
1. Your homepage needs to direct you to the most important content…whatever that happens to be for your website.
2. Single posts need to highlight your content. When someone comes from Google, there eye should immediately be drawn to the headline of the post.
3. Your most important conversion points (rss, list, product/service…whatever you want people to do) need to be in high visibility areas like the top of the sidebar, top of the post footer, etc.
All of the above hehe… I also agree 100% with what Adam above said.
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