A ThemeForest Update

Posted by Jay on Wednesday, July 15th, 2009 at 12:43 pm

Our ThemeForest portfolio is continuing to grow, since releasing Cleen Theeme as detailed in the previous blog post we have gone on to produce several more files including two new templates, “photon” and “photon_dark” and a new PHP script; “PHP Login & User Management” which have all gone on to sell quite well.

We also have two more products ready for sale firstly a PHP/MySQL ‘users online’ script which uses a database to display the total number of visitors on a web site at any one time. Secondly we have a new template called Gossamer which is a simple little portfolio theme, built on an AJAX modular tab system so that all content is held within a single page. As with all of our HTML templates, Gossamer will also feature our PHP contact form script. You can see a sneak preview of Gossamer at ScreenJelly.

We’re proud to say that our Simple PHP Contact Form is currently the fastest selling and most popular PHP script on ThemeForest with over 160 sales in a little under a month generating over $450 gross income. Pretty impressive for such a simple little script.

So what have we learned in our first month of ThemeForestry? Well, as the Contact Form suggests, simple items sell best. Whilst all of our PHP scripts have done well the contact form has done the best generating $50 more than our next best script – the PHP Event Calendar. Kind of ironic seeing as it took the least amount of time to create. But this just reinforces how this marketplace is so successful;- If you can create something simple and usable, even if it takes you a long time and is sold for only $3 a go, you will make your money back and then some.

It seems that the same can be said for HTML templates. Currently our two best-selling templates are Cleen Theeme and photon, both of which are clean and simple in style and use a light colour palette opposed to a dark one. The other two however aren’t far behind, so it’s difficult to say for sure. I feel that a well designed dark template could do as well as it’s lighter counterparts if really pushed.

So what’s next? Looking at the popularity of WordPress themes this is the direction we will be looking to go in next. Whether we port one of our current templates into WordPress or create something entirely new is yet to be seen, but if there are any requests to see a particular template ported then it would make our decision a little easier!

Related posts:

• Cleen Theeme released
• 5% later, a ThemeForest product update
• Jigowatt Joins ThemeForest
• AJAX Contact Form; Add or Remove Custom Fields
• Change the first day on our PHP Event Calendar Script

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2 Responses to “A ThemeForest Update”

1. Visitor says:

   August 28, 2009 at 6:44 pm

   Hi – I found your site through your Themeforest.net templates. Nice work! Check out FreshBooks.com for another good invoicing option.

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2. Web Design Peterborough, Jigowatt – 5% later, a ThemeForest product update says:

   November 6, 2009 at 11:25 am

   [...] been a while since our previous ThemeForest update and the truth is that we’ve been so busy with other projects that we haven’t actually [...]

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