Hey everyone!
Looking for some advice! A couple years ago I started selling stock audio on AudioJungle as a hobby. I enjoy sound design, so I thought, why not turn a hobby into passive income? Every so often I get a couple sales, so that worked out well enough for me. I had initially thought about doing this with HTML templates, as I am a web developer after all, but never got around to actually spending the time to get it done. Recently though I've been thinking a lot about fixing that.
I want to start with a simple HTML/CSS one page template for now. That said, being new to the theming, I don’t want to put out out garbage and be rejected after putting in a lot of work (learned that the hard way on AudioJungle). Also, is plain HTML/CSS the way to go in 2019? I'm OK at React but thought I would start with the most basic thing I could do so that I develop a workflow. So I ask the question. What are some good resources you all use when developing a new template? This could be related to design, coding standards, file organisation or anything else relevant. Does anyone has a good roadmap for getting started?
Top comments (3)
Shipping plain HTML and CSS is arguably better for your first ThemeForest submission because many buyers just want a simple static site without the overhead of a React build step. The reviewers are notoriously strict about code structure, so your primary focus needs to be flawless W3C validation and semantic markup. Stick to a rigid naming convention like BEM and heavily comment your layout sections. Overcomplicating the stack right out of the gate just multiplies the reasons they can soft-reject it.
Hiii, have you submitted any template on themeforest?
Sadly I never really got around to doing it.