TemplateMonster.com is among the most well known stock template and theme providers online.

They offer templates for a wide range of sites, agricultural sites to church sites, as well as general templates that can be used on almost any kind of site.

And all of their themes come with fantastic features that rival the top themes out there.

Every TemplateMonster.com WordPress theme has a long list of great features, and all are available for a reasonable price. They even offer installation services for all of their themes.

Below we’ve collected thirty of their best WordPress themes, though of course you can check out even more on their website.

Here are the features that every TemplateMonster.com theme includes:

• WordPress 3.1+ compatible
• Custom post types, including portfolio posts, slider posts, and testimonials posts
• Page templates, including full width page (without a sidebar), testimonials page, FAQs page, and portfolio pages
• Multi level dropdown menus
• Plugins, including WP Page Navi and WP-Contact Form 7.
• Cross browser compatible (including IE7+)
• PSD files are included
• All photos included and can be used on a website created from a theme
• Well documented, with detailed instructions on all the additional features and how to manage them

Here are just some of the great themes that TemplateMonster.com offers:

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A business card is often viewed as the first image a person has about your business and the work you do; once they see your business card they start developing ideas about the business and you. You want to have something that makes you look professional and different.

Creating a unique business card really allows your business to stand out amongst the rest. I mean think about it—how many times have you seen an “entrepreneur” use the same old template from an online printer? Often, huh? How do you feel about that person’s company and their quality?

Well, don’t be that person. And don’t let your clients or your friends be that person. Today, we have gathered up a bunch of unique business card PSDs to help you in your process. And the best part is that they are FREE. So perhaps you need a quick fix or you just need a template to jolt your creativity. Whatever it is, enjoy and download some of these great PSDs!

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This is one business card with four different color schemes. This one is very unique because including a texture in print work can be hard to pull off, but this template did a great job. The design is extremely clean and can work for almost any type of company.

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This one has a minimalist yet friendly design that I really enjoy. Quite frankly, some folks either overdo or under-do the minimalist business card, but I think this card gets it right—especially for free. It’s illustrative and great for creatives and crafty businesses. Another great thing is that you can choose between three different reverse sides.

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In this template pack, each card commits to a very attractive color. It’s very bold and pretty much demands attention. If you were to use this template, you’d have to get with your printer and pick out some really great paper to go with this and put some style on it. I can imagine this using the letter press technique.

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Five great business card designs to choose from that are extremely unique and all designed by me. They don’t have (or necessarily need) a back side, but are definitely different than most things you see passed around. Most of these are illustrative and are great for individuals—they’ve got a little something for every one.

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This card would be great for a modern tech business or even a printer. The color palette is really pretty and actually brings a sense of elegance even though we are dealing with pretty geometric shapes.

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Another minimalist card that’s pretty solid. The black and white is classic and great for anyone and anything, and it also means printing this card would be much cheaper than printing a color card. This is a great starter card.

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Here are ten free templates, also designed by me. Most of these designs are very illustrative, yet clean and simple. However, they do not have backsides. This is another well-rounded pack with something for everyone to enjoy.

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This is actually a 7-pack of business cards that use photography on their business cards. I actually love to see pictures on business cards and would love to see more of it. These are a great solid starting point for photographers or folks who want to show off their products.

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I thought this was pretty unique and screams lawn care services or a ‘green’ product. Conceptually, it’s simple and only has three layers, but I like it and can really see it used with an amazing die cut card.

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This is a great a template. You can see the detail in it and it’s absolutely perfect to me—I wouldn’t change a thing. Great for some sort of company and ready for print—what more could you ask for?

It’s not just a business card

Business cards could be that one thing that you have to show for your business. Many people make serious conclusions based on the look of your card, so make sure it’s something that reflects your business’ quality and purpose.

You wouldn’t want to have a totally legit business, then hand a potential client a less-than-professional card, causing them to decide not to work with you. It happens every day, so be careful. You want to be able to hand a potential client a card and get them to jump to work with you.

If you do not have time to develop a business card, use one of the ones above and get it printed professionally. Quality and individuality are really what make a business or business person stand out. Don’t be left behind because your business card sucks.

Kendra Gaines is a freelance designer from Virginia, USA. Connect with her.

This article was presented by the color brochure printing leader, Next Day Flyers.

What are your experiences with the good and bad of business cards? Are there any PSDs you think should be in this list?

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It’s not quite like a “regular” blog platform (like WordPress or Blogger) and it’s not microblogging either. It’s tumblogging, but a lot of people don’t know what thadet means.

And it can be a little daunting for designers who are trying to figure out how to develop Tumblr themes considering there are seven post types (or eight if you count photo slideshow posts as separate from regular photo posts).

One thing that Tumblr definitely has going in its favor is the number of themes that are now available. Tons of free themes and a growing premium theme marketplace make it easy to find a theme you like, and most are easily customizable even if you don’t know tons of code.

Below are more than 70 awesome Tumblr themes, more than half of them free.

Free themes

Imperial

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Imperial is a feminine theme with a patterned background and flag detailing. It’s a fairly narrow theme, with a lavender color scheme.

Ernest

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Ernest has an almost corporate look, with textured granite background and a conservative color scheme. The typography is much more readable than many themes.

Miss Sourpuss

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Miss Sourpuss has a linen background, rounded corners, and accents in shades or orange. It’s a subtle, understated theme with great typography.

Boxes

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Boxes is very well-suited for image-heavy tumblogs, though it also works for those with more text posts. Shadow details make it unique, while the grid-based layout adds structure.

Lines

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Unsurprisingly, Lines has a ton of line details. The design is minimalist, with good typography and a muted color scheme.

Solstice

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Solstice has a muted striped background, handwritten script typography, and a gray and white color scheme. It’s a very understated theme.

Stacky Pro

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Stacky Pro has a stacked grid layout, with columns that reposition themselves based on your browser width.

Sam’s Theme

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Sam’s Theme has a large photo background and understated typography. The muted colors of the background give it a retro feel.

Native Citizens

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This is a simple, minimalist theme with two content columns, a monospaced font, and a gray and white color palette.

Retro Candy

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Retro Candy has oversized typography, rounded corners, and a muted stripe background.

Serifs & Scribbles

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Serifs & Scribbles has a pencil-drawing look to it, with custom icons for each post type. It even includes a hand-drawn search bar and RSS feed logo.

Effector Theme

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The Effector Theme comes in two color schemes (light and dark). The shadow details and thought put into each post type sets it apart from many other free themes.

Boston Polaroid

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Boston Polaroid is perfectly suited to showing off large images (which resize based on the browser viewport size). It has a muted gray color scheme and a subtle textured background.

Megapixels

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Megapixels has a dark lavender pixelated background and transparency effects.

Lightweight

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Lightweight is a minimalist, dark gray and white, one-column theme. It includes round icons for each post type and very readable typography.

Centennial

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Centennial is a simple black and white theme with a very formal, traditional look despite its minimalist aesthetic.

Legrand

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Legrand is a retro-modern theme with muted colors and 3D effects. The thin sans serif typeface used for everything but the header is quite stunning and gives the design a mid-century modern feel.

Yay, Hooray!

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Yay, Hooray! is a very narrow, minimalist theme with rust-colored accents.

Descriptive

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Descriptive is a minimalist theme with a light blue background and dashed line details.

fluidMod

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fluidMod uses transparent post backgrounds over a large, multi-colored background image. It’s an understated theme that still packs a lot of visual punch.

Peach

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Peach is a mostly-gray theme with pink and pastel orange accents and header image. It has a three-column grid layout.

Phobic Man

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Phobic Man has a blue color scheme with orange accents and rounded corners. Flag details and shadow effects set it apart from the competition.

Significance

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Significance is a gray and white grid-based theme that’s perfect for portfolio or other image-heavy sites.

Pulp

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Pulp has a bold red background, and simple gray color scheme for everything else.

Punch of Intuition

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Punch of Intuition has a large photo background, and simple gray and white color scheme otherwise. Line detailing on the posts and in the sidebar add an extra bit of polish.

The Stitch

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The Stitch uses hand-drawn elements and an accordion slider for displaying posts. The basic gray color scheme is offset by brightly colored post type banners.

The Curator [Beta]

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The Curator is best suited for photo and video posts, due to the typography being incredibly tiny for everything else. It’s a great minimalist theme, though, with a textured background.

go CRAZY!!

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go CRAZY!! uses web fonts and multi-colored accents against a gray background.

Surreal

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Surreal is a minimalist gray theme with a lightly textured background and shadow details behind each post.

Mellow Yellow

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Mellow Yellow is a bold, retro-styled theme with photo corner accents on each post and a textured background.

Hobo

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Hobo is a grid-based theme with content columns that shift depending on your browser width. The warm gray color scheme and round post type icons are unique.

Firsts

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Firsts is a multi-colored grid theme with two columns and a gray background.

Inkhorn

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Inkhorn is a modern theme perfectly suited for text posts. The two-column layout is a bit unexpected for the overall style.

Luxury Notes

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Luxury Notes is a notepad-styled theme with a yellow lined paper content area background and a woodgrain main background.

Grunge Era

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Grunge Era is a grungy single-column theme with lots of textures and multi-colored accents.

Luminescence

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Luminescence has a multi-colored bokeh background and a transparent sidebar. Letterpress effects for the post icons are a nice touch.

With Style

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With Style has a multi-colored noise-filled background and hard shadows behind each post. The header includes a letterpress effect behind the text.

Impaler v.2

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Impaler has a grungy look, with animated menus that become blood-soaked in their hover state.

The Elephant in the Room

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The Elephant in the Room has a minimalist design with four elephants in the header.

Clean & Simple

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Clean & Simple is an apt name for this theme. It has a minimalist design with bold sans-serif typography.

Revista

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Revista is a grid-based theme with a gray color palette and excellent typography.

Premium themes

Nautical ($49)

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Nautical has an antique look, with bespoke textures and woodcut illustrations. It includes unique post illustrations and Disqus comments integration.

Vintage Scrapbook ($49)

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Vintage Scrapbook includes distressed typefaces and a vintage look and feel. It also has a highly-customizable sidebar area.

Stockholm ($49)

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Stockholm has a minimalist look and is designed to work well with blogs that are heavy on images. It includes subtle patterns and simply typography, and also has support for Disqus comments and Typekit integration.

Zurick ($49)

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Zurich was designed specifically for people who love Helvetica. It includes meta data that fades in and out as visitors scroll, as well as social media links.

High Res Theme ($19)

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High Res is a very minimalist theme with automatically resizing images. It takes advantage of larger screen sizes and browser viewports, both for photos and video.

Etcetera ($19)

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Etcetera is a hand-made premium theme that combines real and graphic elements in a scrapbook/collage style. It’s easily customizable and supports Disqus comments.

Leica ($49)

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Leica is a gallery/portfolio theme with four columns of images. It’s perfect for photographers, illustrators and designers. It includes customizable link, title, and navigation colors, and a special layout for custom pages, among other features.

Antiquity ($9)

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Antiquity has a muted color scheme and surprisingly modern look. It includes custom fields for Twitter and Flickr, as well as support for Disqus comments.

Depth ($19)

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This blue and purple theme from Obox includes transparency effects and a modern design. It also has support for Disqus comments, Flickr stream integration, and custom page templates.

National Park ($19)

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The National Park theme has a retro-inspired clean design, with a great header and typography.

Sunrise ($49)

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Sunrise has a hand-made style but a simple design, with a mostly-pastel color scheme. It includes hand-drawn icons for each post type, as well as support for Disqus comments.

Wordographic ($9)

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Wordographic is a theme specifically designed for text-heavy tumblogs. It has a focus on beautiful typography, as well as some interesting post formats (the Quote post is especially well thought-out).

Ascender ($49)

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Ascender comes in both dark and light varieties, and is built on a flexible grid. You can also customize the color scheme, add Typekit fonts, and choose between two different post sizes (250px or 400px).

Inspire Well ($49)

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Inspire Well is a flexible grid-based theme with customizable colors, background image, and more than 30 other options. It also has three different post sizes (1, 2, or 3 columns wide) that are easy to activate with tags.

Solaris ($9)

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Solaris is a minimalist theme with lots of circular graphics. There’s also an optional dark color scheme.

MARS ($49)

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Mars has a large background image and three layout modes (default, wide, and columns). Mars is also Typekit ready, includes social features, and has many other customization options.

Savory ($49)

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Savory has a slightly grungy feel, with textures and stitching detail. It’s Typekit ready, and includes color customizations and a customizable background image.

Paris Nights ($49)

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Paris nights has a beautiful collage style layout, complete with lighting effects in the header.

Rank & File ($49)

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Rank & File is a clean, modern theme with a more traditional blog layout than many Tumblr blogs. It includes a number of theme customization options, including color options and a customizable header image.

Pixelated ($18)

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Pixelated is a simple theme with a graphic, pixelated background. All post types are supported, and CSS3 features are also integrated (including web fonts).

Meteoro 2028 ($15)

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Meteoro 2028 is a robust, minimalist portfolio theme that has support for both images and video (YouTube and Vimeo at the moment). The color scheme can be fully customized, and it includes a custom slideshow for photosets.

Gallera ($15)

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Gallera is an elegant gallery theme with a subtle, grungy textured background. It’s great for designer, artists, and photographers who want to use Tumblr for their portfolio.

Boxxed ($10)

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Boxxed has a modern, colorful style and includes Twitter and Flickr integration in the sidebar. It has a transparent background for easy color changes, as well as support for all post types.

Desire ($17)

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Desire is a dark, minimalist theme with support for all of Tumblr’s newest features. It also includes an array of jQuery effects and custom typography.

Polaroid ($12)

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Polaroid is an easily-customizable theme with a clean and modern look. The background image, link colors, sidebar and other features can all be changed to suit the look you want.

Gothic Dream ($12)

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Gothic Dream is a dark theme with gothic styling. The background can be customized (image or color), as can the fonts, and colors of links and other elements.

Cherry ($11)

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Cherry is a very girly theme, well-suited to personal Tumblogs. The color scheme is made up mostly of pastels, with simple icons for each post type and a patterned background.

Fanfarron ($10)

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Fanfarron is a very elegant theme, with an understated background. It includes a number of customization options, Disqus comments, and a Flickr widget.

Vintage Sky ($20)

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Vintage Sky has a muted color scheme and a pretty Fail Whale illustration in the header (with cloud animations). You can customize the background image, header image, and many other aspects of the theme.

Scribble ($9)

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Scribble is a hand-drawn theme with a crumpled paper background texture. Unlike many hand-drawn designs, though, it has a very structured look, as if a straight-edge had been used in the drawing process (unlike the organic lines of most designs of this style).

Nova ($49)

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Nova has a clean grunge look, with paper-like accents and three color schemes. It includes nearly 50 appearance options, two layout modes (standard two-column and wide one-column), and customizable colors and background and header images.

Compiled exclusively for WDD by Cameron Chapman.

Do you use or design themes for Tumblr? What’s your favorite Tumblr theme? Let us know in the comments!

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More than a few web designers take full responsibility for selling their themes, but it can actually be harder to sell a template on your own than through one of the many sites selling themes from a wide variety of web designers.

It comes down to the fact that buyers would rather visit one site and sift through a whole stack of templates quickly than search the web for a theme here and a theme there. While you might take home a smaller percentage of the sales price on a template site, you’ll likely make more sales.

There are plenty of sites out there willing to sell your templates for you and some are better than others. Different sites offer designers a larger cut of the proceeds or have more traffic to guarantee higher sales. The ten sites listed below are some of the better choices when it comes to selling your work and are loosely listed in the order of how much work it will actually require to sell your templates through them.

1. Theme Forest

ThemeForest offers the opportunity to sell HTML templates, WordPress themes, Joomla templates, Flash templates and Photoshop templates. The price for a theme or a template does vary — as does your cut as the designer. Your cut depends on whether or not a design is exclusive to ThemeForest: for non-exclusive themes you will receive 25% of every sale. For exclusive themes, you will receive between 35% and 50%, moving upwards as you sell more themes. You can find the full payment scheme on ThemeForest’s Payment Rates page and the site’s legal information is also available. Before a web designer can start selling on ThemeForest, he or she must first read a tutorial and complete a short quiz.

2. Templamatic

Templamatic has some simple requirements for templates it posts for sale: valid HTML and CSS mark-up, cross-browser compatibility and no copyright problems. In exchange, the site offers web designers 65% of all sales. Uploading a template or theme is a matter of setting up a free account and adding your work. You can set your own price for your work — although it’s important to remember that you don’t get the full amount you set. Templamatic accepts a variety of templates, including WordPress, Drupal and Joomla. The site also accepts skins for MySpace, phpBB and other social sites and platforms. All templates and themes are approved by Templamatic staff before they become available on the website.

3. BuyStockDesign

BuyStockDesign is a fairly new marketplace that allows you to upload files and make between 50-75% of every sale. They allow PSD, HTML, WordPress, as well as Joomla templates.  Prices start at only $5 and go all the way up to $25. Minimum cash out is $50 via Paypal or similar systems. All files include source files. The site’s selection is not very big at this time, but the site looks promising and should keep growing. You can sign up as an author and sell templates.

4. FlashDen

There are plenty of sites that sell specific types of templates. FlashDen is one site that handles only Flash website templates, along with a few other Flash files. FlashDen is owned by the same network as ThemeForest and operates in a similar manner. You receive a percentage of every sale, with higher rates for exclusive templates. You’ll also need to complete a quiz to begin selling on FlashDen — you can start the process at the Author Program page. The network that owns FlashDen and ThemeForest also provide opportunities to sell audio and video files.

5. SitePoint

While SitePoint’s Template Marketplace may look like just another forum, it provides a forum with templates for sale. The marketplace does lean towards WordPress themes, but you can list just about any kind of website template you have available. There is a fee to list your templates — but Sitepoint does not take a cut of your sales. To begin selling on Sitepoint, you’ll need to create a listing for a new auction. You set your price when you create a listing, as well as establishing whether a template is exclusive to Sitepoint or if it is available elsewhere.

6. TalkFreelance

You’ll find that TalkFreelance operates similarly to SitePoint — along the lines of a forum. Overall, the site caters to webmasters and a specific forum has been set aside for web designers looking to sell themes or templates. You can set your own prices and hold auctions through TalkFreelance, and the site does not take any percentage of your sales. If you’re interested in selling through TalkFreelance, you’ll need to become a member of the forum. The site limits sales in its forums to members who have made at least five posts on the forums: there is a whole section of the site devoted to discussing web design, so the barrier to entry is not actually that high. There are a few other guidelines that TalkFreelance has established, which are available on the website.

7. Webmaster-Talk

There is a lot of potential for selling templates on webmaster forums: Webmaster-Talk is another good reason. These sites provide useful marketplaces because they cater to individuals who typically own multiple websites — a target audience more likely to purchase website templates than other demographics. There are minimal limitations on listing templates for sale at Webmaster-Talk. The site does automatically treat every listing as an auction, but you can easily sell multiple instances of a theme or template at any time.

8. eBay

You really can sell anything on eBay, including website templates. While it may be harder to sell pricier templates on eBay, the sheer quantity of buyers searching the website can mean a volume well worth the effort of selling your work on eBay. Website themes and templates sell on eBay exactly like any other product: you list the item you wish to sell and either set a ‘Buy It Now’ price or an auction. Depending on how many templates you want to sell, setting up an eBay store can be worthwhile: you can list multiple copies of a template for sale with a little more ease, as well as multiple templates with minimal efforts.

9. Other Designers

There are thousands of website designers out there who rely on templates and themes they can quickly tweak to provide customers with quick websites. Just browsing through a designer’s portfolio can give you an idea of how heavily they use templates. Offering to license a template to such designers — especially if you offer some level of exclusivity — can get you a solid amount of money, usually more than if you sell templates through various online marketplaces. You will need to market your work, to a certain extent: sending out emails to a number of web designers is enough, but without that promotion, they won’t know that you exist.

10. Your Own Website

While I did mention that it’s harder to sell themes and templates through your own website, it can be done successfully. The key is to find a specific niche of templates to offer — perhaps templates for a certain kind of business or skins for certain websites — and to advertise your products.

Hugh Briss offers a great example with his website, TwitterImage. Hugh has found a very narrow niche — custom Twitter backgrounds — and a way to advertise his offerings for a minimal cost — free custom backgrounds to any Twitter member with at least 2,000 followers. If you can follow Hugh’s example, you can sell themes and templates effectively from your own website. It will require more work, including promotion, than other options.

You may have noticed that a lot of big template retailers aren’t on this list. That’s because companies like TemplateMonster aren’t easy to sell your work to. In general they work with on-staff web designers to develop and sell themes, rather than using work from freelancers or independent companies. Selling your templates through those sites isn’t a side income — it’s a full-time job. Instead, the options here are options to provide you a steady stream of income that doesn’t take as much work as designing a website from scratch. It is not impossible to make your entire living by producing templates, but most web designers simply don’t treat it as such.

There are other template marketplaces out there, many of which are specialized: some sell only a specific type of template, others sell templates optimized for a particular language. If you create specialized themes or templates, such sites may provide you with a better price for your work.

Written exclusively for WDD by Thursday Bram and WDD

Have you sold templates or themes through any of these websites?  What was your experience like?  What other websites do you recommend?

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