Creating new web designs from scratch can be lucrative, but it’s also time consuming. If you want to make money repeatedly off of one design — without having to spend more time on it — the easiest way is to sell it as a theme or template.

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. Read more