Admin Themes

Hello to everyone, I’m planning on creating a new admin panel template to sell here at themeforest, however I’m wondering what should an admin template focus on.

Should I be focusing on the design and visual styles more than anything in the template ? or is it functionality and plugins that make the admin template more valuable ?

If I include too many plugins with the template it might get too complex for the developer that is going to use it. Shouldn’t the developer implement the required plugins for the specific needs they have ?

What do you guys think about this ?

Thanks.

admin themes are just html mockups

OrganicBeeMedia said
admin themes are just html mockups

I think admin templates are more than mockups.

proxdeveloper said

OrganicBeeMedia said
admin themes are just html mockups

I think admin templates are more than mockups.

nope most are just html and css

There are a lot of admin templates here that are more than just html and css, they provide the developer a great set of resources to develop a custom back-end interface for whatever they are working on.

Some include javascript, php, etc..

proxdeveloper said
There are a lot of admin templates here that are more than just html and css, they provide the developer a great set of resources to develop a custom back-end interface for whatever they are working on. Some include javascript, php, etc..

well javascript yes, but very few have any php theres maybe a handful that do if that

The 2 admin themes I bought were just HTML /CSS and Javascript (jQuery). I used one for a custom email list management and reporting tool for work, and the other for the admin of a custom CMS for a client. In both cases I had to provide all of the backend code. In my case this was PHP , but you could use admin themes for Ruby, ASP .NET, anything…

From those admin templates you bought, were they loaded with javascript plugins (jquery plugins) if so did you use them ? or did you feel they are just there to take space ?

proxdeveloper said
From those admin templates you bought, were they loaded with javascript plugins (jquery plugins) if so did you use them ? or did you feel they are just there to take space ?

They were built into the template, so usage was transparent. The plugins were Jquery UI, tooltips, tablesorter, and superfish. For example, in the reporting tool, I had a report of the latest newsletter signup counts by date for several sites. The theme made all tables sortable by clicking the column headers using jQuery. Same with tooltips…I used these to provide instructions to users. I think these used either title or rel to implement. jQuery UI was used for buttons, dialogs, datepickers, tabs, and accordions. In all, the plugins were useful, and not at all superfluous.