Legal / Lawyer WordPress Site

I’ve looked through TF and haven’t noticed any lawyer or Legal sites other than one HTML site.

I’m working on building my first WP theme and thought to start there since there aren’t many in that category.

Is that a bad idea? Suggestions on a WP site you might like to see that isn’t on TF?

I think, business/portfolio sites will always have a better chance of more sales. BUT a really businessy like lawyer theme could do well as long as its not made JUST for lawyers as people like to customise it for their own business, which could be anything…

That’s a good point. I’ll have to consider that.

Maybe a make a trio-themed site….like one is a law site, maybe one is a typical business and the other is a portfolio site or something.

I think, business/portfolio sites will always have a better chance of more sales.

That’s true for the short term, but a theme in an obscure category will have exposure for a longer period of time. Look at the only church theme on TF: http://themeforest.net/item/wordpress-church/40190. It has been around since April, and there is still interest in it as of a few hours ago, judging by the comments page. I think this theme will be the only one in this category for a long time to come.

It’s just like with SEO …there is a short head and a long tail. You can make yet another business/portfolio theme and enjoy a few weeks in the limelight before being replaced by 20 other themes, or you can be a big fish in a small pond with the smaller categories like churches and restaurants, or srhnbr’s (http://themeforest.net/user/srhnbr) ecommerce themes. I think the latter offers better long term sales prospects.

Very true. My real estate theme is good for long term sales, yet my Archeronne theme which is portfolio based will probably die down much sooner, and will be lost with all the other portfolio themes.