Hi, i presume every one spends about 2 weeks on designing a premium theme, some author’s even spend a month.
Usually i spend more time on Navigation/Menu and on mid section below the slider, which is quite challenging for me.
I am curious to know, that which part is difficult for you, when designing a great theme, and on which section you spend more time?
A. Logo
B. Navigation/Menu
C. Sliders
D. Mid Section, below the slider
E. Blog Page
F. Portfolio Page
G. Footer
Please, share your experiences!
Many thanks.
- Attended a Community Meetup
- Author was Featured
- Beta Tester
- Bought between 10 and 49 items
- Contributed a Tutorial to a Tuts+ Site
- Exclusive Author
- Has been a member for 3-4 years
- Interviewed on the Envato Notes blog
The main page content is what I struggle on. Where to put things…
- Author had a Free File of the Month
- Author was Featured
- Bought between 10 and 49 items
- Egypt
- Exclusive Author
- Has been a member for 2-3 years
- Item was Featured
- Referred between 10 and 49 users
- Sold between 10 000 and 50 000 dollars
Header, navigation etc.. designing them is just a pain, they take ages for me to do and to get right, but once its done, the rest of the theme comes along much easier.
For me it’s the header too, when I’ve got that designed and looking “right” the rest of the design flows. Sometimes I’m not sure what to do with my footer I can be very picky on my own designs.
H. Getting started.
I can’t say that designing one page is more difficult over another for me, but generally the most trouble I’m getting is making the typography look nice.
AlexPascal said
H. Getting started.
Haha I withdraw my original answer and take this one 
- Author had a File in an Envato Bundle
- Author was Featured
- Bought between 50 and 99 items
- Exclusive Author
- Has been a member for 4-5 years
- Item was Featured
- Referred between 500 and 999 users
- Sold between 250 000 and 1 000 000 dollars
You listed all the fun parts and left out the crappy parts:
- Filling your demo site with content and making it nice and organized and actually show off all of your features correctly.
- Writing your documentation.
- Bug testing.
- Making the call on when it’s totally ready to post for sale.
- Author had a Free File of the Month
- Author was Featured
- Bought between 10 and 49 items
- Egypt
- Exclusive Author
- Has been a member for 2-3 years
- Item was Featured
- Referred between 10 and 49 users
- Sold between 10 000 and 50 000 dollars
themeblvd said
You listed all the fun parts and left out the crappy parts:
- Filling your demo site with content and making it nice and organized and actually show off all of your features correctly.
- Writing your documentation.
- Bug testing.
- Making the call on when it’s totally ready to post for sale.
I hate those bits. Specially the IE testing, most frustrating moments of my life 
The hardest part for me is getting started with the color scheme. It takes me forever to decide on that or implement one that I find online. How do you guys pick/use a color scheme?
