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Or: find a free theme from somewhere, they're out there.
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Free registration at the forum removes this block.Or: find a free theme from somewhere, they're out there.
I know it breaches the terms but what I wanna know is how will Themeforest know it's the theme that I actually purchased.
Basically, I will be changing pretty much everything about the theme and it won't look the same at all.
I'm doing this because I wanna save time and money by avoiding to have to build and test responsive layouts from scratch.
I'm also not sure to how extent UI components can be copyrighted.
I still don't get you.
You can:
- buy a theme and keep it the exact same and use for yourself
- buy a theme and keep it the exact same and use for your clients website
- buy a theme and edit it and use for yourself or for your clients websites
All of those are fine and what a theme is sold for.
You aren't meant to:
- Buy one theme and make 100 client websites with it.
You can but they are hoping you don't.
You can't:
- Buy a theme, edit it, and resell as your theme...
I would imagine they will come after someone who does this. It is obvious to a good coder if large chunks of code were copied and pasted from somewhere. That is 100% against TOS.
Anyway, there isn't much point in doing this anyway since it isn't even that profitable.
I wonder if there are any actual designers on this forum or everyone is just a student of Fox's program.
Ok I just did some research and apparently it's completely legal because you can't copyright the look and feel of a design. You can only copyright specific components like logos, and other shapes. Since I'm not reusing any of those, I'm not doing anything illegal. But I'll do some more research and report back.
Even if I sell a website for $1million I'd still not pay $15 if I did the majority of the work. Paying for it once is enough.
Of course, if I was selling the exact same theme of every website then sure, I'd pay for it.
Not a criminal act per se
Just don't feed the troll, guys. He will do what he wants anyway.
Better to develop design your own custom coded themes, instead of selling free modified themes - Build Your Brand- Build your own Business.
Coding your own themes is a waste of time and clients don't care anyway. They just want a website to bring in new business.
They don't even know that premade themes exist and even if they did know they wouldn't care as long as the final design matches their brand.
My first 3 websites were custom coded and took a lot of time and effort because people use a ton of different browsers these days and you have to make sure your design doesn't break. In the end, the client didn't care about the custom coding or anything and was happy that he got a website.
These days, I prefer to grab a theme and modify it to suit my client's needs. It's still gonna look unique and will take half the time and effort.
Of course, most of the themes are of very low quality because they contain really bad code and a ton of unnecessary scripts. Fixing the code and removing the scripts to make the pages load faster takes time but it's not as bad as having to write something from scratch.
1. Custom coding is necessary along with responsive + SEO friendly + creativity - Different business industry have to show different prospective with different creativity
2. Client always looks for a creative website.
3. Custom coded no doubt take time also it is very interesting to build a customized website - take more charge
4. What about the charge?
5. This is a tedious process to customize a theme.
I build only custom coded websites and apps, and I love it because it is very interesting.
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