Building my first web app - 5 months later(premiumthemes.com)
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Building my first web app - 5 months later
http://premiumthemes.com/blog/building-premium-themes/?ref=hn
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I'm aware of the rollover preview issue but didn't have the time to fix it. Indeed, it's not simple but I think it was covered in many tutorials, so I won't have to reinvent much of the wheel.
As for the value proposition of the web app, I'm still unsure about it (in the discovery phase). I'll be trying different things and checking their output/ROI. Manual reviews of themes, hosting reviews, building a user community...
As for the value proposition of the web app, I'm still unsure about it (in the discovery phase). I'll be trying different things and checking their output/ROI. Manual reviews of themes, hosting reviews, building a user community...
Cached: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Apremi...
PS/Protip: In Chrome, add "cache:" in front of the URL to find the cached version of the current page.
PS/Protip: In Chrome, add "cache:" in front of the URL to find the cached version of the current page.
For scraping, you may want to look at ScraperWiki (https://scraperwiki.com/docs/python/python_intro_tutorial/).
For search, see if you can use Solr or Elastic Search and it will save you a lot of headaches later. Do not reinvent that wheel. They both run as stand-alone systems that you just need to talk via HTTP to.
For search, see if you can use Solr or Elastic Search and it will save you a lot of headaches later. Do not reinvent that wheel. They both run as stand-alone systems that you just need to talk via HTTP to.
To me, this looks like a themeforest redirector
Right now, we only display ThemeForest themes. Though I crawled other marketplaces, there still some work for filtering the results since other marketplaces are more obscure about the theme information (like sales and ratings).
The web app purpose is to help you find a theme (and thus redirect you to one of these marketplaces).
The web app purpose is to help you find a theme (and thus redirect you to one of these marketplaces).
When I accessed the Sign in/Sign up pages, nothing loaded up for me (Mac Firefox).
Abid Omar
I'm the man who keeps this site running.
Don't tempt fate next time ;)
I'm the man who keeps this site running.
Don't tempt fate next time ;)
Haha, I expected this. I was watching the Google Analytics real-time report and saw 100-120 online users. I kept checking the site...running fine, so I went to lunch and somehow the HTTP Server died.
Right now clicking on any theme goes back to the front page, or goes to a blank screen.
The full link for the theme is hidden (hovering will show premiumthemes.com/go) in a similar fashion to what Google does to search results link.
Seeing the URL (http://premiumthemes.com/go) in my Google analytics confirm the issues is happening to some users, I'm disabling it right now.
Seeing the URL (http://premiumthemes.com/go) in my Google analytics confirm the issues is happening to some users, I'm disabling it right now.
I built the rollover previews on that site (which has been rebuilt and improved many times since). I can tell you that you are going to have trouble keeping the preview in view when they are as large as the ones that you are using, whilst still making it possibly to see the other icons in the grid. You'll need to flip it left and right, up and down depending on the position of the mouse.
I also think you need to think about what value you are providing. I think a curated site with less themes with proper reviews would be much more useful than just a scrape of the thousands of themes out there. Your own reviews would be original content which might have a slim hope of outranking the actual themes themselves in Google results. Without that, I don't think you will get a lot of traffic.
Good luck.