Making money by selling themes and templates
There are hundreds of excellent open source programmers that are used by millions of people. If you have good color sense and an eye for design, you can learn how to create themes in a matter of a few weeks, create designs and sell them online.
Drupal (http://www.drupal.org): From May 2006 to April 2007, Drupal was downloaded from the Drupal.org website more than 600000 times. The number of templates available is 100 and there are just a dozen good templates. Creating templates for Drupal is a bit difficult. But if u can design a good one, you will find it easy to sell even at a premium price.
Joomla (http://www.joomla.org): Number of users surpass Drupal users by three times as this content management system is easy to use. Because of its popularity you will have to complete with many highly skilled designers such as joomlart.com, rockethemes.com, yootheme.com and joomlashack.com.
Website Baker (http://websitebaker.org): It is a very easy to use content management system. It is slowly gaining popularity.
PostNuke (http://postnuke.org): PostNuke is the themeable using several theme engines such as Xanthia and AutoTheme as well as PostNuke’s native theming system.
PhpNuke: (http://phpnuke.org) Even though it was a free open source programme, now it has become a commercial open source programme. Dragonfly CMS, Nuke-Evoluation, OpenPhpNuke, PhpWebsite, PostNuke, Xoops and Xaraya are the forks of PhpNuke. You can think of creating themes for phpnuke and recycle them for the forks.
Simple Machines Forum (http://simplemachines.org): A very popular forum software also known as discussion board software. Despite its popularity, it does not have many usable bewitching templates.
PhpBB (http://phpbb.org): Another popular forum software. Even though many templates are available for it, you will find many customers for its templates.
Vbulletin (http://vbulletin.com) and Invision Power Board (http://invisionboard.com) are popular commercial products in forum category and you can easily find customers for templates for these products. Hundreds of developers create add-on products for vbulletin and Invision Power Board. Creating templates for these add-ons is also a good idea.
By creating templates for Open Source Programmes, you may not become a millionaire but certainly you can make a living working online from home.
