eadameg wrote:Worth asking...
My to cents:
One has to separate theme (design and distribution of controls/objects) and features. Features should be discussed separately.
Designs can vary very much in complexity, so it may be difficult to set a standar price for ANY design. For instance one design could be simmilar to the standar NOP themes with just a change of colours, fonts, images and logo. Such a design could be implemented in an hour whereas ther could be other that could take days to develope
While I completely agree with you...
If we could perhaps have some examples of designs from the community and reach a sort of common price point we may be able to play a numbers game essentially with a fixed price.
Of course we'd detail the layout & feature change limitations etc associated with such a fixed price.
We were already considering creating a fixed priced theme store for NOPCommerce anyhow but since this discussion came up I thought it worthwhile to chime in.
Probably see a 3 price points to cover most common requests -
1. Basic logo, colour and image changes. This would cover the small customisations and make each store a unique design. i.e.
https://www.nopcommerce.com/boards/t/10525/is-anybody-interested-in-a-new-theme.aspx2. Header, Footer, background and side columns design with logo, colours and image adjustments (no feature adjustments). This would cover the medium customisations and create excellent branding and a truly unique design.
3. Full blown customisation perhaps leveraging or developing similar to the lastest fashion theme by Just4Design. This would cover mid-large customisations, very unique designs and a great deal of layout repositioning with minimal feature changes. i.e.
https://www.nopcommerce.com/boards/t/9887/premium-fashion-theme-with-additional-features-released.aspxOf course there are always price on application projects that don't fit such commoditisation of NOPCommerce sites/themes but we're talking about covering the larger percentage of small to medium customisations.
For feature requests those would simply be a fixed price per application request.
Anyone else think this has merit to commodotise the themes and pricing structures accordingly?