Building a Showit Template Episode 1: How to Get Started with a Showit Template

Описание: One of the toughest parts of building a website template for Showit is just knowing where to get started. Maybe you've got some design ideas and a color palette in mind, BUT is it a good idea to just dive in?

In this episode, we interview a couple of Showit veterans. First, we talk to Jen Olmstead of https://tonicsiteshop.com. Jen has created some amazing sites for folks like Jenna Kutcher, Amy Porterfield and much more.

She gives us an inside look into Tonic's process for creating some of most used Showit templates.

Then we kick it over to JT Pals, a Showit veteran. JT runs the template store for Showit and has a ton of insight on which templates do well and why.

He walks us through some of the stats on the best-selling templates in the store AS WELL as an inside look on new Showit users and where we might find a gap in the supply/demand curve.

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00:50 Interview with Jen Olmstead of Tonic Site Shop
01:15 The importance of building a template for a specific person
03:30 How to design for one person without excluding everyone else
05:18 How to find details for the persona you're building for
06:20 How to find inspiration for your template
08:53 How to stay in tune with design trends
12:32 Interview with JT
12:40 Which Showit templates do the best in our store
14:09 How to target a specific person but not exclude others
15:00 Writing copy for your template
15:45 WordPress and Showit
16:55 Other ways to make your template stand out
19:38 Trends in Showit users
21:30 Interviews summary
22:06 Wrapping up with James