Well, one problem is that you never really get it implemented in an hour. If I buy this, then I have to go through this massive design, figure out how they're doing things and figure out how it fits in my coded implementation and then go through an actually wire up all the code that I already have in place to actually make these templates work.
I'm really just trading one week of development time for one week of implementation time. Will the end product look prettier? For some people, sure. But for others, it's a massive leap of faith. And since I have no free entry point to wire things up with without first dropping the cash (in Euros, what is that in real money? ;) ), it's a huge barrier to entry.
I was about to go and grab this for a project I'm working on. The interface is clean and nice and I really like it. But since I can't evaluate it with my actual production codebase, it's a nonstarter. In a world with millions of free templates (of varying quality), one paid template is a big deal.
But you are right. I'll drop thousands of dollars on things that WILL make me slightly more productive as a developer. But I won't drop $20 on something that MIGHT potentially make me more productive.
The steps to create a new page would be: 1) grab the "boilerplate template page" 2) start doing your own stuff 3) check out examples in other templates. (5 minutes?)
Plus: all extra JS and CSS are in their place...so you won't take more than 5 minutes to understand where to look at. All the rest is simple custom code (HTML,JS or CSS)...but it's pretty straight forward.
What i'm saying is...i am a developer and i really think it's much more "developer friendly" than all the other templates (10-12) i've been using before creating HTML5 Admin.
JFYI: Even creating your external inclusions of the "top menu" and "right menu" with eg. top-nav.php and left-nav.php won't take you more than 10 minutes.
Apart from that...i invite anybody that criticize the price to build an Administration Template.
Once everything's done (and well commented and well organize) prepare the scripts for distribution, define licenses, prepare the commercial website for selling it, etc. and just then........let me know how long, all that, took and how much is their price :)
I'm really just trading one week of development time for one week of implementation time. Will the end product look prettier? For some people, sure. But for others, it's a massive leap of faith. And since I have no free entry point to wire things up with without first dropping the cash (in Euros, what is that in real money? ;) ), it's a huge barrier to entry.
I was about to go and grab this for a project I'm working on. The interface is clean and nice and I really like it. But since I can't evaluate it with my actual production codebase, it's a nonstarter. In a world with millions of free templates (of varying quality), one paid template is a big deal.
But you are right. I'll drop thousands of dollars on things that WILL make me slightly more productive as a developer. But I won't drop $20 on something that MIGHT potentially make me more productive.