hello,
thank you for the thank you 
I’m glad it’s helpful …
–iM
hello,
thank you for the thank you I’m glad it’s helpful …
–iM
helloooo,
We are waaaaay over [size=“5”]20.000 downloads[/size] and I uploaded 4 mobile themes so now [size=“5”]we have 100 themes[/size]
thanks again for using Yii Themes!!!
–iM
Nice! I like the mobile themes. I’ve never attempted one. I’ll have to take a look.
yes, I think mobile themes are coming up and we didn’t have any we’ll see
–iM
Nice! I came across this one last night. I’ve already downloaded it for my son.
Nice website. I wish I had known about it when I started writing my website. Oh well… next project…
Hi Imre,
I would like to ask you how you go about promoting your website. I have a new website and pretty much 0 traffic at the moment. Since you have a very successful website I would be interested in knowing how you went about promoting it and building up your website traffic.
Thanks,
Vangelis
Vangelis,
I didn’t do anything special. As you can see the site doesn’t even has its own domain name, it’s just a sub-domain of mine. I guess I picked the right subject, but it was definitely not an overnight success. It’s been up for almost 2 years and in the first couple of months I barely had any visitors.
That’s when I hired somebody to create 50 themes for the site. Very simple designs, based on the built-in Yii theme and uploaded about 5-10 a month. At this point I saw an overall monthly growth and I realized ppl would come back if I have more themes, so I started making a couple of them “higher” quality based on WordPress or something else. Soon these took over and now they are the most downloaded and viewed themes. I luckily also had some other designers uploading their themes, which was the original goal of the site (thanks for that
Of course I’m also running the Yii Radiio podcast, which is the only podcast for the framework and I was constantly linking back from that site.
That’s pretty much it. I didn’t pay attention to special SEO tricks or anything like that. I probably should have
I hope this helps,
–iM
Thanks for the information Imre. Very helpful indeed. I’m only in my second month so I should be patient and build up the traffic slowly I guess. It’s just a matter of letting more and more people know about it in the relevant forums etc. I like the podcast idea too.
Vangelis,
yes, and if you can get some other sites to link back to your page, that helps a lot too (i think)
–iM
nvm posted in active forum.
Preacher,
I’ll answer you here, so it might help others too …
I just simply turned those WP themes so it would display normally with Yii around it, I didn’t overwrite the basic widget themes (ie: CGridWidget etc). These mobile themes are static, meaning that they don’t respond depending on your screen size.
I would probably strip the default Yii themes from the widget and use something like this:
http://www.yiiframework.com/doc/guide/1.1/en/topics.theming#theming-widgets
I’m currently looking into responsive design to see if a theme could be used for mobile devices AND regular browsers …
I hope this helps …
–iM
how to set the theme in the main.php config file?
hello,
in your main.php configuration file.
you can read more about themeing here: http://www.yiiframework.com/doc/guide/1.1/en/topics.theming#creating-a-theme
i hope it helps!
–iM
imehesz : Thanks for this site and for contributing. I am a newbie with Yii since 2 days and am currently looking on how to build my theme.
sir, can you give us a tutorial how to install the themes into yii.
hello,
I uploaded the rest of the mobile themes, so now you also have:
Black-Green: http://yiithemes.mehesz.net/theme/105/mobile-black-green
White-Green: http://yiithemes.mehesz.net/theme/104/mobile-white-green
Black-Orange: http://yiithemes.mehesz.net/theme/103/mobile-black-orange
White-Orange: http://yiithemes.mehesz.net/theme/102/mobile-white-orange
enjoy
–iM
Hello,
Thanks Dennis for this cool theme: RHEA
–iM
