(Locked) My theme was rejected and I need some feedback

Hello!

I’ll try to be direct here: you’re choosing to go with a ‘less is more’, cut down minimalist approach. This is well and good—minimalism, when done right, is exquisite.

But when you go down this road you’ll need to keep a few things in mind:

1. You’re competing with the hundreds of other minimalist designs on TF. Whether a design is approved is based on how it compares, and looks, to the other submissions here. And as a general rule, it’s much harder to get a design approved now than in the past due to sheer proliferation.

2. You’re also going to have to get by with a limited set of variables. Ergo, you need to make more efficient, more effective use of them to get the same results. As I keep mentioning, white space and typography are pretty much what make a minimalist design and you need more work on these aspects.

3. With a limited number of variables, you should ideally be trying different variations. The blog view and footer, for example, are quite as generic as things can get. I don’t mean this in a bad way. It doesn’t look bad but not something the TF userbase will be swooning over.

Here is the link to the theme .

Can you guys help with some feedback? Thank you!

Hi,

Though it doesn’t look that bad, I think it’s not quite finished.

As a visitor I will be left clueless on what to find other than these portfolio items. When I buy a theme I will expect more than just this one page for example about, contact

When more pages are included I would like to see a navigation bar that takes me to these pages.
I suggest to take a look at some similar portfolio’s. I’ve seen some excellent ones around here and also on other Envato pages for free. Again, I think the look and feel is well done, it’s just not finished. Goodluck!!

bianca20576 said
Hi, Though it doesn’t look that bad, I think it’s not quite finished.

As a visitor I will be left clueless on what to find other than these portfolio items. When I buy a theme I will expect more than just this one page for example about, contact

When more pages are included I would like to see a navigation bar that takes me to these pages.
I suggest to take a look at some similar portfolio’s. I’ve seen some excellent ones around here and also on other Envato pages for free. Again, I think the look and feel is well done, it’s just not finished. Goodluck!!

Thank you

Where’s the menu? Your theme has a good start, but when you take a better look at it, you realize that it has missing a lot of elements..

Yeah, a little too minimalist in features. And the content looks unaligned, depending on screen size.

Hmm, I don’t see your name in the about page of ElevenThemes.

If you know what I mean.

OFF : that’s the most detailed reviewer answer I’ve seen in a while. Wonder who it was.

yup gotta agree with @digitalimpact – you can’t just grab someone else’s work and change colors…. good grief.

digitalimpact said
Hmm, I don’t see your name in the about page of ElevenThemes.

If you know what I mean.

OFF : that’s the most detailed reviewer answer I’ve seen in a while. Wonder who it was.

wow thats ridiculous . I’m quite speechless…

Outch! I feel a little silly now!
Honestly, what were you thinking StefanSinca? This is SO wrong!

What did motivate you to copy 99.99% of Gridly but put your copyright and name under?