Reusable website templates and CMS themes for Envato @ Envato (independent author)

Candidate: Tony Miasoedov, Senior Software Engineer
Company: Envato (independent author)
Period: 2013-01 — 2015-01
Role: Web Developer
Team: 2 people — development (me) and design (my wife)
Main result: Built and sold reusable HTML templates and WordPress and Drupal themes on Envato marketplaces; 150+ positive buyer reviews.

Context

After gaining broad experience with websites and popular CMSs as a freelancer on FL.ru, I decided to focus on building reusable templates for Envato.

We built the front end in HTML, CSS and JavaScript, and turned the templates into ready-made themes for WordPress and Drupal.

Built reusable templates. This is very different from building a single site: templates must be universal, easy to customize and compatible with many plugins.
Worked on the cutting edge while building these themes:
- Was among the first to adopt WebP to optimize images and speed up page loads.
- Used SVG graphics and wrote my own JavaScript that recolored them to match the site's color theme.

150+ reviews with positive ratings confirm the quality and popularity of the templates.
The templates are now archived, because I no longer update them for new versions of CMSs and web technologies. Those still visible: GraphicRiver portfolio.

Reusable templates: Built universal, easy-to-customize website templates compatible with a wide range of plugins, for sale to many buyers.
WordPress: Built ready-made WordPress themes on top of our HTML templates.
Drupal: Built ready-made Drupal themes on top of our HTML templates.
PHP: Wrote the PHP code of WordPress and Drupal themes.
MySQL: Built themes for MySQL-backed CMSs (WordPress and Drupal).
HTML: Hand-coded the markup of reusable website templates.
CSS: Styled reusable templates so buyers could customize them easily.
JavaScript: Wrote a script that recolors SVG graphics to match the site's color theme.
SVG: Used SVG graphics in templates and recolored them with JavaScript to match the site's color theme.
WebP: Was among the first to use WebP in templates to optimize images and speed up page loads.
Early adopter: Was among the first to ship WebP images and theme-aware SVG graphics in commercial templates.