10 Upwork Projects to Earn Your First $1000 Online Today

If you are planning to make big money on Upwork don’t ignore the best opportunity for optimizing your workflow – using ready-made website templates designed by professionals. With their help you can significantly decrease the time spent on a project. As a result, you will be able to accomplish more projects and earn more money over the same time period.

We have prepared for you another showcase of Upwork project examples showing how TemplateMonster themes can help you use your time and effort more effectively. In case you have missed the previous roundup, don’t hesitate to follow this link and have a look at it first.


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As for now, check out the coolest Upwork web design projects done easily:

How you can save $425 on a personal business website for a lawyer

What is this project about?

A website for the client’s law practice is required. It will probably need a well-optimized homepage, a bunch of specific, easily customizable pages such as Contact Me and Services, integrated forms, Google Maps and social sharing buttons. Oh, and let’s not forget about great design.

Estimated budget: $500


What would a professional designer do?

He would use Lawyer skin of Monstroid 2

This theme is one of the unique skins with which Monstroid 2 comes shipped. Fully responsive, image-rich and professional looking, it's an ideal choice for any lawyer that wants to boost his online presence. It is jam-packed with customization options, and is fully compatible with the GPL 3.0 license. This theme can be used successfully whether by individuals, or by large law firms.

You save: $425


How you can save $610 on a fashion eCommerce store

What is this project about?

The client looks to build a contemporary looking online store for selling clothes. He wants it to be similar to VANS, Zazzle, and other industry leaders. The store needs to have a powerful presentation capability, being able to display products in different color variations, and also provide a 360-degree view.

Estimated budget: $750


What would a professional designer do?

He would use ShirtHero - T-shirt PrestaShop Theme

ShirtHero is a minimalist, cutting-edge Prestashop theme for modern online fashion and accessory stores. Its design is characterized by uppercase fonts, large preview images and creative visual details. This theme comes with a broad choice of premium modules: Mega Menu, Social Feed, Media Parallax, and many others. The layout can easily be modified by means of the in-built customizer.

You save: $610


How you can save $885 on a furniture store based on WooCommerce

What is this project about?

Required is a clean, multifunctional online store for selling furniture. This website needs to cater to customers of U.A.E, which means that it has to support multiple languages and RTL scripts.

Estimated budget: $1000


What would a professional designer do?

He would use Timberline - Furniture Store WooCommerce Theme

This clean and sleek WooCommerce theme with a colorful design is a perfect setting for an online store that sells furniture. It features a large top slider that allows you to display your best offers in the most viewed area of the layout; integration with Instagram and other social networks, preinstalled feedback and newsletter subscription forms, and more. Timberline also supports multiple languages and currencies.

You save: $885


How you can save $360 on an online store selling sunglasses

What is this project about?

The client needs an online retail store selling sunglasses based on WooCommerce or Shopify. Logo, brand identity and photography are already prepared, but he needs assistance with setting up the shop.

Estimated budget: $500


What would a professional designer do?

He would use Shine Shopify Theme

Shine is a revolutionary Shopify theme with a distinctive creative touch to it. It has a colorful design based on abstract geometric shapes, being suitable for a broad range of online stores. This theme is supplied with category badges, hover animations and a live chat module, which will provide your visitors with unmatched user experience.

You save: $360


How you can save $425 on a website for a hair restoration company

What is this project about?

The client needs a business website for his hair restoration company. The site must contain at least five pages and have great lead generation ability. It should also appeal to emotion to attract the target audience.

Estimated budget: $500


What would a professional designer do?

He would use Durand - Beauty & Hair Salon WordPress Theme

Durand is a robust choice for hair and beauty salons, but it can also be applied easily to a website of a hair restoration clinic. It boasts a large choice of blog layouts and ready-made preset pages, multiple sidebar variations and several post formats. Designed using calm pastel colors and modern condensed fonts, it inspires confidence and trust.

You save: $425


How you can save $360 on a Shopify store selling men's goods

What is this project about?

The original website is a Shopify store selling various shaving products for men: oils, creams, razors, etc. Its owner wants to redesign it completely to add a modern vibe and increase the conversion rates.

Estimated budget: $500


What would a professional designer do?

He would use Zhigan Shopify Theme

Zhigan is a classy responsive Shopify theme designed specifically for online stores selling men’s clothes. Doubtlessly, it can be repurposed and used as a design platform for this Upwork project. The theme is designed using a dark color palette with posh looking “brass” details, transparent ghost buttons and an extravagant menu. 4 color schemes are available out of the box, so you can easily adapt it to the style of your brand.

You save: $360


How you can save $1425 on a real estate portal

What is this project about?

A real estate company needs a new, powerful website with design as its most important aspect. The portal should be integrated with IDX listings, be dynamic and easily modifiable. The client allows the use of a ready-made theme, making the task extremely easy.

Estimated budget: $1500


What would a professional designer do?

He would use CozyHouse - Real Estate Premium WordPress Theme

CozyHouse is a comprehensive multipurpose WordPress theme for real estate agencies. With its help you will be able to establish a full-featured real estate portal at no additional cost. It comes with IDX support, Cherry Real Estate and Cherry Projects plugins, multifunctional Google Maps and numerous custom widgets. CozyHouse is supplied with intuitive Power Page Builder, and is fully GPL-compatible.

You save: $1425


How you can save $425 on a WordPress website for a manufacturing company

What is this project about?

The client needs a professional looking corporate website for a manufacturing company (the industry has not been specified). Since we don’t know the exact topic of the website, let’s take a multipurpose industrial template and turn it into a sustainable corporate portfolio.

Estimated budget: $500


What would a professional designer do?

He would use Mechanna - Locksmith WordPress Theme

With this industrial WordPress theme, you will be able to build a breathtaking business website in no time. Its outstanding design is based on bright colors and stunning duotone images, which make your website stand out in a crowd. The rich functionality of this theme allows you to modify its layout, color schemes, widgets, and much more.

You save: $425


How you can save $525 on a WordPress website for a plastic surgery clinic

What is this project about?

The customer wants to build a WordPress-based website for his plastic surgery clinic. The website should be integrated with social networks, be fully responsive and mobile-friendly.

Estimated budget: $600


What would a professional designer do?

He would use Pristine - Plastic Surgery WordPress Theme

Pristine is a lightweight WordPress theme with a fresh look and powerful functionality under the hood. Its design features pleasing to the eye, “natural” colors, subtle shadows and large borderless images. When building a website with this theme you can choose from several blog layouts (including grid and masonry), footer and header styles, and sidebar positions. A website owner will have access to a large selection of post types.

You save: $525


How you can save $235 on a simple landing page

What is this project about?

The client needs a need a simple, but professional design and clean landing page for the car loan business. Here, a special requirement is a complex feedback form featuring such fields as “Car make,” “Car Model,” “Year” and “Mileage.”

Estimated budget: $250


What would a professional designer do?

He would use Car Repair Responsive Landing Page Template

For just $14, you will receive a perfectly optimized responsive landing page with a straightforward, industry centric design. The feedback form is situated in the above-the-fold area of the layout and includes all the fields required by the client. The template is fully responsive and visually attractive.

You save: $235


Wrapping Up

As you can see, with premium templates you can save up to $1500 worth of your time, which is a lot even for highest-paid designers. And time is a non-renewable and perhaps, the most valuable resource in our lives, so, in fact, you save even more. Check out our gallery of templates, and start your successful web design business today!


Jeremy Blackwood

Coffee addict, social media junkie, data miner contributing technical articles and informative pieces to MonsterPost. Reach him on Medium.

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