Posts by freshface

aldrinlsc said
That cup…

Indeed, it’s a magical cup. I marched into the bakery to buy some bread this morning and the lady behind a counter gave me a compliment about me how handsome my cup is

How about this one? I know you said you don’t want sliders but maybe you will like it anyway.

contempoinc said
Really think you guys should share the information with us authors, whats the point of you guys just keeping it to yourself? Customization should absolutely be taken out of the canned answers.

I thought that the customization answer is a trap on purpose to see how many people actually have “issues” with it.

Pixelworkshop said
I went ahead and rated an item I bought. Now in the primary reason list, I can see : “support from the author” and “customization help from the author”.

Aren’t support and customizations 100% optionnal ?

So the way this form is constructed, I think that whatever the user selects from that list of primary reasons must be what he or she dislikes the most about that item when rating 4 or lower. And when rating 5, then it’s what they like the most about that item. Is that correct?

It’s a little weird I think..

Given the example above, what if the item is overall a 3 star item to me but I rate it with 4 stars because I really liked the Support so I have selected it to be a primary reason because otherwise it would be 3 stars only.

Is primary reason a negative or positive?

Hope you can understand the point I wanted to make But maybe I am just not getting something or over-thinking it.

MSFX said
what about a bundle of bundles?

QUICK, TO THE BUNDLEMOBILE !

The Unarchiver is available for free directly on the Mac App Store:

It’s really awesome, I have it set up so that you just double click the archive and it creates a folder with the same name, extracts the contents there and then automatically moves the archive into Trash. I forgot all about WinZip after this app. It sits in the background too, no clutter anywhere.

revaxarts said
^ oh really? never heard about that. But in my case I don’t need it cause it hasn’t been released (yet)

We once gave away one license in an online contest and everything went just like @aleluja said except we did not receive any special license – but this was years ago. And yes, I am talking about an already approved item so it’s hardly relevant to your case like you said.

So the real question is if Envato will accept an exclusive item that has already been distributed elsewhere. I think it depends on the type of distribution, if you gave away a few copies to your friends or if you shared it on torrents, there is a big difference. Then there is the question if that distribution is still ongoing when you submit that item for review. There is too many nuances to find a clear answer around here – unless any sharing whatsoever is prohibited. So I think you need to ask support and explain your case in detail.

I would also suggest adding something like this directly to your theme:

and make it link to an online hosted documentation.

aleluja said

freshface said

aleluja said
...Learn what microlancer is…

According to that banner, I just learned “web design from $20” ... Now that must be quite confusing for web beginners imo. It’s also, at least, puzzling for those who don’t know what microlancer is

True that. But again, most of them offer a customization work. So, guy offernig the work buys the theme/template from tf (or elsewhere) and customize it. He gets low money for eazy stuff, we get money from sales and customer get customized website so he doesn’t have to bother with it. It’s a win-win situation – that’s the original idea behind microlancer (or at least was)

It’s the context and message that bothers me. It got a top banner position, pastel colors, oversimplified confusing information, sense of a (cheaper) competition and all that.

What would make more sense would be something like Envato did to the Dreamhost ads. Not only it could be placed in the Downloads section, but it could also be placed on an item page sidebar and simply say “need a customization?” “find a freelancer on microlancer” or something like that. With the author being able to turn that ad off from his portfolio if he already offers customizations. This could make more sense to visitors, have better conversion, ability to opt-out for authors so it would not compete with the author’s work (you can buy icons here and on microlancer for example) and would be less aggressive if the banner is low profile.

But hey, if Envato releases a brand new and cool site and wants to spread the word more aggressively, let them have it – I just hope it won’t stay there long. A few days sounds about right in my opinion, as a celebration