Sorry, but voting in the poll has been closed. You can still vote, but it’s in the forum now. If you voted in the poll, you will need to vote again. Please note that this was never an official Envato competition so please direct any comments or questions to FlashJunkie.
The time has finally come to vote on your favorite wallpaper from the competition! There are a ton of great submissions! Congrats to everyone who participated. Don’t forget, the prize is up to $400! Polling closes in just one week, so make sure you vote before Friday the 26th at midnight.
Congratulations go out to FlashDen author VectorFlower who is the first author across the entire envato marketplaces to sell 2,000 copies of the same, single file. The 2,000th file was sold within the past hour.
To anyone doubting whether any regular income can be made selling stock files, VectorFlower has accrued somewhere in the region of $15,000 from one file alone. The other frightening statistic here is that the file has only been available for sale for 7 months!
Well done VectorFlower for being the first to achieve an amazing milestone!
No, the $3500 create-a-collection competition isn’t over yet; we’re just showing off some of the submissions from FlashDen. Which one is your favorite so far?
If your collection isn’t in this list, you’d better remedy that! Anyone can participate and win, not just authors. Click here for more details.
We’ve gotten some feedback that there’s been some confusion about the web services licence, so here’s the scoop:
The licence is only available for ThemeForest files and FlashDen site templates.
The licence is for buyers who wish to buy a site template for use on a web service such as a blog platform.
So for example if Blogger.com wanted to use a ThemeForest theme on their service so that anybody who created a Blogger.com account could have that theme applied to their blog, then they would buy the Web Services Licence. Similarly if a customer wanted to create a site that lets their customers create a hosted online portfolio and wanted a Flash template for customers to use, then they would need a Web Services Licence.
Because of the nature of the usage the price point is much higher (50 times the normal price).
As you probably know already, you are free to opt out of this licence at any time, and every file is listed as available under that licence unless otherwise specified by the author.
If you have any queries about this new licence, please direct them to support who will be happy to help.
A few weeks ago we ran a huge Flex upload competition. We offered $50 for the first file uploaded in each category and $200 to the best overall Flex file. I’m pleased to announce that not only did every single category receive at least one submission, but there are now 35 Flex files!
The competition for the the $200 prize was close, but the winner is NathanR with Flex Spectrum.
Below are the $50 winners for each category. Congrats everyone!
This competition is now CLOSED. Unfortunately, there were a few entries that were blocked by the spam filter. Don’t worry, those entries will still be judged. We’ll let you know as soon as we’ve opened voting. Good luck everyone!
Today Envato is very excited to bring you our BIGGEST competition yet! This is an awesome chance to win $3500 in cold, hard cash to spend on the ultimate creative set-up. You’ll also win up to 30 of your favourite Envato Marketplace files and a year of Tuts+ membership. And best of all it’s dead easy to enter, read on to find out how.
The second stage of planned major search improvements is live. Right now this will only impact authors, but in the future this will help everyone search for files quickly and easily.
From now on when authors upload a file they will need to fill in a series of tags that pertain to their file. The tags have been divided up into categories to help authors pick useful tags.
During the reviewing process, reviewers may edit tags slightly so that wording remains consistent wherever possible (eg. entered tags of “puppy”, “doggy” and “hound” might be edited to consistently be “dogs”). This will make tagging more useful for search.
Please note that if your file tagging is incorrect or missing but otherwise the file is appropriate for sale, you file will still be approved. Reviewers will add or alter tags as they see fit during the review process, and you are free to update your file and refine your tags at a later date.
For now tags will only be visible on the upload and update pages. In the next stage tags will then be used in search and to navigate groups of files, which will be a massive improvement!
In order to add tags to existing files, authors will need to update their files, only filling in the Tagging fields. In order to assist reviewers in getting through any tagging updates quickly, please put “Tagging Update Only” in the reviewer notes wherever possible. This is not essential, but will definitely be helpful to the review team!
We expect a big jump in updates as authors will be adding tags to their existing files, so we ask for your patience if the queue gets temporarily longer. There will be at least a month before tagging will be used in search, so there is no need to update all existing files immediately.
If you have any troubles or questions about this new feature, please let support know, and stay tuned for stage three, where search will be supercharged with tagging!
WebDU is the premier Antipodean Web Technology Conference, taking place 21-22 May 2009 in Sydney, Australia. This is the seventh year the conference will be held.
WebDU encompasses a large spectrum of web technologies and will bring you the best of web technologies, ideas, and what the future holds, not to mention a bevvy of top-class international and Australian speakers.
The conference offers the opportunity to get hands-on technical training, gain new skills, hear breaking news from the web industry, network with peers and industry leaders, and ultimately become more successful developing and delivering web applications. Nowhere else in ANZ can this audience find the volume and quality of information under one roof at webDU.
When: May 21st - 22nd Where: StarCity Convention Centre in Sydney, Australia More Info: The video should explain it all, but if it doesn’t, visit their website.
The Video
The Competition
We’re giving away two tickets to this year’s WebDU conference. The competition is pretty simple; All I want is to know what speaker you’re most excited to see and why you think you should win. Just post the following in the comments below: Your author name, the name of the speaker you’re most excited to see, and up to 25 words explaining why you want and deserve the tickets. Please also specify whether you can actually make it or not.
Example:
YourUserName Mike Jones
I think you should pick me because I’m Australiaphobic and I need to conquer my fears. I also want to learn stuff.
Yes, I will actually be able to go.
Prizes
First Prize - The best answer (according to me) will win the competition badge and a WebDU ticket.
Second Prize - The second-best answer won’t get a badge, but will win the other WebDU ticket.
The Deadline
May 13th at 10pm US Mountain time.
Sorry the deadline is short, but we wanted to give the winners ample time to work out travel and hotel accommodations.
Blog post comments need to be approved before they show up below. Your comment just needs to have been submitted, not necessarily approved to be eligible.
May I Enter More Than Once?
No, please only post once.
Now the technical stuff
FlashDen staff will choose the winners and our decision is final.
Entry is open to all who are NOT Envato employees.
The prize covers the ticket only and does not include travel expenses, accommodation etc.
Entries close May 13th at 10pm US Mountain time.
Should the winner not respond to email notification withing two working days, they will forfeit their prize and it will be offered to the next best entry.
If you have any questions, contact me (LanceSnider) through my profile.
There’s just so much great content on the Envato Marketplaces these days, closing on 20,000 different items. All those items means there’s many, many different uses for them. So we’ve been working to create ways for buyers to purchase different types of licenses for use. Having multiple licensing options means buyers can get exactly what they need, and for authors it means greater potential earnings!
To begin with we’re adding a new multiple use license that means you pay less to get more usage out of an item. Here’s how it works:
1) Buy a Standard Single Use License.
This is the same license as the old default license, to be used when you wish to purchase a file to use on a single project.
2) Buy a 10 Project License for just 3 x the cost of a Single Use License.
A 10 project license means you can use the same file over and over - up to ten times - without having to buy it again and again.
For more information on what each of these license types entails, please visit this page. If you have any queries or concerns at all, please contact support who will be happy to assist you.
Stay tuned for more useful license types in the future.
As you probably already know, FlashDen is just started accepting Flex files into the library. Now we’re going to run a competition giving a total of $850 to authors who upload Flex files!
The competition
Within the Flex category we have 13 subcategories. We’re going to give $50 to the author of the first file accepted in each subcategory.
In addition to the 13 $50 prizes we’re also going to give away $200 for the file we (LanceSnider and the reviewers) think is the best. Read More …
