Free Templates

Want to know how to sell your website templates online? At first I was intimidated and confused on where to begin. Also I’ve been having some doubts on selling web design templates because I didn’t have any formal background on design.

First, if you want something done, then you should just do it! Doubts are normal but don’t let them paralyze you. Let’s take a look at the 4 easy steps on how to sell your website templates.

Follow Design Tutorials

You don’t really need to have a formal background on design but you definitely need to learn at least the basics or else nobody would buy your design. I followed every Photoshop tutorial on how to design website layouts and read a lot of design theory. At first it was really tough but I just finished one tutorial at a time and learned how to use Photoshop. I also analyzed why some layouts are more attractive than others.

Start Designing

After you feel comfortable with the tutorials, it’s time to start designing your first template. I don’t know about you but I’m really a sucker for corporate styled websites. A lot of people including myself sometimes find it hard to stare at a blank screen, so I would suggest that you sketch out your design before firing up your graphics design program.

Convert Design into HTML

Once your design is finished, it’s time to slice your design and convert it into HTML and CSS. Use CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) in your website’s layout and never ever use table tags for them. Test your design in all of the major browsers to spot and fix layout issues.

Sell Your Template

I auctioned my first website template over at Sitepoint’s Marketplace. They have a section where you can auction your website template for a small fee of $5. Browse around the marketplace so you can get a feel of how much they charge for a unique design. I sold my first template for $150 with 10-12 hours of work. You can also look at other marketplaces to submit your design.

Tags: Html Design, Marketplace, Web Design Templates

Read Users' Comments (0)

It was once believed that gold nuggets were sheds from gold containing reefs as they were thought to have been released through erosion. This belief tended to support the idea that gold could also form at depth. Although it is possible for some nuggets to be released from particularly rich eroding reefs, most nuggets are believed to have formed otherwise.

Gold nuggets are formed very near the surface as gold precipitated from solutions from chemical weathering from deeply diffused gold deposits. Even nuggets found at depth are now thought to have originated from their place of formation near the surface. As such, it must be assumed that almost all nuggets of a noticeable size, resting on the surface, would have already been found and that many just under the surface would have been detected. Nuggets that still remain to be found represent a strictly limited and considered a diminishing resource.

So far, China and Australia have high official reports of natural gold. Reports of large nugget finds have been officially recorded but information for nugget finds are limited.

The metal detecting community has added to the confusion and has caused problems. These can be based on the huge number of stories, unfounded rumors and legends that has promulgated all these years. Official reports and activity reports are mixed and to add to the problem, people who have found these nuggets are selling them secretly several transactions never went through official dealerships.

Due to the stories that fuel and burn all these years, many treasure hunters manage to find the time in search for treasure full time and has ventured into medium to large scale search into the forests around the world. Many of these treasure hunters who find nuggets as a hobby tend to hold on to their hardfound treasures until necessary.

Reports in the 90′s has propagated that almost all nuggets found has been melted down. During the olden times all gold would have been fashioned into artifacts. During the time of the gold rushes, nuggets did not have any value other than in respect of their gold content. Nuggets were melted and assayed to determine their gold value so that payment could be obtained for provisions, further investment or simply to squander. It is true that possession of gold, other than jewelry or official coinage has been illegal in some countries. The Great Depression and the gold price hike of 1980 saw some nuggets held by state governments, museums and private collectors being melted for cash. Only recently has appreciation of geological rarity, natural uniqueness and nostalgia replaced the greed and fear that determined the fate of nuggets in the past.

The distribution pattern for gold nuggets has vary all these years. It is rare for treasure hunters to find that virgin patch today. Gold nuggets smaller than 2 grams do become harder to find with a metal detector, but that is not the real reason. The real reason is that, nuggets much smaller than 2 grams are more prone to redissolving, and are simply not around to be found in the geological environments that support nugget formation. Equally fine particles that can be panned are frequently absent, and even the results of soil surveys seldom reveal gold enrichment very much above background gold levels. This is not accidental, but an intrinsic part of the nugget formation process whereby smaller particles are remobilized into larger ones. Approximately half the gold in the soil on a nugget patch will be as nuggets above 2 grams in weight.

Tags: Forests, Gold Metal, Scale Search

Read Users' Comments (0)

Before you create your own blog, you must take into consideration some parameters. You must ask yourself whether you enjoy writing for starters best blog hosting reviews . If not, what’s the point? What is the message you wish to transmit? Other parameters are whether your communication skills are in a good level, whether you want to be the main speaker in the blog, or you just want conversation to strike up, when you should prefer a forum. You have to be disciplined and motivated-initiative to start a blog, they don’t run themselves you know. You also must have spare time to do this and the ability to take criticism not very heavily. Since you put your opinions in public view.
As a personality now it’s better, in terms of successfulness and traffic in your blog, to have a big sense of humor, humility and be able to laugh at yourself also, having a healthy ego that is. These guys , the humble bloggers are usually the most visited and respected. Consistency is an important thing, sticking to your way of approaching the subject and topics, along with not changing the topic of discussion too often, or not at all, because readers tend to be loyal to a blog, and like things to come as they expect. Think of it like a singer changing the genre of what he sings, his fans would abandon him, as they are impatient and just not keen to changes. People are creatures of habits. So what you also have to be is honest and transparent, cause eventually you will be found out.

Read Users' Comments (0)