Posts by danharper

Style the list items with:

display: inline;
list-style: none;

And put in your original styling.

You need to design better. Seller page design isn’t so important for me. Because, I sell about 300 items with $2000 in a month generally.

Of course the quality of your items make them sell, but if ThemeForest/FlashDen etc. had an ugly design, or the design wasn’t very intuitive, people would just move on without looking at the items for sale.

Nice work

I created my own similar function a few weeks ago for a WordPress back-end framework I plan on releasing shortly.

You call it inside the loop with post_image(120, 150); (120 being a width, 150 being height).

The function will first check for an image link provided in a custom field named “image”, if it finds one, it uses that.

If it doesn’t find an image in the custom field, it will retrieve the first attached image from the post – UNLESS the current page is a single post page, at which point nothing will be displayed (you don’t want duplicate images in a post, after all).

Then, if the image it has recieved is on the same server as WordPress, the image will be processed by TimThumb and spat back out.
If it is a remote image, TimThumb is bypassed (since it can’t process remote images), and the image is resized using HTML .

Finally, if you don’t want a post image to display at all, you can set the “image” custom field to “none” and nothing will be displayed

Heres the post image code

P.S. Don’t mean to step on anyone’s toes, your code is great

Because it looks a lot better and as Jonathan said, search engines prefer you to use one or the other (or risk getting your site indexed twice).

www. is a remnant of the internet which in a web browser, shouldn’t be needed. Personally, it annoys me when a company advertises their website with the ‘www.’ – even more so on TV/Radio adverts.

What’s even more annoying are the websites which strictly use the ‘www.’ part of the domain (eg. using http://www.example.com) and don’t set up redirections – so anyone going to http://example.com will see a blank page.

I’d bet that the vast majority of authors here just use some form of text editor – not necessarily Notepad, because it offers no syntax highlighting or anything to make the code easier to read.

Personally, I’m on a Mac and use TextMate. Even if you’re on Windows, take a look at some screenshots of it to see the sort of apps we use – it’s just a plain-looking text editor, with syntax highlighting and some macros to speed-up regularly used code.

A lot of text editors also provide code suggestion when writing CSS etc.

Just hit the ‘Code’ tab in Dreamweaver, that’s basically what we use. And then tabbing into Firefox and use ‘Firebug’ (a Firefox extension) to debug code.

But it’s nice to hear the thoughts of one of the top buyers here

The problem is essentially with Dreamweaver. Its WYSIWYG view is absolutely terrible in most versions, understands next to no web standards and is built on a terrible rendering engine.
However, I believe CS4 is now built on the Webkit (Safari/Chrome) engine, and so understands it better?

Either way, templates here are coded to the latest web standards (no tables), and so the ones which do appear nicely in older versions of Dreamweaver is purely by chance.

Since you make a living from this, learn the standards of the industry you’re working in. Take a bit of time each day to get up to speed on modern HTML and CSS practices – you seem to have experience anyway, so it shouldn’t take long to adapt.

Unfortunately, I can’t see this helping very much.

• Visitors will have to install a plugin for it to work. I don’t know about you, but if I visit a site and it asks me to install a plugin for just this site to use, I’ll more often than not leave. (there’s no way this will become common enough for the average user to visit more than one site telling them to install the plugin).

• Most IE6 users are using it because their workplace/school won’t upgrade to something else – I’m assuming their same policy would apply to installing browser extensions.

• The others, are largely not smart enough to install a new browser. They won’t understand how to install a plugin.

I was hoping this would be some kind of JavaScript plugin, not a client-based solution

Either way, major props to the Google team!

You just have to run it through each browser you can.

I develop in Firefox 3.5 on Mac, then try Safari and Opera.
Then I load up Windows and try Chrome, Firefox 2 (sometimes, it’s worse than IE6 ) and I use IE Tester which gives you Internet Explorers 5.5 to 8 (don’t test 5.5 though, that’d be a nightmare).

Envato make most item details (including previews) available through their developer API , so yes, you’d be more than welcome to.

As you say, you’re not re-distributing the items, or claiming they are yours in any way.

Authors are not required to provide any free (or premium) after-sales support. That said, I try to provide at least a basic level of free support for all my items.

Also, what’s wrong with an un-sliced PSD ? I’ve never sliced mine – largely because I see it as a waste of time. It takes mere seconds to make a selection; and I know many other authors here feel the same way.