Frontpage Featuring Idea

+1 to additional update tab

+1 to the tab, that’s a fantastic compromise!

What about this idea;
Once a month, every author gets the ability to bump up one of their items to the homepage. Because it can only be used once a month, on one item, it can’t and won’t be abused..

+1 on the updated tab btw

haven’t read the full thread yet but I got the general idea – I think you need tabs on the front page for each category – the current “mix” of PSD / HTML / Wordpress / Javascript / PHP is just plain messy and also a user interface nightmare to be honest – plus it dilutes the effectiveness of promotion of items – I think having tabs would help this so that the latest 15 items or so are listed for each category – user hits site – clicks appropriate tab to see instantly the new (or latest) 15 products for that category they are interested in.

You could then rotate the tabs on a weekly basis (or cookie) – week 1 – PSD – week 2 HTML etc – so that people do not see the same category which would help to promote different categories also.

We all know that the bulk of sales come from front page promotion – without this the current search is just kinda messy I think. It will allow a longer period of time for each new item to appear on the front page because a wordpress template updated 3 days ago would not be pushed out of front page status because of 2 new JS files.

Seems like common sense to me..

haven’t read the full thread yet but I got the general idea – I think you need tabs on the front page for each category – the current “mix” of PSD / HTML / Wordpress / Javascript / PHP is just plain messy and also a user interface nightmare to be honest – plus it dilutes the effectiveness of promotion of items – I think having tabs would help this so that the latest 15 items or so are listed for each category – user hits site – clicks appropriate tab to see instantly the new (or latest) 15 products for that category they are interested in.

You could then rotate the tabs on a weekly basis (or cookie) – week 1 – PSD – week 2 HTML etc – so that people do not see the same category which would help to promote different categories also.

We all know that the bulk of sales come from front page promotion – without this the current search is just kinda messy I think. It will allow a longer period of time for each new item to appear on the front page because a wordpress template updated 3 days ago would not be pushed out of front page status because of 2 new JS files.

Seems like common sense to me..

Now that really is an excellent idea, because I’m guessing most people who visit the site are probably looking for new stuff in a particular category, much more often than just looking at anything that’s new.

+10 for that.

Hey guys – these are really good ideas. Keep them coming if you have more. I’ll be sure to pass them on to Collis and Cyan.

Maybe we could just have a page that displays random templates. Or something like Wikipedia’s “Random Article” link that just jumps you to a random page. I wouldn’t random mindlessly hopping around a web of templates for a while.

Maybe we could just have a page that displays random templates. Or something like Wikipedia’s “Random Article” link that just jumps you to a random page. I wouldn’t random mindlessly hopping around a web of templates for a while.

That’s fine but it would reduce the impact on sales by randomizing and again not help users to easily see what they came here for – wordpress or html or php etc

I really think tabs for categories – set number of thumbs for latest items (however I really don’t think updated should be included as this could just end up being an excuse to bump items and end up being abused).

Hey Jeffrey. Yea I thought it would be a great idea for updates to be back on the homepage, for example, the last update of Client Works in PHP , that was awesome. I think that would be great if they were there again for a day or two after a major update because you can’t really email all of your customers that you updated it so maybe they’ll see it on the homepage! Other then that, I think the whole border and pay-per-click kinda advertising turkhitbox mentioned would be stupid.

If the only concern for updates is to let customers who bought previously – know of an update then surely the ability from within an items profile page as an author to be able to click a single button to write a short email to notify existing purchasers of an update would be sufficient? Or maybe just an update button that sends a canned message with a link?

I really don’t think updates should be on the homepage (or maybe another tab but is it necessary?) – the chances of abuse are just too great – and I know that if it came down to people doing that I would change something in a css file – re-upload and get on the home page every week – basically if one starts it then everyone will, just to be able to compete.

Creating category tabs with latest items would benefit everyone as more items of a category can be displayed which means longer exposure.

Just my 2cents…