- Has been a member for 5-6 years
- Bought between 100 and 499 items
- United Kingdom
For god’s sake.
I’m on the envato sites every day and have purchased a lot of themes. I have NEVER clicked the ‘buy now’ button in the header bar.
First thing I do when I click live preview? CLOSE THE HEADER FRAME . Normally? TOO SLOW , NOW I HAVE TO CLOSE THE AUTHOR ’S VERSION OF THE FRAME .
Such a waste of time. I KNOW WHERE I CAN BUY THE THEME .
Please. Launch live previews without the frame.
Dan
- Repeatedly Helped protect Envato Marketplaces against copyright violations
- Sold between 100 000 and 250 000 dollars
- Exclusive Author
- Author was Featured
- Item was Featured
- Beta Tester
- Has been a member for 3-4 years
- Spain
^ Amen
- Sold between 250 000 and 1 000 000 dollars
- Exclusive Author
- Interviewed on the Envato Notes blog
- Author was Featured
- Item was Featured
- Beta Tester
- Author had a File in an Envato Bundle
- Author had a Free File of the Month
At least it should allow respnsive themes to work. 
- Sold between 5 000 and 10 000 dollars
- Has been a member for 1-2 years
- Exclusive Author
- Referred between 1 and 9 users
- India
I am in favor. The header does mess up with the tiny functionalities which can cost you a customer.
- Sold between 50 000 and 100 000 dollars
- Has been a member for 1-2 years
- Exclusive Author
- Romania
- Microlancer Beta Tester
- Most Wanted Bounty Winner
- Bought between 10 and 49 items
- Referred between 10 and 49 users
I don’t replace the frame, as I consider it useless. I always close the live preview frame and I consider my buyers do the same. If they came as far as seeing the item live, then they might already know where to buy it from.
- Sold between 50 000 and 100 000 dollars
- Has been a member for 0-1 years
- Europe
- Exclusive Author
- Most Wanted Bounty Winner
- Bought between 1 and 9 items
- Referred between 1 and 9 users
+1, hate the frame too. What is the reason if preview always opens in a new tab? Or please, add at least another button or a setting in account to disable that frame.
- Author had a File in an Envato Bundle
- Bought between 10 and 49 items
- Exclusive Author
- Has been a member for 2-3 years
- Microlancer Beta Tester
- Referred between 10 and 49 users
- Sold between 10 000 and 50 000 dollars
- United Kingdom
Actually, i concur. I wonder what the stats are for the “Buy now” button, though.
- Bought between 10 and 49 items
- Bulgaria
- Exclusive Author
- Has been a member for 3-4 years
- Sold between 1 000 and 5 000 dollars
+1 for removing it. It’s more annoying than helpful.
- Microlancer Beta Tester
- Author had a Free File of the Month
- Has been a member for 3-4 years
- Item was Featured
- Author was Featured
- Austria
- Exclusive Author
- Referred between 200 and 499 users
+1
icypixels said
I always close the live preview frame and I consider my buyers do the same.
Wrong, I track if iframe is enabled (just curious) and from 279214 visits (2012) only 73554 closed it thats about 26%
- United States
- Has been a member for 4-5 years
- Exclusive Author
- Author was Featured
- Sold between 50 000 and 100 000 dollars
- Item was Featured
- Contributed a Tutorial to a Tuts+ Site
- Author had a Free File of the Month
The preview frame serves a good purpose. When people visit the preview by clicking on a link from outside the marketplaces, it tells them where they can buy the item.
But showing this frame when someone visits the preview from inside the marketplaces has never made any sense.
The simple fix is to add a url param. JS example below. I’m sure it’s just as simple in Rails.
if(document.URL.search(“frommarketplace=true”) !== -1) addTheFrame();
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