After three weeks in beta of ironing out some crinkles and prepping the site, I'm proud to announce that the latest Envato website - ThemeForest - is now out of the beta wilderness and ready for buying, selling, referring and viewing.
What is it?
ThemeForest is a marketplace for buying and selling HTML/CSS Site Templates and Themes for CMS' like WordPress and Joomla. Files sell for between $10 and $75 and as of the time of writing we have an early library of about 70 files, which I'm sure will grow fast!
ThemeForest runs off the same system as our other marketplaces FlashDen and AudioJungle, so any of the 70,000 odd current members are free to use their accounts across the three sites and everything will work as if you are logged into the same site thanks to some ruby magic from our crack dev team. If you're new to the marketplaces, signup only takes a minute or two, so come on down!
If you're planning on becoming an author, you'll be interested to see our Launch Competition to win 1 of 3 Apple HD Displays.
Authors Earn 25-50%
Authors earn a base rate of 25%, which quickly jumps to 35% if you agree to keep the items you place on ThemeForest exclusively on ThemeForest, and then climbs up to 50%. Because we do a lot of marketing, these percentages can yield a very significant amount. However if you're able to do our job for us and bring in the traffic as well as provide the files, then we'll give up our half as well, because referrers earn 50%...
Referrers Earn 50%
We have a very strong referral program in place where affiliates take half of a new buyers first deposit. Moreover a new referral clicking on your link has 3 months to signup and purchase. What all that means is it's a good time to be a referrer, because nobody has visited the new site yet, so early referrers will wind up with lots of new visitors with their cookies in place. :-)
Buyers, visit our Top Sellers List
Although it's early days for our file library, buyers can check out our Popular Files list to see some of the items that have been selling well during the Beta. I strongly encourage you to bookmark the site or subscribe to the new file RSS feeds, because the library is going to get a whole lot more extensive!
Thanks!
So that's it from me, I'll be back hopefully with some web design tutorials for themes I'm putting together for ThemeForest. Also I do believe I still have two typography tutorials that need to be finished, I'll get there!! :-)Related Posts
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User Comments
( ADD YOURS )Johan September 3rd
Cool!
Signed up
( )Nick September 3rd
Hooray! Nice work
( )Jamie September 3rd
Finally
( )Vasili September 3rd
I thought my Google Reader was messed up because I read this earlier on PSDTUTS. XD
( )Vasili September 3rd
oops, I meant NETTUTS. Sorry for the double post.
( )Joefrey Mahusay September 3rd
Wow I’m so excited with this. Thanks Collis.
( )Jaroslav Zapadlo September 3rd
Collis – are you trying to become a millionaire before you turn 30 or what ?
I have been with Eden – Envato network since the beginning and I have to tell you – this is getting serious.
AND MY QUESTION IS :
Are people going to ber able to sell more than template on Theme forest ? For example I have fully loaded php CMS + graphics worth thousand dollars and I want to get rid of that
( )Make Design, Not War September 3rd
Awesome – Looking forward to see how this fills up with new themes – definitely looks like a great way to consolidate the more professionally built themes n’ templates out there though. I know for a fact that as a freelancer I’ll probably be at the very least checking this out on a regular basis for new themes for client projects. Congrats on the launch!
( )NaldzGraphics September 3rd
sound interesting:)il sign up
( )tanicos September 3rd
the FAQ page was not found!!! also the links to the faq page on the contact page were not found!!!
( )what can one do with the template? resell, claim he made it?any rules?
thanks
Dainis Graveris September 3rd
huh, that’s great to have so big web network – very easy to promote another great project! I am looking to signup too anyway.!
( )BroOf September 3rd
I signdep up before 3 weeks (YEAAAAAAAA got a Beta
:D:D) and i have to say: Another great site! I could kiss you all 
( )daniel September 3rd
very nice new to hear! congrats for the ThemeForest launch!
( )Shane September 3rd
all the best with ThemeForest Collis.
( )koen buysse September 3rd
awesome!!!
( )maybe i’ll put in some wordpress themes….
nice site !
Adlyn September 3rd
Hurray! does this mean you’ll go back to the nature text again i hope so i saw a preview of the the text that said “air” and I’ve been waiting for that one for weeks!
( )Rob September 3rd
Hey guys, I love what your doing for the design community, this seems like a great idea.
What I would really like though would be a simple walk through of how to theme a CMS, I’m much more of a design thinker then a coder, and have yet to find a good tutorial of taking a theme and making it CMS compatible from scratch.
Ta.
( )Harry September 3rd
Nice site , please make your next one , flashtuts please!
( )greven September 4th
Congrats on the launch. Referral program is nice. I might become a referrer and a buyer! :p
( )Andreas September 4th
Hi there
generally a nice idea but you need to improve competitiveness. I. e. speaking about Joomla Templates.
50 $ for a single template without really special features? C’mon, you will get two amazing templatest packed with features, etc. at that price on http://www.rockettheme.com.
You really need to put more effort in developing the joomla templates if you wanna sell at those prices. Similar templates you offer can be downloaded on Joomla community pages for free.
But nice design of the page and generally good idea.
Good luck with it.
Cheers.
( )Mark Abucayon September 6th
I love the output of themeforest I love to visit that site.
( )hike September 7th
we dont need another wannabe theme site, do we?
( )hiperkarma September 17th
huhu, awesome
( )vanct March 7th
yummy
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