Web Design Week on Psdtuts+ + You Can Now Sell Photoshop Templates via ThemeForest
For as long as I can remember we’ve gotten requests for more web design posts here on Psdtuts+. Well web design fans, it’s your lucky day because all this week we’ll be bringing you articles and tutorials on just that topic. What’s the occasion? Well today our sister site ThemeForest is adding a whole new section – Photoshop Templates – meaning you can now sell your straight Photoshop designs via ThemeForest.
The Week’s HUGE Schedule!
Because I’m notorious for planning and promising tutorials that I then completely forget to finish, this time I decided to write them all ahead of time, so readers, here’s the schedule of posts to look out for, they are all (well mostly) ready and loaded into WordPress:
- Monday – How a Turn a Texture into a Seamlessly Tiled Background
- Monday #2 – How a Simple Layout Can Be Mixed ‘n’ Matched with Patterns, Photos and Backgrounds
- Tuesday – The 3 Components of Good Web Design
- Tuesday #2 – 9 Information Design Tips to Make You a Better Web Designer
- Wednesday – Photoshop Paper Texture from Scratch then Create a Grungy Web Design with it!
- Thursday – 8 Ideas, Techniques & Tricks for your Web Design Toolkit
- Thursday #2 – 14 Quick and Slick Portfolio Templates (via ThemeForest)
- Friday – Cliff Notes on a Website Redesign – Tips and Thoughts from the Creattica Inspire Design
- Saturday – 6 Interface Design Tips Every Web Designer Should Know
- Monday – Five Looks, One Layout: How to Develop a Library of Web Design Styles at Your Fingertips
- Monday – $25,000 Giveaway, Score ThemeForest Cash by Commenting
As you can see it’s going to be one heck of a big week here on Psdtuts+, culminating in a big cash giveaway so that 2,500 Psdtuts+ readers will get a credit on their accounts to test out the site (which of course means it’s a good time to have files for sale).
Who am I?
Because advice is only as good as the person who gives it, I thought I should quickly mention who I am. My name is Collis! I have a love of exclamation marks and have been working as a web designer now for about 5 or 6 years. I design all the Envato sites like this one you’re looking at right now, and prior to that I used to design for clients as a freelancer and a designer for a Sydney interactive agency. I certainly don’t know everything about web design though, not even remotely close, so when reading the articles and tutorials this week, feel free to pipe in with a comment on your thoughts and how things could be done better!
… And please excuse all the exclamation marks. I try to remember to edit them out – I really do, but it’s just how I talk. Everything, especially web design, always seems so exciting 
The first article will be up in, oh, about 2 minutes! So enjoy Web Design Week, hopefully we can make it an annual tradition, and if you’re interested in selling your work via ThemeForest, then read on to learn more!
Earn Extra Dough, Sell Your Designs … Over and Over
If you haven’t seen ThemeForest already, then I’m probably not doing my job (I’m responsible for marketing!), so you should head over immediately to keep me out of trouble. The site lets you buy and sell website templates in three forms:
- Photoshop Designs – A set of PSD files
- HTML Templates – Actual working web templates
- CMS Themes – Ready made and customizeable themes for CMS’es like WordPress, Blogger, and more
Anyone with a bit of talent can sell their work and earn anything from a side income (check out this article – How I make $2000 a year without doing very much) to a pretty large paycheck (check out 9 Tips for Maximizing a Steady Income Stream by Selling Stock ). You are actually selling a license to use the design or template, which means you can keep selling the same item over and over which is the beauty of creating a passive income stream that keeps trickling in months or years after you’ve stopped working on it.
ThemeForest launched just recently and most authors only have a few items in their portfolio, but nevertheless there are already four authors earning over a thousand a month. And that number will only climb as more people are introduced to the site and author portfolios get larger. Each time you sell an item you receive a slice of the cash, ranging between 25% and 50% of the sale depending on whether you are selling elsewhere and how well you are doing. On top of that if you refer customers you’ll get another 50% through the referral program.
So you might be thinking, hey I’m a web designer, why don’t I just make a website to sell my own items! What ThemeForest provides is a service to take all the hassle out of selling. If you sell your templates with us you won’t need to do anything other than upload them. We take care of payments, refunds, marketing, hosting, and pretty much everything aside from the actual templates themselves, we bring thousands of buyers from our related marketplaces FlashDen and AudioJungle as well as a solid, easy to use site and system. And if you find selling templates is making you a mint, you can always set up your own shop later anyway.
Another common question is why the low %’s. Actually there are similar (competing) marketplaces around for both Flash and Themes, and they offer higher commission rates than FlashDen and ThemeForest (from memory 50% – 60%). So you’d think that would logically mean more income right? Nope, we work very hard to make sure that our sites benefit authors and I’m confident you’ll find that you can get *by far* the best result selling through the Envato Marketplaces. Still I always encourage everyone to do your research and figure out the best solution for you. And we’ll keep working hard to make sure that best solution just happens to be us
Ready to sell your Photoshop Designs and Web Templates? Head over and read our short authoring tutorial to get started today! Otherwise stay tuned for all the Web Design Week action right here on Psdtuts+!
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Oh yea! Nice idea!
Awesome initiative, Collis. Looking forward to it!
Colis, it would also be cool if we could sell Fireworks templates as well.
Looking forward to it. But is the max of like $2 per PSD sold very reasonable?
Yuhuuuuuu…. I was waiting for this.
Thank you a lot Collis
)
$15 for fully coded templates? Of which the designer gets a little under $3.75 …. Seriously?
Great Idea
Thanks Collis
Great :0, make many make many
http://afrix99.deviantart.com/art/PS-90171334
Its really a huge schedule Collis, Im waiting this one.
I submitted an article a long time ago and you had a set date for it, what happened?
Very intresting, will follow this
Cool schedule, I will be coming back daily
Nice Idea!! Waiting for the tuts
I’m excited!
Hey Collis those r really nice tuts am looking forward to, but 2-3 months u gave us 2 tutorial on typography – EARTH AND FIRE. Where are the others???
Eagerly waiting for em
Regards
Adil
Nice! Looking forward to this. Thanks.
finally, im waiting for more web design tutorials from psdtuts
Wow…this is probably the most exciting thing i’ve heard about all week! Can’t wait!
Where’s the info for psd templates on themeforest? I didn’t see anything on the site specifically.
THIS IS GONNA ROCKKK!
Also waiting for those typography templates..
There is also a typo in your post.
“Saturay – 8 Ideas, Techniques & Tricks for your Web Design Toolkit”
You forgot the “d” in Saturday.
Hey guys! Sorry this post went up on Saturday by accident – because I don’t know how to use the timestamp feature it turns out
Anyhow it’s back up now because it’s REALLY web design week now!
This is really exciting!!! PSD templates on ThemeForest will become a great succes!
Very exciting stuff. I’ve been contemplating whether or not I should do this. I think this write up just put me over the top. Thanks!
Very cool. Thanks for all your great content!
Exactly simon!
Why not just sell the template yourself!
Exciting news
The two articles so far have been brilliant! Cant wait to see what else you have in store for us!
this is awesome!
Nothing interesting at all.
Sorry but for me, this is not about selling some designers’works, it’s just about stealing it from them for such a price.
Be reasonable, be honest and proud of what you do.
I won’t go there.
:/
Really good and actually.
I have to admit that this is looking GOOOOD this week….
i need it this
Great news for everyone=)keep up the good work Collis=)
Please, this is a ridiculous price. Will only make the designs looking all the same and done very quickly. This is not professional at all.
Collis, you da man!
Thanks for all these web design contents! looking for some quality tips online for a very long time.
Hey I really think that it’s a waste of time designing a custom template for that low…be serious guys
Great man, just awesome
and i Would like to hear more from you
Collis, The past week has been phenomenal for me. Thank you so much. I dreamt about good and bad design in my sleep!
Great job
That was an awesome awesome week! Thanks Collis!
As always, mucho 411 = muy bueno.
Great idea will learn a lot thanks Collis
hi, just thought i should mention that your author payout ratios (2nd paragraph) are now out of date, just thought id mention it in case it slipped everyones view
I was hunting n got the idea. Hope it will change the look n feel.
thanks will work after it
I’m with the guys saying that the template selling business just undermines the work that we do… It makes it harder for us to justify our hard work. I mean it’s hard enough to justify work that is not tengible to business that don’t operate in the field.
I love this website (PSDTUTS) but I don’t have a lot of love for template selling sites.
Sorry.
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