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We’re putting a $2,000 bounty on the heads of Envato’s most wanted file type – Concrete5 Plugins on CodeCanyon. The first 10 Concrete5 plugins uploaded (and subsequently approved) each get $200. There’s a maximum of two winning files per author.
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Twitter has become one of the best tools for social messaging to date. Each day millions of people around the world use various Twitter clients to update their status, and read tweets. Twitter is appealing to use because it’s informal, on point, and conversational—yet requires very little commitment for users.
CodeCanyon has well over one hundred Twitter plugins, widgets and scripts specifically designed to help you integrate Twitter into your website. Most Twitter plugins are divided into two categories—those that display Twitter feeds on your site, and those that allow others to share your content in their Twitter feeds. So when choosing the best Twitter plugin for you, consider what you’re going to use it for.
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We’re putting a $4,000 bounty on the heads of Envato’s most wanted file type – Newsletter Plugins & Extensions on CodeCanyon. The type of newsletter plugins needed are those that allow you to create, send and track newsletter campaigns by sending bulk emails to your existing user database on WordPress, Joomla or Drupal. The newsletters that are sent need to look professional, easy to use and feature rich.
The first 10 WordPress, Drupal or Joomla newsletter plugins uploaded (and subsequently approved) each get $400 (with a maximum 2 prizes per author. Any combination of CMS). Authors can convert an existing WordPress item or a brand new WordPress item to Drupal or Joomla and double-up on prizes.
In short, it’s a race to see who can quickly submit quality content based on the following criteria:
We’ll be providing some tips on what could be included in your newsletter plugins in this forum thread. For now here are some items already on CodeCanyon that we consider to be good examples of newsletter plugins:
It’s as simple as that! The first 10 files to be uploaded (and subsequently approved) based on the above requirements win! Please note that we have some more specific rules to outline and clarify:
Good luck! 
Starting to code as a teenage hobby, a desire to create items that are new and unique, reading The Count of Monte Cristo, and enjoying a harbour view. This week we meet Jordie Bodlay (jordie) from CodeCanyon.
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I have a quick question I’d like to get your answer to: what’s the hardest part of developing a game? Is it finding the assets, writing the code, making it fun, or just getting someone to play it? Continue Reading
Following Arsenal Soccer Club, owning a car valet business, learning design via online tutorials, and being a marketplace author for just over a month. This week we meet Robert Gouveia (UBL) from ThemeForest, GraphicRiver and CodeCanyon.
If you’re an Envato marketplace author and would like to be interviewed for the blog, head over to this form. We’d love to hear from you.
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A sixteen-year-old go-getter, cycling professionally for Bulgaria, and “In the morning you see with new eyes.”. This week we meet Alexander Dimitrov (xavortm) from GraphicRiver and CodeCanyon.
If you’re an Envato marketplace author and would like to be interviewed for the blog, head over to this form. We’d love to hear from you.
Over on the Tuts+ Premium blog, Skellie has listed 20 Must See TED Talks for Creatives. This is one of them.
“Most 12-year-olds love playing videogames — Thomas Suarez taught himself how to create them. After developing iPhone apps like ‘Bustin Jeiber,’ a whack-a-mole game, he is now using his skills to help other kids become developers.”
Until recently, if you were looking for interface elements on CodeCanyon, you’d have to go trawling through the “Miscellaneous” category. Well, the marketplace team have just fixed that.
The new Interface Elements category also has more detailed subcategories as well including Menus, Slides, Tables, Buttons, Accordions and Other. Hopefully this will help CodeCanyon buyers better find what they are looking for.
Are your web design knowledge out of date? Are you charging too little? Are you lacking essential design skills?
Rockable Press have just released a new book – Web Design Confidential – that will answer these questions and more. Written by our own Amanda Hackwith, this book offers insights based on survey results from a study of more than 5,000 web designers from all over the world.
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