Need Some Outstanding Developers to Help With New Secret Category

Need Some Outstanding Developers to Help With New “Components” Category

on May 4th 2009 with 27 comments

During the first half of this month, ThemeForest will be launching a brand new “components” category that will appeal more to developers than designers – at least from an authoring stand-point. To help seed this new category, we’re in need of a few more outstanding developers to help us out. If you’re creative and have the chops, email sitemanager@themeforest.net to discuss the details and compensation.

* Note – to qualify for this initial seed content, you really need to know your stuff. When you contact us, please include your unique component idea, and samples of your work. Otherwise, your email will unfortunately be deleted. I’m looking forward to hearing from some of you!

What’s a “component”? Think advanced CSS/Flash menus, drag and drop shopping carts, graphs, etc.


 
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  • http://www.mydevwares.com/ myDevWares

    What do you mean by “components”? PHP components? Flash components?

    I don’t get it.

    • http://www.vileworks.com Stefan

      Or do you mean plugins? (as in WP)

    • Hein Maas

      When you’re a great developer you will know what jeffrey means by this, and if they needed a flash developer then they would announce it on FlashDen instead of ThemeForest

      So i believe there looking for an web developer.

      • http://nickd.info NickD

        I disagree. I think they should definitely explain a bit more in the post. In the least to save themselves a million emails saying “I’m an experienced developer. Hire me!”. I mean, seriously, they have an idea of wanting these ‘components’, but we have to give them our ideas?

        Not to be too rude, but no thanks.

        A component can mean a number of things. Consider Joomla!, it’s ‘extensions’ include components, modules, and plugins. Then theres wordpress plugins that vary in complexity. and so on and so forth.

      • http://laranzjoe.blogspot.com lawrence77

        you are 100% correct mr.nickD

  • http://graphicriver.net/user/kiziel?ref=kiziel kiziel

    I also dont get it :/

    • http://graphicriver.net/user/kiziel?ref=kiziel kiziel

      Also its sitemanager@themeforest*.net*

      • http://eyoosuf.blogspot.com Yoosuf

        jeff has done it very faster, thats the problem :)

  • http://www.mkhalidkhan.com mkk

    hmmm

  • Martin Mincorov

    I believe more like jQuery plugins or other framework components that could be used on a website since it’s more type of developers side…

  • http://www.sachagreif.com Sacha

    So you’re not calling it “CodeCave” ?? I’m disapointed…

    j/k, that’s great news ! And great timing for my next template ;)

    • http://www.webmaster-source.com redwall_hp

      I actually am a bit disappointed. I’d love to have a “CodeCave” site (and had been thinking about the idea a few days ago) where you could buy and sell scripts in different languages.

  • xyz

    It’s getting over my head !!!

  • http://another-perfect-world.org/ Vasili

    I know I can code well but I don’t have any real experience with companies, just coding for myself. :| This would be really cool, too! D:

  • http://justtheweb.com Justin Shattuck

    Jeff: I would like to contribute the User Links Feed WP-Plugin, would that work?

    :)

    • http://net.tutsplus.com Jeffrey Way
      Author

      Hey Justin,

      I don’t think we can sell WP plugins, due to their license.

      • http://laranzjoe.blogspot.com lawrence77

        then what is components stands for jeff?
        Explain a bit more and give some examples?!

      • http://eyoosuf.blogspot.com Yoosuf

        similerly like module? or Plugin?

        drag and dop mean we can make a sample Drag and drop with jQUery and send it to you?

  • http://www.imblog.info Muhammad Adnan

    Jeffrey needs some advanced components for themeforest and flashden.
    you can use jquery,php or whatever language u think is best for ur component.
    i have been selected and writing my component now !

    hope u guys will also be in the developers list of Themeforest if u are Outstanding and have Outstanding Idea :)

  • w1sh

    Jesus people, it’s not rocket-science.

    He wants experienced web-developers who can make things like Event Calenders, Video Players, etc.

    Stop making such a big deal about how this is worded.

    It’s easy… Email Jeffrey something like:
    “I have an idea for a map component that will instantly detect the city where the user is and give directions accordingly. I have 5 years of programming experience with PHP.”
    …And wait for a reply.

    • http://eyoosuf.blogspot.com Yoosuf

      hmm in some words you are also corect, will see what is exactly a component!

    • http://www.crearedesign.co.uk Martyn Web

      Well said, from how I Interpreted the above its going to cover add-ons that help a sites functionality.

      This can cover a wide range of areas.

  • http://rcthegreatblog.com Rahul Chowdhury

    I hope you launch some good “components” for us to try and buy from there, that would be useful for us in creating our websites. Hope to see those “components” from your soon.

  • Adam

    I sent a message before a month ago, didn’t get any response yet.

  • MJ

    http://jqueryui.com

    - all you need to know

  • jem

    Themeforest seems pretty unique in what its currently offering now, I suppose it never hurts to expand upon that… but the sort of items that a “componenets” type site would call for is already covered pretty thoroughly by a ton of great framework-specific sites out there, and often for free.

    Since those sites are so specific, and their communities so specific, there’s a lot more validation and meaningful community input for revisions, etc. You’d need experts on all sorts of languages and frameworks for a site like this to be able to guarantee quality user-submitted content. I don’t know how this new site is going to be laid out and the specifics of it all, but seems like it could easily be a project that takes off and runs straight into a wall because of the ridiculous scope that it can encompass.

  • elkaz

    I think these “components” are going to be difficult to sell since you can’t really give a live preview otherwise the code could easily be ripped off because it will most likely be xhtml/css/js/xml type stuff.

    Video demos?