It was back in 2006 that Envato first launched with our very first site FlashDen. That means next week we'll be turning 3 years old! Since web years are much like dog years, by my count that makes us pretty darn old. Given how we've grown, we've decided that this year it's time we really kicked our celebrations up a notch. Next week for 3 days we're going to have a massive sequence of birthday events, read on to find out what's happening ...
Next Week it’s Envato’s Birthday! Here’s a Preview of What’s Coming Up …
Aug 13th in News by Collis Ta'eed
iMac Giveaways, a Tuts+ Birthday Bundle and Bonus Plus Tutorials!
It wasn't until mid 2007 before Tuts+ first hit the world, beginning of course with Psdtuts+, but nonetheless we're joining in the celebrations with lots of awesome stuff, including:
- For Plus Subscribers: A special bonus birthday Plus tutorial from each Plus site - that's four extra Plus tuts, on top of the usual ones!
- For Everyone: We're giving away two 20" iMacs and our very own Tuts+ Birthday Bundle of free Plus tutorials and source files available to all Tuts+ readers!
$300 of Files for $20 + 70% Commission for Authors
As if the files on our Envato Marketplaces weren't already super cheap, we've gone and made what must be the best value deal on digital goods ever. Fancy $300 worth of some of our best files for only $20? For 3 days only, you can get a collection of some of the best files from all the marketplaces for just twenty bucks! It's a massive bundle of killer files that will bring joy to any creative! The bundle will only be available from Wednesday to Friday (Australian time), so you'll need to be quick!
For Authors: Earn 70% of every sale!
We all know that our marketplaces would be nothing without our authors, so we're jacking up commission rates for everybody - exclusive, non-exclusive - everyone! For the three days of celebration Wednesday to Friday (Australian time) we're putting authors up to the max rate of 70% so they can enjoy extra earnings on us!
Freelance Giveaways + Special Interview of Collis & Cyan
We can't let Tuts+ and the Marketplaces have all the fun, so on FreelanceSwitch we're going to be having giveaways of job board subscriptions, copies of Rockable Press books and copies of Pixelmator and Billings for the Mac!
And across all Envato sites you'll also get to see a special video of both myself and Cyan talking about how we started Envato, how the company has grown and answers to lots of other questions provided by Emil and the Psdtuts+ readers! It's pretty strange seeing myself on video, but it sure was fun to make!
... Oh and stop in at the new Envato website!
And since I'm posting on all our sites, I should tell you to go and visit our brand new Envato website that we launched last night and check out all the nifty transparency, sliding scrolls and fixed background. Thanks to Derek for helping me with the build! And don't forget to follow @envato for Envato news and updates.
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User Comments
( ADD YOURS )nanochrome August 13th
Great can’t wait for next week!
( )Caesar August 13th
Happy Birthday!
( )Nicolae Vartolomei August 14th
Happy birthday! Happy celebration! Let’s go
( )Park August 14th
Happy Birthday! Just love your sites!
( )Mini0n August 14th
Happy Birthday!
( )The_Holy_One August 14th
Happy Birthday! And a bright future.
( )Tommy M August 14th
Woohoo! And the ThemeForest.net Contest! Can’t Wait!
( )Benjamin Reid August 14th
Happy birthday!
I could always use another iMac!
( )Muxi August 14th
Happy Birthday!
( )The_Holy_One August 14th
Well, just one Question about the sentence:
“We’re giving away two 20″ iMacs and our very own Tuts+ Birthday Bundle of free Plus tutorials and source files available to all Tuts+ readers!”.
How do you give them away, guests are normaly not registred/logged in so will there be a PopUp, do you have to register at nettuts (which everybody should do!) or just write a comment here or somewhere else? ^^
( )Emmanuel August 14th
Happy Birthday!
( )Shane August 14th
Happy Birthday guys! Thanks for providing us with some great material, most of which is absolutely free! Can’t argue with that!!!
( )Rohan August 14th
Woohoo! Happy Birthday
I’m actually going to be done with a new template round about that time, so I get nice gift from you’ll to!
( )Desu August 14th
Happy Birthday
( )Vincent August 14th
Happy Birthday Envato!
I really love the new website design but I see it isn’t as nice in IE7 (not that I’m a IE user).
1. The transparent background doesn’t stretch all the time.
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2. IE doesn’t support round corners
I just finished a website ( http://www.marktuitert.nl ) with similar techniques and I fixed these problems like this:
1. Transparent backgrounds need a min-height and not all the div’s that use transparent background have a min-height so just give them “min-height: 1px;”.
( )2. I made an IE specific CSS file to place images of rounded corners in each corner.
Manji August 14th
Happy Bday! ^^
( )lawrence77 August 14th
lol…
And also its eager to see the video…. horray cyan is also in the interview, so maximum all questions are answered…
BTW: Happy birthday ENvato, it opens many peoples knowledge eye…
( )Walter August 14th
Happy Birthday! great job
( )lawrence77 August 14th
http://net.tutsplus.com/articles/news/the-best-psd-to-html-to-wordpress-video-series-available-new-plus-tutorial/
We want this PLUS tut for all non PLUS readers….
( )Danijel August 14th
Happy birthday to you Envato. Thanks for all of tuts and screencasts.
And amazing, today is my 16th birthday
( )mhamed August 14th
Happy Birthday!
( )Jermaine August 14th
Happy birthday, I like the new envato’s redisgn, can’t wait for next weeeeeek.
( )Code.My August 14th
Happy birthday for Envato, and wish Envato will launch new successful plan and become top of the site in each category.
( )Paulo Alexandre August 14th
Happy Birthday!
( )Nathan August 14th
Knowing my luck, I won’t sell anything during these three days
( )mary August 14th
Happy Birthday Envato! Thanks for all the great content!!
( )psdmed August 14th
Happy Birthday
( )Allahverdi August 14th
THATS SOMETHING!
( )Happy Bday!
Chris August 14th
Many happy returns!
( )r_jake August 14th
Any chance of a VideoTuts+ site in the coming year? It would complete the line-up and the web is sorely lacking a resource in this area that is of Envato quality.
( )Steven August 14th
Happy bday and a very nice new website.
On a sidenote though, you guys should really test the site in IE. It has horrible bugs in IE7.
( )Stupid IE August 14th
Agreed. And the site looks weird in IE6 too – some of the backgrounds are missing resulting in grey text on green background.
( )kiziel August 15th
Well, in ie7 the only bug I found is wrong margin of ad (the big one). Ie6, well no comments, it shouldnt be supported.
( )chris August 14th
happy birthday, I can say that I love the envato marketplaces, I have purchased over 200+ items, and deposited over $2500 over the last year, and I love all the products that you have available. I hope to see more from you guys in the future.
Keep up the good work, I am definately a very satisifed customer
( )Siddharth August 14th
Happy Birthday! Glad to be part of an awesome group.
( )Clinton Montague August 14th
Has it been 3 years already?! Well done!
( )Myke Bates August 14th
Sweet nectar, maybe I’ll finally win a Mac!
Happy Birthday!
( )Chad August 14th
Can’t wait for next week! Congratulations on your birthday and for being a powerhouse in everything awesome!
( )Muhammad Adnan August 14th
Happy Birthday !
( )John August 14th
Happy Birthday!
( )Santana August 14th
wuju!! it’s my birthday to brouhaha
( )Mujtaba August 14th
when is envato’s budday next week, i mean the exact date.??? cuz i am too turning 18 next week! :p
( )happy budday in advance,,, and how r u gonna give away those awesome Macs??? will u select at random???
Shaun August 14th
Happy birthday!
My birthday is Thursday next week. A 20″ iMac would be an awesome present.
( )Connor Crosby August 14th
Wow, already? HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
( )LuK August 14th
Happy Birthday,
great services and you’ve done much for a better www=)!
Beautiful envato site, like it very much, just one detail, the drop shadows from the wraps and those from the content/pictures don’t match =)…the light is coming from 45 degrees top left on the wraps and from 90 degrees top on the boxes…but really just a detail =)!
keep up the good work!
( )Soner Gönül August 14th
Happy Happy Happy Happy Happy Bhirtday!
( )sean steezy August 14th
schmappy schmirphday.
i wish i thought of all this and executed it as well as you did. congrats! i am so jellin’
( )Abhijeet August 14th
huuuurrrrryyyyy Happy Birthday huuuurrrrryyyyy i love Envato’s Sites
( )Patrick August 14th
Happy Birthday!
I love these sites on your network… they have really helped me get started as a Web Developer! Keep up the great content!
( )Megh Suthar August 14th
hey, Happy Birthday !
It have been 3 great years ! I have learnt lot.
( )Esck21 August 14th
LAST!.
( )G Marques August 14th
the promotion of just $ 20?
( )Arnold August 14th
this is so cool!..lots of giveaways
( )Im so excited..
happy birthday!!!
Ariyo August 14th
You guys are awesome. I can’t wait. HAPPY BIRTHDAY.
( )Kiran August 15th
Can’t wait to see the interviews and tut+ content for non subscribers plus the imac oh might as well say everything…
( )Lumzor August 15th
Yeeeeey! Cant wait
( )Yigit Ozdamar August 15th
Woow! Happy Birthday!
Cheers!
( )Ethan August 15th
Happeh birthdeh!
I *want* that iMac!
( )Martyn Web August 17th
Congratulations,
What you have achieved in three years is amazing and I look forward to seeing what comes up in the following week.
( )DemoGeek August 17th
Congratulations Envato! My only 2 birthday wishes to you is to cover more of Rails and to keep improving the quality of the site. It’s quite addictive already but if there are more interesting stuffs then I’m sure this will be my first “Breakfast Bookmark” ahead of CNN.com.
( )Nouman Saleem August 17th
Happy birthday for sure
( )Amir Mehmood August 17th
Happy Birthday
( )Rick August 17th
Happy B-Day!
( )Alex Deeley August 18th
Happy Birthday, I’m excited for what’s to come of the Envato Marketplaces!
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