Fri, 08/21/2009 - 16:23 — julie
It’s been a hectic 3 days for us here at
target="_blank" href="http://envato.com">Envato. We’ve had a massively successful
target="_blank" href="http://envato.com/birthday">Birthday Bundle (over 5,000 sales in 3 days), lots of giveaways, a fantastic Tuts+ tutorial set up for free download and our first video interview. Here in the office we’ve also been celebrating today with a big lunch and lots of network gaming! With the birthday all wrapped up now though I thought I’d give you a very quick preview of what’s coming up in September…
All this before the end of September
We’re on a bit of a roll at the moment, what with the birthday celebrations, the launch of the new
target="_blank" href="http://envato.com">Envato.com website, lots and lots of recent upgrades to our server infrastructure and the launch of
target="_blank" href="http://photo.tutsplus.com">Phototuts+ … but it doesn’t stop there. Nope, in the next 6 weeks we have a rather huge amount of stuff planned which in turn means we’re all going to be working some serious overtime! Here’s what’s coming before the end of September:
- Plus coming to Aetuts+
/> Since its inception
target="_blank" href="http://ae.tutsplus.com">Aetuts+ has been flying along. Now Skellie and new editor Adam Everett Miller are going to be taking things up a notch with the addition of bonus Plus content for members of our $9 a month Plus program.
- Email Templates coming to ThemeForest
/> If you’ve ever designed HTML emails you know how painful it can be even with programs like
target="_blank" href="http://litmusapp.com">Litmus. But soon you’ll be able to pick up affordable, high quality newsletter and email templates over at
target="_blank" href="http://themeforest.net">ThemeForest!
- Brand New "How to Be Awesome at Work" blog … a
/> One of our most enduringly popular sites is
target="_blank" href="http://freelanceswitch.com">FreelanceSwitch a site to make you better at freelancing. Well we’ve been thinking, what about everyone else – they probably want to be awesome too! So we’re launching a brand new blog called WorkAwesome.com. FreelanceSwitch editor Joel Falconer is at the helm and is compiling content for the new site for its imminent launch.
- 2 New AppStorm sites about
target="_blank" href="http://web.appstorm.net">Web Apps and
target="_blank" href="http://air.appstorm.net">Air Apps
/> In 2009 thousands of Mac software junkies have discovered our little
target="_blank" href="http://mac.appstorm.net">Mac Apps blog – Mac.AppStorm well we’re expanding out into two new areas – Web Apps and Adobe Air Apps. Look out for the first of these next week!
- The BIG one … Envato Marketplace Redesign
/> This has been in development for almost three months now and finally the new marketplace design is approaching readiness. It’s a total overhaul of the look and is packed with all sorts of features, including forum improvements, interface improvements, author following, and much, much more. It’s going to be massive!
So look out for all this and more! It’s going to be a big couple of months!
