Posts by PixelBuffet

Dance naked in the streets holding (or ‘dangling’ – your choice) a large sign with the URL for your portfolio page.

Don’t forget to include the referer bit on the end!

Kinda harsh when my day job is graphic design and I routinely get the thumbs up for what I do…

And dont forget you’re not doing all this work for nothing. Even if you feel like you never get a file approved, you’re always improving just by trying.

First off, well done on a really unique idea.

A few pointers:

- Try to do a bit more work on the box, it is the basis of all your icons and so with a bit more work on that element alone – you can really lift the whole set.

- Typically in icon design, you don’t do things proportionally. The icons with text don’t really work because you’ve made them proportional to the box.

To illustrate these two points: http://www.philmorrow.co.uk/demo-templates/boxes.jpg

I’ve spent more time on the box itself, and made the tag for the text much bigger. Now I could slap any icon on this and it’s going to look good because I’ve got my proportions right and made the box look awesome (if I do say so myself! ).

Also, think about what the customer actually wants:

- Putting each icon in a seperate PSD seems like the kind of thing that buyers might not want. Also, they wont always want to use the icons on a white background, so you need to provide them as PNG or GIF files with transparency, rather than jpeg files. Try to make things as easy as possible for your purchasers.

- Personally, I wouldn’t offer 16×16 for this set (and possibly 24×24), in my opinion these icons wont work at that size. You might think that you’re giving someone extra, even if it isn’t that great, but you’re actually giving the reviewer reasons to reject the file.

Hope it helps and good luck!

As Raincutter said, the best way is just to reply to the rejection email. It’s then much easier for support to pass it on to the relevant reviewer, who should then respond pretty quickly.

GET OUT WHILE YOU CAN !!1

Before too long you’ll be waking up in the middle of the night needing to check to see if you’ve had any more sales…

Welcome

It’s pretty obvious which recently added item you’re talking about. For what it’s worth, I thought the exact same thing when I saw it – reminded me of your work.

Extremely cool, really nice idea! All works a treat (although I did just lose connection though).

This is definitely going to be great for killing some time at work

Where I work, we have a session which means that if you’ve been inactive for a period of time (i.e. not progressing to the next page) then it drops any stored info collected in that session. It is so that you don’t waste server load holding information about people who have abandoned the page. For us at work, we do it after 3 hours – but we only collect text data so we can hold it for that long without issue. Here they are collecting several files sometimes with huge file sizes.

Judging by the fact that all the sales related stats are now only updated every 24 hours (when it used to be every hour) – I’d say they are having server load issues and are trying to ease that where ever possible. So their session time out is probably set to be pretty low, keep your submission time short and you shouldn’t have any issues.

Might be wrong, but that’s my impression of it.

I do exactly the same as Giallo, write everything before hand in a text-editor (even keywords) so I can copy and paste it in. If you take too long it tends to return ‘page not found’. Once it has done it once, you need to completely exit your browser and go back it – clicking back and trying again tends to just make it error again.

Good luck with your files!

I was wondering why I cannot see your paw even though you have 2 sales..?.... Maybe a bug… it will be sorted out if it is.

Anyway, congratulations JinWook – I’m sure it’ll be the start of many sales to come!