Design Templates Exposure
GFWD’s is moving forward at a nice steady pace which is nice, so while it’s on my mind I wanted to offer up some minor suggestions to help the open source template designers get the most publicity for their open source web designs.
Currently we show 12 designs on the home page. When you submit your designs, only submit 2-4 at a time, wait a week or so, then submit a couple more if you have them and keep repeating this process, that way you’ll get a lot of home page exposure and publicity over time and not just one big push.
I only bring this up because in the past a lot of designers thought it would be good to get all their designs up at once. That’s great if you want to add some templates and never look back, but for better SEO and top exposure of your awesome design work, keep my suggestions in mind.
The idea of Get Free Web Designs is to get you and your creative web design work the most exposure possible and with my suggestions, that will defiantly happen.
Keep up the great work everyone and thank you again for all your support.
Good advice Sean
Two months ago I started submitting one design every week or two and I pretty much stay on the front page or the 2nd works pretty sweet.
Indeed, you’ve got the perfect system down for maximum exposure of your design work. Looking forward to seeing more of your designs. Keep up the great work.
Thanks Sean. You are doing a great job here.
You’re welcome Len. Thanks for your continued support of the open source design community.
Sean is indeed doing a great job.
I would like to point out that if the designers are not among the top group it would be difficult to find their designs without first knowing the name. My suggestion is to provide an option to select a designer from a list in the Search form like the one they use in OSWD and OWD.
BTW, the Advanced Search by Designer does not work.
Thanks for your support Tom.
You make some good points about designers not being in the top 10.
Also, thanks for the heads up on the designer search. We are in the process of changing a few things with it, so soon it will be fixed and more user friendly too.