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The Templates.com Slogan Contest

We recently featured Templates.com here at Orangeinks. It’s a credit based web marketplace for buying and selling web templates and digital art. Since the service is quite new, they are currently looking for a slogan that they can use for the company. In order to accomplish this, they are holding a contest for the best slogan that fits Templates.com. The contest is for everybody, so feel free to share your ideas and give it a shot.

Contest Details:

All you have to do is visit their site Templates.com and browse around. Think of a slogan that best fits the company. Head over to Templates.com blog and post your created slogan in their contest post. The contest starts on July 15th 2008 (Now), and the results will be announced at the beginning of August. Each participant of this contest who has an account on Templates.com will get 4 credits, so everyone will win!

Tip: If you do not have an account in Templates.com, you can register first before entering the contest. This way you can benefit from the free credits for Templates.com users who joined the contest.

Prizes:

1st place: $100 in cash
2nd place: 100 credits from Templates.com which can be used to purchase their products
3rd place: 50 credits from Templates.com which can be used to purchase their products

Note: Just to make it clear, the 2nd and 3rd prize can not be converted to cash. It can only be used to purchase Templates.com products.

Goodluck!

Templates.com

Tags: buy, digital art, sell, templates, templates.com

Find your DriverSide

DriverSide is a web service that caters both car enthusiasts, regular car owners and those who are planning to buy their first car. It’s a great place to visit if you are in the market for a brand new or used car. You can read reviews made by other car owners and check for the current market price of the car you are interested in buying. You can also browse the site for users who are selling their cars.

Owners can share their car experiences for particular makes and models that they have recently acquired or previously owned. This will give others a basic idea about a particular car that they might be interested in.

Aside from user generated information, DriverSide also provides reviews, owner’s guide and important car tips like recall alerts, service schedule and common problems. They also provide detailed specifications of cars and they have a feature called “Cost of Ownership” which tells you how much it will cost to annually register and insure your car of choice. Repair costs approximation is also given by DriverSide which will depend on your location (Zip Code) and car model. This will greatly help car owners to get a ballpark figure on how much money they may need to have to get their car serviced or fixed.

Like most startup web services, DriverSide also have a social networking feature that lets users share to the public the car(s) they own by creating a virtual garage. Share likes and dislikes as well as aftermarket upgrades installed. The social feature however only limits users to input text descriptions of their cars. Image uploads would be a big improvement in the social networking feature of DriverSide. This will let the public view the actual image of the car being described by an owner and actually see what the upgrades look like. This will also provide helpful information to potential car buyers if ever an owner decides to sell his (her) car. Since the site is still in beta, we can expect to see more improvements and added features to the service.

Tags: buy, car service, cars, driverside, sell, Social Networking, web service

Sell Your Original Digital Art Online at GraphicLeftovers

At some point, most of us have played with Photoshop, Illustrator, Aviary or any other image editing software available to us, trying to be creative and producing our own digital art. Some might create an image for a specific purpose, maybe for an online project like a web design, while some just wanted to express themselves through digital art. Whatever your reason for creating your digital work of art may be, I’m sure that if you are keeping them safe in a folder somewhere in your hard drive, those digital pieces of art possesses considerable amount of value to you. Some might actually have tried selling them online but never really got the chance to fully market those wonderful pieces of artwork. Instead of leaving them, dusting in your hard drive, there is actually a place online where you can sell or donate your original graphic art.

GraphicLeftovers is a web service that lets you sell or donate your unused, unsold, or unfairly rejected pieces of art online. They sell logos, Icons, Illustrations, Digital Art, Templates and they also offer free font downloads.

The buying and selling system is managed through virtual credits. A logo can sell for as low as three (3) credits and go as high as ten (10) creds. Credits will automatically go to your account upon purchase of your digital art. You can use those credits to purchase other images or exchange them for cash. Users can also purchase GraphicLeftovers credits. The pricing is shown in the image below.

GraphicLeftovers is created by a graphic designer who owns over 250 Gigabytes of unused images and a hotshot programmer who is responsible for the website. This is a great site for illustrators, designers and anyone who wants to test their creativity, to sell their work on the web. It can also be a starting ground for aspiring graphic artists and those who are already in the market and want to get more exposure.

Tags: artworks, Download, free font, graphicleftovers, graphics, illustrations, images, online, sell, web service

Paypal Releases Storefront Widget

Have you ever thought of selling something over the internet through your website or blog but failed to do so because you are worried of the technicalities involved in it? Well, worry no more because Paypal just launched the Storefront Paypal Widget. With Storefront, you can create your own online store and start selling on your website or blog.

The widget is very easy to setup. All you have to do is create your storefront in Paypal and upload it to your website. Here are the steps and the features involved.

1. Edit your theme and colors

2. Place in the title of the store and your logo.

3. Enter your store policies. This includes shipping information, Contact information and additional information you might want to add.

4. Place your product. This will require the title or name of your product, amount, description and product image. You can also edit the way your product(s) will display on your widget. You can either show all or a selection of items. You also have an option of rotating product pages which rotate every 3 seconds. Whenever a product inventory is empty you can either choose to show a “Product Sold Out” message or you can hide the product until you have restocked.

5. Open you store. In this part you can either display a “Store Open” or”Store Closed Temporarily” message. Customers can also shop and place orders even if the store is closed if you choose to enable this feature.

6. When everything is ready you can update your storefront then get the html code and publish it in your website.

This Storefront project of Paypal can open a lot of doors to a lot of people who have been meaning to sell something over their websites. I wouldn’t be surprised if one day I saw a website swarming with Storefront Widgets selling all sorts of stuff in it.

Tags: online, Paypal, sell, Storefront, widget

Sell Your Used and Broken Gadgets

We all have our share of broken gadgets, from Mp3 players to game consoles to mobile devices, you name it. Sometimes getting it fixed will cost you almost as much as buying a new one, so in most cases they end up in the trash. Instead of letting it just clutter around your room or throw it in the trash which could lead to environmental hazards, there is a place where you can sell your useless and unwanted gizmos. BuyMyTronics.com wants to buy your used, new or broken Electronics. They offer a fast, simple, and eco-friendly way for you to get money for your iPod, iPhone, Nintendo, Microsoft, Zune, Sony or PSP Game Console. They accept all kinds of iPods including the iPhone, Playstation 1-3, X-Box PSPs, Mobile Phones, Laptops, Digital Cameras, Camcorders, PDA’s and lots more. Broken or not they don’t care about the condition of your gadgets. A bricked iPhone, a Sad Faced Hard Drive iPod, consoles with disk read error and even a beat up Wii will get top dollar – Guaranteed. Don’t you just love services like this?

How it works:

• Tell them about your TRONIC. Once you have entered the necessary information about your gadget, you will be given an instant price quote.
• Ship the blasted thing to them. Fill in their shipping information sheet with the e-mail address of physical address where you would like your payment sent via Paypal or check.
• Get paid – within 24 hours upon receiving your TRONIC.

Tags: broken, broken camera, broken cellphone, broken gadgets, broken ipod, BuyMyTronics, electronics, ps3, sell, wii, x-box 360