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Buy Pligg Templates, Modules and Services at Pligg Pro

The Pligg Pro shop is the official spot to get Pligg Templates, Modules and Services. Many of the items in the shop are developed by the creators of Pligg, and a percentage of each sale goes toward further development of the Pligg Content Management System.

In an effort to promote quality work on the Pligg Pro shop and to encourage the expansion of free downloads we require that all developers who sell work on Pligg Pro have donated modifications, modules or templates to the Pligg Forum. The Pligg Pro shop has been designed to give committed Pligg developers an incentive to keep developing. All items submitted to Pligg Pro will be reviewed based upon the developers standing in the Pligg community and by the quality of the work. Pligg Pro also will work to negotiate fair and honest prices for the shop. If you are interested in becoming a developer, please contact us using our developer signup form.

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Pligg.com Goes Fraxi

Pligg.com and Pligg.com/blog now both using the new “Fraxi” template, thanks to the work done by the folks at Moonrank USA. The design was created by me in Photoshop and ported as a Pligg template by Moonrank. The Pligg template version still hasn’t been applied to the site because we are working on some new features release along side the new template. For now you have a beautiful new homepage and blog to look at and help us test out.

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Pligg is Hiring for Temporary Position

Pligg is seeking a designer who is experienced in Template Lite template design and is able to take a Photoshop .psd file and convert it into a working Pligg template. This job will be a full time position (30-40 hour weeks) for a maximum of two weeks.

This job requires an advanced knowledge of the following skills:

• - HTML/DHTML
• - CSS
• - Photoshop. Convert from PSD file to XHTML/CSS, then convert to Template Lite. We don’t want to see a bunch of tables, so please don’t apply if you’re only going to slice the CSS like an amateur.
• - Template Lite (http://templatelite.sourceforge.net/)
• - Ajax. Lightbox and other effects provided by third party sites.

The end product should be compatible with all major browsers (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera and Safari).
Priority will be given to developers/designers who have experience with Pligg.

For more information, and to apply for this job please visit our oDesk.com listing.
You can also bid at Scriptlance.com.

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Codename: Fraxi, Part I

I’ve been working on a new template to be used on Pligg.com in the near future, and it has come to be known as Fraxi among the Pligg developers because I originally began designing the template for the domain Fraxi.com. The new template will be made as a Pligg template and as this point I am not intending on making it available for download. Right now it only exists as a Photoshop .psd file of what the future homepage will look like for Pligg, but over the next couple weeks I will finish designing the 14 other pages that need to be made.

We are going to use this new template to help launch the next version of Pligg and help increase the traffic to Pligg.com by demonstrating Pligg on the homepage. I don’t want to give away too many details early on because I’m not sure if we can offer all of the features that I have imagined. I also don’t want to over-hype something that doesn’t exist yet because it’s ridiculous when people get excited over a series of images. To give everyone an idea of the style and color scheme I’ve decided to share a small snippet from the current image. More information will be shared about this template in a follow up post to come soon.

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Pligg Needs More Templates

Yeah, we all know it. Pligg sites out there are desperate for some original templates. Very few people actually take the time to customize their Pligg sites because they don’t have the know-how or the skills to make their own template. We see new requests every day in the forum asking for help and a lot of template job offers, but nobody seems to be taking them. To help solve this problem I’m working on building a site dedicated to buying, selling and bidding on Pligg templates. Before I get the site off the ground I will need to get in contact with anyone wanting to sell their services so that I can list them on the site. I will need your name, contact info (email), what fields you specialize in (php, css, graphics, etc.), your average price range for a template job and an example/portfolio site link. I’m still looking into what software to use for this upcoming site (oscommerce won’t cut it), so if anyone has any ideas leave a comment. Even if you don’t have any experience with designing for smarty sites, we can still use you if you are a rock-solid css’er.

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Call for Template Ideas

We are about a week in to the new template and already planning the framework for the next template. Instead of writing the next template from scratch we have decided that the best idea would probably be by using a generator to produce a very stable frame for the site and make modifications and addons as needed. There are two template CSS generators that we are testing out right now:

• Option 1: PositionIsEverything.net
• Option 2: Skidoo Too

The new layout will only have one left sidebar starting with the user panel on top, followed by a custom link area, then the navigation area and finally the google ads. I think that I will also design it so that the google ads could optionally be placed in a box above the articles in the main content area, since this was requested by a user in a previous comment. I have always been a fan of verticle ads, but I see why someone might want to lay them out horizontally and I would like to keep everyone happy

AshDigg is also working on figuring out how to make changing templates easier by adding the ability to have multiple layouts in subdirectories and selecting which template you wish to use from the admin panel. This idea is really only in a conceptual stage right now, I don’t believe that he has started working on it just yet. The next template will hopefully also include a revamped administrator menu to make it easier on the eye. One of the areas that I think Pligg really stands out from the original Meneame code is the ability to act as an administrator through a simple interface, and I think we should really focus on making it easier and nicer for admins to access and maintain their data.

Lastly and perhaps most important for some of your aspiring web designers is this fun bit of news. Pligg will be hosting a template design contest for Pligg’s default template. We will feature the template in a future release of Pligg and the top three designers will be given cash prizes. First place will be given $50, second $25 and third $10 via Paypal. I know it’s not much, but we’re still a pretty small project and that pretty much maxes out our Pliggy Bank. The money given away for the prizes is coming from our donations that we have been given over the past few months, and I would like to take a moment to thank those who have donated to Pligg. We have collected about $250 in donations, $100 of which was my own money used to purchase a vbulletin license and domain name. I have recently added a link to the donation page to my signature in the forum to hope that we receive some more money to help pay for competitions like this one. I hope to hold more competitions in the future for things like Pligg mods, templates and integrations.

Back to the template competition… Here are some rules that all authors/artists should follow for the competition:

1. All work submitted must be original (by you alone), or the code/imagery must have written permission by the original author to be used for the Pligg project, aknowledging its use in a competition and for free public distribution. The written permission must also have the original authors and your own contact information including a telephone number and current address. This must be scanned and emailed to me. If you choose to have a partner in this project you must do the same and both of you should sign and scan your information.
2. All work submitted must be copyrighted by the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 license. This will allow anyone to use, modify and distribute your work even commercially.
3. Three winners will be selected. The first place winner will receive $50 via Paypal and his/her template design may be used in a future release of Pligg. The second place winner will receive a $25 dollar prize via Paypal and his/her template may be used in a future relase of Pligg. The third place winner will receive a $10 dollar prize via Paypal and his/her template may be used in a future relase of Pligg.
4. All winnings will be distributed via Paypal. This means that you must have a Paypal account to accept the winnings.
5. All designs submitted are giving away their rights of ownership and will stand a chance at being used, or parts of their design being used, in a future release of Pligg.
6. The template should NOT link to your own site anywhere in the template, including the footer. It may however link to pligg.com in the footer and/or the admin panel.
7. We aren’t looking for something that looks just like an existing site. Be original, be creative, make us proud. Please don’t be a copy-cat.
8. You may use CSS generators to assist you in developing a template, but DO NOT copy any CSS from existing sites.
9. You may include Javascript in your templates, but it must be put in the /js directory with the existing Pligg Javascript.
10. You may include any portions of Pligg’s current 6.0 template CSS or image files. This does not include the meneame1.css file.
11. If you need help, ASK! You can contact us either through the forum boards or the IRC channel. Please remember to please try Google first if it’s related to CSS.

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