Not a design genius but want to make your own website? $50 for hiring a web designer a little heavy on the pocket?
Now, with little wits and some actual time to spare, you can create your very own website with the perfect menu and the perfect plugins that you’re looking for. Despite platforms like Wordpress and Drupal offering several readymade themes and plugins, often originality lacks behind. The criteria go north while freebies go south, and to make ends meet a newbie can either end up with a bad website or with an empty wallet.
Welcome to Codecanyon, a part of the Envato market that offers free scripts. Latest Hollywood movie scripts? Well, No. (Would have been interesting, though!) This place is a coder’s paradise.
Codecanyon is endowed with millions of scripts and components for different frameworks and languages, including PHP, ASP.net, HTML, CSS, Java and JavaScript. The latest entry is bootstrap and Jquery fighting for popularity (and gaining as well).
Do we really need CodeCanyon?
No, and Yes.There are millions of scripts available freely and if one actually can research the web indefinitely, he may find what he is looking for. So, for an expert web researcher, you may not need CodeCanyon at all.
But the question again comes to ‘time over money?’ With people getting busier by the day, everyone wants to get things done quickly. Codecanyon grasps this idea and produces an ideal collection of helpful snippets just a few click and few dollars away from the user.
The trick is to buy a lot of things for little prices so that the user loses the idea that the collection of all the items might actually be costlier than buying a single website altogether. Again, if we are smart enough, we can purchase a few items and grab a few freebies to build our desirable website or application.
A Beginner’s Guide to Codecanyon
- For any kind of buying or selling activity, you need to sign up with a legitimate email account.
- Once verified, you can browse the Category list to view the different types of codes available.
- You can also directly search code by using Keywords.
- There are a Collection and Featured Files handpicked by the editor’s to share the top snippets in every category.
- Look for the Top Authors for getting the best word in CodeCanyon
- For a seller, once he has created a code snippet he can send this for approval. The approval system is same as Themeforest.
Tips for authors from Bestsellers
- For any code to become extraordinary, you should use your imagination and inspiration for the code.
- Motivation has to be the key source.
- Take time to create the code with care and do not rush. Most of the rushed (often copied) snippets face rejections. It is important to give time to develop the code.
- Before you write anything, you should ask yourself – why should anyone buy your code? How is it different from others? Can it be really helpful?