Willing to get your preset gallery looking special and having your own website style, attract more visitors and get higher conversion? – of course this is what you are constantly scratching your heads over trying to get use of as many custom options on your account as possible. And you might surely have noticed that your preset gallery Shopping Cart, Offers and Checkout pages are designed in a bit different way than the store other pages (this is because these pages are located in MyTemplateStorage.com source files so designed similarly to MyTemplateStorage.com). And though you are able to modify them via the account Custom settings you are quite limited with the facilities the options offer. So we thought you might find it useful getting some more tips and tricks from us on how to customize the visual presentation of the Shopping Cart, Offers, and Checkout pages of the preset gallery on your website via CSS.

CSS customization is what is defined as the page layout styles and classes modification allowing to flexibly alter the way they look. First you need to create a new styles file and place it into your store root css/ folder – you may store it under “custom-styles.css”. This is where you add new styles for the elements your are changing on your Shopping Cart, Offers and Email pages; the new ones will be replacing the styles of the major CSS-file on MyemplateStorage.com thus making the pages look different.

The table below will help you get better what elements presentation some classes and IDs refer to:

So, you’ve already edited your custom-styles.css file and for your new css document to start working you need to specify the route to it on your preset on http://www.mytemplatestorage.com/. For this you enter your affiliate admin area (using your login and password), navigate to Presets=>Preset settings and press “Edit” button next to your preset name. Then proceed to “Other settings”, enter the complete route to your customized CSS file into “Specify an URI of your CSS file for the preset (optional)” , like: https://yoursite.com/themes/default/css/custom-styles.css; and press “Submit”. One important detail should also be noted – the route to your customized CSS file as well as the other backgrounds this file has needs to be specified as having the https protocol (all these files need to be absolute i.e. having protocol and domain specified) – this will expedite your store pages loading.

Once you’ve done all this you’ve implemented new styles to your store).

We are glad to announce the news we all have been anticipating so much – today we have finally launched the new template type – Flash CMS Templates (type ID 36), and starting from now they are available for you and your customers.

Feel free to look for and browse the new designs on TemplateMonster.com, and learn about this revolutionary Flash CMS on the Flash CMS templates presentation page.
These premium templates are available with and are powered by Flash CMS the cost for which is included into the template price – on ordering the template in addition to the template download mail your customer gets the e-mail from FlashMoto to enter the account and activate the Flash CMS for the template purchased. Starting from November, the 3rd those developers who would like to create easily maintained flash webstes based on the Flash CMS will be able to order it apart from the designs they are coming with now.

MyTemplateStorage.com team

Just before the launch of FlashCMS templates next week we have added a few FlashCMS bright banners for you to enrich your collection of affiliate TemplateMonster banners – you are now able to find them in Affiliate tools on your account here and use to refer customers to TemplateMonster to order these stunning designs based on the revolutionary FlashCMS that is about to be launched just in a few days.

We would like to write here in this post about MyTemplateStorage TOS recent update – you can see the update on our Terms page here in “Use Links Carefully“.

As we are strictly against your using TM’s branded keywords like monster template, monstertemplate, monstertemplates, monter templates, template monster download, template monsters, template monter, templatemonster, templates monster, etc. when advertising your affiliate website in Google AdWords – from now and on we will be checking out the affiliates who might be using the TM’s keywords in contextual advertising if so will have the right to terminate the affiliate account without any prior notice and commission refund.

We do hope you won’t be doing this and we will not have to spend time and efforts on sorting such issues out, as well as we hope you do understand the way of getting traffic this way is not worth getting the risk of losing affiliate partnership.

Sincerely,
Marina Black
affiliate program manager

ACH and Paypal payout news

In this post we would like to deliver you the news about the affiliate payouts terms update – we have already announced it in our affiliate forum (please, check it out in the forum topics Paypal News and ACH News
), but we would also like to make this addition here on our affiliate blog to make sure you all already know that the payouts for ACH are now processed once a week, and for Paypal – twice a week. So the ACH and Paypal deliveries should keep you waiting no more than 7-8 business days for ACH and 3-4 days for Paypal accordingly. Please, feel free to contact our affiliate support at support@mytempaltestorage.com or submit a ticket to Affiliate Program team here should you have any delays with your commission delivery.

Since last Friday we have been having issues with getting into TM and MTS, affiliate accounts and templates display (our servers were down) – we are awfully sorry for all the technical problems you all had to experience because of this.
Our admins have fixed all the recent issues as well (getting the 404 error, no big previews display, etc.) and we expect all will normalize in a few hours ( about 6-8 hours will be needed for the DNS update) , but if you
still see some issue of the kind – please, contact us  to immediately fix it (via the ticket system, and the affiliate support mail support@mytemplatestorage.com), our technicians will look into it ASAP.

Marina Black,

affiliate program manager

All of our sites (including templatemonster.com, mytemplatestorage.com, templatetuning.com, etc.) are down now. We expect them to go back online at 4 a.m. EST.

We are sorry for the inconvinience.

Update: We’re back online now.

We have a new product (type ID 30) that we have just launched, that’s the  Stock Music Packages. We’ve designed new banners and you can find them in Affiliate Tools section of your affiliate account among the other Template Monster project banners.

By the way, the new flash banners have become more flexible now and you can use them not only to send customers Template Monster via your affiliate link  but to your website as well simmply replacing the ulr in the banner code.

Hey guys, I just would like once again to give some info about the Proclipart project and the benefits of ProClipart affiliate program, especially taking into account that we’ve just launched a very special offer.

ProClipart is resource meant for website designers and developers, where they can find thousands of illustrations, icons and 3D clipart. The development of more or less simple illustration costs around $700 in average while at ProClipart you receive access to the great collection for $99 in a year only. The number of downloads is not limited.

Regarding the special offer, we have increased your affiliate commission for the ProCllipart project up to 45%, meaning that for any new member who gets registered on ProClipart following your affiliate link you will receive $45! Earning money have never been easier! All you have to do is place one of the banners we’ve created for you (and that you will find in Affiliate Tools section of the ProClipart project interface) on your website or make a small promotion and you can expect pretty good sales. There’s been a testing period for the ProClipart project on Template Monster that turned out a success so we are sure that this project is a winner.

Good luck and great sales!

We are glad to present you our new tool for selling templates, the Ready Made Affiliate Shop version 2. As opposed to the old version of the Ready Made Affiliate Shop the new one is not using the presets but the xml api scripts to display the template information. You have an option to save all the template screenshots and show them from your server (just in case if something is not working on our side the templates will display perfectly on your end) or show templates from our servers if there’s not enough space of your server for the full templates screenshots database.

Ready Made Affiliate Shop Demo: http://rms.sampleresellers.com/
Admin area: http://rms.sampleresellers.com/admin/
Login: demoadmin
Password: demopassword

The “save” button is disabled so the changes that you make won’t be saved accordingly.

Design and user friendliness.

Ready Made Affiliate Shop has a theme based system (like a WordPress for example) so in the future you can easily change designs of your shop. We also will be offering the theme design service at a reasonable price.

Setting the structure of the URLs.

For better search engines optimization we have created a interface allowing to set the structure of the URL for all the shop pages. There’s a list of macros available that include template type, category, template number etc.

Setting the pages titles.
You can easily set the page titles from the admin area. You can use just the texts or add macros for better search engine optimization.

Editing text.
You can add/edit/delete text blocks on every page of the Ready Made Affiliate Shop as well as add new content pages with your information.

The Ready Made Affiliate Shop is not just uploaded to your server but needs to be installed. During installation process you will be offered to enter your affiliate info (such as your affiliate ID and the webapi password), choose the types and categories of templates to display in the shop and enter your ftp and database info to establish connection with your server. It is important that your server has all the settings listed below else the ready made affiliate shop won’t be functioning properly.

Server requirements.

PHP version from 5.2.6 and up
ZLIB extension
MYSQL extension

Server parameters needed:
safe_mode = off
open_basedir = no value
allow_url_fopen = on

MySQL version from 5.0 and up
HTTP server. The Ready Made Affiliate Shop was tested on Apache 1.3+

Disk Usage
To show template screenshots from our servers – 512 Mb
To show template screenshots from your server – 1.5 Gb after install and up to 100 Gb in the process of templates shop operation.

Ready Made Affiliate Shop will be available closer to the end of the May.