Uploading your work

When submitting your work there are a few important things you should check:

• Be sure files are well organized. It is important that files have a clear naming convention and directory structure.
• Any source code should comply to coding standards. This includes proper naming convention and proper identation.
• There should be documentation explaining how to use your item. Also any included source code itself should be well documented.
• The item itself and the documentation should be in English.

The upload form

Name

The name describes your item accurately. Please use proper capitalization.

Short description

Your short item description is used in your items page’s meta description. This means this is probably the first text users will see in Google search results while searching.

A few tips while writing your short item description:

• Your short item description can be 130 characters long.
• Keep in mind your short item description is what a potential buyer will see while browsing through Google’s search results.
• Use keywords in your short item description that potential customers will search for in search engines.

Full description

The full description contains a detailed description about your item.

Development time

The number of hours it has taken to develop your product. Not how long it takes to install the product.

Preview image

A preview image on Codester is 800px by 400px. Potential buyers will see the image while browsing item listing pages. The image is then resized to a smaller format when shown on listing pages. It is also shown on the your items page as one of the first images. Here are a few tips to create a great preview image.

• Make sure your preview image is 800px wide and 400px in height.
• Don’t use a lot of text. Preview images are resized and using a lot of text does not make it easy to read. Start with the title of your product and list just a few features.

Icon

An icon image is 200px by 200px in size and is like the preview image displayed on item listing pages and on your items page.

• Make sure you icon image is 200px wide and 200px in height.
• Don’t just use a screenshot as your item’s icon image.

Main file

This is the file people will be able to download. Your main file should be .zip file.

Don't forget to include documentation!

Screenshot image set

Upload a .zip file containing screenshots of your item. The images must be JPG or PNG.

• Don’t include too many screenshots. Include at least 3 screenshots and a maximum of 9. More then 9 screenshots is overkill.
• Don’t just use fullscreen screenshots. Showing a messy desktop picture with your product in a window is not very professional. Cut out your screenshot, so it just shows your product.
• Use professional looking test data when taking screenshots. This will give a much better presentation of your item.

Category & Attributes

Select a suitable category for your file. Select which filetypes are included in your download (you can select multiple items by holding down the CTRL key on Windows or the COMMAND key on OS X).

Demo URL

This is a URL with a live demo of your item. Please keep in mind your demo url should not contain any links to buy the item elsewhere.

Video URL

This is a Youtube video URL

Tags

Tags should be lower case and separated by commas.

Price

A general rule of thumb is to take the number of development hours multiplied by 1.2. This is just to give you an idea, there a lot of other things that can influence the price of an item.