- Envato Staff
- Has been a member for 4-5 years
- Attended a Community Meetup
- Australia
- Beta Tester
- Contributed a Blog Post
- Contributed a Tutorial to a Tuts+ Site
- Repeatedly Helped protect Envato Marketplaces against copyright violations
- Sold between 5 000 and 10 000 dollars
Hey everyone, I wanted to let you know that I’ll be bumping up the HTML Templates approval standards in terms of design and features. The standards for the Specialty Pages category will be bumped up the most. Items submitted for this category will need to have a unique design and offer a solid set of features (colors, Twitter, contact form, etc).
This isn’t going to limit templates to certain layouts (like sliders, tabs, etc). New concepts and fresh designs are always welcome (as they have been) but still need to be well designed.
With an increase in approval standards there will most likely be an increase in authors who disagree with the review decision. If you do disagree, you’re always welcome to discuss it in the forums. However, it will be much more productive if you respond to the review message expressing your thoughts and concerns before posting about it in the forums.
If you have any questions, just let me know. 
- Author was Featured
- Bought between 1 and 9 items
- Exclusive Author
- Has been a member for 4-5 years
- Item was Featured
- Referred between 10 and 49 users
- Repeatedly Helped protect Envato Marketplaces against copyright violations
- Sold between 50 000 and 100 000 dollars
That’s great. About time imho 
Yep, good decision 
Sweet! Finally!
- Interviewed on the Envato Notes blog
- Microlancer Beta Tester
- Most Wanted Bounty Winner
- Power Elite Author: Sold between 1 000 000 - 1 999 999 dollars
- Author was Featured
- Bought between 100 and 499 items
- Referred between 500 and 999 users
- Won a Competition
I’ll back this one up (even if it does mean getting rejected a few times on future products). Higher standards equal better products and more sales.
I will write this on my notes so that I wont forget it..
Good move
