Oooh this one is a lovely full kit (4shared) and I happened upon it purely by chance.
I've been getting really busy unzipping my files to make room for the "Goodie Blog Train -The Orient".
I also notice that many other blog-trains coincide with the start of the month. I love it!!
I really thought Fall Carnival was my favorite blog-train so far, given the huge variables of talent and experience (hands down Trish really has the best blog-train no contest in my opinion) I felt all the entries were beautiful and very useful for compiling a huge kit to use outside Fall as well. The Carnival theme made the elements extra exciting, I think - I think it is best to have the theme be a combo theme like Fall Carnival perhaps?
http://designbydani.com/girltalk/2010/10/huge-giveaway/ >> get all those templates above too!
It is essential when using 4shared for this train to clear out your cookies after every third download max (I normally do it after two accepted downloads) all it will take ages - and 4shared has been giving people a lot of errors if they have an abundance of cookies in their browser - it is definitely not the designers fault. If a 4shared link is not working - it is either a 4shared outage (which can be confirmed by trying to download one of your own hosted files on your account) or you are being stuffed about because 4shared figures you have had plenty of download privileges and makes you wait whilst some other user gets the bandwidth.
The fastest workaround is to clear all of your cookies, log in if possible and if still not working then favorite the file so you have a recorded link to the file (you should try to upload it to this account) and try again once the outage is fixed (usually about three hours maximum)
You can also use these principles and apply them to the freebie files hosted on Mediafire downloads.
I notice that more and more designers are opting for Mediafire, which apart from the prolificness of pop up ads and noisy PIMP pages (is it just me that gets bombarded with pop ups using Mediafire? I am wondering if I indeed have a computer virus as I am noticing a lot more pop up action on blogs and mediafire when freebie hunting. Is anyone else finding this?
Leave a comment in the comments if you have experienced this. I know that there is new way for ads to operate via a mouse-over activation which I think is being utilized by a lot of add ins and plug-ins for blogs and media sharing sites. Basically you no longer have to click a pop-up link, instead they just activate the link if you happen to "mouse-over" the area of the page - quite cheeky if you ask me. I find Mediafire's PIMP page is just a horrible association for an otherwise professional and easy to use site. I am disappointed that Mediafire would taint the user experience so much, given that the site has very good potential - no wait times is definitely a bonus, but I wonder if we pay for this bonus by being subjected to popups from a wide range of suspicious websites.
