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Taken from my forum post a few weeks ago:

Hi everyoneIRT was on a pause status and only recently have we had the chance to re-evaluate it.

To be frank, the problem was that we have had too many designs submitted. Some were better than others as was expected due to the nature of the Internet. Some designs were submitted with wrong images, some with no descriptions, some were just poor etc.

Our main mission for IRT at the beginning was to allow independent T-Shirt designers to showcase good designs. We wanted our viewers to have the confidence to return to the site regularly and see great original T-Shirts. We did not want IRT to become another 2000 page catalog of mainly half finished, copied or poorly designed Tees.

Our initial model failed as we spent too much time, rejecting our members designs and questioning ourselves … who are we to judge.

We will spend the next few weeks, reworking our model and upgrading the site. Hopefully, when we are finished we will move closer to achieving our goal.

The comments and emails received from our members have been great and encouraging. Any ideas that you guys and girls may have, please be welcome to share them with us on the forums.

Regards,

Matt

Just a little update on the site as I have been asked by many designers.

We are hoping to get the new site out before Christmas!

We wanted to increase the impact of having a T-Shirt Design on IRateThis to be more powerful. In order to achieve this, there will be a slight change of direction. The approval criteria will be much stricter and existing designs may be subject to the long overdue cleanse.

If your design was deleted, it does not mean its a bad design, who are we to judge but may be a combination of different reasons such as inappropriate in new categorizations, not unique, etc.

The new IRateThis will be more design focused and designs that are unique, original or just good will be looked favorably upon.

All new designs will be entered into IRateThis as a design entry for review from the IRateThis  community and moderators. Should a design be really special, it will be promoted into the IRateThis catalog which will host the best t-shirt designs the Internet has to offer.

The objective for designers and t-shirt stores will be to get their designs into the IRateThis catalog  where the exposure to clients should be immense.

We remain a website built to serve t-shirt designers and stores to increase their sales and customers and we feel this is the best way to achieve this.

Any questions on our new model can be raised here.

Hello T-shirt lovers everywhere

Just a short introduction from me for now to let you know I’m looking forward to the all new IRT site launch, I’ve seen some of the new site designs and I can tell you its gonna be worth the wait.

While I’m waiting for the IRT re-launch I’ve been keeping myself with the launch of my own line of exclusive limited edition t-shirts they’re not available to buy just yet but check them out at Grandblast.com for a sneak preview.

While I was making the site with the help of this coding expert I know I came across other links for limited edition t-shirts… I’ll save my thoughts on those for my next blog post where I’ll also be sharing some of my top t-shirt sites with you and who knows maybe selecting some of the best IRT designs worthy of an extra mention too.

Anthony

The long awaited update to IRateThis is finally near (honest!).

We will suspend new design submissions and members as of today or tomorrow so that we can work on the database. I am guessing the suspension will be for about 3 to 4 weeks as we test and break and test and break, etc etc until finally .. a spanking brand new and improved IRT is released to the people.

I will post more on the upcoming changes to IRT in future blog posts here. In the mean time, we will keep people happy by introducing nice T-Shirt designs we’ve found on the net on the blog.

Lets start with this one well themed one from Busted Tees

Viva La Evolución

Also, a big welcome to Anthony to IRateThis and a T-Shirt recommendation for him too whilst I am at it.

Welcome to the first post of IRateThis’s blog. We’ll be blogging here on stuf related to T-Shirts and developments on IRateThis.

As an update on whats happening with IRateThis, we’re in the process of a major update which will change the design and functionality of the site. We hope that it will make it much better for our users and have some exciting things prepared for you.

As for this blog, we will be posting T-Shirt highlights, maybe some interviews, T-Shirt articles and anything else about t-shirts.

I’ll end the post here for some more work on the site.