About

What is Elite Shirt Design?

Elite Shirt first and foremost is a site that features the best in the print on demand t-shirt world. These designers are affiliates through companies like Cafepress, Spreadshirt, Zazzle, etc. Our features either have some of the best designs in this community, the best sites, or in some cases the best of both.

Elite Shirt Design wants to help those of us that are trying to come up in the Print on Demand world learn what it takes to get to the next level. We strive in our features to ask the questions that others in the POD t-shirt world want to know.
As well Elite Shirt Design is intended to be a community for Print on Demand (POD) Designers. A place for all POD (Spreadshirt, Cafepress, Zazzle, RedBubble, etc.) guys and gals to get together and shoot the proverbial ka-ka.

The forum specifically is a place for all to share, discuss, and get help with your sites or designs.

What does POD stand for?
POD is short for Print on Demand companies. Basically any company that will take your work and print it for you. In computerese this is similar to CAM or COmputer Aided Manufacturing. Typically on this site we refe to the major t-shirt (mostly) print companies like Cafepress, Spreadshirt, RedBubble, Zazzle, and Wordans.

How do I get my site featured on the front page of this site?

To apply for featuring please post in the appropriate category in the forum under “Please Feature Me.”

Your request will be reviewed however be aware that your site has to meet a certain standard. The standard is currently at the admin (Fuzzy’s) discretion, however as the site grows forum board members will decide if it is worthy.  Basically it has to be an elite site, or contain elite shirt designs. These are mutually exclusive as some of us excel at coding but are not particularly gifted artists, and likewise some of us can draw, but barely use a mouse. In short a site that is not one of the best has little chance of being featured. That said, anyone may request to be featured, but more importantly the forum is a good place to get your site up to the elite level required for being featured.

The majority of features are chosen because the ESD team has been impressed with the quality of thier work and contacted them directly. Please do not be offended if your request is not accepted, instead look to the feature sites and see what they are doing and hopefully with some effort you can emulate it and make yourself an Elite Shirt Designer.