We had a post recently that shared how web designers should learn to code but I personally believe that in our economy and time that everyone should learn to write a little more code. Why? Just as Code.org is trying to share via Steve Jobs, it teaches you how to think.
Automattic, 1099-MISC, and Product Focus
You don’t always get a 1099-MISC from Automattic, now do you? Last year was the first year where we started selling our flagship product on WordPress.com and it was a great first year and we hope to make this year even better. It’s hard to imagine that we were partner #5 with Automattic, especially now that it’s grown much, much bigger. We’ve learned a lot about what it takes to be successful in a commercial theme marketplace like WordPress.com and what works and what doesn’t and at some point I’d love to share some of those learnings.
WP.com Premium Theme for Sale on Creative Market
Wow, now this is a first. It seems that the newest magazine theme that we covered recently is now available on Creative Market as one of their offerings: Our friends at Creative Market announced last week that all themes sold on their marketplace are now 100% GPL. We couldn’t be more thrilled about this and send hearty kudos to the gang at CM for doing the right thing. To show our support, we’ve jumped into the fray by offering for the first time ever a WordPress.com premium theme for self-hosted WordPress blogs. This is an interesting move for WordPress.com and Automattic as they are […]
'The Fold' is Dead – Long Live 'The Folds'
One of the first rules in the rulebook of Web design is think about “the fold“. For any design newbies out there “the fold” is the visible part of the webpage that someone sees when they first load a webpage. It’s kind of like the webpage equivalent of an iceberg. “The fold” is everything above the water, even if there is lots of content hidden bellow. In the past this was a vital element of your webpage design that you had to think long and hard about. If you put the wrong thing here then the chances are no one would look […]
Genericons: GPL Icons via Automattic
Not much to report here other than the fact that Automattic has released their vector icon fonts for blogs for use in your very own projects. You can add CSS effects if you’d like as well and they are calling it Genericons. It’s part of the upcoming 2013 theme that has gotten a lot of attention and there are already people that have vocally shared that they’re going to include it in their own themes as well.
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