SO you’ve created a great wordpress theme, got your demo site up and running and packaged the files for download… looks great so far.
But you know what really annoys wordpress theme users? When the re-uploaded packaged file is totally unpopulated and doesnt look anything like the dmeo theme you’re showcasing on your site.
Sure you’ve created a tutorial and possibly a custom admin panel… but that still means that we’re not getting what was originally shown – its like misselling. Think of buying a car only to find when its delivered that theres no seats, its uncoloured and theres no digits on any of the buttons… the same could be said of themes that when first uploaded and activated, dont represent the demo theme shown.
So back to my plea… can you please pre-install all of the content shown on your demo sites when themes are first installed.
Just discovered this Open SOurce ASP.NET ecommerce system called NopCommerce. This is pretty revolutionary for me as in the past, I have been lead to believe that .NET systems are closed source, make use of COM objects and closed library files which resulted in almost every piece of .NET software being a paid application.
The system looks pretty well formed and feature packed and it includes all of the standard functionality you would expect from an ASP.NET Ecommerce system in particular:
…and lots more.
As a pro web designer with over 10 years experience it pains me to say this but if you’re starting out with an online business the key is do do things as cheaply and more importantly basic as possible and once the site achieves a high search engine placement, then you can use your experience, not guess work and expendable profit to reinvest in the design, branding and features of your website.
Time after time we get briefs from new business start-ups who dont have any cash but have grandioso ideas about the features and functionality required of their online store. Most of the time this is all wishful thinking an not really based on customer objectives and in the end our quote often makes them lose faith in becoming an online business.
So do yourself a favour…
From this point on the plan should be:
You can even read the FREE online book Getting Real by online application developers 37 Signals which gives you an idea as to how theyve built and managed successful websites without the masisve overhead and complicated initial featureset.
From the creators of jailbreak comes flash for the iPhone.
Steve Jobs said it couldn’t be done but some crayzee guy has managed to port flash to the iPhone 4/3gs/3g so you can now play farmville in all its glory.
Its very buggy but worth it if you’re tired of seeing those blue lego bricks everywhere.
With so many new features, im gonna spend some serious time going through the new version of WordPress which was launched today!
Like McDonalds…I’m Lovin’ It.
I’ve been here for over a year now and thought I’d push my luck with the boss and ask if I could get some training to further my knowledge. Originally I thought about some SEO training with Aaron Wall, but at £600 a month and my (no doubt) considerable knowledge and experience in SEO, I was hesitant to spend so much when I know i’ll just end up sifting through the course notes looking for a golden grain of insight that in all reality isn’t there… instead, thanks to a suggestion by the boss I’m getting some training in PHP which could come in handy as I’m constantly frustrated with our existing systems and would love to jump in and fix the issues and make improvements (not that the nice people at Bronco aren’t helpful – its just I know these are quick things to fix if you know what you’re looking at).
I searched nationwide looking for in-office, remote study and local in-person training and finally settled with NTI in Leeds. To be honest the clincher was the 60% Government funded reduction in the original £600 fee for the three day course bringing it down to a much more Yorkshire man friendly £240.
The course uses the Open Source ZEND application suite and is called ZEND PHP I: Foundation.
I’m booked in for the 7th July over at their facilities in Leeds which could be the filler for the hole in my ‘universal’ online marketing and design skillset.
…next stop, WORLD DOMINATION MWAHAHAHAHA!
I’ve been playing with some code in an existing script and come across a big chunk of encryption starting with the line : eval(gzinflate(base64_decode, this appears to be a method of encrypting a line with the base64 method and then gzipping the file to further make it difficult to read.
To get around this and to discover the secrets hidden underneath I discovered a great tool that decodes the gzinflate base64 code into a format you can read.
Simply copy and paste the code as instructed to get going:
Wonderful stuff.
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