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If the price of OS X is $29 or $300 for Windows 7, then how come that WordPress themes cost $50 and more? Sure, the real profits for Apple come from selling the hardware or from partnership agreements with hardware vendors in case of Microsoft. They also sell much more copies of the software compared to that of WordPress theme shops, but then what are the development costs of each?
It would be really interesting to know if there would be enough demand for $10 themes to cover the reduced markup.
# In web design everything is linear and without bounding dimensions — like viewing a magazine spread through a magnifying glass and never seeing the full picture.
# AKA Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr style.
jQuery(document).ready(function($) {
var $content = '#content';
var $nav_wrap = '.navigation';
var $anchor = '.navigation .alignleft a';
var $text = 'Load More';
var $next_href = $($anchor).attr('href'); // Get URL for the next set of posts
$($nav_wrap).html('<a id="almc-load-more" href="' + $next_href + '">' + $text + '</a>');
$('#almc-load-more').click(function(e) {
e.preventDefault();
$.get($(this).attr('href'), '', function(data) {
var $timestamp = new Date().getTime();
var $new_content = $($content, data).wrapInner('<div class="almc-loaded" id="almc-' + $timestamp + '" />').html(); // Grab just the content
$next_href = $($anchor, data).attr('href'); // Get the new href
$('html,body').animate({scrollTop: $($nav_wrap).position().top}, 'slow'); // Animate scroll
$($nav_wrap).before($new_content); // Append the new content
$('#almc-' + $timestamp).hide().fadeIn('slow'); // Animate load
$('#almc-load-more').attr('href', $next_href); // Change the next URL
$('.almc-loaded ' + $nav_wrap).remove(); // Remove the original navigation
});
});
});
# Konstruktors.com is ranked #88,733 in the world according to the three-month Alexa traffic rankings. While we estimate that 24% of the site’s visitors are in the US, where it is ranked #74,617, it is also popular in Canada, where it is ranked #41,055.
The site’s visitors view an average of 2.1 unique pages per day. Konstruktors.com has a relatively good traffic rank in the city of Milwaukee (#5,116). Compared with internet averages, the site appeals more to users who are under the age of 35; its audience also tends to consist of childless, more educated men earning between $60,000 and $100,000 who browse from home.
– alexa.com
I really enjoy the part about ‘users who are under the age of 35, and childless, more educated men who browse from home’.
# Here are some views expressed by Linus Torvalds about the Linux kernel, plugins and how he thinks about derivative work. Very relevant to what I said about plugin interfaces and user space.
So, do themes and plugins serve a system-level or a user-level function?
p.s. Some have compared WordPress plugin and theme API to the way Linux loads kernel modules, when in fact relating it to system call interface (SCI) would be more appropriate.
# It is interesting how thinking and understanding of ideas change over time. This morning I woke up and started reading the GPL licence with the intent to take another look at what it actually stands for.
I have come to conclusion that its purpose is to give everyone the freedom to do whatever they want with my work as long as they retain the freedom to derive from it.
With every software there are only two things one can do with it — either run it or modify it. By applying the GPL licence to my original work I am making sure that these two things can always happen and nobody can take those freedoms away. Read more »
# Define your home as a GPS location +/- 50 m. If you are within that area, you don’t have to enter the password. If you are outside that area, you are requested to select three images in the right order from a grid of nine images. If that fails, you are requested to enter the password.
This would be extremely useful for all the tablets out there.