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Comment on The Secret to Finding & Keeping Clients by Designers: How to Search For, Hire, and Work With a Web-Developer | SeanBurdick

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 01:03:22 +0000

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Comment on The Online Business Startup Checklist by Rachel Shaw

Rachel Shaw — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 18:41:28 +0000

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Comment on Passion Plus Profit Can and Must Co-exist by Brian

Brian — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 13:04:24 +0000

Thanks for your comments Rex.

Absolutely. I know I’m not alone in saying I’m absolutely psyched about the Woo Nav coming to the WP 3.0 core. It’s really beautiful functionality, and I’m thrilled that everyone will benefit from it thanks to the awesome team at Woo.

Comment on Passion Plus Profit Can and Must Co-exist by Rex Stevens

Rex Stevens — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 06:25:01 +0000

I completely agree, and guys like you and Obox and especially WooThemes have proven that. I mean look at the WooNav going into WP3 core, that is a company who has made money on their passion and still helped build a better open source, community product for everyone to enjoy. And not always but in most cases the longest lasting and best supported themes and plugins are those who are paid because they can afford to keep offering a better product.

Anyway, just my 2 cents, do with it what you will

Comment on Launch Now. It’s Good for You. by David Morgan

David Morgan — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 00:41:15 +0000

Amen. Convincing your partner of this isn’t always easy though.

Comment on Keep Track of Blog Post Ideas with Zenbe Lists by Blog items

Blog items — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 15:01:47 +0000

Oh my that’s a nice post.

Comment on What’s Wrong With Apple’s Secrecy? by Brian

Brian — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 15:02:18 +0000

Thanks for your comment, Johan. I think the reason so many people aren't impressed with the iPad is because there really wasn't much secrecy around it. It's everything that was expected - essentially an oversized iPod touch. I think the reason for so much disappointment is that there weren't any huge surprises. Nothing was unexpected so nothing blew us away. I actually think this fact is clouding what could actually be a really impressive device. I really liked this take on the iPad.

Comment on What’s Wrong With Apple’s Secrecy? by Johan Swarts

Johan Swarts — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 23:19:30 +0000

I actually completely agree with you. The iPhone, for example, is an amazing device. The engineering that goes into creating some of their hardware alone merits praise.

Not all of those products, however, live up to the hype created around them. Some, obviously, do (re: iPhone). Others, howevers, simply can’t match expectations. iPad? Piece ‘o junk. Macbook Air? Piece ‘o junk. Every edition of OSX before Leopard? Not that great as everyone would have you believe.

Comment on My Expectations for This New Venture by Brian

Brian — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:56:21 +0000

Interesting points. I wonder about end-user’s perception of the theme market and wordpress in general for that matter.

Take the recent popularity of Frameworks + Child Themes. As a developer, I see the benefits of developing this way, but my guess is the vast majority of end users have no idea what a child theme is. It’s interesting how many of the big player theme companies are moving to frameworks/child themes. Personally, I think we still have a little while yet before the concept of child themes spreads to the mainstream user base.

Comment on My Expectations for This New Venture by iaan

iaan — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 05:31:39 +0000

Very true.
Lately I have been wondering if there is scope to market WordPress and Niche specific (ito functionality) themes to the end user and not another web developer. This will allow more focussed development (thus a better products). Support however will be major issue as you are working with WordPress newbies…

Off course that will not exclude the freelance designer to become a client also.

“The perfect business model: Create + sell something that other entrepreneurs need.” (via @adii)