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I think the Magento team are being slightly naive with regards to the pricing of their Enterprise Edition. $11k annually is a bucketload of cash and I’m sure that only serious, established ecommerce businesses would go for a package like that. I mean – I wouldn’t commit to paying those kind of overheads, unless I had a decent track record of sustainable and constant sales.
Would you?
As online hype goes, you’re going to be hard pushed to generate the amount of buzz that Glitch has been generating of late. Whilst this looks really awesome and intriguing (and probably a bit of a “time-sink”), this just proves again that your second success is much easier to achieve than your first (Glitch was started by the team behind Flickr).
I’ve been enjoying my tumbling content on here ever since I switched to this design (which is built on a standalone install of WordPress) late last year. To be honest though, considering that I was situated alone on my own island, my tumblog content was never gonna have the same traction as it would have in a community like Tumblr.
So I’ve been considering switching this design over to Tumblr and then just keeping my longer written articles on here (eg. all of my Project 52 contributions) and in the past week I actually ported this design over to Tumblr (the design is too awesome to lose imo). But if you’re reading this, then you’re still reading it on WordPress and not Tumblr…
Before I get into the reasons for not switching to Tumblr, I’d just like to tell you why I was even considering switching:
So why didn’t I switch then? Basically I found that I was being limited in terms of porting this design over in its current state. Tumblr has some awesome template tags, but they’re not as flexible as WordPress is, which is a shame. For most people considering Tumblr though, this wouldn’t be an issue, because they could design around those apparent limitations. For me, it has meant that I will continue to tumble on my lonely island over here.
“Fantasy world is thinking that everyone has the ability and the access, the know how or even the desire to upgrade their browser.”
Andy Clarke seems to think we live in a fantasy world.
As indicated by the above quote (which I *love*), Noah Stokes tends to disagree a little.
Me? I’m happy to leave the coding, the browser testing and these type of back-and-forth-going-nowhere-slowly discussions to you guys. 
LOL’ing at this rant from Paddy Donnelly, but extremely true indeed. The custom styling on the post is absolutely amazing as well; so read the post for yourself!
Proper spelling & grammar is indicative of professionalism and it is one of the easiest ways to filter out the pretenders (i.e. if you send me an e-mail with poor spelling & grammar, I’m less inclined to respond even though you are offering me the opportunity of a lifetime). Admittedly neither my spelling & grammar seems perfect (English being my 2nd language & all), but I hold my own and I at least try pay attention to this.
So whilst you may find the odd concord error or a sentence ending with a preposition; you will never find me “pissing of my users”. #irony & #sarcasm
I’m excited to announce that I’ll be speaking at the DIBI Conference in the UK in April 2010, where I’ll speaking alongside Tim van Damme, Elliot Kember & Andrew Wilkinson.
I’d love to meet as many of you as possible; so get your tickets over here.
*Cheers to Gavin Elliott for the invite!
From Woork’s description:
The Web Designer Wheel is simple process model that describes in five steps how to manage a small web project and relations with client.
Great read if you’re still doing client design / development work. I’m lucky enough to have skipped that game with WooThemes…