Monthly Archives: September 2009

Poll: Have You Ever Bought a Premium Theme?

Here’s an interesting question: Have you ever paid for a WordPress theme? Be it Thesis or a more traditional “design-oriented” theme, have you ever paid for a pre-made theme, rather than making one yourself, hiring someone to do it for you, or simply downloading a free theme?

Have you ever paid for a premium WordPress theme?

  • Yes (41%, 16 Votes)
  • No, I make my own themes (31%, 12 Votes)
  • No, I just use free themes (28%, 11 Votes)
  • No, I hire a designer (0%, 0 Votes)

Total Voters: 39

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The New York Times Accidentally Serves Malicious Ads

The New York Times was unwittingly serving-up a rogue advertisement last week that would install malware disguised as antivirus software when it appeared in the rotation. The malware seems to be one of the many variants of the infamous Antivirus2009, which goes by many…

Facebook Lite: Faster, Less Annoying

What annoys you the most about Facebook? Probably the sea of Mafia Wars notifications, quiz solicitations and other application-related things. What started out as an interesting idea has taken over the popular social networking site. There is a fix for you, fortunately. (If you…

CSS-Tricks: Style a List with One Pixel

Chris Coyier recently released a new article that covers an ingenious CSS trick that puts me in mind of the days of 1-pixel spacer.gif files and tiling graphics meant to replace the <hr> tag. Basically it uses a one-pixel graphic and a bit of…

WordPress Theme of the Month: Visiting Card

Famous designer TimVanDamme designed his mini site and everyone praised it a lot for unique, beautiful concept. Usually it happens when you are really active on social media sites, you blog less. And his design was perfect solution for those who have a domain…

BlogBuzz September 12, 2009

Are Premium WordPress Themes Going Out of Style?

There has been some interesting discussion about WPblogger about premium WordPress themes. The author of the original post says “Premium WordPress Themes are Dead.” Ben Cook suggests that people aren’t really interested in buying an individual theme so much as a highly configurable theme…

Stack Overflow, Super User, Server Fault: Your Tech Questions Answered

Stack Overflow, Server Fault, and Super User are a set of interesting sites by Jeff Atwood, the blogger behind the Coding Horror blog. Back when Stack Overflow launched in 2008, Jeff described it like this: Stackoverflow is sort of like the anti-experts-exchange (minus the…

Is Excessive Bold Text a Bad Idea?

A common practice among bloggers is to mark out sections of text with boldface type in order to call attention to that portion of a paragraph. It’s said to be a reading aid, to make the article more skimmable. Is it really necessary? Should…

Gravity Forms

There has been a lot of talk about a new WordPress plugin called Gravity Forms lately. It’s one of the first major premium WordPress plugins, costing $39 for a single-site license and $99 for multi-site. What does it do? It’s a bit like the…