June 23rd, 2009
Hard may not be the best word for it, but it is certainly time consuming. The past couple of weeks I’ve been pulling double, sometimes triple duty. It takes a toll on you for sure.
So, what have I been up to. Well during the hours of 8ish to 5:30 I’ve been doing my normal day job making websites and analyzing web traffic. During my evenings and weekends I’ve been doing some work for Branson’s Nantucket. Then, if that wasn’t enough I’ve pitched in making a microsite for Torani because Melody works over at Deep.
I’d say that I’ve probably been averaging 14 hour work days for the past three weeks, which include Saturdays and Sundays. I’m not really sure when it will end because as soon as one thing is completed I feel like I’m taking on something else. For instance, Marcus just picked up 4 t-shirts that have been printed so we’re going to redo FNA Cotton and start selling some shirts again.
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June 15th, 2009
After doing the automatic upgrade Wordpress was screwed.
Fatal error: Call to undefined method Redirection::_weak_escape() in /home/.miss/pezcore/jasonstanbery.com/wp-includes/wp-db.php on line 487
I renamed my plugins folder and it came back up. So I trashed a couple of old plugins that I didn’t use (easy gravatar, a couple of update ones from 2007, etc.). I don’t know which one was breaking it, but after trashing the ones it seems to work now.
Update:: it broke again, then looking at the error it was pretty obvious the culprit, it was the redirection plugin that I was using for something or another. It think it was there because I moved my blog from one directory to another. Seems to work now regardless.
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May 30th, 2009
I’m just as tired of making and seeing sites with font stacks that include Verdana, Arial, Trebuchet MS, and Georgia as everyone else – but…
99% of my clients don’t care what font their site is in, only that the content is legible. The 1% that cares about the font choice know that paying to use a font that was already paid for is BS. Design is important, but content is, and always will be, king. If you can convince a client that a different font will lead to a higher conversion rate then you have a valid reason to pay for typekit. I, however, don’t think a different font will lead to more sales.
The only pricing structure that has a chance of working would be the type of pricing structure employed by mint (analytics not finances – though the finances one would be even better). I’ve never used mint for analytics, but from what I can determine, you pay $30 one time, no monthly charge, no annual charge. If a site goes without a redesign for 10 years then you still don’t pay more. I guess if you host a client’s site you can roll the cost of a monthly or annual fee into their hosting charge, but that’s pretty shady.
I believe that typekit isn’t a final solution, just an attempt to really get the ball rolling and provide an interim solution – and make a nice bit of coin off of it.
It’d be interesting to see if the outpouring of support would still be there if the web design super heroes weren’t throwing their support behind it.
I would prefer the font foundries and not a third party handle the licensing agreement through an API key for specific domain names.
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May 29th, 2009
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