Time to celebrate, some great news are to be spread

First of all, a massive ‘THUMBS UP’ to Mark Ghosh over at Weblog Tools Collection, the major news blog in regard to Wordpress, for banning ’sponsored themes’ from their news section. In the past, many designers sold their themes (to be specific: they sold links to totally Wordpress/Design unrelated sites) to the highest spammy bidder on Forums such as forums.digitalpoint.com. Often the money generated from one theme did not exceed 50$-100$. Users browsing the WLTC news and the themeviewer (in some cases) did not know that they were installing linkware that could discredit their own name and domain with search engines such as Google.

Anyhow Matt -the Wordpress Matt Matt- welcomed this decision and announces that soon to go (before wordcamp this July) sponsored themes will also be gone from themes.wordpress.net – Lorelle, welcomes this decision, too – A double yay for that!
My take on sponsored themes has always been the same, read my (old) article called theme ethics and it’s follow-up.

Marketeers and theme sellers, don’t be sad: either get a job at your local McDonalds or write for a blog and get some money.

In other great news

I ruined my LCD-screen while trying to get thunder flies (hope that is the correct translation, I mean those really small flies) OUT of my LCD screen. They were not ON the surface, but under the surface – basically between the light screen and the pixel matrix. The tech support of LG kind of laughed their ass off, but said it is not covered by guarantee. Anyhow, as they didn’t cover it guarantee-wise I decided to open the screen and clean it out myself. This worked quite well, and I used a q-tip to carefully wipe the flies off the screen. However I must have touched something when re-assembling the screen. Now I got a nice one-pixel wide pixel-error.
I drove to a local LCD-screen repair store and they told me it’s not repairable and I should consider getting a new screen, since the replacement part would cost 200-300$ – keep aside the cost for assembly.
Anyhow now I got to get a new screen. It is really a pain in the $”! working with that in Photoshop or surfing the net, keep aside watching movies. I am pissed, so kind of great news (not)…

But in other great news, hopefully great news:
I finished some more cool and (free) wordpress themes that I will be releasing soon. I hope you did like my past themes this month so far. I did not live up to the one theme a day challange, but considering the quality of the themes you can probably imagine how time-intense the creation process is. (keep aside the creativity and the measures needed when it is lacking… I am not talking about drugs here, but getting inspiration from print media. I will be posting an article about that soon, promised.

This site grows and grows and grows.. I am now averaging 7,500 to 12,000 unique visitors a day and Dreamhost told me that “I am outgrowing the shared-hosting environment”. I thus decided to move over to a VPS, my own kind of server. I hope the switch will happen smoothly and take place in the next two-to-three days. I will be posting an article about the company behind and the performance soon after I have tested it out for some days.

WPdesigner has just recently also moved servers I got to know. I thought so, because there was a two-day downtime. I hope I can avoid that.

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