Comments on: Sponsored themes are a bad experience

By: suicidalsam

suicidalsam — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 22:26:12 +0000

well sponsored ads can earn some money for the designer and i totally agree that those links really sux. Even the wordpress has some preinstalled links on the blogroll.

sponsors pay a huge amount of money to get a link on the template as it increases the backlink for their site be it from irrelevant blogs.

By: Bruce of authoritydirectory.com

Bruce of authoritydirectory.com — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 01:54:32 +0000

I guess that if you don’t want to get a free blog theme with a sponsored link on it you can always pay a programmer to make one for you. It is a tradeoff, you get a free theme and you give a backlink. The alternative it to make one yourself or pay a designer to build a custom one.

By: TroyM of 7seo.com

TroyM of 7seo.com — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 04:56:40 +0000

Lloyd,
For users yes, I totally agree with you.
For Sponsors, it can be a good way to build link backs…

Thanks

By: Lloyd

Lloyd — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 23:37:04 +0000

I share my thoughts on forking, merging and the GPL in my recent post GPL Encourages Collaboration

By: Lloyd

Lloyd — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 00:55:37 +0000

I can give you plenty of examples of WordPress is evil Adam can too; he “hangs out” with the WordPress critics including wank.

Merges of products? Not no such. When I think of merges I think of re-used GPL’d code. Merges between different products, distributions or upstreaming, all the time!

By: adam

adam — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 23:02:33 +0000

the classic example is egcs - gcc2