December 18, 2008 – 7:04 pm
So as you might have noticed, I haven’t been doing much with the website lately. There’s some reasoning behind that and it’s simple: the e-commerce package I found for Wordpress basically makes me apeshit crazy.
Since then, though, I’ve discovered Magento, which I’ll be using to run the new version of this website. I’ve been waiting on them to release version 1.2, which will support downloadable products (like fonts), and that’s due at the end of this month.
In the meantime, I’ve been preparing a template for the site, which will differ from what you currently see here, and I’ve been repackaging my fonts.
One of the things that’s always bugged me is that when you buy a font, you always need to pay for the different versions — Mac Truetype, Mac Postscript, PC TrueType, OpenType, etc., etc. I’ve decided that, as far as my own creations go, that I’ll be lumping all these font formats together into one file. So you buy the PC TrueType, you get OpenType.
Now, the more sharp-eyed reader will say “as far as your own creations”? One of the things I am seriously considering doing with the new site is using it as a venue for other like-minded font designers to be able to sell their fonts through, similar to what MyFonts does. That is still very much up-in-the-air, and I need to establish a lot of procedures, figure out how to split revenue (you’d get more from me than from MyFonts), and so on. If you’re at all interested, do drop me a line.
With Magento 1.2 coming toward the end of this month, and my having the last week of the month off from my day job, I should be able to get this going by early January.
Stay tuned!
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