Successful software requires more than just good programming.
David Trump of the ASP is offering free software licences to people who contribute to Haiti disaster relief. This seems like a great idea to me, so I am copying it for PerfectTablePlan. I am going to try it for 24 hours and see how it goes. I am blogging about it here in case other software vendors are inspired to try it.
I’ve have just made the first payout of royalties from T-shirt sales. $106.20 of Zazzle royalties were split evenly between Sightsavers and JaipurFoot. Patrick McKenzie has also made a very generous additional donation as he promised on his blog.
Sales dropped off rapidly after Xmas, so I am probably going to leave programmer-tshirts.com ticking over until Xmas 2009. Thanks again to everyone that bought T-shirts or helped with the publicity. Special thanks to Patrick for setting up the programmer-tshirts.com site on his server.
Many thanks to all the bloggers who linked to my programmer T-shirts for charity project. Patrick McKenzie has very generously donated his time[1] and some space on his server to set-up a dedicated website at programmer-tshirts.com. If any of you feel like promoting the new website you could put a small ad on the side of your blog (see right) or display the flash panel shown on the new website (wordpress.com apparently doesn’t allow embedded flash).
The HTML for the ad is:
<table style="text-align:left;width:200px;"
border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>
<table style="text-align:left;width:200px;"
border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2">
<tbody>
<tr align="center">
<td>
<big><a href="http://www.programmer-tshirts.com/">
T-shirts for programmers</a></big>
</td>
</tr>
<tr align="center">
<td>
<a href="http://www.programmer-tshirts.com/">
<img style="border:0 solid;width:172px;height:175px;"
alt="programmer t-shirts"
src="http://successfulsoftware.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/programmer-tshirt.png"></a>
</td>
</tr>
<tr align="center">
<td>All proceeds to charity</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
In WordPress you can just add it as a text widget (Dashboard>Appearance>Widgets).
The source for the flash panel is:
<embed wmode="transparent" src="http://www.zazzle.com/utl/getpanel?zp=117873325148652352" FlashVars="feedId=117873325148652352&path=http://www.zazzle.com/assets/swf/zp/skins" width="450" height="300" TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash"> </embed>
Even if you just run it for a week or two before Xmas that would be great.
[1]A resource in short supply for a salaryman in Japan. Especially one that commutes in from a rice field and runs his own microISV.
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