Disqus - Friends of someguy9

Re: A Brief History of Title Design

artbees — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 11:51:16 -0000

excelent

Re: Icon Container Pack

artbees — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 15:00:18 -0000

Thank you Tuan . Glad it's been of use for you :)

Re: Bee Customized Icon

artbees — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 15:01:46 -0000

Best of thanks! Yes, we will submit tutorials on various topics soon .

Re: 3D Web Page Display

artbees — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 08:52:26 -0000

Thanks, you're welcome to credit the source somewhere in the page where this item is used. On a webpage or blog a linked credit would be better. Good luck.

Re: Worked Awhile Lights Icon Set

artbees — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 06:55:02 -0000

Always refer to license information provided in freebies (In Artbees, the information right beside the download button), as you see no commercial usage is allowed, hence you're not allowed to use it as your logo. If interested you should contact us and explain your offer, we'll check and reply you.

Re: Paradise Fruits Icon Set

artbees — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 02:07:39 -0000

In English please .

Re: Icon Container Pack

artbees — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 05:58:59 -0000

It's an element to use on websites and OS. You can use it via softwares or directly in your design.

Re: Free Business Card Mock Up

artbees — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 06:01:38 -0000

Myriad Pro - Condensed

Re: Introduction to the New Twenty Twelve Theme

artbees — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 01:44:50 -0000

Thats great to have disqus, encourage people to leave comments.

Re: Say Hello to Webkit Filters

artbees — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 11:16:46 -0000

Great tutorial with wrong image demonstration.

Re: here is a tiele

artbees — Wed, 10 Jun 2015 05:17:16 -0000

Great article

Re: Another Post with Everything In It

artbees — Wed, 05 Aug 2015 04:26:49 -0000

Test test test

Re: This Is the Best Formula For Freelancers to Create Stunning Websites

artbees — Mon, 17 Aug 2015 08:41:01 -0000

We're very glad to hear that Rowan. We look forward to know more about your project and possibly a chance to review it. Good luck ;)

Re: 3 Reasons your School or University Website needs Updating, and How Drupal Can Help

artbees — Fri, 07 Oct 2016 07:42:55 -0000

Really informative article, thanks! I definitely agree that every university should have an updated website and I believe the process should be easy enough so even the less tech savvy people working at the university can update it. I thought our latest blog post might be of interest to you as well, as it is about a law school that made their own websites with our theme Jupiter. You can check out the article here: https://goo.gl/QbEP22

Re: 21 Must-Know Strategies for Managing Virtual Teams

artbees — Fri, 18 Nov 2016 01:56:27 -0000

Rob,

Really good points! Especially the team bonding is really important. Half of our team are remotely-based workers from different countries across the globe so we try our best to make them feel included. Meeting in person is also a great way to that. We actually pay a trip to our base, Istanbul, for our remote workers.

As a digital marketing and design agency with a 20-member team, here is how we hire and manage our remote team. https://goo.gl/YMYrRk

Re: Private:

artbees — Fri, 18 Nov 2016 01:57:58 -0000

Thanks Alex! Glad you liked it.

Re: 13 Tips To Effectively Manage Remote Teams From Successful Remote Companies

artbees — Fri, 18 Nov 2016 02:05:52 -0000

Kate,

Interesting insights from different companies, thanks for sharing them.

Half of our team are remotely-based workers from different countries across the globe so we try our best to make them feel included. As a digital marketing and design agency with a 20-member team, here is how we hire and manage our remote team. https://goo.gl/l5qj1j

Re: Private:

artbees — Thu, 24 Nov 2016 07:00:20 -0000

Thank you so much Emre!

Re: Private:

artbees — Thu, 24 Nov 2016 07:04:53 -0000

We’re happy to report it is, indeed, reality! Can’t take all the credit though—more than anything, it’s about the kind, responsible and diligent remote workers we have on our team.

Re: 5 Tips for Optimizing Your Blog for Mobile

artbees — Fri, 25 Nov 2016 06:13:28 -0000

Hi Jeff, thanks for the info, great post. It’s absolutely necessary to have a great-looking website for a mobile phone nowadays.

Re: Jupiter For WordPress Beginners: Where Do I Begin?

artbees — Thu, 25 May 2017 02:59:11 -0000

We have removed many customisations from Visual Composer to make it easier and faster to update on their new releases. the obvious change you can see as a result is the page section shortcode removal.

Re: Jupiter For WordPress Beginners: Where Do I Begin?

artbees — Mon, 05 Jun 2017 07:21:54 -0000

removing page section shortcut wont increase speed, we just removed all the hacks we had for VC so the updates would be painless and faster.

Re: The Aha Moment That Helped Us Increase Jupiter’s Performance

artbees — Fri, 11 Aug 2017 03:40:29 -0000

Hey Alberto,

Thanks for asking this question, well those pages in content are exactly same, the reason why the page size is reduced is due to Lazy loading images (I have used page section and gallery on those pages with lazy loading enabled).

Cheers :)
Bob U.

Re: Performance Test: The Best Selling WordPress Themes on ThemeForest

artbees — Thu, 28 Sep 2017 02:31:20 -0000

Hey @Ian Yates. Bob here from Artbees. Thanks for this article, But I believe comparing Wordpress themes in such way you explained above is wrong, why? well then you should read this article (https://goo.gl/j1rXS5) I have posted few weeks ago.

Wordpress theme quality and performance can not be tested by checking some random demos pages. There are many reasons may mislead your judgement. Authors who have spent great deal of time optimising the demo pages can get higher score and majority of these optimisations can be just optimising that page in a way that or example Google likes them(their suggestions are fulfilled) and assigns them a higher rate. But it does not give any significance if that theme is actually a performant or fast theme.

You can see this article to see how we believe Google PageSpeed is a misleading factor to assess a WP theme’s speed and performance and how we have come up with a different way of benchmarking (https://goo.gl/j1rXS5). Here is the main objectives:

1- Same server resource should be used for all themes (256MB ram, 2 CPU core, PHP Version 7.1.7, Linux ubuntu 4.9.36)
2- Activated only the related page builder plugin (Visual Composer or other) for each theme
3- Added same type content for all themes (some text, page section and gallery)

We evaluated them using:

- WebGrind php profiling tool
- Chrome DevTools > performance tool
- Pingdom

By doing those,
1. we made sure that caching plugins are not affecting the results
2. with same content we are sure the page weight and content amount will not affect the calculations
3. Same server eliminates the server response affecting the results
4. WebGrind checks how much resources used by the theme (you can see the results function by function)
5. Chrome tools shows how much time it takes to render the content on browser

I believe we have tried to make it little closer to real benchmarking, but yours far away from being accurate. In fact some of the great themes discussed in your list have used methods to trick (or lets say beautify it for their benchmark) Google PageSpeed which just fakes a high score for them but actually is very bad for performance. Even some of Pingdom recommendations is deprecated in 2017(Browsers have evolved and HTTP2 emerged).
No wonder a theme like Enfold which to my belief is the fastest theme on market falls in the last rows. I hope you can reflect these in your benchmark or at least let the readers know that this benchmark is flawed and very relative.

P.S. I totally agree with @Miroslav and we no longer optimise it for those tools as well. What we have to do as theme authors is to make sure our themes are fast. This is the only thing Google and other search engines(and real users visiting the site) regards in case of speed not the grade itself.

Re: Jupiter X Beta Announced! The steps we took to shape the future of WordPress themes

artbees — Wed, 03 Oct 2018 06:24:48 -0000

Hi Magnus,

We are planning to build a migrator that will to some extend take over some part of the migration process. We will do our best to make our users life much much easier on migration. stay tuned.