Sunday, May 26, 2019

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RELAUNCH Of The Grav StuG Kickstarter. Up To 50.9% Discount!

Why relaunch, what has changed?

By allowing plastic tooling to do what it does best; making perfect copies in large volume I can reduce the cost of each kit with a relatively minor impact to the total funding goal required.
Most of the costs for this campaign are tied up in paying for the tools… Making more copies of the kit is a lesser expense comparatively. Spreading the substantial fixed costs of the tooling over a greater number of kits is a way for me to add value without adding risk to my backers.
I am aware that many of the UE/UK customers will have to contend with VAT or import taxes and that those fees may be something of an impediment. By reducing the price per kit significantly, I can absorb most or all of those fees within the kit price. Providing my backers with a better value, with an eye to gathering a larger backer base.

Why did I not do this before?

I based my price point on the number of kits I felt could reasonably sell.
In the previous launch, the costs were calculated with a total number of 1200 of kits sold. The estimate of 1200 total kits were driven by my understanding of past campaigns, my known customer base and a survey regarding this kit, sent out last September. Although the 1200 total may have been a reasonable estimate, it drove the price per kit higher than I would have liked.
The last campaign was relatively close~ 998 total kits backed, 83% funded $46,484 dollars raised. Close enough that I felt one more run was warranted, with some adjustments to price to make it more attractive or palatable for those who must look at their tax burden when a kit arrives.
This campaign has been targeted with a total of 1800 kits sold. Lowering the price per kit substantially to drive volume and still fund the campaign in a way that I can deliver with confidence.

I have complete confidence in this kit, its design and the quality I will deliver.
I have complete confidence that these kits are well priced and reflects a true value.

Discounts ranging from 38.2% to 50.9% for non retail backers.
Retailer level packs priced at 56.4% to 67.3% off.

Let's make this happen!

Thursday, May 23, 2019

Printing My Pages

Occasionally someone will want to print one of my web pages, even though it means losing access to all the interactive parts. There are a few things I do to make this work better:

I try to start all my interactive diagrams in a state where it's informative without interaction. This is not only helpful for printing, but also for people skimming the page. I haven't always done this in the past so I've been trying to go back through my older pages and change them to work this way.
I have a "print stylesheet" using @media print { … } that changes the page style when printing. It changes the font, removes background colors, removes text shadows, and instructs the browser to avoid breaking the page inside a diagram.
(Added today) When printing, I display the URLs for the links on the page. Since you can't click the links, it's useful to display the URLs.

I use this CSS for printing:

@media print {     @page { margin: 1in; }     body {         font-size: 13pt;         font-family: "Book Antiqua", "Times New Roman", serif;     }     header, footer, h2 {         text-shadow: none;         color: #000;         background-image: unset;         background-color: unset;     }     h2, h3 { page-break-after: avoid; }     figure { page-break-inside: avoid; } }

I think it might be simpler to use @media screen { } to set some of the colors instead of trying to undo them with @media print { }.

To display URLs, I first tried this CSS rule:

@media print {     a:before { content: "["; }     a:after  { content: "] (" attr(href) ")"; } }

This makes the links display in Markdown format, as [text](url).

Unfortunately, many URLs are quite long. Markdown has a footnote/endnote-style format which works better for long links: [text][1] followed by [1]: url. It's not something I can do in pure CSS. I would have to edit the HTML to make this work. But I'm not actually writing HTML directly. I write XHTML that is transformed into HTML using XSLT. Can XSLT do this transformation for me? Yes! I was able to adapt this XSLT technique to work on my pages.

First, create an XSLT rule that applies to all links:

<xsl:template match="//a">   <xsl:copy>     <xsl:apply-templates select="node() | @*"/>   </xsl:copy>   <sup class="print-endnote">     <xsl:number level="any" count="//a" format="[1]"/>   </sup> </xsl:template>

This will find links of the form <a href="url">test</a> and turn them into <a href="url">test</a><sup class="print-endnote">[3]</sup>. The count="//a" parameter to xsl:number will generate a counter for all <a> elements, and format it with brackets: the third link will be [3].

Then, at the bottom of the page, make a list of all the links:

<ul class="print-endnote">   <xsl:apply-templates select="//a" mode="endnote"/> </ul>

This will loop over all elements that match //a, and then apply this template to them:

<xsl:template match="a" mode="endnote">   <li>     <xsl:number level="any" count="//a" format="[1]"/>:     <xsl:value-of select="@href"/>   </li> </xsl:template>

The output will look like this:

<ul class="print-endnote">   <li>[1]: https://…</li>   <li>[2]: http://…</li>   <li>[3]: http2://…</li>   … </ul>

I don't want these to show up when viewing the page on the screen, so I use CSS to hide them by default, and then show them again when printing:

.print-endnote { display: none; } @media print { .print-endnote { display: unset; } }

This works! Throughout the page, links are annotated with a number like link^[3]. Then at the bottom, it displays [3]: url.

However, as usual, there are details that make things more complicated in practice.

I want to exclude relative links (which are often to the same page) so I changed the pattern to match a[starts-with(@href,'http')] instead of a. This is in five places; it would be nice to abstract this somehow. [Update 2019-01-01: looks like XLST 2 might let me abstract over this, but XSLT 1 does not.]
I want to exclude links in the nav bar and table of contents. Due to the page structure I use, these are outside of a <section> element, so I changed a to section//a. Combined with the previous rule, it's now the ugly pattern //x:section//a[starts-with(@href,'http')].
I want to exclude links in the footer, which is inside <section> on some of my pages. I did this by adding a test, <xsl:if test="count(ancestor::x:footer) = 0"> for both the endnote marker and the list of urls. These links still receive a number with xsl:number though; I wasn't able to find a way to avoid that. However, since they're at the end of the page, it's not a problem in practice.
All of these rules messed up the weird whitespace handling rules I have in place. I ended up having to make two passes over all the elements, once to expand <a>, and once to apply the whitespace rules. Even then, it is now applying the whitespace in slightly the wrong place. The printed page has link ^[3] instead of link^[3]. [Update 2019-01-01: I was able to fix this.]

I'm a newbie with XSLT so there's some cargo cult involved. I'm simultaneously impressed that XSLT is able to do this, and horrified by how ugly it is. Someday I hope to revisit all of this, either improving the XSLT or moving away from it, but for now, it works reasonably well, and I'm happy with it.

See screenshots I posted on twitter, or try printing one of my pages to see how it looks. If you run into glitches, please let me know!

Update [2019-01-04] Here's a slightly different implementation:

Instead of adding a new element in XSLT, add an attribute:

  <xsl:template match="//a">     <xsl:copy>       <xsl:attribute name="data-endnote">         <xsl:number level="any" count="//a" format="1"/>       </xsl:attribute>       <xsl:apply-templates select="node() | @*"/>     </xsl:copy>   </xsl:template>

Then during printing, display that attribute using CSS:

    *[data-endnote]:after {         color: #000;         content: "[" attr(data-endnote) "]";         text-decoration: none;         font-size: 75%;         position: relative;         top: -0.5em;         vertical-align: baseline;     }

The advantage of this approach is that I don't have to add a new element. The downside is that the underlining of links will apply to the :after element so these superscripts will be underlined. Another downside is that the superscript is purely visual instead of using a semantic tag like <sup>. More CSS, less HTML.

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Short.am
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Shrinkearn.com
Shrinkearn.com is one of the best and most trusted sites from our 30 highest paying URL shortener list.It is also one of the old URL shortener sites.You just have to sign up in the shrinkearn.com website. Then you can shorten your URL and can put that URL to your website, blog or any other social networking sites.
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