Generally Helpful Since Birth
This is where I post thoughts and tweaks and updates on the stuff I’m working on the interwebs.
I’m working on a project right now that requires some changes to a very complex and large premium WordPress theme. It’s a very powerful e-commerce theme that has a ton of plugins and shortcodes baked into it. The problem is my client really just likes the layout of the theme, and really doesn’t want all… Read more On Being a Developer-friendly Developer
I really love working with people who love their websites and want to see them ripen and deepen into something robust and complex. Something worth coming back to over and over again. I was reminded of this every step of the way I made with Madge Marley Howell and her local e-zine, the Delta Bohemian.… Read more FEATURED CLIENT: Madge Marley Howell and the Delta Bohemian
I’ve been doing some old-skool hand-coded sites lately, and I’m loving it. Don’t get me wrong, I really enjoy working with WordPress, but somehow actually coding the pages from scratch is really satisfying. But there’s really useful and convenient reasons why developers and clients want to use a Content Management System like WordPress or Joomla,… Read more Simple Modularized HTML Templating with Unique Meta Tags in the HEAD
I’m personally a big fan of several things that ALL converged this past week: Website building Helping friends out Seeing more kids get adopted And YOU, yes YOU, those who have called me up and hired me to make your websites awesome have helped all these things happen. I believe that running your own business… Read more Your Website Helps More Adoptions Happen
Our lives are getting more and more digital. We’re saving everything both in business and our personal lives on hard disks or in that ethereal “Cloud”. Services like DropBox, Google Drive, Microsoft’s Skye Drive, and lots of other cloud services promise to store your digital life safely and allow you to access those files from… Read more How I got Recursive Backups for my Thesis, free!
I disable Flash in my “work” browser (Chrome) for lots of reasons, but primarily: Flash is a performance drain on websites and your browser It’s NOT the future of the web and I like to see which sites know that already and already bake in alternatives, and most flash-based things are purely for entertainment and… Read more Memefy your 404’s
As you probably have already noticed, I wear many hats, and I enjoy that… for the most part. It’s hard to balance the various demands, and I’m learning more and more than my “web site brain” doesn’t work concurrently with my “research and history brain”. That is, I can’t really switch from one to the… Read more Incorporating Our Randomly Gifted Aspects
Web development work can be hard sometimes. I can spend hours upon hours on a project only to find that I started it all on the wrong foot, or occasionally, the client suddenly has different needs. A lot of the work I do is impacted by circumstances outside my immediate control. But let’s not kid… Read more The Power and Responsibility of Privilege
This weekend I got to enjoy WordCamp San Diego 2013. It was a really great experience that you can read a bit more about here. This post comes from some, um, “inspiration” I got there. Chris Lema gave a great talk about Execution. He said a lot of really helpful stuff. Check out his presentation… Read more Chris Lema is Haunting me
I love working with WordPress for lots of reasons. It’s open-source, it’s extremely extensible, and… probably most importantly, it has a GIGANTIC community of folks who love to talk with each other and get smarter and find and create new tools. WordCamp is like the ComicCon of WordPress geeks. So I fit right in! So… Read more Rockin’ WordCamp San Diego