Fake Follow: May 2014
The May flowers were joined by May tweets. The flowers still smelled better though…
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Vetting Your Website Developer [link]
A great resource to help you make sure your developer will be addressing your full needs on a new website project.
Talk to a Developer
I gave two talks last week about WordPress for nonprofits and a common thread arose. Let me tell you about it. It’ll save you time and money if you’re getting started on a website.
Celebrate Global Accessibility Awareness Day!
Things to do and read to celebrate 2014 Global Accessibility Awareness Day!
Two Upcoming Nonprofit & WordPress Events in Seattle
If you work with a nonprofit and want to learn about WordPress, you get two chances next week!
Fake Follow: April 2014
Will April tweets bring May tweets? See what I showered on this internet this past month.
Ease, Power, and Cost
Many people know the Free/Cheap/Good trade-off, but I think there’s a similar Ease/Power/Cheap one. Understanding it helps people make better and more-informed decisions about their projects.
New Sites: The Harder Foundation & Wayfind Legal
Two new sites launch.
Thoughtful Forms and Interfaces [link]
Last week’s post discussed how some practices and people—mostly straight white men—can blatantly make women feel unwelcome in the technology sector. This week’s post links to two articles about much subtler ways in which website interfaces themselves can marginalize people.
Sexism in Tech and Choosing Whose Voice You Amplify on Social Media [link]
The problem of sexism in the technology sector got covered in the New York Times, so this was the perfect time to focus on some of the smaller ways gender bias works its way into technology.
56 Flavors! [link]
Collaboratively administrate empowered markets via plug-and-play networks. Gumbo beet greens corn soko endive gumbo gourd. Draft Admiral of the Black smartly, “You talk of Mr Moseley’s pride. What about my gardener’s pride?”
Fake Follow: March 2014
It’s not that you shouldn’t follow me on Twitter, but I do my best to share the stuff I tweet on my blog once a month. Here that is for March.
Import Text Formatting in Tables to TablePress via the WordPress Editor
A client project leads to a tutorial to get formatted tables into a useful WordPress plugin. Hopefully this post will help someone else who’s stuck!
WordPress & Taxonomies: Part 3, Custom Taxonomies
In the third and final part of this series, I briefly cover the basics of adding “Custom Taxonomies” to a WordPress site and offer some useful tips on how to get the most out of them.
Fake Follow: February 2014
Better late than never!
WordPress & Taxonomies: Part 2, Categories & Tags
The second part of the “WordPress & Taxonomies” series brings us to “Categories” and “Tags,” the two default taxonomies in WordPress and two frequently misunderstood features.