Child Themes Redux [gallery]
Let me pull back the curtains a bit so you can see how one WordPress theme—think of it as a design—can be turned into many unique websites. In this case, the Twenty Twelve theme helped two clients get beautiful sites.
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Check Your Assumptions [aside]
Too often, I find that a client and I can have a 30 minutes conversation before realizing we’re not talking about the same thing. Other times, something “obvious” to one person is incomprehensible to the other. Why does this happen?
Color #BABB1E
Sometimes you just need to add some colors to your words! Or is it words to your colors?
Fake Follow: May 2013
In April, the tweets showered. In May, the tweets flowered!
A Plugin to Require Alt Text in WordPress?
Alternative text for images is one of the easiest things to do in WordPress to increase accessibility, and yet it’s frequently overlooked. How could we fix that?
New Business Cards [image]
New business cards! Yeah!
Making Accessibility Accessible
What’s the role of non-experts in the field of accessibility? It’s certainly not standing in a metaphorical corner and yelling at everyone! But that’s maybe been the habit of some, and it’s time to move beyond that to a happier, easier-to-use web.
Post Formats Are Coming! (Post Mortem: Never Released.)
There’s a drastically-improved feature coming in WordPress 3.6 that I honestly believe could change how we blog. Seriously. Take a moment to learn a bit more about post formats and why I think they’re so great..
Fake Follow: April 2013
Read what had me atwittering in April. Highlights include two accessibility tips, a client at a science fair, and, of course, a cat joke!
Just this once, Dogbert’s got it right [image]
Dilbert gets into trouble for using his “intuition.”
My Devolution as an Email Author [aside]
A thought on emails, “bad writing,” and expressive punctuation.
Let Your Software Be Your Guide [aside]
Software settings can only personalize so much. In the end, we must balance the need to find something that makes sense to us with learning how it’s intended to be used.
Embeds in WordPress: The Easy Way to Include Media
WordPress makes it gloriously easy to embed videos, photos, tweets, songs, documents, and other types of media from popular social media sites by simply pasting the URL into the post editor. Quickly learn the simple but powerful ins-and-outs of media embedding in WordPress.
Phase Zero [link]
“Phase Zero.” I pretty much guessed what this phrase meant before I even read the linked article. But that doesn’t make it less interesting and, most important to me, it gives me a phrase to communicate a concept that I deal with at the start of every new project.
Fake Follow: March 2013
March is nearly passed. The madness is almost gone. The rain is coming (as is the IRS tax deadline!). Take solace in the best tweets of the month from @MRWweb.
The Worst Practice Cycle [image]
I think I’ve identified a common pattern for the way certain “worst practices”—as opposed to “best practices”—continue to live on well past their prime.