I am SERIOUS about writing high-quality, well-informed, and, most importantly, honest content for the web. I have recently stumbled upon a huge collective failure of the internet community. Please take a moment to understand the biggest challenge to my generation and learn what you can do to combat this problem.
As a web designer, the work I do often gets spread across the web, and just because a project isn’t as big as a website doesn’t mean it’s not worth mentioning! Check out some of the cool stuff I’ve been doing on the web.
Even if you’ve never written a single line of HTML, JavaScript, CSS, or PHP code, it’s still easy to contribute to the future of WordPress! WordPress.org’s “Ideas” section is a tucked-away but important way to submit feedback to the WordPress team. Everyone from a plugin developer to a first-time WordPress user can express their opinions, … Continue reading “Vote with Your Mouse for the Best WordPress Ideas [link]”
Three links to an excellent series of slideshows for nonprofits developing their social media presence from NPower Northwest.
WORDPRESS IS FREE! That is a true statement, even if it’s not the whole truth. When getting started with WordPress, it’s important to know what you or your organization will and won’t pay for. I’ll be tackling that issue in three parts. Here’s the first.
I’m no social media expert, but I just participated in an intensive, week-long campaign to help a nonprofit gather votes for a White House-sponsored competition. I learned a huge amount from it, and was interviewed about some of the lessons I learned.
I don’t know that I’ll ever perfect the art of writing link text, but there are some basic patterns and word choices to avoid. This article covers how to write good link text that increases readabiliy, accesibility, and search engine rankings.
This past weekend, I built a site for an amazing student group and nonprofit in Grinnell, Iowa. As a former founding member of the Social Entrepreneurs of Grinnell, I wanted to continue helping the group in an exciting time: They’re a finalist for an award from the White House! Read about the site I built, and please take a moment to vote for SEG.
It’s a bit of a “buzzphrase”: “You should always separate content and design.” But this was also a mind-blowing and useful concept when I first learned it. Join me as I share various applications of this idea and try to nuance it just a bit.
If you’re a WordPress user, read this post. “Screen Options” let you control customizations to many pages in the WordPress administrative interface. Unfortunately, the way you change these is a little confusing unless you know where to look. Here’s a good video giving you a very quick overview.
What do an obscure tribe from North America and people with full eyesight have in common? Find out!
You may have heard that you shouldn’t use the default “admin” account that comes with WordPress. This week, I saw some data that confirmed this. So read why, and if you haven’t yet, change your own sites. You’ll be safer for it.
Headings are easy to add to web pages and give big payoffs in readability, usability, accessibility, and search engine friendliness. If you don’t know what headings are, take the 10 minutes to learn. They’re simple. If you do know what they are, this should give you some good examples of why they matter.
Let’s have a little fun with some website design and internet haikus!
This is Part 2 of a two-part series. Having listed the problems that PDFs create when posted online, this should give you lots of ideas and ways to improve the use of PDFs on your website.
I’m happy to announce the launch of the new website for the Seattle chapter of the Association for Women in Communications.
