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Web Design for God’s Audience: Learning from Church Web Development
Part of my joy in being an advocate for WordPress is showcasing how WordPress is used around the world. In a fascinating discussion with Darren Hoyt, Interviews with Church Designers looks at web...
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How to Manage Multiple Bloggers on WordPress
I’m speaking at WebVisions on “Managing Multiple Bloggers in WordPress” on Thursday, May 26, 2011, at 11:30AM in Portland, Oregon. The following is part of a series of articles on the topic and notes...
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Managing Multiple Bloggers: Author Content Management on WordPress
In the last article I talked about what’s most important to the author and their readers, covering recognition when it comes to researching and developing a website design to accommodate multiple...
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Managing Multiple Authors: Customizing the WordPress Author Page
We’ve been covering a lot of different suggestions for increasing the exposure of a contributor in a multiple author blog, and in this article, I want to focus specifically on one of the most important...
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Basic Facts and Resources You Need to Know Now About Web Accessibility
Last night I gave a presentation for an amazing group of web designers and developers in Portland, Oregon. I spoke about web accessibility, a long time passion of mine. My co-presenter was Winslow...
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How Much Do You Charge for Web Dev/Design Services?
As part of an ongoing annual survey for the social media industry, Mark Collier offers this year’s “How Much Does Social Media Cost Companies in 2012?” report on our industry. This is a significant...
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Browser Wars: Internet Explorer Falls, Firefox Tables, and Chrome Soars
Preparing to teach the HTML Fundamentals class at Clark College in Vancouver, Washington, this summer, I did a quick bit of research on web browsers to check the current status of the browser...
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Jazzing Up Prototypes and Frameworks with Alternative Lorem Ipsum Generators
Are you a web designer and fan of the Simpsons? Have you tried Simpson Ipsum? How is education supposed to make me feel smarter? Besides, every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out...
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Firefox 15 Out and Dazzles
Firefox 15 is out. According to InformationWeek, the latest version of the Firefox web browser is better than ever. Here is a summary of the new features: Behind-the-Scenes Updates: No longer will you...
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Evaluating What Makes a Shopping Cart Work Best
Before you check out your next WordPress shopping cart or ecommerce WordPress Plugin, you need to read this. In April 2011, Smashing Magazine published “Fundamental Guidelines Of E-Commerce Checkout...
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Blog Exercises: Check Your Site Title Tag
Do you know what the title of your site is? Not the name of your site or the title of your post, but the HTML <title> tag for your site buried in the source code. In HTML, every website is...
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Blog Exercises: Does Your Site Look Spammy?
Does your site look spammy? How would you know whether or not your site looks spammy? It’s time for a spam check. Web design is hard, especially if you aren’t an expert. Yet, in many ways you are an...
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Blog Exercises: How to Add Headings to Your Post Articles
I’ve mentioned using headings in your post articles throughout these Blog Exercises. Let’s look closer at these HTML tags that help you structure and increase the readability of your blog posts....
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Blog Exercises: The IKEA Effect for Bloggers
The Ikea Effect was coined by researchers who found out what we all know but rarely admit, we put too much ownership into our own brainchild ideas and concepts. In other words, we tend to fall in love...
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Blog Exercises: Own Your Site and Protect Yourself
I hear it every day. A webmaster, developer, or designer does the site owner wrong and the site owner is victimized, helpless, and frustrated with what to do next. I’ve gotten calls in the middle of...
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Blog Exercises: Don’t Let Your Content Compete With Itself
I fear for what I’m about to say. Colored fonts are evil. I’m not talking about colored fonts in the website design, nor colored fonts in headings within your content. I’m talking about colorizing the...
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Blog Exercises: When Your Site Design Owns You
Yesterday a long-time client called me up in tears saying, “I can’t do this any more. My site design owns me, I don’t own it. It’s too confusing. It’s too much work!” Several years ago, she’d chosen a...
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Blog Exercises: Start Here Guides
Training for educators using online learning management systems for high schools and college recommend creating a “Start Here” page to guide the student through the process. If the process is...
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Blog Exercises: Make a List of Everything on Your Site
Today’s blog exercise will require a little time, magnifier, and a score card. Well, maybe not one of those items. I want you to grab a piece of paper and load up the front page of your site in a...
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Blog Exercises: Are You Serving First-Time or Return Visitors?
Every time I visit Feedly, Dropbox, and many other sites I think “They don’t like me.” Why? Why should something so important to so many, a tool that should be on most computers, make me feel this way....
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