Plugins can make any WordPress website better! They help add custom functionality to your website and can make the workflow of that backend of your site much more efficient. Below are some of my favourite WordPress plugins and explanations on how they can make your website and workflow more efficient. I've included two lists: plugins …
How to Use Special Characters in WordPress
One of my own personal pet peeves is seeing editor markup in blog posts. (Editor markup is stuff like using two hyphens instead of an em dash.) I know, it shouldn't matter and I'm persnickety, but I think that using actual special characters, adds a really nice level of polish that a lot of people …
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The Best Design Feedback Tip
Several weeks ago, I wrote a blog post entitled How to Give Great Design Feedback. I still think that post covered some gems: making sure that you don't fire off your first impression, have adequate time to go through the site, write it all in one email and check all the links, but it the …
Create a Custom Palette in the WYSIWYG Editor
I thought that I'd start a new series about better blogging, to share a few of the things that WordPress can do to make your blog posts better. If you're a stickler for formatting like I am, there are some things in the WordPress WYSIWYG editor that will give your posts greater clarity and style. …
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How to Get Over Launch Paralysis
Today, I want to talk about something a little different: Launch paralysis. What is launch paralysis? Good question! Essentially, it's a term (that I made up) to describe what happens right before launch day. To explain further, I'll tell you about when I relaunched my website, earlier this fall. I had a bit of downtime …
Make Images Pinterest-Friendly
Pinterest is a great medium for getting your work, and especially your blog posts, out to a wider audience. Having just started blogging more regularly, myself, I've been pinning my recent posts to my Pinterest board. When I started to pin my own posts though, I noticed that the caption that Pinterest was giving my …
How to Pick a Good Plugin
WordPress has A LOT of plugins. Usually, if you want to do something with your website, there's a plugin for that. There are also a lot of bad plugins out there. So, how do you know whether or not the plugin you want to install on your site is a good one? How well-rated is …
How to Create Your Visual Identity
There are many reasons that I became a graphic designer. One of the ways that I knew that I wanted to be a designer, was that I was obsessed with making all of my correspondence look like it was specific to me. That meant that I'd use the same font, similar note-taking style (hello, colour …
3 Tips for Hiring a Designer
Hiring a designer to work with can be a daunting task. To make things worse, web designers can have a reputation for being a bit flaky. So how do you know that the designer you're picking is a gem? Below are a few things to know, when picking a designer (or a developer, for that …
Volunteering at Ladies Learning Code: CSS Fundamentals for Beginners
In a few weeks, I'm going to be a mentor instructor for Ladies Learning Code: CSS Fundamentals for Beginners. You should come learn to code! I think that it's really important for everyone to know just a little bit of code and I'm really excited to help out with the event. If you're nervous, don't …
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