Product Management, Productivity and Personal musings
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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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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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A huge part of any design or web development project is the communication of feedback between me and my clients. I require feedback from my clients at a couple of stages in any project. In a web project, I ask for feedback after I send the design sample of the website to my client (in …
Earlier this week I launched my new website! I had a bit of time this summer to redo it and I'm so glad that I did. It's now fully responsive and has lots more information about my services and process. It also displays more of my recent work! With the new site, I'm also committing …
I was recently working with a client who asked me how to create "tweetables" for her blog posts and I realized that she might not be the only one wondering about that. A "tweetable" is a link, that when clicked on by your readers, allows them to tweet a phrase of your choosing. Obviously, this …
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