Product Management, Productivity and Personal musings
Tanner Moushey hired me earlier this year to do some design work on a web app that he has been thinking about building called StudyChur.ch. Having never attended Bible study myself, I had to get up to speed pretty quickly! Tanner envisioned an app for people in their 20s and 30s that would be similar …
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I get a lot of inquiries about web design and development that start like this: "Well, I have this idea ..." Ideas are great! The best, even. My problem with this statement is that often times, I am the first point of contact that budding business owners and entrepreneurs have about their business idea and …
Lots of people know that they want a WordPress site because they are easy to update and great for SEO. However there are many different kinds of WordPress sites. You can have an out-of-the-box site with WordPress or a fully-custom designed and built site. I wrote a little bit about the difference between the two …
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Sometimes you get a client that you want to invent new projects for, just so that you can keep working together. That has been the case for me, working with Karen Hutton: Photographer. Light-Bender. Purveyor of Awesomeness. (All true, by the way.) I've so enjoyed working with her but, in our first chat, I could …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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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