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Keeping the Users, and Your Kitchen, in Mind

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July 25, 2013

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The way home decorators think about the style of houses is much the same way that software designers and developers should think about the software platform they are building. By Pippin Williamson | July 21, 2013 WordPress plugins extend the default behavior of WordPress. There are hundreds, or even thousands, of additional features that can be enabled by installing one or more plugins in your WordPress powered site. If you have installed a lot of different plugins, you’ve probably noticed that some add their features seamlessly into the WordPress interface, while others stray away from the standard interface, either a […]

Be the Unicorn

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July 25, 2013

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No one wants to be a code monkey or a pixel pusher. We want to solve problems, and do great work. What’s all this talk about Unicorns? Beautiful, sparkling, Golden Unicorns. This is a story about how to become the unicorn. My beginnings in Web Design and Development surfaced out of a love for technology an art. I was an artist and print designer with a thirst for something more. Because I wanted to be relevant and engaged, I ended up diving head first into the fast moving waters of web design and development. To get things done, I hunkered down, […]

WordCamps: The Importance of Meeting IRL

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July 24, 2013

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How WordCamps are helping fuel WordPress’s global community. By Michelle Oznowicz | July 24, 2013 It seems as if the business world is spinning faster and faster these days. Many companies have multiple locations in different parts of the world, and it’s not uncommon for colleagues to communicate across time zones, or even continents. Thanks to advancements in technology, the amount of time it takes to convey an idea to a faraway location – and get a response – has been minimized. This is a good thing, right? In some ways, yes. We are able to do things so much […]

SEO Basics

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July 24, 2013

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Expert Chris Dendy on commonly overlooked SEO factors.  Search engine optimization (SEO) is the practice of formatting one’s website in such a way that Google can better understand it, index it, and display it to users via Google search. Without going into the hundred plus ranking factors that Google uses to determine where one’s website will fall within the search engine rankings page (SERP), I would like to focus on three on-page factors that should be the foundation of any SEO strategy. As luck would have it, your out-of-the-box WordPress installation excels in all of these categories with the very […]

5 Lessons from One Year

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July 24, 2013

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Mason James of WP Valet shares what he learned in the first year of getting his self-funded startup off the ground.  By Mason James | July 24, 2013 What a difference a year makes. For some, 2012 was supposed to be the end of the world. And yet, a partner and I set out with all the wide-eyed enthusiasm, lofty goals, and scrumptious naïveté that I imagine most first-time entrepreneurs share. On June 1 we celebrated our first anniversary. Reflecting on our first year, I can say, man, we made a lot of mistakes. We also changed course more times […]

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