We live in a world where the avenues of digital communication available to us has exploded. Social media, messaging apps like WhatsApp, the message apps built directly into the phones we all have permanently attached to our bodies — all are competing in a very crowded space that used to belong to email alone.
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Here’s Why I Use WordPress
Even though WordPress currently powers 25% of all websites in existence, many people are still unaware of it entirely, unsure of what exactly it is, or unaware of how it has grown since it’s early days as a blogging platform. If you’re not one of those people, congrats! You might find this post a rehash… Continue reading Here’s Why I Use WordPress
Responsive Design: What It Is and Why You Need It
Responsive design is one of those things that everyone knows they need, but not everyone has a clear understanding of. As prevalent as this design trend is, I still occasionally meet people who ask me what I mean when I say that every site I design and develop is responsive, or whose idea of what… Continue reading Responsive Design: What It Is and Why You Need It
4 Tips for Collaborating with a Web Designer
They say that the key to happiness in life is to find something that you love to do and figure out how to make a living at it. For me, web design is that thing, a place where I get to exercise my creativity while helping people and businesses build a presence for themselves online… Continue reading 4 Tips for Collaborating with a Web Designer
Essential WordPress Plugins — 2017 Edition
One of the best things about WordPress, and one of the reasons I choose to use it (among many) is that it is unbelievably extensible. At this moment, there are 50,608 in the official WordPress plugin repository, and that doesn’t include many 3rd-party premium plugins. Chances are, if you need to do something with your… Continue reading Essential WordPress Plugins — 2017 Edition
Time For a New Coat of Paint
My goodness, it’s been four years since I made my website and it has never been refreshed. I built it back when I first launched my business, but I always considered it more of an archive, a repository of everything I had ever done, on display sure, but really more for my benefit than anyone… Continue reading Time For a New Coat of Paint
Lost & Found
Let’s start with the numbers, shall we? Everyone knows that the current economic climate is terrible, but nothing throws an ugly situation into relief like the harsh light of statistics. Youth unemployment rates are at record highs.
Of Owls and Buffalo
In the not too distant past I worked in a downtown office-building food court, and one day as I trudged home from the fluorescent doldrums that filled my day, attempting to get the ringing of Fox News blather out of my ears, I saw a peculiar sight. Perched on the edge of the topmost tier… Continue reading Of Owls and Buffalo
The New Sound of the Shoals
The weight of history hangs heavy in Muscle Shoals. Not many towns as tiny as this Northern Alabama burg have such a strong connection with celebrity past, and the result is that Muscle Shoals’ national identity has been almost completely consumed by events that occurred there many decades ago. I refer, of course, to the… Continue reading The New Sound of the Shoals