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WordPress: A Labor of Love
WordPress gives me all the feels, but at the end of the day, it’s still work — a labor of love. “Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” ~Confucius All due respect to Confucius, but loving what you do doesn’t make every day full of…
Meagan Hanes: What Being a Woman Web Designer Means to Me
I’m a woman web designer – what this means to me. Being a web designer/developer is, for me, one of the most interesting and fulfilling careers available today. I love helping clients understand and implement the technology combination they need to achieve their dreams, and often times help by asking interesting questions that benefit the…
I’m a Web Designer, and I’m a Woman [gasp!]
It’s true. I’m a Web Designer, and I’m a woman. (I’ll wait a minute for that to sink in.) I did some research (OK, I did a quick Google search) to find the gender statistics on women in web design. It looks like it has been a few years since this has been written about….
The Importance of Doing WordPress Backups
It’s easy to get lazy about doing WordPress backups. WordPress backups are important. Fail to backup your site, and you will regret it. To quote Casablanca, “Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon and for the rest of your life.” Ok – maybe slightly dramatic, but still true. Backing up your website is easy to…
WordPress Community: How to Get Involved (and Why!)
The WordPress Community is Amazing One of the aspects of my work I love the most is the WordPress community. Great code is good, but great people are amazing…and it’s the people who make it all possible. My best friend’s husband introduced me to WordPress. He built a site for us for a non-profit we had…
Attending WordCamp: What to Expect
Attending WordCamp? Here are some thoughts… Whether you’re attending WordCamp for the first time or your 100th, you’re bound to have fun, learn a lot, and widen your circle of WordPress friends. From my first WordCamp (Buffalo 2014) to my most recent (Toronto 2016), and from being an attendee, speaker, and organizer, I can tell…