Dizzy Gillespie famously said of his work in jazz music, “It’s taken me all my life to learn what notes not to play.” Such is the art of jazz improv, and such is the art in writing copy for marketing materials.
It’s been about a year now scene I’ve started working in WordPress. I’ve learned so much in this past year, and I wanted to share how I got to where I am today for other designers who are interested in expanding their WordPress knowledge. My progress would not have been possible without the following three things:
1. Taking an HTML class
During my undergrad, I had a few Dreamweaver courses and interned at the University of Michigan News Service updating the code on their old sites. So, I knew what HTML looked like and could recognize tags, but I didn’t really know what it did and how it worked until I took the HTML class. It taught me all the basics that I needed for a strong foundational knowledge about WordPress.
This post originally appeared on Dbusiness.com. HTML5 is here, and it will save us all from everything. First of all, it will kill Flash. We’ll also have better video and audio, faster websites, easier-to-build Web pages, better animation and in-browser games. Plus, HTML5 will save the global economy and provide tax breaks to everyone. OK, [...]
Lay-Z-Boy philosophers and zealous futurists have been declaring the monumental fall of cable TV and, from the ashes, the meteoric ascendance of Web video. If you are one of those people, your heart is about to be broken.
Cable television isn’t going anywhere for awhile.
There is simply too much money being made between networks, content creators and subscribers. The problem is that subscribers are beginning to dwindle in numbers, likely due to general dissatisfaction with cable prices, options and packages that charge for hundreds of unwanted channels that very few customers actually want.
Put yourself in the shoes of your next potential client or customer.
Right now, he or she may be out there trying to learn more about you and your organization. To quickly find this information, the choices include Google, Bing or Yahoo! After all, what appears on the Web is basically a digital representation of what the world is saying about you.
In a perfect world, search engines would point these prospects to the site or Web page you desire on the first attempt.
