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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.

Professional networking site LinkedIn added a groundbreaking upgrade to its Groups feature last week. According to TechCrunch.com, LinkedIn’s over 650,000 groups of like-minded and like-employed individuals will now be able to post dynamic linked content within the group setting.  Also new, each post will be complemented by the poster’s profile picture as an avatar. Members [...]

Interesting question. And one that we get a lot. The answer, of course, is not the same to all who pose it. So dependent on a company’s goals, mission, audience and industry — as well as its capacity to take on the work of maintaining a blog — is the answer, that I would not [...]

Twitter is a great social media tool for growing bigger ears, sharing links and connecting with individuals.  However, many companies are still scratching their heads and thinking, “How can we make this work for us?”  To help answer that question, here are a few ways we use Twitter as part of our marketing strategy. Position [...]

Ugh…we hope not. At least I do. But this article from NYU Professor Clay Shirky captures perfectly what I’ve been thinking a lot recently. Print media need to look at their evolution beyond terms of mere migration of content to an online delivery model. They need to think differently. News consumers already are: The problem [...]