Infographics Made Easy
We love things that make working with technology easier, allowing folks to be creative without mastering every technical art. Easel.ly is just that sort of tool, allowing stunning infographics to be made by folks who want to communicate interesting statistics, but who don’t have years of Photoshop or Illustrator skills. Check out this quick video ...
Read MoreMacho Programming Culture
I grew up going to car shows with my dad, and it was through those visits to fair grounds filled with automobilia ranging from the priceless to the worthless that I was first exposed to an enthusiast culture. I’m not a gear head, I’m a geek, but it was easy to become a member of ...
Read MoreNew Video at ArthurBrooks.AEI.org
There’s a great little video that was just posted by the folks at AEI on one of our recent projets, the site for Arthur Brooks’ “The Road to Freedom.” Check it out: For more on Brooks’ book, visit http://arthurbrooks.aei.org/
Read MorePlugin Monday: Protect Your WordPress Website
The vulnerability from old version of the “Tim Thumb” image resizing script is still lingering out there in the WordPress world. In case you missed that hot drama, you can read more about it from Matt Mullenweg, the founder of Automattic and creator of WordPress, and also at WP-Candy. Sadly, there are still lots of ...
Read MoreTest Responsive Websites with Responsinator
Responsinator is an awesome tool for testing a site's responsive capabilities. Here's an example with a site ReadyMadeWeb recently built for George Mason University professor, New York Times columnist, TED talker, and prolific blogger Tyler Cowen:
Read MoreMake Your Own Louis-CK-Style Video Distribution Site
Louis CK is probably the best standup performing today—and I say that as podcast-listening, special-re-watching, club-attending, die-hard fan of standup comedy. But CK is more than a comedian, he’s a director, writer, and producer (who edits his own show on his MacBook Pro) and recently he made big waves with both comedy nerds and tech nerds (I am ...
Read MorePlugin Monday: Sidekick & Relevanssi
Here are two quick ways to enhance WordPress: SideKick Make navigating the backend of WordPress more management with this little plugin by Dimas Begunoff. Sidekick allows you to collapse any element that may have sub-items, like pages and menu items. This is especially for a site with many layers of pages or menu items. It make ...
Read MoreVideo of BlogCon 2011
Here’s the video taken of my presentation from BlogCon 2011. This is best viewed alongside my previous post, “Pimping WordPress,” which contains the slideshow and all the links referred to in the presentation.
Read MoreMore Resources for WordPress Blogs
Yesterday I shared a lot of tips, plugins, services, themes, and reading assignments with the audience at BlogCon 2011 in Denver. Here are some additional materials I wanted to include in my presentation and initial blog post, but just couldn’t quite squeeze in. More WordPress Plugins If you can’t install NGINX, APC, and Memcached on your server, try W3 ...
Read MoreBlogCon 2011: Pimping WordPress
WordPress is without a doubt the best blogging platform available today. Though it has a bit of a learning curve compared to some hosted services like Blogger or TypePad, WordPress gives you a much greater amount of control, it allows you to truly own your content, and it has a library of off-the-shelf designs and ...
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