WordPress
What’s a Custom Website?
What’s the difference between having a custom website designed for your company and using a pre-made theme? When you have a WordPress site built, you can install a theme yourself or have it done for you and then customize it or have it customized.
Where Does Content Come From?
We’re a content firm, so we know where our content comes from most of the time: we write it on our computers with our own fingers. Not always, though. Tom Hapgood and I met this morning to talk about a couple of very different websites we’re working on. Each of them has its own challenges…
Lessons from WC Fayetteville 2012
We had a great time at WordCamp Fayetteville. Here you see Josepha, Rosie, and Jeremy from the Haden Interactive team sharing what must have been a great story. Fayetteville is our hometown WordCamp, so it’s always a lot of fun for us. We sponsored the Friday night kickoff for the beginner track this year (check…
Social Sharing Buttons: Yes or No?
The current issue of .net Magazine has a roundtable discussion of social sharing buttons — those little icons you can easily push to share a story or blog post with your peeps and tweeps. On the whole, the experts in the conversation were against them. People will share anyway, they say, and those things can…
Why We’ve Become a WordPress Shop
At our regular weekly meeting, Rosie suggested that we admit we’ve become a WordPress shop.
A Musician’s Website: Before and After
Pianist Robin Spielberg needed a new website. Her old site, shown below, was cluttered and didn’t have the right kind of content to meet her needs. It was built a while back, so technology has changed, and things had been gradually added on over time, so the user experience was no longer smooth. Visitors could…