Choosing a WordPress consultant

Hiring a consultant to help you launch your blog starts with a basic question. Go with a coder or a designer? Or a consultant with a content emphasis? Is SEO important and, if so, which has the best background?

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Articles and other resources

These articles and posts are ones I have used in developing my thinking on tags and Categories. They are in the order I found them and so are better and more recent as you go down the list. There is a second list of examples of topic schemes at the end.

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Support request produces a theme revision

I started a thread in the Tarski forum, Plugins: Front-end Editor (scribu) plugin: use of the_title_attribute() instead of the_title() (truncated after use of) in order to resolve one of the reasons why the Front-end Editor plugin wasn't working. I described my experience more generally in A good news story on plugin and theme support. In…

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A good news story on plugin and theme support

My experience yesterday debugging the installation of scribu's Front-end Editor plugin is a good lesson on the way WordPress can work. While I was disappointed that I can't use the plugin until I upgrade to 3.0, that is just around the corner and the experience has been encouraging. This plugin enables posts and pages to…

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Drive animated video a remarkable visualization

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc When I first viewed the Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us, I was knocked out by the quality and effectiveness of the presentation. We've all seen a lot of video and PowerPoint presentations over the years but none can compare to the scribing technique used here.

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Chris Harrell’s 3D workspace visualization

This three minute video is noteworthy for its visualization of a 3D workspace. I don’t think that that was the intention of the artist so consider it one of the video’s key prop. Examples of imagined workspaces are few and far between and this one’s capabilities are far greater than present and planned ones. In…

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