The Food Watchdog
When your diet is threatened by BHT and BHA; with mercury; with genetically modified, genetically engineered false foods – you need protection. TheFoodWatchdog.com provides original, investigative food journalism articles to present you with food facts.
My redesigned WordPress website for two-time Pulitzer winning former Seattle P.I. writer, Andrew Schneider. The food journalism blog includes special features and food alerts, as well as a Word of the Week.
Schneider just signed a deal with AOL (that’s not another Big Ag additive – that’s America Online) as Senior Public Health Correspondent.
Creating Updates That Save Time
Another nonprofit client converted from a WordPress.com standard theme to a self-hosted WordPress theme skinned to match their existing brand ID.
Building Community – One Less Car at a Time
In 2002, I managed the redesign of Cascade Bicycle Club’s website. Roll forward 8 years: the Club is building community by blogging.
If the blog is half as popular as the bike club’s 5-topic message board (which serves 9,600+ cyclists), then my volunteer Cyclist of the Month column will be a bigger hit. The blog features advocacy, event, and I Saw You posts – as well as action alerts and RSS subscriptions.
The Cascade Blog is powered by WordPress, an award-winning open source content management system. The theme was designed to match Cascade.org. To help visitors navigate, I added a ‘utility bar’ to the top of both sites. For aesthetic reasons, we also centered site content.
Add a WordPress Blog to Your Website
I just skinned a new WordPress blog for Studio Pacifica. Karen Braitmayer originally launched a static brochureware site that would load well in assistive devices.
Recently Karen started blogging for an industry site, so she decided to post articles to her site as well. You can even read Karen’s latest Tweets in the blog sidebar.
Graphic Design: Kelly Davis, Farm Girl Works
Wacktastic Holiday Light Show
WordPress CSS Theming: Scott Marlow
Greenwood/Phinney residents can now enter the 2009 Wacktastic Holiday Light Show Contest!
This is my second year sponsoring this North Seattle community event by providing website development. The new site is powered by WordPress, and features an embedded GoogleMap that accepts batch uploads of contest entries.
Don’t miss the December 20th Awards Party.
Graphic Design credits: Beegee Tolpa, Kelly Davis.
WordPress Boot Camp
What I learned at WordCamp:
- For WordPress.com-hosted blogs, there is 1 theme for every 6,000 sites.
- For self-hosted blogs, there is 1 theme for every 3,000 sites.
- 31% of visitors post blog comments [source: Forrester Research]
- 95% of WordPress blogs are hosted on Apache-Linux (vs. Windows IIS)
- Include numerals in Permalinks (for PHP optimization)
- Replace your default admin user (for security purposes)
- Recommended plugins: Clean Archives Reload, Dashboard Scheduled Posts, Gallery2, Headspace, Maintenance Mode, NextGen Gallery, No Self Pings, Revelanssi, Twitter Tools, WP DB Manager, WP Open ID, WP Security Scans, WP Super Cache
- Read How To Be a RockStar WordPress Designer by Rockable Press
- Read Trust Agents by Chris Brogan
- Read PHP Solutions by David Powers
- Read Six Pixels of Separation by Mitch Joel
- Setup Feedburner (vs. RSS only)
- Use Starkers Naked theme
- Be Authentic
- Blog
Thanks to Adobe for providing free space.