I was honored to speak to a group of aspiring web designers at Sacramento City College on April 29, 2021 via zoom. I talked about my career and what I wish I had known when I started out. I also received some really great questions for the students. It was super fun! Here are the slides…
I’m excited to talk about Pages & Posts to the Beginner Track. Next weekend, Sept 21-22 in Roseville, CA.
The organizers were kind enough to send some picts of me during my talk. I presented on Plugins for WordPress during the beginner track on Saturday. Want to learn more about the event and attend next year? See https://2017.sacramento.wordcamp.org. Want to see slides from my talk? If you want to learn a bit more about WordPress, check out the monthly WordPress Meetup group. To learn even more about WordPress check out my class at Sacramento City College (Graphic Communication 361.
Come see me on Saturday! https://2017.sacramento.wordcamp.org/
I love fonts almost as much as thrifting, which is a lot. But I do not love the paralyzing ache of searching through fonts and trying to make good pairings until your eyes cross and it looks like you’ve spelled your name wrong and are no longer sure if English is your first language. I like my thrift stores clean and restocked regularly and I like my fonts pre-paired.
If you have taken my class you have likely heard me say that I prefer to learn by doing not from books and I feel like tech books become outdated too quickly in this field . Well, I have read some good books on web design but they are on concepts that are more long-lasting. Since students have asked for recommendations, here goes: Continue reading
I’m teaching WordPress this semester to a group of emerging web professionals. They have a lot of questions about themes and plugins to start with. Here are some themes and plugins we have identified as “good” to try.
What other themes, plugins and tips do you have to offer newbies?
Over the summer I wrote an analysis of an app called Requested. The app did many things well but it could do better. I was honored to be hired by Requested to help them refine the way they talk to and interact with their customers. Here’s what we did… Continue reading
I’m very proud and excited to be a part of the organizing team for the first WordCamp Sacramento. As the Entertainment Director, I researched and am coordinating venues for our speaker/sponsor dinner and the event after party. We selected Ten22 for the dinner; they have a private dining room and a tasty, seasonal fixed menu for a decent price. The after party will be held at the River City Saloon in Old Sacramento. Continue reading
Have you ever been enjoying a much-anticipated fancy dinner somewhere like Mulvaney’s B&L or Ella, enjoying your amuse bouche, sipping an aperitif, digging the vibe around you to suddenly have the spell broken by a too-rockin’ song or a lipstick-stained water-glass? I have and it hurts me to be yanked out of my happy time. Continue reading
Stream is a plugin for WordPress that tracks logged-in user activity organized by context, action and IP address for easy filtering. Developers can extend Stream with custom connectors to log any kind of action.
For non-techie folks it’s a list of all the activity on a site. Not of the activities of people who view the site, but those who build and maintain it.
After years of debating, shopping, discussion, and test runs at various vacation rentals my parents decided to purchase a vacation home; I am overjoyed! I spent much of my childhood playing in the snow around “Aunt Lee’s Cabin” in Crestline (in the mountains above San Bernardino). It was a perfect easy getaway for our family when I was a kid, and I have many fond memories of the house and area. Continue reading
My amazing friend Elizabeth is opening her own Montessori Preschool in a space attached to her house which she specifically designed for this purpose. I’m very excited to have been involved in a minor way — from talking over the plans for the remodel to helping craft her school website mapleseedpdx.org. Recently, I took a stab at some logo designs for her. Continue reading
The more that audacious coders dream of changing the world, the more they need to fill their companies with social alchemists who can connect with customers–and make progress seem pleasant.
–George Anders, Forbes
Slack is an online chat tool for teams. It replaces email in many ways, you can text, share files, add images, and you can have private rooms or public rooms for specific topics. The system stores all your conversations in one place that is searchable so a team member can easily catch up on the conversation. You can also have Slack alert you when your name or a keyword of interest is mentioned. It’s pretty cool and free for a limited version. Once you join one, you will likely join more.
Its a great place to get help with a tricky problem.
