This month my project team launched the new website for the Monterey County Association of Realtors, or MCAR, a trade group in Northern California. The new association website is a balance of design, branding, ease of use and a tool for curating large amounts of content for a large audience of site visitors. “Curating”...
When WordPress filters gave me my a-ha moment
There are few feelings more gratifying than that moment when after weeks, months or even years of studying something, it just somehow clicks. Like a old friend, or a book you read several dozen times, it seems that it was always there and always will be. One of the most powerful and confusing parts...
My Holiday Tech Lists, Day 1: Web tools you can use
Just in time for the holidays! Everyone has their gift lists but who wants to fight for a mall parking spot or struggle through a river of angry shoppers like a worn-out salmon swimming upstream to escape a hungry bear? Let me contribute to your peace of mind with my own lists. This series...
WordPress plugin puts custom fields on the page as JavaScript
I’m working on a WordPress site for a client who is interested in tracking and providing links to local government, demographic and economic data from outside sources. I want to show it as bits of data as JavaScript instead of on a usual WordPress post. Why, you ask? I’ll get into that more in...
In AppPresser, bad things happen when updating jQuery in WordPress
With AppPresser, jQuery needs to be the version that WordPress ships. Do not remove it! You’ve been warned. I am one of those airplane travelers who likes to sit by the window and strain my neck as I spend every airborne minute staring across the skies to the ground below. While some people quake...