This has been an amazing year for me. A year ago I was barely breaking even and struggling to pay the bills as a web developer. This year I’ve seen my income grow four-fold, have met many amazing new people, and built myself a sustainable business. Here’s specifically what I did to help grow in [...]
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This guide is intended to serve as a complementary resource to my presentation on Intro to WordPress Development at the MarkNet Group on September 25, 2012. MarkNet Group is run by Alex Miranda and Gina Nieves, two colleagues and friends who are amazing resources and huge contributors themselves to the web development, SEO, and WordPress [...]
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I have been on a real search engine optimization kick lately, sparked in large part by a recent meeting with Alex Miranda of PRUnderground. After implementing a long list of changes to my site with Alex’s recommendations in mind, I started to rank for specific keyword phrases – connecticut search engine optimization, connecticut web design, [...]
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This week kicked off with a presentation at WordPress Developers New Haven hosted by Sandra Christie of M Squared Web Design. It was a pleasure to present to a group of WordPress enthusiasts and hopefully spread some knowledge. At one point our conversation turned to one of my favorite topics – becoming a WordPress developer. [...]
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On August 20th I’ll be presenting at the Meetup.com WordPress Developers New Haven group, hosted by Sandra Christie of M Squared Web Design, on WooCommerce. I am very fortunate to have access to so many WordPress groups in Connecticut and New York. I’ve used WooCommerce to develop several simple e-commerce sites, and prefer it to Jigoshop, [...]
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I decided to start posting once per week with a roundup of the best links I stumbled upon that week. I try to spend downtime online doing ‘productive surfing’ – researching topics I’m interested in vs. clicking through funny pictures on Reddit. Lately I have been most interested in Search Engine Optimization strategies and web [...]
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Nicholas Cohn contacted me in need of some development work for his website prior to the launch of his art exhibit. His existing site was hosted on WordPress.com using the Minimum theme by Genesis. The first step was to move him off of WordPress.com onto a self hosted account. I exported all of his existing [...]
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