Taking care of the weeds

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The other day while I was at #wcpdx, I needed to pull up a link from my site on my phone. I’ve been using the same WP theme for a while and I discovered that it sort of sucks on a mobile.

So, here I am again, kicking myself for not having redesigned my own site yet and letting it get out of date. I haven’t added anything to the portfolio pages for months.

I’m know this is a familiar story for all designers/developers: taking care of your own garden gets shoved on the back fence while you tend client projects.

I was embarrassed for myself trying to navigate the menu on my phone.. yikes! Weedy… just full of weeds.

My clients are very glad I don’t treat them with the same level of disregard.

Time to get out the shovel.

Looking forward to WordCamp Portland #wcpdx

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WordCamp Portland 2011 is being planned and I’m totally looking forward to returning.. This year’s event will be September 17-19.

Last year’s event was the first WordCamp I’d ever been to actually. There were some great speakers and I’ve stayed in touch with a lot of WordPress designers and developers in Portland since then. It’s been a great networking event and we hang out now and then.

Infact I got hooked on WordCamp and went to the one in Phoenix earlier this year and that rocked.

There’s a great WordPress community here in Portland, so if you live here and want to learn more about WordPress, sign up. Tickets will go on sale this Friday and they’ve sold out quickly every year. So, if you want to get into #wcpdx, get your ticket early.

Official WordCamp 2011 Portland web site.

Thanks to Front-End Design Conference for the Inspiration

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I recently attended the Front-End Design Conference in St. Petersburg (http://frontenddesignconference.com/), which completely rocked.  I came away feeling inspired to *finally* get serious about a much overdue overhaul of my own website.

My website is using a theme I got from Rocket Themes but I now want to redesign the entrie site using some of my artwork and making the portfolio more prominent. So, of course, looking for a good time slot to do that in.

Thanks to Front-End Design Conference for not only the inspiration, but for giving me a reason to actually post something here! ;)