Hi! I'm Andy. I do stuff on the web, co-organize the Toronto WordPress Group, and work on a big gaming site called GTANet. This blog is my home on the web, where I'm sharing ideas, links, and other neat things. More info here!
November 29, 2011 - I took part in an all-day WordPress workshop last weekend. It was hosted by Ladies Learning Code, and led by local web developer Wes Bos. The eight-hour session introduced new users to the WordPress platform, with Wes covering everything from installation and configuration to theme customization and custom post types.
November 29, 2011 - According to founder Matt Mullenweg in his 2011 State of the Word Address, there are thousands of self-employed developers making a living on the WordPress platform. His voluntary survey recorded 6,800 developers who have built 170,000 sites between them, making a median hourly rate of $50. – ReadWriteWeb
November 28, 2011 - CSS dropdown navigation menus are fabulous. They’re an elegant way of enabling multi-level navigation, without making the user click through a series of pages. The problem with the :hover selector is that touchscreen devices (namely the iPhone, iPod and iPad) don’t recognize the “hover” state.
November 27, 2011 - I opened up the JavaScript console in Chrome to see what was causing the problem. This is what came up. Update: Apparently the Storify extension for Chrome was causing the issue. Disable the extension and everything works again.
November 26, 2011 - “ ALL PROBLEMS HUMAN PROBLEMS. FOR EXAMPLE, ONLY 3 TECH PROBLEMS IN UNIVERSE: A. HUMAN BUILD TECH WRONG B. HUMAN USE TECH WRONG C. HUMAN NOT UNDERSTAND TECH HUMANS TRY TO FIX THOSE PROBLEMS SINCE FIRST CAVEMAN HAVE TO EXPLAIN TO BOSS WHY INTEGRATE FIRE WITH LOINCLOTH NOT GOING TO WORK. HERE @FAKEGRIMLOCK INTERVIEW. OR [...]
November 26, 2011 - There are two flavours of WordPress. There’s the service version (WordPress.com), and then there’s the self-hosted version (WordPress.org). This post is intended to be a super-simple guide to getting started with WordPress.org, and assumes the reader has some proficiency with the web.
November 25, 2011 - I first read Getting Things Done in 2009 when I was fresh out of college. It’s a system of setting priorities, writing things down, and completing tasks. It made a massive impact on my productivity, and it’s totally applicable to managing social media. Here’s a simplified way of looking at it.
November 24, 2011 - Want your company’s website to be more effective? Start giving a damn about your audience, and stop treating them like cattle. Social media marketing, inbound marketing, content development, thought leadership – it’s all based on a single theme: customer service. And the Apple Store has done a great job with customer service. Here’s what you can learn from them.
November 24, 2011 - My blog went down for maintenance late last week. I was tired of staring at the old grey n’ blue combination – the colours were too close to that of Quartet (my current employer). I needed a new theme, something simple and personal and distinctly Andy, so I sat down and busted out my sketchbook.
November 7, 2011 - Steve Jobs, Isaacson’s biography makes clear, was a complicated and exhausting man. “There are parts of his life and personality that are extremely messy, and that’s the truth,” Powell tells Isaacson. “You shouldn’t whitewash it.” Isaacson, to his credit, does not. He talks to everyone in Jobs’s career, meticulously recording conversations and encounters dating back [...]
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