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10 Cool Facebook Timeline Covers
Ever since Facebook decided to change their layout to the new timeline style, I’ve seen an emergence of banner cover designs, from the good, to the bad, to the ugly. I searched the web to help design...
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WooThemes and WooCommerce Celebrates It’s 1 Year Anniversary with a 30% OFF...
WooThemes, the developer behind WooCommerce is celebrating their 1 year anniversary since launching the very successful WooCommerce WordPress plugin. In a years time, the WooCommerce WordPress plugin...
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What Your Email Address Says About Your Computer Skills
The Oatmeal published this comic not too long ago, and while I’m late in writing an article about it, this graphic is still true today. As much as we like to pretend that we aren’t all email snobs,...
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Configure Your @domain.com to Use Gmail, Yahoo or Hotmail (Part I)
In my previous post titled, ‘What Your Email Address Says About Your Computer Skills‘, I touched on my acute case of email snobbery. Directed toward people who run a business or want to project a...
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When to Hire a Blog Designer
A blog is a great way to communicate with readers. Today, there are blogs for nearly everything: political news, businesses communicating promotions and news and people sharing images, song quotes and...
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Breast Cancer Awareness Month
October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month and I would like to show my support by highlighting some of the very best web designs supporting breast education and empowerment. From vibrant pinks...
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5 Lessons in Branding from Trinidad James
I know what you’re thinking. Trinidad James? Is she serious? Well, yes, yes I am. Whether you like his music or not, Trinidad James has exploded into the stratosphere with a look and appeal all his...
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Why Aren’t Women of Color in Tech Discussing Adria Richards?
[This article has been updated] I have a bone to pick with women, specifically brown women, in tech. By now everyone has heard about the drama surrounding Adria Richards, PyCon, SendGrid and fighting...
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Keeping It Real on Twitter: Luvvie [PartI]
If you turned in early last night you may have missed an enlightening conversation on Twitter. Freshalina from Crunktastical.net and Luvvie from AwesomeLuvvie.com were giving testimony without the...
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Keeping It Real on Twitter: Freshalina [PartII]
This post is dedicated to Freshalina of Crunktastical.net, who also chimed in last night via Twitter and gave the congregation an earful. This post is organized a bit different from Part I. I chose to...
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Ten Steps to Hackproof Your WordPress Website
For those if you that were at the Blogging While Brown NYC presentation on Saturday, June 22, 1013 below are the files used. As well as a list of all links and plugins mentioned during the session....
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Top Ten Takeaways from Blogging While Brown NYC 2013
While I was there to speak on how to “Hackproof a WordPress” website, I also attended this year’s Blogging While Brown Conference to network, learn, be inspired and make powerful connections. I’m here...
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The Beyoncé Effect: 7 Marketing and Branding Tips To Create a Buzz
Whether you love or hate her, you’d have to admit that, Beyoncé is about her business. She works hard, plays hard and gives 100% into any project which bears her name. That drive and work ethic was...
View Article5 Real World Jobs for Bloggers
So, it’s almost the new year and you’ve decided that in 2014 you want to take your blogging to another level. There’s just one problem, you aren’t quite ready to leap into full-time blogging, but your...
View Article10 Takeaways from Damon Dash’s Philosophy on Defining a Boss
A video of Damon Dash (aka. Dame Dash) appeared on my Facebook timeline and of course my first thoughts were – what is this dude talking about – NOW? For most of us, we only know what the media...
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Article Remix: 9 Social Media Resolutions for 2014
Mashable posted an article titled, “9 Social Media Resolutions for 2014” and while it had good intentions I didn’t feel like most of the points resonated with me or my audience. So I decided to write a...
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Blog vs. Website
Ok so, let me get this straight. Is a blog a type of website? Confusing right? Don’t feel alone, many people have a hard time understanding the difference between the two and how they relate. Some...
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Types of Websites
There are basically two main types of websites – static and dynamic. Under these two broad categories are more specific site types, but we will discuss those in a moment. A static site is where you...
View ArticleWebsite Reloaded: New Direction, Goals + Plans for the Future
The site looks bare. Yeah, I know. I’m working on that. I took time off to determine the future of my blog. Part of that process is learning what value I can offer my readers and how to best present...
View ArticleReview: My Love + Hate Relationship with The Printful
My love affair with The Printful started in May 2015. As a small shop owner who became overwhelmed with hand printing, packing and shipping shirts each month from my online store, I needed help. A LOT...
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