Tag: web design

Form over Function? Never thought about it…

April 24, 2010

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Topics: Web Development, WordPress.

A couple of weeks ago, I launched a WordPress Calendar plugin. Now, there are a *lot* of Calendar plugins available out there, so I’ll freely admit that my primary reason for doing this was to meet my own needs — and given the “profit margin” on writing WordPress plugins, that’s generally the best plan when writing one. Interestingly, the most frequent complaints I’ve heard since launching it were in an area which I had considered to be the least important […]

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Responsibilities of a Web Designer

October 31, 2007

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Topics: Web Development.

Working as a web designer/developer comes with a significant burden of responsibility. When you sign a contract to develop or update somebody’s business-critical web presence, you’re confronted with a situation where you have enormous potential to abuse or, through irresponsibility, damage that person’s business. This is something I think about on an almost daily basis, thinking to myself “Have I taken the necessary precautions to make sure that THIS action doesn’t break anything?” It’s a responsibility that goes far deeper […]

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