Category: Employee Post

You’re a Salesperson–Not Just a Designer

Designers face many challenges that are often discussed and pontificated on, from Grunt to typography. What’s worth emphasizing is what happens before and after the design is created. Design isn’t just about one thing, and in order to be a designer of...

How Project Managers Handle Client Curveballs

Your team is cruising through development on your latest project. Your lead developer has his team on lock. The site’s architecture is planned out and they’re slinging CMB left and right. Final designs? No final_v2 or homepage_rev3s in sight. You’ve got them all and...

Forming Harmonious Client-Agency Relationships

“Harmonious” may not be the word a lot of clients and agencies/freelancers would use to describe their relationship. Perhaps many would even land on a more negative term. Why is it that we hear of the bad cases so much more often than the good ones?...

Writing Clean(er) JavaScript

JavaScript, like many programming languages, has some great ways to compartmentalize and structure code to make it more maintainable, more readable, and more reliable. This post will cover two things that can help developers to organize their code: namespacing and singletons.

Lisa Sabin-Wilson’s ManageWP AMA

Last week, Lisa did ManageWP’s Ask Me Anything. There were some fantastic questions about WordPress (and some thorough razzing over football). While we were super excited about this before it happened, we had no idea we’d see such thoughtful questions! In case...

Introducing vv 1.9: The Most Feature-Filled Release Yet

Introducing version 1.9 of vv! In the WordPress world, quite a few developers use Varying Vagrant Vagrants for their local development environments. Just under a year ago, I started building Variable VVV, a tool to help people leverage VVV and make it easier...

Using Storytelling for Better User Experience

Storytelling has been around before the first word was ever penned on a piece of parchment. It has evolved with us and influenced the culture around us. Stories are consumed in a myriad of different ways, and the digital age just gives us more options–from...

Monotasking: Stay Focused by Doing One Thing at a Time

There are a lot of benefits of working from home. Your commute is really easy, often you can make your own hours, you have a lot more flexibility in your day-to-day schedule if (and when) emergencies come up, and it’s perfect for...

How to Make Your Work Retreat 100% Awesome

WDS Camp is almost OVER! If you follow any of our resident dorks on Twitter, you’ve probably already seen us going nuts with the #WDSCamp hashtag–so you already know. While I’d worked remotely before, I’d never been a part of a telecommuting...