One of the many reasons that I switched from my hosting provider’s webmail to a gmail account is the sheer size of the images clients send via email. Which brings up a valid question for a lot of clients who want to add their own images to their WordPress site: How to resize the multi-megabyte [...]
Now that you have created a site using WordPress, it’s not unusual to open up the dashboard for the first time, and sit there thinking “Now what do I do?”. The greatest advantage of developing with WordPress can also be your Achilles’ heel. Sure you can edit your site at will, but for people who [...]
Welcome to the new home of Jenn Mears Web Design! I switched hosting companies on April 5th and am working on a new design and some new features for my site. Stay tuned and thanks for stopping by! For some reason, the uploads on my old site didn’t export so please be patient while I [...]
I attended my first WordPress Meetup tonight and it was an amazing experience. Just to realize that other people out there have had clients who erase a lovingly customized embedded Google map (“Html view? What’s that?”) made me feel that much less alone in the universe. Not only was I going to my first meetup [...]
Once DeathWish Piano Movers owner Greg Keane stepped in front of the cameras for the Travel Channel’s new show, DeathWish Movers, he realized that his company would need to update their website to a more dynamic version that would also function as their online storefront. Since hoisting Black Sabbath-worthy mixing consoles and antique Steinways out [...]
No Christian, Thank You! I was completely caught off-guard on Oscar night when my friend who had asked me to work on Dickeklund.com, sent me a text message that the site had been mentioned at the Oscars. I thought it was probably something along the lines of Christian Bale sporting a Dickeklund.com cummerbund or something. [...]
One of my first clients, Beacon Insurance, had a site that was a good candidate for a WordPress makeover. Even with using the Library feature in Dreamweaver, changes to the navigation and content were cumbersome, especially when they wanted to add a new newsletter page. After creating a sample site and letting them check out [...]
-Now shake hands and play nice… I’m putting together a proposal site for a (potential) client and using Sayontan’s excellent “Suffusion” theme. What makes it awesome (for me) is that it’s a snap to customize with the various customizing menus. And, it comes with a bunch of different layout templates so it’s easy to set [...]
“The Fighter” has been getting a lot of great reviews and press lately and if you look closely, you can see Christian Bale, who portrays Lowell boxing legend Dick Eklund in the film, sporting a shirt that says Dickeklund.com. By a stroke of luck, a client of mine also worked as a grip on The [...]
Recently I looked at my client list and realized that I now have quite a few whose sites include a blog. Some of them update the blog on a regular basis and send out an email to all their subscribers to let them know there’s something new to read. Others put a new post up [...]
