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Mobile Responsive Navigation and Accessibility

  What areas of your website navigation pass the test? See this Slideshare to review what areas of your site may need help with usability: Responsive Navigation When people visit your website, can they...

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What Color Should Your Website Links Be?

Have you ever visited a website and tried to click on some text that looked like a link, only to be deceived by the author (see what I just did there)?  It’s happened to me a few times, and often...

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Use Heading Tags to Help Your Readers

Have you been using headings and heading tags in your blog posts?  If not, it’s time to dust off your posts and help your readers. Heading Tags Make Reading Easier When you break the main ideas down...

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Print Settings in WordPress Websites

While your WordPress website may not be printed often, you can help the visitors that do want to print articles and offer them a few settings. Without styling, the printed page may have a weird layout...

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WordCamp NYC Liveblog

While attending WordCamp NYC, I’ll keep my notes here. The post WordCamp NYC Liveblog appeared first on Courtney Engle Robertson.

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Preview WordPress 4.0

WordPress 4.0 will be released this week. While there are no drastic changes to come, lots of great tweaks have been made.  WordPress 2.9 -> 3.0 was a big change, but 3.9.2 -> 4.0 is “business as...

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WordPress WordCamp Baltimore Liveblog

Follow my blog with Bloglovin WordCamp Baltimore is a great opportunity for WordPress web development consultants to stay on the bleeding edge of their skills.  I’m live-blogging my notes today here....

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WordPress 4.1

I’m a bit delayed on sharing about the changes in self-hosted WordPress 4.1 (not WordPress.com), but here we go: Twenty Fifteen This new theme is a return to simple personal blogging. While Twenty...

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Why WordPress vs Squarespace, Wix, or Weebly

So, you need a website for your business.  You have plenty of options.  You may have heard about a few of these options even during SuperBowl commercials.  With so many choices, how will you know what...

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Preview WordPress 4.2 Features

WordPress 4.2 is due to ship on April 23, 2015.  Get a preview now of the upcoming features. Customizer Theme Switching When changing your theme, you previously had to activate a theme before you could...

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Coding Optional – Design Your Own Theme With Headway

    If you are a more visual thinker, building your own theme without needing to first know how to code can really make all the difference. Get a preview of the Headway theme. Headway is among the...

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WordCamp US = friends

Wordcamp US has come to an end, and I must say it was the highlight of my time in the WordPress community. WordCamp is an event focused around WordPress makers and users.  I have attended WordCamps...

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Your Ultimate WordPress Website Checklist

Your Ultimate WordPress Website checklist from Courtney Engle   WordCamp Baltimore 2015 Whether you are just planning your WordPress website, or you realize that your site needs an audit, it’s worth...

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WordCamp Lancaster

Notes from WordCamp Lancaster sessions Usability Testing – Anthony D Paul Usability tests are conducted to test the usability of our code/site and not testing the users ability.  It is our fault, not...

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WordPress Training and Curriculum in High School

Throughout the spring semester, I have been training high school students in all things WordPress.  As a member of the WordPress Training Team, this was a great chance to test out the curriculum that...

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Reemerging and Retraining after Maternity Leave

I’ve been quiet on this site for several years now.  Try as I might, I needed the time away while birthing 2 babies in 2 years.  I extended my recovery to enjoy a few months of solid sleep before...

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WordCamp Lancaster 2019

Liveblog notes from WordCamp Lancaster PA 2019 Aaron Campbell The Future – Why the Open Web Matters – Aaron Campbell At the very start, the web was open standards, focused on sharing information and...

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How to Learn WordPress

Hari Shanker interviewed three of us about how to use the Learn WordPress website. Whether a Meetup organizer, teacher, or self-paced learner, Learn.WordPress.org can help you get started with...

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Teaching WordPress to Get Students Hired

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpTqN4KbyYg&t=1s&ab_channel=WPBuffs This article first appeared on: Courtney Robertson - by Courtney Engle Robertson

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Web Designer and Developer Advocate

I am excited to announce that I'm joining GoDaddy Pro today as a Web Designer and Developer Advocate. Helping folks at all skill levels achieve their goals is my passion professionally....

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