Deborah Edwards-Oñoro

Deborah Edwards-Oñoro enjoys birding, gardening, taking photos, reading, and watching tennis. She's retired from a 25+ year career in web design, usability, and accessibility.

Easy WP Guide Updated for WordPress 4.5

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Easy WP Guide

Whether you’re new to WordPress or have been using it for awhile, you’ll want to check out the latest version of a resource I’ve been recommending for years.

Released yesterday, the popular Easy WP Guide WordPress Manual by Anthony Hortin of Maddison Designs, has been updated with the latest features and enhancements to WordPress 4.5.

Easy WP Guide is ideal for users, content strategists, digital marketers, anyone who adds or manages content on your WordPress site. Continue reading Easy WP Guide Updated for WordPress 4.5

Photo of the Week: Celebrating Mother’s Day

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child's handprint in blue paint

If you’re celebrating Mother’s Day today, I hope you have a wonderful day celebrating and honoring your mother with family and friends.

Today’s photo is a hand-made card/art poster my son created years ago for Mother’s Day, when he was in grade school. Continue reading Photo of the Week: Celebrating Mother’s Day

Delicious, the Social Bookmarking Service, is Bought and Shut Down

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Colorful bookmarks commemorating, Martin Luther King, Jr Day, National Geographic, and Reading Rainbow strewn across a wooden table.

After being neglected by its owners for more than a year, Pinboard bought Delicious and will shutter the site. On June 15, 2017, the Delicious site will change to read-only.

Delicious users won’t be able to save any new bookmarks, but will be able to export their bookmarks.

Read on for more background about my experience with Delicious in 2016, their lack of communication, and what I believe they could have done to maintain the loyalty of their users.

In early February 2016, I couldn’t log in to Delicious, the online social bookmarking site. I figured it was my Internet connection, and I would check later in the day.

I have thousands of bookmarks on Delicious, accumulated since the mid 2000’s, on web design, accessibility, user experience. All kinds of bookmarks to sites, tips, and blogs, that I use weekly. And I regularly add to the bookmarks.

So, when I checked Delicious later in the day and I still couldn’t log in, I began to get concerned. Continue reading Delicious, the Social Bookmarking Service, is Bought and Shut Down

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