Photo of the Week: Longwood Gardens Open Air Theater Fountain Show

Purple, green, and white colored fountains against a backdrop of a yellow-lit tree

Whenever I visit a city, I always find time to visit a local arboretum, garden, or city park.

While many of my friends and colleagues know I’ve worked on software applications and designing websites for years, few know I have a degree in botany and worked as a naturalist for two years. Continue reading Photo of the Week: Longwood Gardens Open Air Theater Fountain Show

Plain Language: Use Descriptive and Meaningful Text in Your Links

Metal chain links

Have you ever visited a website, selected a link, only to discover the page you were taken to wasn’t what you expected?

Or worse, you selected a link on your mobile device, and a 5MB Excel spreadsheet started to download?

Me too. And it irritates me. Continue reading Plain Language: Use Descriptive and Meaningful Text in Your Links

Takeaways from State of the Word 2015

Matt Mullenweg at podium in dark conference room, WordPress banner behind him.

At the WordCamp US 2015 conference, Matt Mullenweg delivered the annual State of The Word address, focusing on WordPress accomplishments over the past year as well as what to expect in the future.

For the past two years, I’ve watched the State of the Word address on livestream. This year, I watched it in person, four rows from the front of the ballroom at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Continue reading Takeaways from State of the Word 2015