Growing up we are raised to follow a certain path. Go to primary, middle, and high school. Go to college. Get a job. Get married and have kids. Stay in said job until retirement/kids out of the house. Retire. Die. I was on this path. Until I wasn’t anymore. And I felt a bit crazy [...]
ActonWeb & Indigo21 Give Way To…. Heather Acton
April 21, 2012 By 4 Comments
There’s a major cleanup effort going on at the Heather Acton HQ right now, so thank you for your patience! I’m working on current content and a new theme for this site, but it takes time to craft these things. And even more so when it’s your own thing! I’m going back to basics over [...]
Strategy For Making Your New Business Successful
March 5, 2012 By 7 Comments
Being the new kid sucks. We’ve all been there. A new school. A new team. A new networking group. It puts us out of our comfort zone and can cause us to not act as our normal selves and not perform at our best. Being a new business is no different. It’s uncomfortable and intimidating, [...]
Guster – Here I Go Again – Ravinia 2011
February 14, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Sara Welker and I went to this show last summer at Ravinia, and this last bit blew me (and the crowd) away! (And, welcome me back to blogging! With all the changes going on with our family, my business, etc., I think this may become my happy place. Stay tuned!)
Custom Post Types Presentation Materials for WordCamp Detroit 2011
November 11, 2011 By Leave a Comment
On November 13, 2011 I gave a presentation on Custom Post Types – What, Why, and How at WordCamp Detoit. Since I had just gone through a slow, but fairly steep learning curve on custom post types myself, I wanted to give others a leg up and share some of the best resources I found [...]
WordCamp Chicago 2011 is a Wrap! WordCamp San Francisco here I come!
August 7, 2011 By 2 Comments
It was an amazing experience co-organizing WordCamp Chicago this year. It reinforced my belief that WordPress is the future of the semantic web, and that the WordPress community is amazingly generous and supportive. Huge thanks to the lead organizer Mary Duquaine for taking the bumps and the bruises that led to an event more successful [...]
How to Insert an Auto Updating Copyright Notice in Thesis
March 17, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Let’s keep it short and simple on this one. The default Thesis footer is not a no-brainer to edit, especially if you haven’t worked with hooks before. And even if you have figured out how to add a custom footer using hooks, using the appropriate code so that your copyright date auto-updates is imperative, assuming [...]
How to Clean a Hacked WordPress Site
January 15, 2011 By 2 Comments
You hit Publish on a new blog post on your WordPress site and it won’t post. You are checking out how your site is ranking in Google today and notice your website description has been hijacked by Viagra salespeople. You type in the address to your site and your site doesn’t load… You’ve been hacked! [...]
Are You a Mompreneur? Some Think You Shouldn’t Be.
October 13, 2010 By 12 Comments
I started a post a month ago while at SocialDevCamp Chicago regarding my feeling of being the only Mom in a see of young, single, kidless, time rich men and women in the Web industry. How would I ever compete? How would I ever know as much? Maybe I shouldn’t even bother, I thought. Those [...]
