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I really thought I would be doing blog posts monthly. Haha.

Why is it that blogging on my own website is the last thing I do? It’s like the cobbler whose kids all need new shoes (if you have any idea of what I’m talking about LOL).

First, I’ll make good on my words of “results and recommendations from my research” in my prior post. At that time, I had just purchased the Genesis framework and a package of premium WordPress themes from StudioPress and I wanted to write about that. Suffice it to say that although I invested several hundred dollars in these premium themes, I have never regretted it. Besides the up-front advantage of easily ensuring that I don’t fall into the cookie-cutter website trap that others do, the themes are well-coded and more easily customizable than most. There are also a slew of free plugins from StudioPress that cover many of the things your clients want to do on their sites like sharing via social media and getting the pesky “WordPress login” text off the site footer.
Cape Cod in March
Seems like spring is already here this year, but don’t be tempted to plant too early. Remember, it’s Cape Cod, you never know what weather we’ll get in April, let alone the rest of March!

Hard to believe that five months (well, really, almost six) have passed since my last post. Sheesh, I tell every website client that they should be changing or adding site content at least on a weekly basis. (Hint, writing a blog helps to fill that criteria!)

I couldn’t find a good picture of a sloth so here is one of my cat being lazy instead. Though if one were to call me lazy, it could only be in regards to putting up a new blog post on my site. Otherwise, I am a busy bee, as those who know me will attest to.

And it’s not as if I’ve been walking on the beach (though I sure wish I could say that, in spite of the fact that it’s winter and I can’t go barefoot) because it’s been close to impossible with all the record-breaking snow that we had this season.

Really beautiful for the most part, but all that shoveling didn’t leave as much time for working as one could wish…

February was a “lost” month, but things have been moving forward again lately. I’m delighted to say that the redevelopment of the Dennis Conservation Trust website is complete and the administrator has been doing a fine job putting up new events, updating the homepage and calendar, and even adding new pages to the website. (There is one client who listened to the “put new content on your site” speech:)

And I’ve made progress on the redevelopment of Astrolabe’s website to fully mobile-optimize it. It’s a large site that was started in 1996 and has been added onto over the years in a somewhat haphazard fashion. A challenge to update and organize, but luckily I love a challenge.

The most visible of the updated pages is the Astrolabe Events page – check it out on a mobile. And let me mention that what I am most proud of is that there is no content management system so the pages are written in pure HTML5 with some Javascript and jQuery thrown in where it’s useful. It will take a while to update the 300+ pages, since I’m only there part-time, but I’m not going anywhere.

And I WILL be posting updates more often!

Why aren’t we all blogging?

I should listen to my own advice