Custom Web Design & WordPress Development
I’m somewhere over Utah right now on a flight to San Francisco, so I figured this would be a good time to type up a few thoughts on my experience at WordCamp Minneapolis last weekend. Originally I wasn’t planning on attending this year’s event just because of all the weekend traveling we’re doing in May. [...]
I am borrowing the concept for this post from Bob Stanke who first got the idea from Lifehacker. My answers to the following set of questions will give you insight into my work life and might even give you a few things to try on your own. Here we go… Name: Dave Yankowiak Occupation: Owner & Web Developer, [...]
A few weeks ago a friend of mine sent me a message on Facebook asking me about Wix, a do-it-yourself platform for building websites. He said that he noticed I “liked” Wix on Facebook. In fact, my profile was being shown in sponsored advertising for them in the Facebook timeline. This was not okay.
My friend Shawn Hesketh from WP101* recently put together this excellent video walk-through of the top new features coming soon in WordPress version 3.4.
The theme preview and customization features looks especially useful for me as a lot of times I’m helping clients who are already on WordPress get set up on a new WordPress theme (Genesis-powered, of course). This will allow me to preview and easily interact with the existing site content in the new theme without having to push it live right away.
This week saw the launch of a new social networking app from Napster-founders Sean Parker and Shawn Fanning called Airtime. I had a chance to try it out on Tuesday and I will add my voice to the hype and say that I’m very impressed. Sure, there were a few minor bugs but the second I first connected to someone else in the one-on-one video chat, I “got it.”
