The Conscientious Mama

I’ve been a freelance web designer for over 5 years now and over that time I’ve read many blogs and articles aimed at freelancers that provide advice on productivity and smart working habits.  One of the common themes is the evilness of distractions; it seems that distractions should be avoided at all costs because of [...]

I’ve been using WordPress as a CMS (Content Management System) for about four years now.  Back when I began, it was simply a blogging platform but I discovered it was easy to customise, easy for clients to add content and came with lots of useful plugins and an open API, which made it ideal in [...]

A couple of people have asked me recently how I create clean markup so quickly. I don’t find it particularly hard, I do it by hand in a systematic manner. But I have a lot of learning behind me that I apply. So, in this blog I reveal my process as well as a few [...]

Maybe I’m just old-fashioned, but every time I get an email offering reciprocal links or paid website reviews, I immediately hit the “spam” button and sigh a deep sigh.  In the “real” world, it takes time to build a good reputation, for individuals and for businesses; in the Internet world, it seems that people don’t [...]