June 15, 2022
It’s The Web Project Guide Podcast, and we made you a new episode. I remember when I first attached an analytics suite to my blog. It was 2005, and it was a WordPress app called “Mint” — not the financial tracking service, but an independent analytics tracking service that I barely knew how to use. […]
April 14, 2022
It’s The Web Project Guide Podcast, and we made you a new episode. The web industry is an industry built on the shoulders of those who came before us. CSS did not sprout fully formed from initial planning sessions, but as a gradual set of parameters that built upon the early design methods of the […]
March 15, 2022
It’s The Web Project Guide Podcast, and we made you a new episode. I didn’t get to ask Erika Hall about her (newfound?) obsession with spiders. But, beyond that, we had a great conversation about the basics of understanding site users: what kinds of questions do you ask — and how do you know those questions […]
February 15, 2022
We talked to Brett, author of Project Management for Humans, about project planning, creating better retrospectives, how new clients learn to be good clients, and how to plan around the differences in team skill and velocity. You should check it out.
January 18, 2022
Deane and I had a wonderful time talking with Patrice Embry, project manager and consultant, about the practice of creating a web team and piecing together the different personalities that make up a project. Patrice is wonderful, and we know you’ll think so too.
November 29, 2021
Introducing the Web Project Guide podcast: a phase-by-phase look into the web process.
October 27, 2021
A new post has gone up over at the official Blend Interactive news and blog feed, in which I provide a counter to the (false) idea that WordPress is somehow better at SEO. This was a real scenario, and it was frustrating to both me and the client — a case of when a bit of […]
September 24, 2021
It’s been a long time coming, but we are so incredibly happy and excited to share the big news: The Web Project Guide is a real book, and you can order it right now. What does this mean for The Web Project Guide? Well, it means a few things. The book is finished, in about […]
August 27, 2021
In our quest to promote The Web Project Guide, Deane and I were guests of a recent Boye & Co. conference call. Boye & Co. is an educational professional networking group primarily focused on the world of tech and web development, so we spent a half hour talking about the book and taking questions from […]
September 27, 2020
As a part of a recent series on Blend Interactive’s feed about on-site search and tracking, I put together a four-part post about the nature of site search: how it’s used, why it matters, and how to take advantage of it within your organization. Part One: How Does Search Work? – Before we can make […]
