I’ve spent nine years un-breaking things that people thought were "fine," and if there is one thing I’ve learned, it’s that most people treat a...
Author: Rasheeda Volkov
A theme is a set of decisions somebody else made. I read them before installing.
I have a folder on my hard drive dedicated entirely to the digital equivalent of crime scenes: client sites handed over with nothing but a "good...
Stop looking at your hourly rate like it’s some holy metric that actually matters. If you’re still trying to figure out how to price theme...
I’ve spent nine years un-building digital disasters, and if there is one thing I’ve learned, it’s that most "comprehensive" handoff guides are...
I’ve spent nine years cleaning up the digital equivalent of a crime scene, usually because someone decided a "pretty" new layout was more important...
I spent three hours last Tuesday digging through the backend of a client’s "optimized" site, only to find they’d slapped a flashy, over-engineered...
I spent three hours last Tuesday staring at a "beautiful" client site that had essentially become a digital graveyard of outdated plugins and broken...
I was staring at a client’s backend last Tuesday—one of those bloated, heavy-handed builds I keep in my "horror story" folder—and it hit me again....
I was staring at a client’s backend last Tuesday—one of those bloated, "drag-and-drop" nightmares that felt more like a digital landfill than a...
I spent three hours last Tuesday staring at a client’s "brand guidelines" that turned out to be nothing more than a single, poorly exported JPEG of...