Why web standards matter!

Professional web folk share plenty of eye-rolling anecdotes about departure from best practice.  It’s one way to let off steam and retain sanity.   I don’t imagine this is unique to web designers and developers — I imagine shoe cobblers had their own, “OMG!” stories.  It was in this fine tradition of mutual “kvetching” that a [...]

5 Key Social Networking Plugins for Wordpress

Okay, first I have to start with a big caveat: I’m not currently using all of these plugins in www.wordimpressive.com. Whew, now that’s out of the way, one more cautionary note: Don’t go plugin crazy. Adding a plugin to your WordPress site is like making a long-term commitment — it is [...]

Can Wordpress act as your CMS?

There’s a good bit of discussion here and there, concerning whether WordPress can act as a Content Management System for a web site  Obviously WordPress is a strong and incredibly popular blogging platform, but how about as a CMS?  Some “how to’s” we find around the interwebs would have us believe it is a good [...]