“I develop websites and teach other people how to do the same in Kent, OH. I built my first website in 1998. It was an ode to toast. Unfortunately the University of Oregon did not see fit to archive it on its web servers.
My background is in linguistics, and for me, making websites is like playing a really fun linguistics game with real-time rewards. I built my first WordPress website in 2013 and have been enamored with WordPress ever since.
I don’t consider myself to be a designer (though I *love* good design) or a developer (yet) — I have training in library science and information architecture, so my approach to website implementation really focuses on the content and how to make it usable and accessible.
I love WordPress for how functional it is – how possible it is to make websites *do* things – and how those functions and possibilities come from the incredible community that’s grown around it. Off the web, I do a lot with food (source, grow, cook, eat), yoga, and small child wrangling.”
Presentation: WordPress Development for Non-Developers: An Introductory Tour Under the Hood
“I started digging around template files on my 2nd WordPress site and was thrilled to see what kinds of changes I could make once I figured out where all of the inputs were coming from.
I’ve heard feedback from other Camps that there’s often a gap between user- and developer-geared tracks, where the latter tends to assume a level of understanding that leaves new developers a bit lost. I wanted to give a presentation that offers a gentler, laypeoples transition from the front end to the underside of the system.” Continue reading →