Resources mentioned in this article: GoDaddy (domain names/web hosting) Bluehost (web hosting), WordPress (blogging platform), Studiopress (premium blog templates) One of the most important aspects of today’s web is the ease with which people can create and share their own content. This marks a major shift from a culture in which an elite group controlled the publication […]
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Working on Dayton Vistas at the Gignite Side-Gig Incubator
For the past eight weeks I’ve been participating in a program called Gignite, a side-gig incubator founded by Olivia Barrow who wrote for the Dayton Business Journal for a few years and is now a writer and entrepreneur in Madison, WI. Here’s some of her description of Gignite from her website: There was a (very […]
New Website on Dayton History, Development
Another year, another new website for me. And I’m really excited that this one might turn into something bigger. I’ve been living and working here in Dayton, Ohio for nearly five years now, and it didn’t take long for me to become fascinated by the city and its history. I probably couldn’t have located Dayton […]
Why You Should be Careful Before Installing that WordPress Plugin
Plugins are small pieces of software that allow your WordPress website to do new things. Since the WordPress core is by design very lean, these third-party tools are required for bloggers to accomplish a variety of popular tasks. We often see blog posts that talk about the best WordPress plugins that you need to be […]
Is Social Media Preventing Students from Being “Good Digital Citizens”?
The digital age demands new competencies in order for us to be fully literate citizens. With information now being created by everyone on various web platforms, we need to critically think about what and how we consume. Today we are also all content curators whether we like it or not, as we decide what we […]
Administrators, Editors and More: What Are the Different WordPress User Roles?
In many situations you will need to have multiple contributors to your own WordPress website. This is easy enough to set up in the “Users” tab of the WordPress dashboard. But you don’t always want all users to have equal access. For example, you probably don’t want everyone to be able to change the site […]