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New carolinecblaker.com is in development

In: Career management, My Career, Web Development

The design and implementation of this website has served me well for over 3 years, but let's face it. Standards have changed, expectations have risen, and my skills have skyrocketed. Time for the design to reflect the best of what I have to offer.

This website is my first website. As someone who builds websites every day in a high-demand environment, I have a fondness for this one that supercedes my love for my work (which I LOVE a LOT.) In the past, it has been the canvas for my development skills. If you have been visiting for more than a few years, undoubtedly you remember it being riddled with bugs, impossible to use, or just having one of those “what was she thinking?“ moments. As it turns out this problem is systemic for artists, but I’m not just an artist. I’m a professional web developer AND artist. I have the time, the

ExpressionEngine and how I ranted for 1 hour about it

In: Career management, My Career, Web Development

I am not always a superb public speaker or anxious to give away my "professional secrets," but ExpressionEngine deserves an exception. It deserves an introduction, an explanation, and time for questions like so:

On September 1, 2010 I gave a Webuquerque Presentation extolling the virtues of the content management systems I use, religiously, for client sites, ExpressionEngine. Using ExpressionEngine, I've never been able to say no to a client feature for any lack of the system's capability to handle the request, as it has enough built-in that its easy to add functionality on as a PHP programmer. Turns out I was giving a presentation to a group of hungry webbies who had been fed up with Content Management Systems of all walks mainly due to their 1) high barriers to entry and 2) their lack of support

A web-based developer makeover

In: Career management, My Career, Web Development

A major shift in career for any web developer means a major shift in that developer’s website. Here are five major things I have identified I need to do with my website before it becomes my greatest online asset.

It feels oddly empty and voided: my schedule that is. I have a couple of projects to look forward to, but like any other new job or career situation, this one is taking its sweet time loading up on things to do. I have officially taken the plunge into freelance and have a little too much time on my hands. Wait, no scratch that. I have all the time on my hands that I used to want before I quit my job. Aha! As I’m looking around at my online presence, I see no shortage of tidying, organizing, and clarifying that needs to happen before I start to see a lot of work. Not that I don’t deserveRead On..

Finally some ME time..

In: Web Development

..well actually US time. Me and the website. All day

You may have noticed that the website has taken a turn for the extreme better. After eight hours of development using the Stickman Labs Accordion with this fix for Prototype 1.6, my website's navigation has finally come of age. Yes, you too can get to where you want to go with just a click of your mouse, or two. You can also browse the entirety of the website's contents from any page. This is a huge fix from the last system, which was essentially characterized by its own lack-of. But I'm glad to be improving the online experience of .carolinecblaker.com. As a web developer, I'm alwaysRead On..

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