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Today’s full-day session (don’t call it a workshop!) was led by Chris Coyier. Chris spent the session building a website. He then used this activity as a framework to discuss front-end development in general.

Today I feel like the dummies in this photo; poised to be destroyed by the test detonation of an atomic device. An Event Apart remains mind blowing. My overall takeaway is this: the internet changes at such a rapid pace that we could revisit just about everything we’ve done in the past six weeks and…

As I sit in a sun-drenched corner, recharging my borderline introvert batteries, my head is swimming a bit. That’s the sign of a good conference.

Nothing sours the joy of a website launch more than handing the client the maintenance contract. Websites take maintenance. It’s not fun, but it must be done.

On this week’s episode we discuss an article from Smashing Magazine: Mobile First is Just Not Good Enough: Meet Journey-Driven Design.

One of the most respected books on website usability was written by Steve Krug. It’s called Don’t Make Me Think.

It’s hard to retire as a volunteer, usually it feels like you just get fired. After serving the ELCA Youth Gathering in a planning capacity since 1998, I not on a planning team for the 2018 gathering.

I didn’t grow up liking brussel sprouts. I don’t know many people that did. In fact we didn’t even really have them at my house, because my parents didn’t like them. Multi-generational brussel sprout trauma is real.

The very first web conference I attended was the second ever An Event Apart in Atlanta in 2006. Don’t believe me, here I am eating a hamburger. I still have that grey undershirt by the way.

Christina loves to ski and I love her, so knowing that I am going to fall repeatedly over a weekend is worth it. Nordic skiing isn’t a thing where I’m from. Downhill is relegated to what most Seattle folks would call a bunny slope. But I’ve fond gliding on a pair of skis through a…