Heather Acton

ActonWeb & Indigo21 Give Way To…. Heather Acton

Heather Acton — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 20:09:16 +0000

There’s a major cleanup effort going on at the Heather Acton HQ right now, so thank you for your patience! I’m working on current content and a new theme for this site, but it takes...

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Strategy For Making Your New Business Successful

Heather Acton — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 05:07:42 +0000

Being the new kid sucks. We’ve all been there. A new school. A new team. A new networking group. It puts us out of our comfort zone and can cause us to not act as our normal selves and not perform...

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Guster – Here I Go Again – Ravinia 2011

Heather Acton — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 06:06:20 +0000

Sara Welker and I went to this show last summer at Ravinia, and this last bit blew me (and the crowd) away! (And, welcome me back to blogging! With all the changes going on with our family,...

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Custom Post Types Presentation Materials for WordCamp Detroit 2011

Heather Acton — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 04:54:21 +0000

On November 13, 2011 I gave a presentation on Custom Post Types – What, Why, and How at WordCamp Detoit. Since I had just gone through a slow, but fairly steep learning curve on custom...

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WordCamp Chicago 2011 is a Wrap! WordCamp San Francisco here I come!

Heather Acton — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 04:07:28 +0000

It was an amazing experience co-organizing WordCamp Chicago this year. It reinforced my belief that WordPress is the future of the semantic web, and that the WordPress community is amazingly...

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How to Add Additional Navigation Menus in Thesis

Heather Acton — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 21:39:53 +0000

I’m hoping that with the talked-about-yet-still-forthcoming Thesis 2.0 this feature will be built-in, but as of Thesis 1.8 it is not. So, with that I bring you the code to insert...

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How to Insert an Auto Updating Copyright Notice in Thesis

Heather Acton — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 13:31:21 +0000

Let’s keep it short and simple on this one. The default Thesis footer is not a no-brainer to edit, especially if you haven’t worked with hooks before. And even if you have figured out...

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How to Clean a Hacked WordPress Site

Heather Acton — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 13:00:28 +0000

You hit Publish on a new blog post on your WordPress site and it won’t post. You are checking out how your site is ranking in Google today and notice your website description has been...

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11 Things to Expect from ActonWeb in 2011

Heather Acton — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 05:41:00 +0000

I LOVE building effective, budget-minded websites for small businesses, nonprofits, and families. And I’ve been having great fun with it over the past 2 years. But it’s time to get...

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Are You a Mompreneur? Some Think You Shouldn’t Be.

Heather Acton — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 21:32:47 +0000

I started a post a month ago while at SocialDevCamp Chicago regarding my feeling of being the only Mom in a see of young, single, kidless, time rich men and women in the Web industry. How would...

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