Heather Acton

Guster – Here I Go Again – Ravinia 2011

heatheracton — 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, my...

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

heatheracton — 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 I...

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The Mom is Making the Geek Find a New Home – at ActonWeb

heatheracton — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 03:18:27 +0000

An incredible amount of research and transformation has been happening with the formalization of my web business. It’s been fun, stressful, informative, unclear, but mostly very exciting. As...

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How to Embed Video in Your Blog Post

heatheracton — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 20:25:17 +0000

This tutorial is really applicable to anywhere online you’d like to embed video. It could be in your WordPress blog, in your website, in your Blogger blog, and others. We’ll refer...

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Six WordPress Plugins for a Bulletproof Blog

heatheracton — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 04:40:31 +0000

After installing and configuring more than 20 WordPress sites, most of which I’m also responsible for maintaining, I’ve narrowed in on a list of six plugins that I continue to use to...

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WordPress Dynamic Content Gallery Plugin – Setting the Image to Be Displayed in the Gallery

heatheracton — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 03:39:30 +0000

When we speak of the Dynamic Content Gallery, we are speaking specifically of this part of the front page of your blog, where the Gallery plugin IS enabled: The remainder of this post has been moved...

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First WordPress Tutorial – ROUGH – Your Thoughts?

heatheracton — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 16:28:31 +0000

Hi all! As many of you know, I’ve been attempting to secure the perfect screencast software for my Mac to start doing some video tutorials on WordPress, social media, apps, and more. I’ve...

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OH at WordCamp Chicago 2010: “This one time, at WordCamp…”

heatheracton — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 05:39:28 +0000

I can’t remember which speaker opened with this joke (developer track day 1), but seriously, I am still chuckling about it! Thanks to all of the speakers at WordCamp Chicago 2010, and...

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The Impact of Sun & Sites on HeatherActon78

heatheracton — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 22:09:40 +0000

I have been notably slow on my favorite social media sites Facebook and Twitter lately, but that doesn’t mean that there’s been nothing going on in both my real world and my web world! To...

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ResellerRatings.com for Safe(r) Online Shopping

heatheracton — Thu, 13 May 2010 21:48:10 +0000

If you purchase any items online through independent websites, ebay, Amazon, or others, always be sure to check out the ratings the retailer has received on ResellerRatings.com first (you can also...

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