Tim, 10 WordPress Dashboard Hacks
This is a nice article that shows you how to get a customized WordPress dashboard. The article calls them hacks, but I would call them customizations. One that I have tried and loved is adding your logo on the dashboard page next your blog title in the top left hand corner of the dashboard. It’s a nice little touch that goes a long way.
Mike, How Wireframing Makes Your Website Designs Better
The value of wireframing comes down to a simple idea: Wireframing forces you to think about your user interface design decisions in terms of user needs first, instead of in terms of what looks good.” While wireframing requires a little extra effort in the initial planning stages, it pays huge returns in the long run. We redesign less frequently, hit deadlines sooner, and best of all, greatly mitigate scope creep. So take your foot off the pedal, assess your client’s business objectives and user needs, and translate concepts into a tangible wireframe. You’ll be glad you did.
Luke, For Better Productivity, Communicate Less
I agree with Joel Spolsky in one of Lifehackers latest posts when he says that adding more people to a project will only slow it down. I think this is especially true in web development. Once deep into a big project a web developer knows where things are and how they are related. If you throw five of them at the same project at some point they would end up stepping on each others toes. There is a chance that if things are planned out right each developer could tackle a specific task and then they could put all their pieces together to make the final piece. To do that though a lot of planning and meeting together would have to happen. This will probably lead to more disagreements and toe stepping. For those reasons I think getting the few people needed on the project and keep them there is the best way to accomplish a web dev project.
Tags: Communication, Wireframing, WordPress
