When you are just starting out as a freelance website consultant, it can be very hard to know how much to charge. Between feeling like an imposter and trying not to go broke, you need to find a middle ground and get paid what you are worth. I don’t have any “right” answers here, but…
When I applied for the position of Happiness Engineer with a company called Automattic, I thought it sounded like a dream job. I had first heard about “Happiness Engineers” from someone who was telling me that she had reached out to WordPress.com for help on a website she was working on. It is quite a…
Are you a WordPress developer, or interested in learning more about WordPress? We have now started an official, WordPress-sanctioned South Okanagan WordPress Meetup group in the South Okanagan. Details about WordPress Meetups: WordPress Meetups are for the benefit of the WordPress community as a whole, not specific businesses or individuals. All actions taken as an…
It’s likely somewhere along the way you have heard of WordPress, and chances are, you have visited a site or two that are built with the WordPress platform. Maybe you even built a blog somewhere along the way, and used WordPress.com to do it. But WordPress may be be a more robust system than you…
Wordpress is an open-source website development platform. That means, it’s free to use as the base of pretty much any sort of website design and functionality you can imagine! But even though it’s free, it’s a very robust platform and lots of the “big guys” use it! Like who? Check it out a full listing here. The…
The Desert Sun Counselling & Resource Centre wanted a new website that was busy (but not too busy), fresh, matched their current marketing materials, and that they could edit themselves. Their first tutorial session is still in the works, but the WordPress Platform allows for all of the above. A pleasure working with this great…
Emergency Save a Life is a company from Kamloops that specializes in first aid training. The website is built with Wordpress, primarily using the Espresso Events plugin. This site will also eventually have a Woo Commerce component, selling first aid supplies.
Tara Hovanes has been painting for the last decade, and has uncovered a real success story. Within 24 hours of going live with her website, she sold two pieces of art.
Highway to Healing is an Oliver-based organization that assists families who have a child requiring medical care that is not locally available. They were formed to supplement Community assistance and be prepared to provide support when crisis strikes. This website project was particularly interesting because the volunteer group member that I worked with had some direct website experience.…
About Laurena:
Working for (Automattic) on the Built by WordPress.com team, I currently live at Sugar Lake, in the Interior of British Columbia.
My past lives include teaching, journalism, and business ownership doing website design and development.
I am always learning something new, and am passionate about finding awesome solutions to tough problems.
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