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E.Webscapes is hiring

Lisa Sabin-Wilson — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 23:27:34 +0000

We’ve been in the business of creating custom designed web sites since 2002 (ish) and we are looking to expand our team by one (possibly two) remote, part-time designer/developers. If you are interested in building custom web sites and making a decent income from doing so – this opportunity may be of great interest to you! Our projects will challenge you and if you’re up for it – then we’re up for talking with you!

Here’s the down and dirty:
Minimum Requirements:

Documented experience in graphic design and web development
Experience with WordPress is a must (Expression Engine, Movable Type, Typepad skills are nice, too, if you have ‘em)
HTML/CSS knowledge is a must
Good communication skills.
Excellent time management. Ability to work on a deadline
While the number one qualification for this opening is a strong sense of design (aesthetics) along with strong web skills, we’re also looking for individuals with great critical thinking skills, a good work ethic and customer service skills.
We run shop like a consultancy, which means you need to know your stuff- and their stuff (whoever they may be).
Do you have references from folks you’ve worked with in the past on web projects?? I’d LOVE to hear ‘em!
Maybe an online portfolio of work or client sites you can point me to so I can see your work in action? (screenshots are nice, but I like to dig a bit more beyond the pretty, ya know)

Types of Projects we’re doing lately:

WordPress web sites, mainly (some with and some without a blog) for small and large business, multisite networks, social communities and lots of social media integration.
WordPress with E-Commerce (Cart66, Shopp or WP E-Commerce experience greatly appreciated!)
WordPress MultiSite (and BuddyPress)
Membership sites with WordPress
(…do you get a feeling that we do a LOT of WordPress sites??? we do!)

Work Environment

Your home because this is remote work – how cool is THAT?
In your pajamas, if you like
This is part time work

We’re looking for someone who

Thinks design is about solving problems, not making them
Likes to have a lot of fun tinkering around inside the guts of a blog
Gets more kicks out of removing elements from a page than adding them
Wants to learn, push themselves, and make the web a better place to be!
Wouldn’t mind making a few extra $$’s doing something they love! How much, you say? Well, why not apply and find out (hint: we ain’t talking about coffee money here!)

If you’re interested – you can apply using this form only (any other method of application will most likely get overlooked – - so don’t try to DM on Twitter or send a message on Facebook — please use this form only.)

I give each application consideration – but please do be patient as I go through all of the applications received. I will read them all and will be contacting you within the next week, or two. Thank you!

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Free BuddyPress Webinar from Lisa Sabin-Wilson

Lisa Sabin-Wilson — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 20:57:08 +0000

Earlier this month, I put through a special announcement to our newsletter subscribers about my upcoming webinar on BuddyPress on Wednesday, June 23, 2010 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CDT. It’s a FREE webinar designed to introduce you to the fabulous suite of plugins available, called BuddyPress, to WordPress users that will turn your web site into a fully functional social community (ala’ Facebook).

If you’re not a subscriber to our Buzz! newsletter – why not sign up today? Make sure you get the valuable announcements like free webinars, book releases, specials, news and other valuable offerings that I make available here (and elsewhere!) – click here to sign up for the EWebscapes Buzz Newsletter – - and as a free bonus, when you sign up – you will also receive 2 weeks of free WordPress tips written by me, for you, absolutely free!

At the beginning of this month, my newsletter subscribers heard about my free webinar planned fro June 23, 2010 – hosted by my good friends over at WebDesign.com. Cory Miller (WebDesign.com) and I plan to use this webinar to introduce you to the BuddyPress platform and showing you how you can use this suite of plugins and tools to turn your WordPress powered web site into a great and dynamic social community. You’ll learn how different sites are using BuddyPress to create, build and strengthen their existing communities and how you can use it as a tool to step away (a little bit) from standard social networks to own your own content, community and traffic – right on your own website!

Click here to sign up for my FREE BuddyPress Webinar on Wednesday, June 23, 2010 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CDT- – and don’t forget to sign up for my newsletter so that you will get the early announcements – delivered directly to your e-mail inbox!

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iThemes Builder Bootcamp and some WordPress plugins you can’t miss!

Lisa Sabin-Wilson — Sat, 08 May 2010 18:00:46 +0000

This is re-posted from my personal blog. This month has been just a crazy month of travel for me. One of the really nice results of publishing several books over the past 3 years is that I do get asked to speak a lot at different types of industry events from WordCamps to social media and internet marketing events. I really love to do it, as I really enjoy connecting with people who read my books, and who are interested in the same things I am. This past month, I was in Austin, Texas; Vancouver, British Columbia, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma and San Francisco, California. I enjoy, and am grateful, for the opportunities to connect with people from all over who are passionate about publishing, marketing, WordPress and social media.

I haven’t blogged a lot about my travel experiences – and I do intend to. It’s been a crazy month, so hence the lack of posts here. However, I do want to tell you about my experience in Oklahoma with the crew from iThemes, including some of the exciting stuff that they have going on over there, and why you should pay attention. The folks from iThemes are putting out some amazing products that I want to bring to your attention here. Aside from their iThemes offerings of premium WordPress themes, they started up their PluginBuddy site a few months ago and made available some killer plugins that you should be using – - some of them are free, some of them are not, but all around, they are invaluable and fill a big void, as far as I’m concerned:

Backup Buddy – I downloaded this particular plugin on the very day they released it and love it! Now, I recommend it to everyone I know because I’ve found it to be an invaluable tool for the work I do. It’s called Backup Buddy and it gives you the ability to fully backup your WordPress blog easily. This isn’t like exporting your posts and content via the WordPress exporter – - this plugin backs up EVERYTHING – - your content, themes, plugins, settings, options – everything! It also has a built in importer option that gives you the ability to import backups to restore your WordPress powered site in a flash. From a developer and designer standpoint, this has made my life SO much easier. I often create ‘sandbox’ or ‘test bed’ development sites while working on my client projects. With Backup Buddy – I can now get my sandbox development site set up just right with the necessary themes, plugins and options settings – - then I create a backup copy of it using BackUp Buddy .. and then import it into a new installation of WordPress (using the Backup Buddy import script) and I’m done. I don’t have to sit there and activate themes, plugins and then go through and set the plugin options and theme settings all over again, because the plugin takes care of all of that for me. It also has an option to schedule regular backups of your site, automatically. A description from their own web site:

BackupBuddy is an all-in-one solution for backups, restoration, and migration. The single backup file created by the plugin can be used with the importer script to quickly and easily restore your site on the same server or even migrate to a new host with different settings. Whether you’re an end user or a developer, this plugin is sure to bring you peace of mind and added safety in the event of data loss. Our goal is to keep the backup, restoration, and migration processes easy, fast, and reliable.

Pluginbuddy Mobile – This fantastic plugin creates a really nice iPhone version of your site for mobile browsers. It has a built-in style manager that gives you the ability to create and customize a mobile version of your site that displays beautifully in several different mobile browser systems, such as : Apple iPhone, Apple iPad, Android Device, Palm Device, Blackberry Device, Windows CE Device, Mobile IE, Sony Playstation Portable, Sony Playstation 3, Nintendo Wii and Nintendo DS. Whew!

The team at Pluginbuddy, headed up by developer Dustin Bolton, have really worked hard on this one. It’s a really simple and easy way to make sure your web site renders well on mobile devices – I’m working with it currently on several client sites and it’s easy to use and an excellent mobile browsing plugin solution for WordPress.

iThemes Pluginbuddy has a few other plugins that you may also be interested in checking out:

So, speaking of the iThemes team – I had a really great time at their Builder Bootcamp weekend in Oklahoma and want to send out a big thanks to Cory Miller, Jen Miller and the rest of the iThemes team for inviting me down to their event. There were roughly 70-75 people in attendence, all of them passionate WordPress users, and all of them part of the iThemes community. Many were from the Oklahoma City general area – but there were a handful that flew in hundreds of miles away to spend the weekend with the iThemes crew to learn more about WordPress and how they can use the iThemes offerings to build their web sites with WordPress. Great stuff!

I had the opportunity to share experiences with the iThemes community in Oklahoma City in April, 2010

To kick off the event, I spoke on my own experiences with WordPress, spoke a little about opportunities that WordPress offers its users and spoke a little about BuddyPress. This was a crowd that was really engaged, passionate and curious about how they can leverage the publishing power of WordPress. Lots of great questions and feedback and I had a super time.

While there, iThemes did some give-aways of my BuddyPress For Dummies book to the people who attended Builder Bootcamp. I was pleasantly surprised at how many of the attendees brought their copy of WordPress For Dummies for me to sign for them – that was a bonus! Many of them even made the trek across the street to the local Barnes and Nobel to purchase a copy of WordPress For Dummies so I could sign it – - that was fun! I ended up signing about 50 books that weekend – - so I had the chance to brush up on my autographing skills!

The rest of the weekend saw iThemes team members like Matt Danner, Chris Jean, Cory Miller and Benjamin Bradley (of the iThemes WebDesign.com division) speaking on various topics such as design, plugins, marketing and promotions – along with a really helpful Q&A session with their community at the end.

I learned about their Builder theme, which is a WordPress theme framework that enables you to create several different types of layouts with just one theme. Chris Jean is the brains and developer behind the Builder framework and they’ve built a really cool community of users who are using the Builder framework to create dynamic WordPress sites. Check it out if you have some time – it might just fit into what you’re trying to do with WordPress, with 9 different child themes to choose from (and more coming), a built in style manager and a dedicated SEO plugin – - and the support team at iThemes is second to none – - this is really a super group of folks.

I also enjoyed the opportunity to meet members of the iThemes community, like Lynn Dye (pictured with me on the left) — who, by the way, expressed an interest in interviewing me for her own blog while I was in Oklahoma – - she published her experiences at Builder Bootcamp, as well as the interview she did with me on her blog.

I had the chance to sit and talk one-on-one with iThemes founder, Cory Miller, about what they’ve been up to and what the future holds for the iThemes brand – it was an enjoyable and enlightening weekend and very much worth the time spent in Oklahoma City. Cory, and his wife Jen, are super nice people – aside from being wholly impressed with what they’ve built…I just flat out like them. I’m looking forward to seeing them again at WordCamp Raleigh and talking with them more about some exciting future collaborations.

Some upcoming events that I’ll be attending in the next month:

WordCamp Raleigh – May 21-23
WordCamp Chicago – June 5-6

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WordPress, BuddyPress and Social Media at #F5Expo

Lisa Sabin-Wilson — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 15:21:26 +0000

Social Media, WordPress and BuddyPress – all in ONE big day in Vancouver!

It has been a LONG LONG time since I have been to Vancouver. I visited once and climbed all the way to the top of Grouse Mountain and had a blast! When the organizers of the F5Expo event contacted me to see if I had any interest in speaking and participating in their conference, I jumped at the chance to visit Vancouver again. Despite the fact that it is an incredible distance away from Wisconsin – I couldn’t bring myself to say no.

I am doing several things at the F5Expo - it’s really exciting! The event is on April 7th 2010 and is being held at the Vancouver Convention Center.

First, I am speaking on a panel called The Metrics of Social Media – my co-panelists include:

Alfredo Tan – Senior Director of Sales, Facebook
Darren Barefoot – Author: Friends with Benefits
Kris Krug – President, Bryght

What a line up! I am excited to be a part of the panel talking about how to effectively market your business using social communities like Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Youtube, and Squidoo. What do I bring to the table on this panel? Why WordPress and BuddyPress, of course! This panel also explores the possibility of hosting your OWN social community on your own domain and why that may be, in some cases, a better plan and using the other networks like Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter as a second layer of your marketing strategy. (teaser: it’s all about who owns your content, your traffic and your community)

Second – I’m running TWO workshops at F5Expo:

WordPress For Dummies – How some of today’s leading companies are using WordPress. Attending this workshop does not infer that you are a ‘Dummy’ by any stretch of the imagination! Instead, it is meant to explore the ease in which individuals and small business are able to host a dynamic, interactive and useful web site of their own for the very low cost of free. Together, we will have a look at how some of today’s leading companies are using WordPress to runs sites that range from basic blogs to fully integrated web sites with portfolios, galleries, e-commerce and more!
Building Your Community with BuddyPress – Helping you determine if BuddyPress is right for your site. This workshop introduces you to the features available, aimed toward helping you make the decision if BuddyPress is right for your site, and has features that you would like to add to enhance and grow a social community on your own domain.

BIG thanks to the crew over at PEER1 Hosting for sponsoring both of my workshops at F5Expo. I’m very excited to be working with Peer1 again. My good friend, Rajan Sodhi from PEER1 and ServerBeach will be there – and having just come off a fabulous trip to Austin for the SXSW Interactive festival where I had the opportunity to spend some time catching up with the whole ServerBeach San Antonio crew – I’m excited to hook up with their Vancouver crew to round out the month!

If I am lucky – I may even get the opportunity to meet Malcom Gladwell, the author of Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, & What the Dog Saw. Malcom is keynoting the event – definitely something to look forward to!

If you are in Vancouver, and/or attending F5Expo - drop me a line! I’m there from April 6-8th – and who knows, maybe I’ll even climb the mountain again while I’m there!

Cross-posted from my personal blog

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Meet me at SXSW 09!

Lisa Sabin-Wilson — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 16:59:55 +0000

I will be attending this years (2009) SXSW Interactive Festival again this year, and I’m really excited! This makes my third trip to Austin for the SXSW Festival and, I have to say, if you’ve never gone and have the opportunity to this year, or in the future – it’s WELL worth the trip!

I’m not just attending, however – I am appearing together with ServerBeach to bring you (the attendees) some WordPress Goodies to take home with you! ServerBeach (powered by Peer1) is an awesome dedicated, self-managed hosting services that we have been in business with for the past 6 years, we lease equipment and rack space from ServerBeach as the foundation for our blog hosting services. Aside from being an extremely happy customer of ServerBeach – I am also a big fan of their overall philosophy of going to great lengths to satisfy the needs of our core customers, the “Geeks” – people like WordPress users and attendees of the SXSW Interactive Festival. This may all sound like a huge sales pitch, but it’s not really – - it’s a lead in to some exciting goings on between myself and ServerBeach at the SXSW Festival!

I will be appearing at the ServerBeach exhibit booth at the following times:

Saturday March 13: 1-4pm
Sunday March 14: 1-4pm
Monday March 15: 1-3pm

WordPress For Dummies: ServerBeach will be giving away free copies of WordPress For Dummies at their booth, and as a bonus – I will be present in the times stated above, to do book signings. So stop by the ServerBeach booth and pick up your FREE autographed copy of WordPress For Dummies. Already have a copy? No problem – stop by the booth to say hi ? I love to meet my readers, and I?ll sign your copy!
WordPress Q&A: During the times I will be at the ServerBeach booth, I am also available to do a quickie WordPress Q&A if you have any specific questions on how to use WordPress on your site or blog. I?ll have my laptop ready with a clean install of WordPress open, ready for your questions.
Premium themes, anyone?? I do a lot of custom design work for WordPress users here at E.Webscapes – - for SXSW I am doing 5 free Premium themes for WordPress users – available ONLY to SXSW attendees who stop by the ServerBeach exhibit booth on March 14-16, 2009. Here?s what you do: stop by the booth and ask for the super secret link to Lisa?s Premium WordPress themes they are giving away. That?s it! (the themes are free and completely GPL). I will be guest posting a bit over on the ServerBeach Blog and giving away a few more details on these themes, including some teaser shots and info. Subscribe to the ServerBeach Blog RSS Feed to get those updates as they come over the next few weeks leading up to the SXSW Interactive Festival! (ServerBeach might might give these themes away to the general public after SXSW is over – that is up to them, but for now, they?re available from the ServerBeach exhibit booth at SXSW exclusively.)

If you’re planning on attending SXSW this year – - be sure to look me up at the ServerBeach Exhibit Booth. I hear they are giving away some of their brand spankin’ new T-Shirts at their booth this time around, too!

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Social Media Answers

Lisa Sabin-Wilson — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 23:06:43 +0000

Kevin Palmer, from Social Media Answers is a… you guessed it – social media freak! I meant that in the best way possible, of course. If you have a question about anything that pertains to social media – Kevin is your guy! Matter of fact, I spotlighted him in my recently released book, WordPress For Dummies, 2nd Edition as a resource on social media. It’s no great shock he has a blog about it – and he came to me to provide him with a custom and unique design for it… I was happy to oblige . . .

I’ve worked with Kevin previously, having done his other site design at Pointless Banter – I worked with him extensively on that site and had gotten a pretty decent feel for what he likes from a design standpoint. With Social Media Answers, he wanted a typical blog layout – - that is to say, a blog with chronological listings of his blog posts with a sidebar for the navigation of his archives, links and categories.

Kevin also wanted a couple of nice buttons to call attention to two main parts of his site: Niche social network reviews, where he does full reviews of various social network sites; and Blog/RSS directory listings, where he lists out the several different directories that are available for bloggers to take advantage of. The buttons I created sit at the very top of his site to call attention to these two areas on his site, they were designed with a nice hover/rollover effect.

His WordPress site was developed with full compliance for the latest WordPress version 2.7 – to include threaded and paged comments and sticky posts, if he chooses to use them. It is, of course, widget compatible, as well.

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WordCamp Chicago ’09

Lisa Sabin-Wilson — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 18:39:17 +0000

I’m excited to be able to forward the announcement of WordCamp Chicago – 2009 coming to the Chicagoland area soon! I am co-organizing the event with my friends, Brian Gardner (of Revolution Theme), Cory Miller (of iThemes) and Wendy Piersall of Sparkplugging.com…

If you don’t already know what a WordCamp is – here is the description from the official WordCamp site:

WordCamp is a conference type of event that focuses squarely on everything WordPress. Everyone from casual end users all the way up to core developers show up to these events. These events are usually highlighted by speeches or keynotes by various people.

WordCamps appear all over the world and bring together passionate WordPress lovers from all over. From San Fransisco to Bangkok and the Philippines to the UK – they are just popping up all over the place!

WordCamps are (obviously) geared toward WordPress users and the aim is to provide a low cost event with high educational and information benefits. For WordCamp Chicago we are currently organizing some excellent speakers of authority on WordPress and expect a pretty high turn out that represents all levels of experience with the WordPress platform, from novice level to advanced/guru level – and all points in between!

I’m very excited to be co-organizing this event with such a talented pool of people and am really looking forward to meeting everyone who attends! I’m also expecting there to be some fun WordPress For Dummies goodies there, as well. We are still in the very preliminary planning stages, and as soon as we get an idea as to the numbers of people interested in attending, we’ll be announcing the date, time and location of the event. That announcement is coming very soon so just hang tight!

Would you be interested in attending a WordCamp in Chicago? We are currently trying to get a feel for how many attendees we should expect – so if you are interested – check out the WordCamp Chicago post here, and leave your comment : Want to attend WordCamp-Chicago? Let us know!

I really hope to see you there!

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Abbygrey West Consulting – WordPress Website Design

Lisa Sabin-Wilson — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 08:33:48 +0000

Back in 1999, I helped Dr. Thomas Naughton launch his first website to accompany his new Medicoloegal Consulting business, Abbygrey West Consulting. A busy Family Practice physician for over 15 years, Dr. Naughton thought he would take a leap and try his hand at self-employment and put some of his knowledge and expertise into some legal consulting to see how it would fly. It flew… indeed. 8 years later, I’ve re-launched his new look and format and brought him up to date by using WordPress to power his website. . .

Have a look at his old web site design, circa. 1999 – - it’s a testament to the style of those times, as well as speaking loudly on how my own website design abilities have changed in terms of skill, expeirence asthetics and overall improvement:

All in all, not a bad design for 8 years ago. It was a Dreamweaver special, not only done in tables – - but nested tables at that with a WHOLE lot of inline styling and very very little CSS, if any at all.

His new website design is a 100% CSS based design with a cleaner look, providing a very consice and very focused look into his services, experience and practice.

Dr. Naughton wished to have a very clean and professional look that put the focus more on his content, rather than on the design. While he wanted the site to be visually fresh and clean – he did not want it to distract from the topic at hand. I believe I accomplished that through the use of a newspaper style layout done with a neutral color scheme of grey, black and white.

I think he will be extremely pleased with the perfomance of his website, not only in visual appeal – but in SEO results, rankings and overall visitor satisfaction. Abbygrey West Consulting has been hosted with us, through our hosting division at Blogs About Hosting since 1999 and has been very pleased with our hosting services. I’ve mentioned, in the past, on this blog how convienent it is to have a designer who also has full administrative access to the server your site is hosted on – - not only is access extremely easy for those ‘quick fixes’ – but set up and configuration goes very smoothly. Because I own the hosting services at Blogs About Hosting – you can also guarentee that myself, and our technicians, are extremely well versed in the workings of WordPress and are able to provide support for use of the program that you may not find elsewhere.

I completed the design on Abbygrey West Consulting this week and, so far, Dr. Naughton is thrilled. Like any typical doctor – he would rather not have to worry about tinkering around inside the guts and code of a website – - he just ‘wants it to work’ – - combine my experience and skills with the program, and the ease of use that is inherent to the WordPress platform… Dr. Naughton has a golden setup!

I also designed and printed 500 business cards for him that match his new website design:

I am thrilled to still be providing web development services for him over the past 8 years – - Dr. Naughton was actually my very first paying client!

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Blog Design: WPAssist

Lisa Sabin-Wilson — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 02:03:29 +0000

WPAssist.Com is a comprehensive WordPress resource site and companion site to the newly released book: WordPress For Dummies by Lisa Sabin-Wilson. Yes, I designed this site myself and wanted to include it here on my Design Blog to bring attention to this new WordPress resource, news and information site. . .

The site was designed with a static front page that serves as a portal of information contained within the site, itself. Seperated into several different sections highlighting the different aspects of WordPress:

WordPress.Com
WordPress.Org
WordPress MU
WordPress Plugins
WordPress Themes
WordPress News

WordPress is a pretty fast-moving platform. The development of the WordPress.Org software is on a 120-day release schedule, at the moment. What does that mean for its user base? It means upgrading your WordPress software on a semi-regular basis. The WordPress folks are really focused on providing the best blogging platform on the web and with that comes some dynamic development as we continually see improvements to the code base, as well as great new toys for us to play with to improve our blogs for ourselves, and for our readers.

For instance – in looking at the three different flavors of WordPress covered in my WordPress For Dummies book, here are some of the most recent developments:

The WordPress.Org software was updated on 9/25/07 with the newest version, 2.3. This version IS covered in the WordPress For Dummies book and this new version brings with it some great new features like integrated tagging and software and plugin update notifications (to let YOU know when a new release has been put out. (Additionally, an update to 2.3, version 2.3.1, was released on 10/26 to address some bugs and security issues in the initial 2.3 version).
The WordPress MU software was updated on 10/30/07, bringing us version 1.3, and brought with it some of the great development we’ve already seen in WordPress.Org, like the tagging feature.
And exciting news like how the fine folks at Automattic (the people behind WordPress.Com) recently acquired the Gravatar system and have integrated that into WordPress.com blogs – - as well as there being several releases of new Gravatar plugins for the WordPress.Org and WordPress MU platforms, as well.

So, you see – - things move fast with WordPress! It’s part of what makes it such an exciting platform to work with, and community to be involved in.

To address the latest WordPress news surrounding all three flavors of WordPress, as well as information on WordPress Plugins, WordPress Themes and all around WordPress news, resources and tutorials – - I’ve launched the companion site for the WordPress For Dummies book at WPAssist.Com

WPAssist.Com is newly launched and we still have some buggy things to work through – but for all intents and purposes, it is up and live and already bringing you news, updates and resources about our FAVORITE topic… WordPress, of course!

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Job Posting – Designers Needed!

Lisa Sabin-Wilson — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 18:11:11 +0000

It’s that time again! We’re looking to hire another designer, or two, here at E.Webscapes to add to our team of designers. The current demand for our services is just growing more and more everyday. This is an extremely GOOD thing – however, we do need the design staff to be able to keep up with the flow. That is where you come in..Interested???..

Here’s the down and dirty:
Minimum Requirements:

Documented experience in graphic design and web development
Experience with popular blogging software. (WordPress and Expression Engine a STRONG plus! MT and Typepad are appreciated, too)
HTML/CSS knowledge is a must
Truthful, open and honest communication with all people at all times
Excellent time management. Able to work on a deadline
While the number one qualification for this opening is a strong sense of design (aesthetics) along with strong web skills, we’re also looking for individuals with great critical thinking skills, a good work ethic and customer service skills.
We run shop like a consultancy, which means you need to know your stuff- and their stuff (whoever they may be).
Do you have references from folks you’ve worked with in the past on web projects?? I’d LOVE to hear ‘em!

Work Environment

Your home.
In your pajamas, if you like
This is part time work

We’re looking for someone who

Thinks design is about solving problems, not making them
Likes to have a lot of fun tinkering around inside the guts of a blog
Gets more kicks out of removing elements from a page than adding them
Wants to learn, push themselves, and make the web a better place to be!
Wouldn’t mind making a few extra $$’s doing something they love! How much, you say? Well, why not drop me a line and find out

If you’re interested – drop me a line with your name, URL, reasons for your interest, experience and your favorite color! Ok – well the favorite color part isn’t required – we just want to get to know you! I will be giving every interested party a serious look.

UPDATE – all positions have been filled at this time. Thank you to everyone who applied and keep your eye on this site for future job postings!

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