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web design

Hello, my name is Shelly Cole, and I’m a web designer.

I run a small web design and development company in the Hartford suburb of Simsbury, CT.
My goal is to create beautiful and usable websites that connect with people.
My passion is finding solutions to challenges that are presented to me.
My inspiration is from life, the world, and from you.

Hiding information from the WordPress admin

So, while I was working on my Back End Instructions plugin yesterday, I was talking to my husband about the client I had built it for. As a quick notation, it’s a group of women who are of a certain age (no offense to anyone – I’m getting there myself!) and who do not like change. It’s taken me almost three years of pulling teeth to get things to where they are now. They want...

New Plugin: Back End Instructions

Well hello there! I’m all excited. I think I’ve mentioned before (although for the life of me I can’t find reference to it) that I wrote a quick plugin once to provide back end instructions for clients. It was using the Userextra/Usermeta plugins, and I edited/added text right in the plugin area to pull up the right stuff, so it wasn’t easily managed. It worked (and was a “quick fix”) – but I wanted it...

Sometimes we reinvent the wheel.

I think every “renewal process” goes through this (at least, I hope so…), where the renewer believes they have it all figured out, and before they even get started, they run into some kind of epiphany, and they get set back to square one. The thing is, there’s a difference between getting sent back to square one because of a setback, and being sent back because you somehow saw that clear line of vision for...

…like a fish needs a bicycle

Wow – 9 months (?!?) into my sabbatical, and I’ve finally made some hard decisions. I have to say, although I felt a little guilty about taking a sabbatical, I feel like it was a really good decision. As hard-headed as I am, though, it took a while to get some basics sorted. But I will put out there the things I’ve learned about myself (some of which I’ve mentioned before), because – as usual...