Description

We are looking for a super organized person to help us manage projects and in many ways be the face of our company. We have recently experienced an influx of project inquires, new clients and requests for work. With our primary staff being designers and developers, we need to focus more of our energies on production, but continue to give our clients excellent service and support. This is where you come in. You would be the main point of contact for our existing clients as well as potential new ones. You would work closely with us to plan project life cycles, manage client expectations, set project milestones and help ensure that everything runs smoothly and on time.

You have some experience in the tech/internet industry, are proficient at social media and are always online. Management skills are a must. You don’t have to be a boss, but rather have the ability to stick to timelines and coordinate the efforts of a small team. You are outgoing and exceed at dealing with people. You can be available at times between 9-5 (eastern). We won’t need you to be at our beck and call, but you will need to be on a handful of phone calls every week – always scheduled out ahead of time. You are punctual and often correct other people’s grammar. You would ideally have some knowledge of HTML/CSS and design terminology; if not, you’re willing to learn.

While we are a small company and this work is part-time, we have had a constant stream of projects that have steadily increased in size and scope. We’re hoping that you can help us be more efficient, land more work and really get in on the ground floor and grow the business with us. With the right person, we see this becoming a permanent position down the road.

Required Skills

• Strong communication skills, both written & verbal
• Strong project management skills – time, organization, etc.
• Ability to prioritize and work on multiple projects at the same time
• A basic understanding of how the web and websites work
• Ability to successfully relay information
• Constant access to the web and email
• Have some experience working with word processing documents and/or spreadsheets

Bonus Points if you:

• Have basic programming knowledge (html, css)
• Are familiar with WordPress
• Are familiar with Ecommerce
• Are familiar with Google Docs and/or Basecamp (37 Signals)
• Use a mac

Responsibilities

• Day to day client interaction
• Fielding questions

• Correspond with potential new clients
• Responding to new sales leads
• Explain our company and services
• Assist in providing project estimates, proposals and contracts

• Manage project milestones and scope
• Help plan time lines and project scope
• Help clients stick to them
• Coordinate our production schedule

• Gather and document client account info & project assets
• Domains & Hosting info
• Logos & artwork etc.

Hit us Up

If you’re interested, head over to our application page and let us know why you would be a good fit.

First of all, we’d like to thank all of you who have subscribed and have been using the application over the past year. We are excited to announce that all of the “bugs” have been worked out, the security has been upgraded and we are officially out of BETA! To celebrate this occasion, we have also decided to make Hosted Notes 100% free. This is our way of just saying thanks to all our current users.

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Honestly that’s not that much, but it’s 25 more times than I’d like to think it happened.

All in all this is just a simple post reminding the aspiring WordPress developers out there to make sure they either start with a fresh theme or make a copy and name it something else.

Ok, so we’ve been a little MIA this summer as some large projects have taken our attention… not to mention we’ve taken a few small vacations in between projects. It’s time to bring Code Post Friday’s back though… here goes…

Ever since WordPress added support for Post Thumbnails, it has become one of the most widely used features in newer themes. One thing that many people may or may not know is that you can define multiple sizes to use the images in different places.

add_theme_support( 'post-thumbnails', array( 'post', 'page' ) );
set_post_thumbnail_size( 220, 184, true );
add_image_size( 'blogroll', 475, 315, true );
add_image_size( 'projectThumb', 116, 116, true );
add_image_size( 'projectMain', 460, 635, true );

This has come in handy more often than not. By defining this WordPress will actually generate the correct size so you can call the same image in multiple locations at a different size. This works great for a portfolio or photo website.

Here is how you call it. Notice we are placing the name defined above in single quotes and it goes where you would normally call a specified $size.

the_post_thumbnail('projectMain');

Have you ever wanted to have a custom icon in your WordPress admin area?

In the screenshot above we added our “A” icon to the left of our site title, replacing the default “W” WordPress icon. Here’s how we did it…

In the code above (which we added to our functions.php file) we are pulling the image from our images directory in our WordPress theme, but you could easily put this inside of any other folder and of course call it whatever you like.