Todd A

I just wrapped up work on amysfoster.com — the personal site of a Nashville author. My friend Laura Holder did the graphic design and I did the code. I sliced the PSD, wrote the XHTML and CSS and installed and configured WordPress to run the site.

Amy’s site has a couple of cool features. Instead of a blog area, we’re using the SimplePie RSS parsing engine to consume her Twitter feed on the front page. We’re also using SimplePress:Forum to run a full-featured forum on her site.

WordCrowd came about after conversations with my friend Taylor Trask regarding our desire to see one independently maintained, crowd-sourced resource for all things WordPress. We both use WordPress as our CMS of choice and are often frustrated when searching for solutions to problems we encounter. Because blogs tend to rely on the model of archiving everything, we find a lot of out-of-date material. For that reason, we started WordCrowd as a wiki. Ideally, the site will be maintained by ourselves and our users to keep our articles as fresh as possible.