Category: Business

  • It’s important to me to keep a clear separation from the work I do for the government and the work I do on my own.

  • Documenting the content management systems I’ve used over the years.

  • March 25, 2019 | Business

    Closing Brettro

    After 12 years in business I closed Brettrospective Media’s virtual doors in mid-2017.

  • As I rekindled my blog I realized its custom theme hadn’t been touched in nearly seven years so as I design and develop the new one I plan to document my decisions and the things I learn here.

  • February 19, 2019 | Business

    Where Have I Been?

    With an already demanding full-time job, I was burning the candle at both ends trying to meet the needs of my clients and the demands of my job and in early 2013 I burnt out.

  • Because I was already using ExpressionEngine on a daily basis, I felt that I needed to use WordPress on a website that I would also work with daily so that I would become equally as familiar with it. And so I chose WordPress to be the CMS for brettro.com.

  • January 29, 2012 | Business

    Submitting to Subversion

    Learn how integrating the Subversion (SVN) version control system into the Brettro workflow both formalized and streamlined its website production.

  • Brettro outlines the main differences in skill sets required between web designers and graphic designers, but wants you to weigh in.

  • Yep. While it did not take an actual nine months to develop the design, write the code and move the content into WordPress, the Brettro website always took a back seat to both my client work and my full-time job.