Courtney Robertson

Courtney Robertson, an open source developer relations advocate, is wearing a pirate hat, a DSLR camera, and a purple shirt

Courtney Robertson is an Open Source Developer Advocate, professional educator, and WordPress Contributor

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Recent Posts

  • Mobile Landing Pages – Are You Doing It Wrong?

    I was standing in line scanning Facebook on my iPhone.  A page that I really enjoy shared a link to an article they just published about the overhaul on making their website mobile responsive.  OOOOhhhh shiny!  To read said article, I clicked on the link, launching me into the web browser mode of Facebook to…

  • Optimizing Images for Smartphones

    Have you ever used your smartphone to view a website and waited forever for the images to load? The problem is that the file size (not the screen size) is using lots of your data plan to load the images.  In addition, the quality of the image may still look blurry on your fancy new…

  • WordCamp Baltimore 2013 Liveblog #wcbalt

    My notes from #WCBalt

  • Setting Goals in Your Online Business

    For years I’ve struggled with the balance between marketing my business while juggling the marketing needs of my clients, and yet launching that looming online training program properly.  I’d dive deep into one of those things, depending on what I was most passionate about at that exact moment.  Yet, the other areas would falter. What…

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