Name: Brandi Leath
Employment: Project Manager
Primary website: www.brandileath.com
Twitter handle: @brandimykle
How were you first introduced to WordPress? In school at Nossi College of Art, while building a custom theme for a real world client.
What do you like about it? I like that you can build a website from scratch by creating your own theme, or that you can use themes that other developers have made and still make it your own. I like that clients can take ownership of small things in the design process by giving them a Content Management System they can use that is similar to MS Word.
What do you do with WP now? I build websites and help other people manage their current sites. 🙂
How has the WP community (local and beyond) helped you? I am super pumped about this. The WP community in Nashville is absolutely amazing. Nashville’s “Southern Hospitality” flows through it and everyone is willing to help everyone else. I love our town!
Did learning WP lead to any significant professional, personal, creative changes in your life? Tell us how! It has helped project me into my career doing web design.
What would you tell a brand new user? Research the themes you purchase before purchasing them. Make sure they have a good website for their own company, a good support community, and video tutorials, etc. It makes all the difference in the world if you pick a theme that doesn’t work for you and their support is crap.
Anything else we should we know? I was an accountant for 10 years before deciding to go into graphic design. I LOVE being an artist, and UX/UI is my passion. The human interaction with technology fascinates me and I want to make that experience as seamless as possible. Oh yea, I’m a Nashville native, apparently that is a pretty rare thing these days.
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