Taco and WordPress Enthusiast
I was recently connected with Joost de Valk — founder of Yoast SEO (one of the most successful plugins in WordPress history). After a brief meeting, Joost hired me to redesign and rebuild his personal blog, with a strong focus …
One of my favorite things to do is to find cool designs and/or layouts on the web and try to recreate them with my preferred stack (GeneratePress & GenerateBlocks). I find this exercise to be one of the most beneficial …
Perfmatters has completely changed the game for me when it comes to performance optimization. A few months back, I did a webinar with its co-founder, Brian Jackson, to learn about how all of the options in the plugin work. And …
Have you ever put together a case study for your agency? I had done a couple of pretty half-assed ones in the past, but over the past month or two I’ve been working on a couple for newer projects that …
After several weeks of preparation (and help from a few good vendors), I’ve finally posted my Termageddon case study ???? We decided to take a deep dive into some of the statistics, primarily around performance, that made a huge impact …
My buddy Jonathan over at Permaslug recently posted a video on how to create a “tabs” component using GeneratePress & GenerateBlocks. I was super stoked to have this (and it works great!), because I’m often in need of this kind …
From writing out an entire process for my sales pipeline, to automating most of it in Airtable — the past week or so I’ve been swimming in the concept of processes. The thing I’ve noticed most beneficial about having processes …
As part of an upcoming case study on my website redesign and rebuild for Termageddon, my copywriter interviewed Hans Skillrud of Termageddon to get his feedback on what it was like to work with me. I think this will make …
After spending many (many) hours working on some of my processes, I published my entire web design sales process in a blog post. It also comes with the email templates I use as templates inside of Gmail to make the …
I seem to go through phases that swing from super-organized to semi-controlled-chaos (and everywhere in-between). I’ve noticed that when business is slower, I get really lazy about making sure I put everything in my project management system or carefully organizing emails… …
About Kyle
After spending 15 years as a graphic designer and earning a business degree, I launched my agency, OGAL Web Design, in 2017. A year later, after finding the amazing community around WordPress, I co-founded The Admin Bar, which has grown to become the #1 community for WordPress professionals. I'm a husband, proud father of three, and a resident of the Commonwealth of Virginia.
Main Gigs
OGAL Web Design is my performance-first website design agency (of one) in Virginia.
The Admin Bar is my 10,000+ member community for WordPress Professionals.
Consulting
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