Heather Acton

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October 13, 05:32 PM
Are You a Mompreneur? Some Think You Shouldn’t Be.

I started a post a month ago while at SocialDevCamp Chicago regarding my feeling of being the only Mom in a see of young, single, kidless, time rich men and women in the Web industry. How would I...

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September 13, 11:18 PM
The Mom is Making the Geek Find a New Home – at ActonWeb

An incredible amount of research and transformation has been happening with the formalization of my web business. It’s been fun, stressful, informative, unclear, but mostly very exciting. As...

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August 05, 04:25 PM
How to Embed Video in Your Blog Post

This tutorial is really applicable to anywhere online you’d like to embed video. It could be in your WordPress blog, in your website, in your Blogger blog, and others. We’ll refer...

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July 24, 12:40 AM
Six WordPress Plugins for a Bulletproof Blog

After installing and configuring more than 20 WordPress sites, most of which I’m also responsible for maintaining, I’ve narrowed in on a list of six plugins that I continue to use to...

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July 13, 11:39 PM
WordPress Dynamic Content Gallery Plugin – Setting the Image to Be Displayed in the Gallery

When we speak of the Dynamic Content Gallery, we are speaking specifically of this part of the front page of your blog, where the Gallery plugin IS enabled: The remainder of this post has been moved...

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June 29, 12:28 PM
First WordPress Tutorial – ROUGH – Your Thoughts?

Hi all! As many of you know, I’ve been attempting to secure the perfect screencast software for my Mac to start doing some video tutorials on WordPress, social media, apps, and more. I’ve...

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June 07, 01:39 AM
OH at WordCamp Chicago 2010: “This one time, at WordCamp…”

I can’t remember which speaker opened with this joke (developer track day 1), but seriously, I am still chuckling about it! Thanks to all of the speakers at WordCamp Chicago 2010, and...

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June 04, 06:09 PM
The Impact of Sun & Sites on HeatherActon78

I have been notably slow on my favorite social media sites Facebook and Twitter lately, but that doesn’t mean that there’s been nothing going on in both my real world and my web world! To...

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May 13, 05:48 PM
ResellerRatings.com for Safe(r) Online Shopping

If you purchase any items online through independent websites, ebay, Amazon, or others, always be sure to check out the ratings the retailer has received on ResellerRatings.com first (you can also...

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April 14, 06:43 PM
Mom 2.0 Summit 2009 – I really did go!

So I am staying true to my promise that I would talk a bit about my trip in February to Houston, TX for the Mom 2.0 Summit. While I’m not going to type in the six pages of post that I wrote on...

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Heather Acton
Co-Founder / Lead Web Developer at Indigo21
Internet | Greater Chicago Area, US
Specialties: HTML/CSS, WordPress, Web Development, Web Strategy, SEO, Digital Marketing, Branding, Business Development, Entrepreneurship
  • Nov 2011 - Present
    Co-Founder / Lead Web Developer / Indigo21
    Out of a desire to offer more web presence services to small and medium sized businesses in the Chicago suburbs, two friends and I brought together our complimentary skills to start Indigo21, a hometown digital marketing firm. We offer full service branding solutions tailored for small and medium sized businesses in the suburbs, including graphic design, website development, search engine optimization (SEO), social media consulting and management, community management, and online advertising strategy formation and execution. We help suburban businesses get found online.
  • 2011 - Present
    Co-Organizer / WordCamp Chicago
  • Jan 2009 - Present
    Founder / Web Developer / ActonWeb
    ActonWeb specializes in secure, effective, and attractive WordPress websites and blogs. We believe in open source, free learning, and smiling all the time.
  • Feb 2008 - Jan 2009
    Project Manager / Procter & Gamble
  • Apr 2005 - Nov 2006
    Initiatives Leader / Procter & Gamble
  • Apr 2003 - Apr 2005
    Area Leader / Procter & Gamble
  • Jun 2000 - Apr 2003
    Process Engineer / Procter & Gamble
  • May 1999 - May 2000
    Intern Engineer / Henneman Engineering, Inc.
  • 1996 - 2000
    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering
Websites:
Company Website, Personal Website, Blog
Interests:
Anything and everything the internet, web development, computers, social media/networking, Apple/Mac, mompreneurship, parenting, and live music.

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