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Don’t Keep Your Budget a Secret
February 21, 2010
Learn why you shouldn’t keep the budget for your web site a secret. Share it with anyone you’re considering hiring to build your site. We’ll also cover some basic rules of thumb for pricing web sites and talk about the exceptions to those rules. A web site project can be tailored to meet just about any budget, so make sure you discuss the possible adjustments with the agency you hire – sometimes a small change has a big impact on the cost.
Continue…Be Smart About Search Engine Optimization
February 7, 2010
Learn the basics of Search Engine Optimizations so that you’re not fooled by the myths floating around on the internet and so that you’re not conned by black hat SEO firms that will take your money and get your site blacklisted from the search engines.
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Saturday, March 13 at 6:30pm
Mini WordPress Meetup at SXSWi
Moonshine Patio Bar and Grill, Austin, Texas
Find some friendly faces in the crowd and enjoy some yummy food and a Shiner Bock.
It’s impossible to find a time that doesn’t conflict with some other SXSW event – but Saturday night seems like a pretty light night for events – there’s a couple of big events later that night [...] -
February 18, 2010 at 7:00pm
WordPress Workshop: Templates and Template Tags Demystified
Los Angeles Meeting & Event Center, 10601 W Washington Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90232
The Southern California Meetup Group announces our February meetup:
Templates and Template Tags Demystified: A WordPress Workshop presented by Austin Passey
Austin Passy is a freelance web designer and WordPress developer. You can find his work at Frosty Web Designs, and follow him on Twitter.
This workshop is open to all, but is particularly intended for our web [...] -
January 12, 2010 at 7:00pm
HTML for Bloggers and Content Managers
Los Angeles Meeting & Event Center, 10601 W Washington Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90232
If you’ve ever had a mysterious problem with the formatting of a WordPress post or were unable to update a complex page in your CMS because you didn’t understand the HTML used to markup the page, then this workshop will be a big help. We’ll go over the basics of HTML including:
What HTML is and [...]