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How to Name Your Web Site
September 5, 2010

A domain name is the name you type into your browser to reach a web site. There are millions of them in use, and thousands more being registered every day. Here’s an explanation of what domain names are, how they work, and how you can find the best domain name(s) for your web site.
Finding just the right domain name can be a frustrating process, but we’ll spell out the best tools to use and the pitfalls you need to watch out for.
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August 22, 2010

In 14 years building web sites, I’ve worked with a lot of clients with misconceptions about how the web works and how the process of building a web site should work. To save time, money, and frustration, I’m presenting this short list of 10 things every web site owner should know.
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Tuesday, August 24, 2010 7:00 PM
Typesetting for the Web
Santa Monica Library - Ocean Park Branch, 2601 Main St, Santa Monica, CA 90405
Purple Pen Productions is proud to sponsor Typesetting for the Web by Zeke Franco Zeke will cover the fundamentals of the art of typography and then will cover some ways to implement beautiful typography on your WordPress blog. Typography is important because presentation is important. Good typography can reinforce the meaning of your text, can [...]
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Tuesday, June 22, 2010 7:00 PM
Introduction to CSS: Learn to modify your WordPress theme’s CSS
Los Angeles Meeting & Event Center 10601 W. Washington Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90232
It seems simple enough – install WordPress, install a theme and you’re good to go – instant web site. But wait…you don’t really like the color of that box over there and the text size of the headings is way too big – and you’d really like them to be blue. How do you fix [...]
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Tuesday, April 13, 2010 at 7:00pm
WordPress Workshop: Simple CSS Theme Adjustments and WordPress 3.0
Los Angeles Meeting and Event Center, 10601 W Washington Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90232
WordPress 3.0 is expected to be released to the public in the next 4-8 weeks. We’ll quickly go over some of the new features so that we’re all ready to upgrade – it’s looking really great, and there are some wonderful features that make WordPress even more flexible and extendable than ever. Then we’ll dive [...]

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