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Don’t Put All Your Eggs in a Third-Party Basket
July 25, 2010
Patching together your online presence with a variety of social media sites and third party service seems like a great way to get up and running quickly with minimal cost and time. But be careful you don’t fall into the trap of having all your content held hostage in other sites, not under your control. Here are some things to keep in mind as you build your online community.
Continue…Don’t Stop at SEO
July 12, 2010
It can’t be denied – Search Engine Optimization is important for any web site. But it’s not all that you can do, and it’s definitely not all that you should do to promote your site.
In this article, we’ll cover some other basic strategies for promoting your site and your business to take you beyond SEO and really bring in traffic and new customers.
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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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Thursday, March 25 at 7:00pm
SXSWi Review
Los Angeles Meeting & Event Center, 10601 W Washington Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90232
We’ll have the members who attended SXSW talk about who they met and what they learned at one of the largest interactive conferences around. More details coming soon…