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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 2010
Mini WordPress Meetup at SXSWi 0
Don’t Keep Your Budget a Secret 0
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.
WordPress Workshop: Templates and Template Tags Demystified 0
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 [...]
Be Smart About Search Engine Optimization 0
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.