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Carley Knobloch and Digitwirl needed a way to present a weekly technology video to their audience. A customized WooTube WordPress theme gave them the features they needed.
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Why WordPress? 0
If you’re trying to choose a technology to help you solve your web site woes or add the features and functionality you need, it’s easy to fall into the trap of comparing the different available solutions based on features alone. But there’s another important factor to consider – the community that surrounds each solution.
There are developer and user communities around many different solutions, but the community that surrounds WordPress is like no other.
WordPress Expert Panel 2
Save the date WordPress fans! You won’t want to miss our next meetup – WordPress Expert Panel! If you have a WordPress site or are thinking about building one, no doubt you’ve got piles of questions: What’s the best plugin for…? How do I…? How come my site won’t…? What’s the best way to…? Where [...]
Typesetting for the Web 0
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 [...]
Introduction to CSS: Learn to modify your WordPress theme’s CSS 1
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 [...]
Matthew McGough 0
With a new major project in the works, author Matthew McGough was looking to do a major update to his web site and wanted to be able to make updates himself.
WordPress Workshop: Simple CSS Theme Adjustments and WordPress 3.0 0
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 [...]
Mini WordPress Meetup at SXSWi 0
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 but we’ll be [...]
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 [...]
