Thanks again to everybody who came out last night for the meetup to celebrate the 10th anniversary of WordPress. The format last night was a bit different for us. Rather than a couple targeted presentations, we invited anybody who wanted to come up and talk about their site or business to take the stage and […]
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John Hawkins opening remarks: Coworking facility and location of the meetup http://workinprogress.lv A cool event coming up in June http://vegasgivecamp.org Christian Torres Start up weekend http://lasvegas.startupweekend.org/ Start You Up bootcamp http://goo.gl/65mbP Shannon Noack http://ted355.com Google Fonts: http://www.google.com/fonts/ Another great way to embed unique fonts: http://www.fontsquirrel.com/tools/webfont-generator 960 grid: http://960.gs/ An article Shannon wrote on grids: http://sixrevisions.com/web_design/a-brief-look-at-grid-based-layouts-in-web-design/ […]
Thanks to everybody who made it out to the January WordPress meetup. Here’s the batch of links I recorded from the meetup. If I missed any, please leave a comment with a link. Eric’s presentation about building sites for speed http://blog.netdna.com/maxcdn/the-new-maxcdn-built-for-design-speed/ http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-minify/ http://csshat.com/ http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/css/reset/ http://www.spritecow.com/ http://www.mobinodo.com/spritemaster/ http://spritegen.website-performance.org/ http://imageoptim.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalable_Vector_Graphics http://www.codedread.com/scour/ http://modernizr.com/news/modernizr-and-cdns/ http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-super-cache/ http://wpengine.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_delivery_network http://sucuri.net/wordpress-security-monitoring […]
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November meetup followup
Last night’s Vegas WordPress meetup was a great one! We tried out a new venue and even with a couple hiccups, I think it still worked out pretty well. The evening started with Russ giving some tips on how to track down problems in WordPress themes or plugins on your site. He also mentioned a […]
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February meetup is scheduled
January’s WordPress meetup was fantastic! We had a great chat about SEO. I don’t have plans quite yet for what content I’ll bring to the event this month, but at least we know when it will be. Event Details: Date: 2/21/12 Time: 7:00pm – 10:00pm Location: /usr/lib If you have suggestions for topics this month, […]
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January meetup follow-up
Big thanks to everybody who came out for last night’s WordPress meetup. We had a full house and a lot of great conversation. I had prepared a 10-15 minute presentation on installing and configuring the All in One SEO plugin. That spawned a 2+ hour conversation about WordPress and SEO. About 3/4 of the way […]
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January WordPress Meetup
After some technical difficulties, I’ve finally nailed down the information for January’s WordPress meetup. Details: Date: 1/30/12 Time: 7:00pm – 10pm Location: /usr/lib At the moment I don’t have any specific presentations lined up. I’m open to suggestions for anything people would like to hear about. Please leave a comment below to throw out your […]
So here we are. The new home of the Las Vegas WordPress user group. Feel free to sign up, fill out a little information about yourself and get involved with the local WordPress community. Obviously we are just getting started with the site, so if there’s anything specific you think should be added, definitely let […]