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Link roundup from meetup on 6/18/2013

Wow, what a turnout last night, huh? Almost 60 people. Definitely our biggest meetup to date! Here’s the link roundup from last night: Chris Rogers http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Themes – what is a theme/definition. http://wordpress.org/themes/tag-filter/ – to find/official themes http://wordpress.org/themes/commercial/ – commercial/third party http://wordpress.org/themes/search.php?q=responsive – all themes with “Responsive” in their description. http://wordpress.org/themes/responsive – FREE theme my actor […]

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10th Anniversary WordPress Celebration

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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April meetup link roundup

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/ […]

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January meetup link roundup

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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Vegas Meet Up Notes 2012

The problem with most WordPress Themes I come across is that they do what I need the site to do or function (about 40-85% of what I need the site to do), but the styling is either too heavy or lacking in most areas. So how do I solve this. I could look for another […]

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May WordPress Meet Up Notes, Comments and Other Cool Stuff Like Chevy Mustangs!

Here is the link to the FACEBOOK PAGE for the WordPress Meet Up Group Amazing Meet Up Everyone. I hope you enjoyed our presentations and hope we answered your questions to the best of our knowledge. Thank you to all who came out tonight. With out further to do.. here is the break down and […]

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March meetup follow-up

Great Meet Up Tonight. If you missed this months Meet Up, Dont Worry, I we have you covered. 7:00pm – 7:30pm – Introductions and Hello’s from the Group Admins (John and Russ, But Mostly John). 7:30pm – 9:30pm – The Group Admin’s Answered questions from all who attended the meet up, Mostly about Multiple Site […]

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Page Speed and Google Developer Tools Good vs Evil

In the quest for the Holy Grail that is know as Search Engine Optimization it is important to know that Google “Ranks and Rewards” a website for being coded properly, among many other things. Now Google is not the only Search Engine that practices these methods, but if you ask any american if they care […]

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The February WordPress Meet Up – Notes and Timeline

Please Note: The first part of this post is to show what exactly was discussed in the meet up period and the second part is a more detailed description of each time line. Timeline of events 7:00 pm – 7:30 pm | Introduction by John Hawkins and Russell Aaron. The intro was basically explaining what […]