Archives for "July, 2010"

Posted by luke.gedeon on 21st July 2010
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Lightning Talk: WP 3.0 – A Great Online Magazine

What is the difference between an online magazine and print magazine? Sure, there is the whole dead-tree thing, but more importantly, online magazines are “designed for the web.” In other words they are ugly. It is geek-centric design. Efficient, fast, easy to use, adaptable… and boring. Real magazines blend content and article-relevant design into a [...]

Posted by Jake Goldman on 20th July 2010
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Lightning Talk: That’s a WordPress site???

WordPress is nice and all, but it’s really just blogging software. You know  it right away when you see a WordPress “site.” Right? Wrong! According to a study completed for last year’s DrupalCon, WordPress powers some 8.5% of sampled websites all across the web. They’re not just blogs, and they don’t all “look like a [...]

Posted by Melinda Rainsberger on 20th July 2010
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Lightning Talk: Yes, Your Portfolio Needs to be WordPress

Melinda Rainsberger is an awesome designer and animator with an endless appetite for exploration and experimentation. She set about learning WordPress and ended up founding They’re Using Tools! Mel started with (tables!) HTML and quickly learned that she wouldn’t survive if she couldn’t update her site quickly and easily with consistent styling from page to [...]

Posted by Rosanne Cedroni on 20th July 2010
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Lightning Talk: Graphics 101

Rosanne Cedroni has been a graphic designer for years (we’re not saying how many years…) but she is totally new to WordPress. Not to worry, even a newbie can have fun with WordPress. It’s amazing how much you can do with the simplest tools. Personalizing your site with a custom header and a seamless background [...]

Posted by Kevin on 18th July 2010
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Lightning Talk: Your Site NEEDS a Librarian

Kevin Mandeville will be entering his senior year at Bryant University this fall. He is an entrepreneur at heart and overall startup junkie as he is the Co-Owner & Creative Director of Bounce Web Solutions, and is currently working on two other web-based startups. It doesn’t matter what your site is: one for your business, [...]