CSS 101 at Vancouver WordPress Meetup

CSS 101 at Vancouver Wordpress Meetup, blogsitestudio.com/CSS-101-at-Vancouver-Wordpress-Meetup

The Vancouver WordPress Meetup on Valentine’s Day was a sweet one, and not just because of the smorgasbord of chocolate treats provided by a full house of attendees.

Morten introduced this meetup as being recorded online using Google+ Hangouts, which deepened the voice levels, but otherwise provided a better record than my iPhone.

Jill Binder, Web Coder Who Speaks Multimedia, gave us a short tutorial in working with CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), the code that controls the look of a WordPress site.

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3 Steps on the Stairway to Google Heaven

Google-Webmaster-Tools, blogsitestudio.com

We all know that Google is the god of search engines and the gatekeeper of web traffic, and that with a sweep of its righteous Penguin algorithm it can wipe out years of SEO work on any site.

But did you know that Google is also a merciful search god that loves little web sites and wants them to succeed? What’s more, Google also provides the tools to educate and help webmasters to worship the search engine more efficiently and dogmatically.

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WordCamp Victoria 2013

morten, blogsitestudio.com/wordcamp-victoria-2013

WordCamp Victoria was the second WordCamp I’d attended, but unlike WordCamp Vancouver in October 2012 – where I spoke about the Top 10 Things to Know About WordPress – it was the first time I was able to stay all day.

Why WordPress?

I arrived in time for the keynote speech by Morten Rand-Hendrickson of Pink and Yellow Design, where he asked the question, “Why WordPress?”

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