Talks

TALK – “Night of the Living Style Guides”, by Sarah Semark

5th May 2017 by Meetup Organisers Leave a Comment

Tuesday 23rd May, 6:00 pm at iCafe, 315-317 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3HW (find on map)

***** LAST MINUTE CHANGE OF SCHEDULE! *****

Meetup starts at 6:00pm to give everyone a chance to get a cuppa, have a chat and meet other local WordPressers.

Talk starts at 6:30pm

About the talk:

The line between design and development is getting blurrier, and our approach to web design is becoming more modular. How do we keep track of it all? Style guides to the rescue!

Using style guides that update as our projects progress, we can visually document our work and ensure that everything stays consistent. [Read more…]

From Basic to Pro with Advanced Custom Fields, by Kathryn Reeve

2nd March 2017 by Meetup Organisers Leave a Comment

So folks, here’s our first live streamed talk. Super happy!

Apart from the great talk, we’ve also had some recommendations from our members as to other good plugins dealing with Custom Post Types, such as the Post Type Switcher and the Custom Post Type UI.

We’ve also discussed online courses to start learning PHP at our own pace. Here’s some of the names that have come up during our conversation: CodeSchool, Udemy, TreeHouse, and W3Schools.
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GCU WordPress Glasgow launch – Tues. 28th Feb.

3rd February 2017 by Meetup Organisers Leave a Comment

We had a great night with two really interesting talks. Here’s some photos of the evening:

Fab turn out and great conversations were had!

Steve McLeod's talk "Fake News, WordPress and Freedom of Speech" — Steve McLeod’s talk “Fake News, WordPress and Freedom of Speech”

John Johnston starting his talk "ScotsEdublogging" — John Johnston starting his talk “Scots Edublogging”

Many thanks to the GCU for hosting us and to all who came for making it possible!

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What it takes to build a website. Focus: web designer’s role

15th December 2016 by Meetup Organisers Leave a Comment

WordPress Glasgow meetup, 24th Feb 2017

Thank you Jim for the fab talk!

As usual the conversation (around the joys and pains of being a web designer this time) was super informative and we all got a lot out of it. Specially interesting was the discussions around favourite Themes and Frameworks, Accessibility and UX.

We’ll upload the notes onto our meetup.com page very soon.

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