San Diego WordPress - the Best San Diego WordPress User Group! We help you learn, maximize, and monetize your WordPress website and blog. We explore all the possibilities with utilizing WordPress websites and Blogs. Learn from WordPress experts and users and share tips and techniques. Connect with other WordPress users and learn about WordPress. Please support Lionize Designs the Sponsor of San Diego WordPress. WordPress is a flexible web platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, an …

Meet others using Joomla or Mambo. Learn and share ideas about templates, content management, extensions, php, css, html and everything else that makes Joomla so easy to use . Laptops, patience, examples, problems and a sense of humor will be utilized at each meeting. Meetings will be weekly for my own benefit, come as often as you can. Internet access will hopefully be arranged so attendees can be from anywhere.

Refresh San Diego is an open community of web designers, developers, and marketers working to refresh the creative, technical, and professional culture of Internet in the San Diego area. Meetings are usually the second Tuesday of each month where we discuss anything from design to marketing and everything in between. Topics that we'll cover include: Design, Development, Marketing, Programming, Usability, Web 2.0, SEO, and more. Everyone interested in "refreshing" the Internet is welcome.

Want help with your WordPress web site? Welcome to Wordpress Workshops. I'm hoping to offer a friendly and easy way for folks to get help with their WordPress web site in a group setting where we can share questions and answers, make progress on your ideas or goals, and have fun in the process. Since running a web hosting business since 1997, there have been many platforms and programs for building and maintaining a web site (Frontpage, Dreamweaver, Joomla, Drupal, etc), and I've used them all e …

You probably realize your small business needs some form of internet marketing, but no one can seem to explain to you how internet marketing works in plain english... I WILL TEACH YOU TO DO INTERNET MARKETING ON YOUR BUSINESS YOURSELF This meetup group will be an ongoing series of classes about how "non-techy" small business owners can successfully use various methods of internet marketing to build their offline or online business. *looking to get a website but amazed at how expensive it c …

Welcome! This group is designed for professional animal lovers in the positive, "green" and non-aversive, pet care services and products businesses. Please read to the bottom of this page and then JOIN US there, or read to the bottom of the page and click on the red JOIN US button in the upper right-hand corner. If you put animal welfare at the top of your agenda AND demonstrate that through your business, practice or group, we welcome your application. Here are some of the benefits to your busi …

I got a call several weeks ago, it was a very typical conversation. The lady on the other end was frustrated, bordering on angry. Who was she angry at?  The answer was so common: it was "us": web developers, web solution providers.  She felt cheated and robbed.  Her story as a litany of failed solutions, money wasted, and what she perceived as outright lying and cheating. She no longer trusted anyone in the web development industry. This always makes me a bit angry as well.  Part of anyone's rep …

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FAB LAB is focused on developing creative learning experiences for people of all ages, and engaging students and community to explore ideas through the use of innovative technology. We welcome anyone interested in discussing or promoting physical fabrication and community-building based on digital techniques (2d cutting and folding, 3d printing and milling, etching, circuits, microprocessors, Web design, etc). FAB LAB San Diego was founded by Xavier Leonard and Katie Rast.

The worlds of hackers and journalists are coming together as reporting goes digital and Internet companies become media empires. Journalists call themselves "hacks," someone who can churn out words in any situation. Hackers use the digital equivalent of duct tape to whip out code. Hacker-journalists try and bridge the two worlds. This group is to bring all these people together -- those who are working to help people make sense of their world. It's for hackers exploring technologies to filter …

This is the San Diego Chapter of ACM SIGGRAPH, slated to build local interest on computer graphics and interactive techniques, for educational, artistic and scientific purposes. It's free to join this Meetup ($0), but we encourage you to become a Full Member in order to enhance your involvement, opportunities, and chances to receive cool giveaways! To join as a Full Member for a year, just make a $20 PayPal donation (note 'Chapter membership' and member name in the donation comments), or you can …

Welcome to the San Diego ExpressionEngine Meetup group! This is a group of web designers and developers who use and love the ExpressionEngine Content Managment System. As you might imagine from our group name our members are based throughout San Diego county. If you are new to the CMS world you might consider joining our group and learning why EE might be a great fit for you and your business. If you are from an agency or company looking to learn more about this great CMS and want to meet the pe …

Please visit www.sdentrepreneurcenter.com to learn more about us. Help us become the LARGEST Entrepreneurial Eco-system and Membership Network in San Diego, becoming the role model for other US cities to follow, and in developing our San Diego Sustainable Connections Collaborative Community (SDS3C initiative), County Wide!.  We are looking for domain experts in a variety of areas who would like to get get involved, and potentially be workshop presenters. Our meetup group is barely a year old, an …

Meet with other developers, web operations, system administrators, designers, and business professionals who are looking to make their site and application faster, enhance the user experience, and lower abandonment rates and make more money.

The San Diego Joomla Users Group is for Joomla users, administrators, designers and developers to bring the best of Joomla to San Diego. Joomla is the world’ s most popular open source CMS (content management system). With 2.7 percent of the Web running on Joomla, the software is used by individuals, small & medium-sized businesses, and large organizations worldwide to easily create & build a variety of websites & web-enabled applications. All levels of experience are welcome!

Southern California Sencha Developers UNITE! This group is dedicated to ExtJS, Ext GWT and Sencha Touch developers looking to share tips, tricks and code - and also collaborate on projects and find new ways to use the great frameworks and tools produced by Sencha.

Meet people and business owners who are interested in Search Engine Optimization (SEO) techniques, Social Media (SMM) and online marketing related to Search Engine Marketing (SEM). Share advice and create business and expert relationships. SEM San Diego is an SEM group created by me, local SEM Marketer Todd Meisler, and associates. We are pleased to announce that we are going to be holding regular meetups throughout the year for those interested in SEO, Search Marketing, Social Media and other r …

The San Diego Graphic Design Guild was created to bring fellow graphic designers, freelancers, package designers and all other print and web artist in the area together to discuss trends, critique each others work and provide useful industry tips to each other. It is a tough world out there right now for graphic designers. It is almost impossible to stay ahead of the newest tech trends, program updates and client load. Moreover, when you work as a freelancer, your only source of social interacti …

Think of Sandal Society as a group of supportive co-workers for people who don't have or who don't want traditional jobs (or traditional co-workers). We are a community of entrepreneurs supporting each other in the effort to ditch the suit and tie. We opt for sandals instead, and we strive to build our own companies. We love working for ourselves and our goal is to create a community for other like-minded entrepreneurs to do the same. Sandal Society is the place to learn how to start or grow you …

I am passionate about the PHP community and am just now moving to San Diego. I have participated in OrlandoPHP for a year and a half and want to bring my experience to SD. I also want to meet like minded people, come out of my shell some and help others out of theirs as well. I am looking for members of all ranges of experience.  I feel that there is always something to learn, even if you are a current expert.  And also, sharing your knowledge with others is priceless.

This is a group for perl professionals, amateurs, and enthusiasts alike. Whether you wish to discuss language direction, or need a few pointers, this is the group for you. Presentations, speakers and interesting discussions on perl frameworks/modules are commonplace. Meetings generally start with brief introductions. These introductions often spawn discussions on a wide range of subjects (mostly Perl, but all things tech are fair game.) The main objective of our group is simply to get Perl peopl …

This group is for anyone interested in swapping services! Do you have a skill such as photography, gardening, teaching, house cleaning, web design, French speaking, trapeze flying, writing, floor installing or singing? You don't need to be a professional, just any area of expertise that you either do or teach. Do you need a service such as any of the above or others? We've created a group for people who want to swap services. Check out our google doc below to see what our members have to offer: …

Welcome to the San Diego Zesty Meetup group! This is a group of web designers/developers who are interested in learning more about Zesty. The toolset the Zesty platform provides makes creating and managing websites more efficient and profitable than ever. Everyone is welcome! Learn more about Zesty at GoZesty.com

We bring the power of the Drupal content management system to the yearning public of San Diego, CA. We have two meetings each month where we discuss everything Drupal, at all levels from beginner to Drupal ninja. Join the group, come and enjoy the meetings, and learn why people come for the software and stay for the community: Central San Diego: Hall of Champions, Balboa Park Second Wednesday of every Month, 7 pm Carlsbad (North County): Museum of Making Music, NAMM campus Last Thursday of every …

p.arts lab is a San Diego based monthly meetup for digital artists, creative coders, software developers, generative artists, interactive designers, animators, circuit benders, VJ's, DJ's, music producers, motion artists, 3D artists and anyone creating works with powered mediums. It’s an opportunity to gather, inspire and be inspired while learning and networking. The lines between these skills can sometimes blur and p.arts lab invites participants to expand beyond their typical toolset to learn …

Soccer Club for creative types. Artists, graphic designers, video, film makers, photographers, fashion designers, web designers, all welcome.

The San Diego Sun is priceless, we all agree on that but as a start up city we need a lot more than just the Sun to catch up with Tech Hubs such as Silicon Valley. We need to do it our way…. the San Diego way!.... the Happy Hour way! Imagine SD Tech Happy Hour as a City wide bar where Web Developers meet charismatic Founders, Entrepreneurs meet the next Investors and Legal Team and App Designers come up with their next big thing right before the happy hour ends. We are all about Happy Hours, Tec …

Full Stack: North County is an event where web designers and developers can come together to learn from and teach each other about emerging technologies. While speakers at Full Stack focuss primarily on Ruby, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS, we encourage all local web professionals to join us for vivid discussions around technology across the stack in any language.