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The Raleigh-Durham Web Design Group

Events coming up

• Nov 11

  The Raleigh-Durham Web Design Group November Meetup

  Morrisville, United States

  Use this link to find the Panera!!! October: Comparison of Web CMS Systems (Joomla, Drupal, etc.) Clair Ragin of Red Beret Designs will present. Comparison of drupal, joomla and wordpress... pros and cons of each... geared towards designers and end users... how much a non-programming, non-sysadmin designer can reasonably hope to accomplish in any of these systems, and when it's time to call for backup.

Past events

• Sponsor Event -- Must-Have Technologies for Competing

  Wed, 21 Oct 2009, 17:00 - 19:00 in Raleigh, United States

  Gimme Five: 5 Must-Have Technologies for Competing in Today's Market. Overview: Every day it seems there's a new technology to become familiar with. But which of these technologies can positively impact the productivity, viability and profitability of your small business? A panel of three small business technology experts will share with you their top picks for the key technologies you should consider implementing for your business.

• Demystifying Google Adwords and Analytics for Small Business Owner (FREE)

  15-16 Oct 2009 in Hillsborough, United States

  Who: Steve Hong, your friendly neighborhood spider... errrr... web designer What: FREE seminar titled "Demystifying Google Adwords and Analytics for Small Business Owners" When: October 15, 2009, 6-9 pm Where: Durham Tech's Orange County Campus at 525 College Park Rd, Hillsborough, NC 27278 Why: This introduction to online advertising and Google AdWords covers the basics of pay-per-click marketing and how to create an effective, low-cost ad campaign.

• The Raleigh-Durham Web Design Group October Meetup

  13-14 Oct 2009 in Morrisville, United States

  Use this link to find the Panera!!! September: Search engine optimization & SEO tools Tevan Alexander and Steve Hong will lead this discussion. In this presentation, Tevan Alexander of DesignHammer () and Steve Hong of CrossComm () will demonstrate website SEO (search engine optimization) from start to finish: market/keyword research, website design, site architecture, web content, website promotion, and web analytics.

• Sponsor Event -- Measuring the Impact of Your Social Media Activities

  Wed, 7 Oct 2009, 17:00 - 19:00 in Raleigh, United States

  Analyze This!: 5 Ways to Measure the Impact of Your Social Media Activities. Overview: If you are like many small businesses, you are devoting more time, staff and resources to social media marketing. But, are you measuring the impact of social media activities on your business? Do you know what to do more of, because the ROI is there? Or less of, because a particular social activity or channel is not a good fit? Or are you just guess-timating?

• Sponsor Event -- How to Save by Using Online Software Services.

  Wed, 30 Sep 2009, 17:00 - 19:00 in Raleigh, United States

  Online, Under Budget: How to Save by Using Online Software Services. Overview: Finding cost-effective ways to get a lot done with little, could mean the difference between success and failure in your business. A recent Microsoft® study found that small businesses are investing in software-as-a-service (SaaS) and mobile devices to be more productive and sell more, without breaking the bank.

• Sponsor Event -- Social Media Webinar

  Wed, 23 Sep 2009, 17:00 - 19:00 in Morrisville, United States

  This Wednesday, put a power lunch on your calendar. Sit down with award-winning small business and CRM experts Anita Campbell and Brent Leary. In the first of four Power Lunch webinars, Social Side of Business: Using Social Media to Create Real Business Relationships, they'll show you the right (and wrong) ways to use the new social media. To build your customer base...and your bottom line. Register Here

• The Raleigh-Durham Web Design Group September Meetup

  8-9 Sep 2009 in Morrisville, United States

  Use this link to find the Panera!!!August: Design Hack-a-thonHave a special trick to show? This will be peer-to-peer coaching in whatever graphical imagery, layout, animation, can be reasonably be shown. We will self-organize as necessary to show and tell with whatever tools we bring. For those of you with laptops and skill -- please bring both. The following is based on feedback. I'll update it as more feedback comes in...

• Web Design Lunchtime Meetup

  Tue, 18 Aug 2009, 17:00 - 19:00 in Raleigh, United States

  Open discussion on questions and answers on any of the past topics CSS, Javascript, jQuery, PHP, etc. Please email if there is a particular topic you would like to discuss.If you have video questions, email in advance and I will pass them along to dave who can't be there but will answer them for us by email.Pepper is busy, busy, busy! Mitch will be standing in this meeting.

• The Raleigh-Durham Web Design Group August Meetup

  11-12 Aug 2009 in Morrisville, United States

  Use this link to find the Panera!!! Correct MapNext few meetups....July: Content Management Systems: Grokking JoomlaJoomla is a popular PHP-based Web site deployment solution, sometimes referred to (under a _very_ loose definition) as a content management system (CMS). Mitch and Pepper each have worked on Joomla site, and will co-lead this discussion.August: Design Hack-a-thonHave a special trick to show?

• Web Design Southpoint Lunchtime Meetup

  Thu, 23 Jul 2009, 17:00 - 19:00 in Durham, United States

  Join us for lunch! Folks who work in the South Durham area come together for lunch and sharing on web design once a month.

• DRAWING FOR SUMMER XML TICKETS

  14-15 Jul 2009 in Morrisville, United States

  This is a Special Notice. The Chair has authorized me to offer free tickets for two of our members, to the XML Summer Conference which will be held at the end of the month. This is two full days chock full of XML related discussion in all its markupy goodness. The conference is on July 27-28, and is sponsored by several well-known companies including Adobe and Lulu.com, with leading speakers.

• The Raleigh-Durham Web Design Group July Meetup

  14-15 Jul 2009 in Morrisville, United States

  Use this link to find the Panera!!! Correct MapNext few meetups....June: Javascript (and jQuery if time permits)We discussed jQuery at length at the last lunch meetup... and noted that the Javascript was a stumbling point. So we'll look closer at how Javascript works at this meetup.July: Content Management Systems: Grokking JoomlaJoomla is a popular PHP-based Web site deployment solution, sometimes referred to (under a _very_ loose definition) as a content management system (CMS).

• Web Design Southpoint Lunchtime Meetup

  Thu, 25 Jun 2009, 17:00 - 19:00 in Morrisville, United States

  Some of us just like lunch with other like-minded geeks! Really, though, there are folks in the western half of the triangle who would like to meet for lunch too, so we are starting a once a month Thursday lunch at Panera in Southpoint Mall (outside entrance) for us to get together without driving far. The first request was to learn more about PHP. So this will be an intro Q & A on PHP. If you have PHP questions, please come. If you have PHP answers please come. See you there!

• NE Wake: Special Meetup on Content Management [RSVP & Fee optional]

  17-18 Jun 2009 in Morrisville, United States

  This is a call for a special meetup in the North East Wake County area, on the subject of content management: XML Mashups. This may be a two or three part meetup, depending upon the amount that can be covered. Members have been asking for more than we actually have time to cover at the monthly meetup. Thanks to Pepper O.

• The Raleigh-Durham Web Design Group June Meetup

  9-10 Jun 2009 in Morrisville, United States

  Use this link to find the Panera!!! Correct Map Next few meetups.... June: Javascript (and JQuery if time permits) We discussed JQuery at length at the last lunch meetup... and noted that the Javascript was a stumbling point. So we'll look closer at how Javascript works at this meetup. July: Content Management Systems: Grokking Joomla Joomla is a popular PHP-based Web site deployment solution, sometimes referred to (under a _very_ loose definition) as a content management system (CMS).

• Web Design Lunchtime Meetup

  Tue, 2 Jun 2009, 17:00 - 19:00 in Morrisville, United States

  This meeting will go back to some basic intro questions if people would like that on CSS, PHP, jQuery. It can also be a sharing of things people tried with jQuery after this week's meeting.