Date: Tuesday, February 5th, 2019, 7:30 pmLocation: Danbury Hackerspace NOTE NEW MEETING LOCATION - Danbury Hackerspace, 158 Main Street, Danbury, CT 06810. For the February Danbury Area Tech Meetup we're featuring Diana LeRoi-Schmidt from Criana doing an introduction to Wordpress. Learn … [Read more...]
April 2017 General Meeting: Full-Stack WAMP Development
DACS took a deep dive into website programming at the April General Meeting - no holds barred! Dan O'Connor gave us an in-depth view of the tools he uses to develop interactive web applications. This field is literally an alphabet soup of acronyms - Dan helped us a lot to make sense of them. The … [Read more...]
June 21, Web Design SIG: WordPress Themes
Once you've decided to use WordPress to run your new website, and once you've gone through the "5 Minute Install", what comes next? When you first login to your new WordPress admin area, you enter the default bare-bones set up, using the (this years) default theme. Is this going to work for you, or … [Read more...]
April 19, 2016, WordPress Site Analysis
After a winter hiatus, the DACS Web Design workshop/SIG started up again on April 19, 2016. At this meeting we focused on a website developed by Andy Woodruff for Sofia Chiarandini, a young musician with many talents. http://www.sofiachiarandini.com/ Andy presented a description of the steps … [Read more...]
August 18th, Web Design SIG/Workshop
WordPress has the ability to sort posts and page content into Categories and Tags. What are they, how do they work and why are they important? It takes a little planning to set them up correctly so we'll look at the best methods to fully take advantage of these features, and how they can help with … [Read more...]
Web Design SIG – Workshop, Oct. 21, WordPress Q & A
We've covered several WordPress functions in recent months, and at this session I'd like to give members the opportunity to discuss their own WordPress websites, and/or voice any questions they may have. Every WordPress installation starts the same, but very quickly becomes unique - depending on the … [Read more...]
September 2014
From all the outstanding feedback I got about our August general meeting, I missed a great presentation from Bob Gostischa on protecting Yourself, Your Computer, and Your Identity. The beginning of August must be a popular time for vacations since a lot of you and I missed this presentation. I have … [Read more...]
President’s File – August 2014
I am writing this column while enjoying the beautiful summer weather outside on my deck and looking forward to my upcoming vacation. I am reminded of how tethered we are to our computers and the internet, even on vacations. Smartphones are ubiquitous and tablets are catching up. They are powerful … [Read more...]
July 15, 2014 Web Design SIG
Adding graphics and photos to your website will enhance the visual impact and design. But before uploading media it's important to prepare and optimize your files for web viewing. Image width/height in pixels, as well as file size should be considered to avoid long downloads, and badly prepped … [Read more...]
WordPress Widgets, June 17, 2014
Let's take a closer look at 'Widgets', and how they are used to enhance your page content. Widgets are an integral part of any WordPress theme, and their locations and options change depending the theme structure. Its important to know how to recognize and use the options available in your specific … [Read more...]