Author Archives: Jay Myers

Mpls.-St. Paul Wordpress User Group Meeting Registration Up

The first meeting of the Mpls.-St. Paul Wordpress User Group is slated for July 30, 2009. We’ll be talking about a slew of WP topics, including:

Organizing Wordcamp Twin Cities 2009
Converting rocking HTML Designs into rocking Wordpress Templates
Wordpress Overview for Beginners
Wordpress as a CMS

Details:

Minneapolis St. Paul Wordpress User Group Kickoff Meeting
Thursday, July 30, 2009, 6:30 PM [...]

Interest in Organizing WordCamp in the Twin Cities

I’m hoping to stir up some interest in organizing a WordCamp here in the Twin Cities. I’ll “run point” but could use some other enthusiasts to assist.
We have a thriving interactive community that presumably should be interested in things WordPress. Any takers?
Email jmyers at visi dot com or @jaymyers

Best Buy seeking Front End Web Developer

Best Buy Corporation is seeking a highly skilled “Front End Web Developer” with excellent front end programming skills and consultative abilities. This position will leverage a variety of programming and markup languages combined with web standards and usability guided design principles to develop and deploy websites/web applications for the Best Buy enterprise.
The qualified candidate must [...]

Best Buy Looking for Front End Web Development Lead

Best Buy Corporation is seeking a highly skilled “Front End Web Developer” with excellent front end programming skills and consultative abilities. This position will leverage a variety of programming and markup languages combined with web standards and usability guided design principles to develop and deploy websites/web applications for the Best Buy enterprise.
Ideal Candidates Have:

Expert knowledge [...]

Best Buy Front-End Developer Position

Best Buy is seeking a skilled front-end Web Developer with excellent communication and consultative abilities. This position will leverage a variety of programming and markup languages combined with web standards and usability-guided design principles to develop and deploy web sites/web applications for the Best Buy enterprise.
Ideal Candidates have:

Expert knowledge of hand-coded HTML (XHTML and DHTML [...]

PNG Product Images?

A question to the community at large. I’ve been asked to give an opinion on the PNG file format. More specifically, if it would be worth it to include a PNG version of products in the process of creating web photo assets. Note that I’m referring to a large number of product images (in the [...]

Engaging the enterprise in emerging trends

In large and small scale businesses there is a divide — one that separates the business from the more technical folk. In today’s marketplace, it is critical that these two forces meet somewhere in the middle, sharing an understanding of commonplace technical terms, techniques and trends. It’s scary when a business lead is driving an [...]