Shea Laughlin

MSP WordPress User Group #4

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Feb/100

This past Thursday (2/4) I attended my first MSP WordPress (WP) user group meeting at The Nerdery. There were four panel sessions but I could only go to two. The four to choose from were:

Intro to HTML
Intro to CSS
WP Widgets
WP 3.0

WP Widgets

The WP Widgets coding demonstration was instructed by Ray Champagne (@raychampage) who did an awesome job “dumbing it down”, at least for me. Ray showed us some professional examples of how WP can be used in lieu of traditional print media but how to transform that print media into an online web presence. He broke the presentation down into smaller parts:

What are widgets?
What does the code look like?
Coding a simple widget.
Implementing your widget.

WP 3.0

The WP 3.0 presentation was very enlightening in that I didn’t even know there was a new version of WP coming out and that some of the features will be changing, hopefully for the better .

In short, this presentation was more about what changes are going to happen with WP 3.0 but also how anyone can help contribute to the development. Here are some useful links and insight that Mitchell Hislop (@mitchellhislop) provided:

WordPress Foundation.org -”…founded by Matt Mullenweg to further the mission of the WordPress open source project: to democratize publishing through Open Source, GPL software.” – Also debuting the 2010 WP theme.
Example of the P2 Theme – A theme for threaded discussion instead of using the standard WP blogging or email.
The single user version WP and WPμ will be merged. Within the WP settings you will now see a “network” section. This will be the multi-user part of WP.
WP Mailing lists – Use these mailing lists if you want to stay informed or help out with the various functions of WP.
Mitchell’s Ultimate WP Starter Pack

In Conclusion…I’m super excited to go to the next one to meet even more people and to learn more about WP!

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Google Doesn’t Love IE6 Anymore?

2
Feb/100

Dear Google Apps admin,

In order to continue to improve our products and deliver more sophisticated features and performance, we are harnessing some of the latest improvements in web browser technology. This includes faster JavaScript processing and new standards like HTML5. As a result, over the course of 2010, we will be phasing out support for Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 as well as other older browsers that are not supported by their own manufacturers.

We plan to begin phasing out support of these older browsers on the Google Docs suite and the Google Sites editor on March 1, 2010. After that point, certain functionality within these applications may have higher latency and may not work correctly in these older browsers. Later in 2010, we will start to phase out support for these browsers for Google Mail and Google Calendar.

Google Apps will continue to support Internet Explorer 7.0 and above, Firefox 3.0 and above, Google Chrome 4.0 and above, and Safari 3.0 and above.

Starting this week, users on these older browsers will see a message in Google Docs and the Google Sites editor explaining this change and asking them to upgrade their browser. We will also alert you again closer to March 1 to remind you of this change.

In 2009, the Google Apps team delivered more than 100 improvements to enhance your product experience. We are aiming to beat that in 2010 and continue to deliver the best and most innovative collaboration products for businesses.

Thank you for your continued support!

Sincerely,

The Google Apps team

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