30% Savings on Books from Peachpit Press

USER GROUP COUPON CODE
We provide your group members with a 30% discount off the list price of any of our books. At checkout, right before they put their credit card number in, they must enter the user group coupon code UE-23AA-PEUF (case-sensitive). This coupon code is an exclusive offer that may not be used in [...]

Peachpit Press Adobe User Group Web Design Contest

VOICES THAT MATTER WEB DESIGN CONFERENCE -  USER GROUP CONTEST
EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION NOW OPEN - RECEIVE $200 OFF WHEN YOU REGISTER BEFORE SEPT. 10TH!
We’re excited to announce the first Voices That Matter: Web Design Conference taking place October 22-25, 2007 at the Grand Hyatt San Francisco, hosted by New Riders an imprint of Peachpit.
Here’s a [...]

ADA Compliance Page Example

If you’re receiving money from the government you’re already section 508 compliant and validated, right?
Here’s an example American with Disabilities Act compliance statement to compare with your own.
Example: http://www.state.hi.us/tax/c1_3ada.htm
When I run the validators, I get warnings, especially from the Hawaii State homepage. It appears to be more difficult to validate sites for section 508 standards [...]

New Online Design Resources

After I started compiling a list of online design resources, I realized we need a list of design resources from companies on the Big Island. I didn’t recognize any of the names of the resources as being from the Big Island.

Correction/addition…

In last week’s presenation I was stumped on the amount of money that is currently being spent on web 2.0 companies vs. earlier in the year. TechCrunch is offering some insight into the answer here:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/23/vc-investment-hits-highest-level-since-2001/
(earlier in the year web 2.0 investment was around 200 million)

New Adobe Magazine up on Adobe.com

Good stuff here: http://www.adobemagazine.com/

Mahalo for Last Night’s Meeting!

Thanks again for coming out. Thanks for the dialog and thanks for the sharing your ideas. See ya again soon!
Link to Web 2.0 Slide Presentation

Meeting Tonight

Details are behind the “Next Meeting” link at the top of the page…

Free Blogging Class for Beginners and Pros Tonight (07-18-07) in Hilo, Hawaii 96720

More details over at Hawaii Big Island Business.
Bring your laptop for hands-on, step by step, instruction. No laptop required though. We’ll pass out materials to take back to your home or office computer.
Need info? Contact Brent 808-896-7656 or brent(at)biaug.com
e komo mai!

Next Meeting July 19th at Hale Aloha

Details are behind the “Next Meeting” link at the top of the page…

What’s Next? An unpresentation and free-wheeling discussion about Web 2.0

What’s Next?
An informal “unpresentation” and discussion about Web 2.0 for businesses, writers, designers, developers and anyone looking to better understand and potentially become involved with the biggest online paradigm shift since the web was born.
Why?
The Kea`au Youth Business Center and Aloha Workshops are interested in teaching folks how to sustain themselves using technology without limits. [...]