E.Webscapes Design Studio

This is my 5th trip down to Austin Texas for the annual South By Southwest Interactive Festival. I always have a fantastic time during my visits to SXSW – – I get the chance to rub noses with some favorite geeks across the internet, from all points on the globe and do a little promotion of my various books and projects that I have going on at the time.

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I am proud to announce that I am, once again, co-organizing WordCamp Chicago, along with Brian Gardner of StudioPress. Together, last year, Brian and I hosted 200 WordPress fans in downtown Chicago and enjoyed a fabulous weekend of sharing, networking, food and fun! This year, we are anticipating to more than double that number and are expecting 500+ WordPress fans to invade Chicago the weekend of June 5&6!

I am happy to announce that I am speaking at the Think Tank Live Search Marketing and Social Media Summit scheduled for February 23, 2010 in Milwaukee, WI. I will be presenting on the topic of building a niche community web site utilizing the free and dynamic software combination of WordPress and BuddyPress and how business, and individuals, can leverage the features and components to build a fully functional social community on your…

Out with the old – in with the new!  And we couldn’t be more excited!  2009 has been a really nice year for us over here at E.Webscapes – and towards the end of this article, you’ll find out how you can get 15% off our services from now through 12/31/09 to celebrate our relaunch!

For me, 2009 marks the end of a full decade of making things pretty on the web, for myself and…

I will be attending this years (2009) SXSW Interactive Festival again this year, and I’m really excited! This makes my third trip to Austin for the SXSW Festival and, I have to say, if you’ve never gone and have the opportunity to this year, or in the future – it’s WELL worth the trip!

It’s December already – can you believe it?? Why does it always feel like the holidays creep up and surprise me every year? It’s not like the holiday season changes every year..but it does seem like a surprise every time. In between doing a little shopping for my friends and family and doing some holiday prep around the house…like putting up the lights, decorating the tree and baking cookies – we’ve been pretty busy here…