Chris K Designs

So you’ve got an idea and you are going to start a blog. You’ve dug through the different blog platforms and landed upon Wordpress. Once you either get your Wordpress.com blog running, or you have installed Wordpress on your server, you will no doubt be ready to start typing away. That’s great! Before you start publishing your award winning content there may be a few things you will want to take a look at to get your Wordpress site looking like it’s a step above the rest.

Setup your user profile
By default a Wordpress installation uses the name ‘admin’ and that crazy password that get’s emailed to the address you provided. If you don’t change this, all of our future posts will be attributed to ‘admin’. Once you get logged in with that password, you will want to go to the ‘Users’ menu from the left bar in your Dashboard and select ‘Your Profile’. Here you can change your username to start. Read more…

Phoenix WordCamp has been confirmed and is open for registration! Checkout the details at phxwordcamp.com.  Here is some of the information. The cost is pretty minimal at $30 and you can register at the website. They have some pretty big sponsors lined up and hey there is free food involved. You can’t beat included meals as well as some of the best Wordpress contributors, speakers, and geniuses out there not to mention a great community of users.

After a lot of work, legal paperwork and tons of emails, I’m very proud to say we have confirmed a date and officially have a venue and information for Wordcamp Phoenix 2009!

Venue: Arizona Grand Resort, 8000 S. Arizona Grand Parkway Phoenix, Az 85044 (venue info)

Date: Friday November 13th – Time: 8am – 5pm

The venue is beautiful with easy to access, being right off the I-10, within a few miles of Sky Harbor Airport, and is conveniently located down the road from where PodCampAz and the Az Entrepreneurship Conference are being held.  A continental breakfast, full lunch provided by GoDaddy, event t-shirt and door prizes will be provided to those who Register for Wordcamp Phoenix.

So last night I got the chance to finally see Diggnation at a live shoot here in Tempe at the Tempe Center for the Preforming Arts. I showed up at 3PM and ended up getting front row seats! I met some awesome people from all over the place including a guy who flew in from New Jersey to see the show. I took tons of pics over and put them up on my Flickr account. Some of them aren’t the greatest thanks to the stock flash on my Digital Rebel but they work. Below are some of my favorites from the show.