Our local Joomla Guru, Alan Jones, gave an organized and informative tour of the new Joomla 2.5.4 release while allowing time for valuable input from the group. Thank you, Alan, for sharing your knowledge and experience!

— Cheri Calvert

Alan did a fantastic job of walking us through Joomla

— Marty Diamond

Great Meetup! Interesting content and friendly people.

— Matt N.

Interesting and useful, thanks. Gave me a lot of ideas to work on.

— Leonard Hill

Good presentation Heidi - It was really helpful ot talk not only about your ideal client but what to do about that potential client that you're just not sure about...you had some great ideas for dealing not only with red flags, but also what to do when you're just not sure whether to move ahead with someone or to decline to do business with them.

— Marty Diamond

Loved Marty's presentation and the live examples! All the different reactions to what affects their buying experience really was an eye opener. :D

— Laura

A great meetup. Marty's presentation was an excellent overview of conversion optimization. There were lots of good examples that took us to the detail level where the principals could be applied. Plus it was fun doing a group critique of various sites - its always good to get diverse insights. Laura's content presentation last month and this presentation from Marty illustrate how all of these tactics work together. Page/Site design, site goals, content (written and visual), conversion, and SEO are all interconnected. With the search engines becoming more focused on user experience - and better able to understand site content - all these things are vital to a successful Website.

— Bill Garnett

Thank you Marty, for sharing your expertise! Excellent presentation.

— Cheri Calvert

Laura did a great job. Her content was great (pun intended ;-) and provoked a beneficial sharing of viewpoints.

— Jim Smith

So very relevant. Laura did a great job of answering questions. She also closed with an eye opening fun exercise to lock in what she taught!

— Heidi Smith

Great job by Laura and another great discussion

— Bill Garnett

Lots of great information - a lively discussion

— Marty Diamond

Laura brought us a lot of great insight into her work as Copy Writer and how that relates to Web Design. Much good audience participation in Q&A. Thanks Laura.

— Ron Potter

Thanks, Eric, for another great year! It was a fun Meetup and good to see everyone. See you all in 2012! ~susan

— Susan Westbrook

Fun evening! Thanks Eric for your dedication, this group is a godsend for many of us! My top ten "Stuff" for 2011, in no particular order: 1. Mashable 2. Google+ (and Google in general) 3. Guy Kawasaki - AllTop. 4. TED.com 5. Joomla 1.7 - great improvement for building communities! 6. RocketTheme 7. Chrome (yes, another free Google product) 8. OS Lion 9. Meetup 10. Our new Pre-Paid billing system: "A website is never finished."

— Alan Jones

Very useful, very informative. James Zindell of Avalara overcame a lack of support for his laptop projection presentation and talked for an hour and half from his experience with Avalara and its products for e-commerce. Details about the incredible complexity of sales tax and how they handle it with their cloud based system was good. He gave us the ability to talk with a client about tax issues for sites we might develop and understanding of how we might partner with Avalara or another service of this type.

— Ron Potter

Great meeting. Very informative, scary that the US tax system is in such a mess.

— Alan Jones

Good discussion of the personal & psychological factors in web design.

— John McGowen

Great round table discussion with lots of very valuable shared information. Thanks, All!

— Jim Smith

It seems a little strange to rate a Meetup 5 stars when the speaker had to stay home due to illness! Still, everybody there was able to add to an adhoc discussion that centered around the topic of how to market and price your services. Add to that some great digression and you have had a great Meetup where we probably all learned something and everyone got to know one another quite a bit better. Thank you serendipity!

— Ron Potter