October 26, 2009 7:00 PM - 68 attended
Boston WordPress Meetup Oct 2009: The Atahualpa Theme (Intermediate)
The Atahualpa theme by Bytes for All is, far and away, the best free customizable theme available for WordPress, and it can easily hold its own next to premium themes like Thesis. It's incredible interface gives power users everything they need to implement any design they can think of, while providing enough structure that even a total novice can become a Web designer.
Atahualpa is the perfect choice for:
- Beginners: The custom design interface can actually help you learn CSS in a controlled environment
- Pros: Direct, easy access to code gives you all the power you could ever ask for
- People on a budget: It's free! and it's at least as good as any premium theme out there
Adam Wood, founder of Social Bootstrap, will demonstrate the Atahualpa theme, highlight some of it's cooler functions, show off a few Atahualpa-based site designs, and answer your questions about this amazing WP theme.
This presentation will be geared toward the intermediate WP user, but beginners and pros will not feel left out unless they have an inferiority complex or something.
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James Coletti
Sometimes you can find on-street parking for free in front of the building, and I've heard people haven't had too much trouble finding on-street parking nearby (metered until 8 I assume?). And there's always the building garage for $10.
Posted October 25, 2009 at 10:05 PM -
Liz
Can you tell me if this event will be recorded and the video available for viewing later?
Posted October 26, 2009 at 2:58 PM -
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Michelle Carlson
Is anyone familiar with the Thematic Theme Framework by Ian Stewart? http://themeshaper.com/thematic/
Posted October 26, 2009 at 11:21 PM -
Reiko Beach
I have taken a look at thematic, and read about it, but would love someone to do a talk about it.
Posted October 27, 2009 at 5:30 AM -
Michelle Carlson
I would love someone to speak on Thematic as well. I think it's exactly what I need, but haven't had time personally to really figure it out. It would be great for someone to demonstrate how it works by creating Child Themes.
Posted October 27, 2009 at 10:41 AM -
Denise Bass
I was unable to make the meetup. Can anyone share some links to sites that use Atahualpa? I did my first site with it: http://www.raisinghopeinc.org/
but I am very interested to see what other people are doing with it.Posted October 31, 2009 at 12:52 PM -
Kurt Eng
I am still working on the video... it isn't easy to compress a 1.5hr video to something small and manageable. I will update once I am done. Thanks!
Kurt
Posted November 9, 2009 at 10:48 AM -
Kurt Eng
http://blip.tv/file/2847309
is the video... sorry it isn't the best quality but it was hard to fit the video under 1GB. Previous meetups are also on my channel.Posted November 14, 2009 at 6:07 PM -
James Coletti
Thanks for recording, editing and uploading, Kurt! It's great to have these presentations available on video for new members to get a glimpse of what we're up to.
Posted November 16, 2009 at 9:09 AM
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Reiko Beach+1 guestPretty good, I work with the theme, and I still picked up some good ideas & hints
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Linda VaroneAlan is clearly very knowledgeble about Atahualpa software. He broke the land-speed record for covering all 20 plus components of Atahualapa and how to modify them in 65 minutes flat Among professional speakers this is known as a "brain dump." There is no way an audience can process and absorb that much information is such a short period of time. A more modest goal of what to cover in the time available would have been welcome.
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Margy RydzynskiI was disappointed with the presenter. I could follow him, somewhat, but I think a lot of other people were lost. I also thought he did too much self-promotion. I did come away with a sense of what Atahualpa could do, though.
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