H.Sandra Chevalier-Batik

Places you can find H.Sandra

Sandra is a partner in Pleiades Publishing Services and Pleiades WebCenter. She is a WordPress Evangelist, Consultant and Trainer. She is co-organizer of the Austin WordPress MeetUp, and has served as a member of the organizing team for the WordCamp Austin 2010, WordUp Austin 2012, WordCamp Austin 2012, and is a lead trainer for the Hands-On WordPress classes. Sandra has earned a reputation for taking highly complex subjects and presenting them in easily understood modules. Her informal approach helps put class attendees at ease and ready to tackle unfamiliar material.

Posts by H.Sandra Chevalier-Batik

Additional WordPress Plugins for Business Sites

In a lively Q &A at last night’s WordPress for Business some additional plugins were discussed as possible solutions for specific issues raised by attendees. As promised, we have noted the names and urls of those WordPress Plugins below. Really Simple CAPTCHA CAPTCHA | Contact Form 7 Stripe Checkout WordPress Donation Plugin with Goals and [...]

Business Plugins for WordPress

Class Notes For: WordPress for Business —  Central Location 03.11.13 and WordPress for Business — West Location 03.18.13 Business Plugins for WordPress Business websites are tools for building relationships with clients, they are stores, branding tools, and content libraries for customers and employees alike. WordPress is so popular with the business community because it is [...]

WordPress Classes at Posh Co-Working Lounge

The Hands On WordPress classes are back Nick Batik and  Sandra Chevalier-Batik have at last been able to reschedule their Hands-On Word Press class that were canceled when CoSpace closed down over the holidays. We have a new training venue for 2013 training schedule. All classes will be taught at the Posh Co-Working Lounge, 3027 [...]

WordPress for Business

 Successful Business Websites Start with a Plan How information is organized and accessed is the difference between a successful site…and not so much Haphazard, poorly conceived and executed sites are so common That any organized website is richly rewarded: Visitors like easy to use, logical concise sites and are likely to become customers Search engines [...]

Announcing TWO NEW Austin WordPress Meetups

WordPress for Business: Central and West Austin Locations The Austin WordPress Group has added two new WordPress Meetups. WordPress for Business: Central and West Austin locations will focus on WordPress for Small Business.  Our goal is to help you build your business and the web presence that represents that business with WordPress. These meetups will [...]

Opportunity to work with DECA students who want to build you a WordPress site

Dana Jones is the Marketing teacher and DECA sponsor at Vista Ridge High School in Cedar Park, Texas. Her dedicated  DECA students  have taken on the task of writing a 30-page paper and making a presentation to judges in developing a “strategic plan that will attempt to provide new and exciting ways to restructure, change and [...]

WordPress Classes at CoSpace

Over the summer many of you have asked if Nick and I will be presenting WordPress classes again this fall. This year, in cooperation with the CoSpace Learning Network, we have developed an in-depth WordPress training curricula. Cospace will be offering the Cospace 3-month WordPress course plan designed to familiarize you with WordPress and how [...]

WordCamp Austin 2012 Update

WordCamp Austin 2012 Session Videos are Now In Post Production Anthony Erickson, Coleman Stevenson and Brett Rivera of the Eye in the Sky Collective, who led the team of videographers that recorded each of our WordCamp sessions, are now in post-production. This means Austin WordCamp 2012 will be able to provide professionally produced session video to WordPress [...]

4 Simple Ways to Secure (and Maintain) Your WordPress Website

This article was written by Dre Armeda and originally posted on the StudioPress Blog.   Brian Gardner shared it on Google +  this morning. As WordPress security is an often raised topic at out meetups I thought to share the post with our members. 4 Simple Ways to Secure (and Maintain) Your WordPress Website With the wind [...]

Summary WordPress 101 Meeting

Thank you to the WordPress enthusiast who posted the idea for WordPress 101, to Lysa Saavedra who took the initiative to find and secure a venue and those 20 WP Austin members who attended. This ‘viral’ Meetup has been an amazing experience. It is gratifying that the membership of the Austin WordPress Group moved so [...]

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