One of the keys to blogging is building a community among like-minded people who share thoughts in the virtual world, then take the time to meet each other and form offline relationships as well.

For St Louis, the Web Developer group is a natural fit for a blog community. Think of the people who come to the meetings; developers, designers, architects, recruiters, and technologists looking for advice on specific topics.

Most blogs are started and abandoned for lack of interest. If you're interested in finding out how to make this blog successful, leave a comment and we'll find a way to build this to benefit everyone.

Hi Everyone!

The next meeting of St. Louis Web Developers Organization, the local Chapter of the International Webmasters Association and the HTML Writers Guild (IWA-HWG), will be Tuesday, August 15, 2006.

We meet in the auditorium at One City Place. We have networking from 6:30 to 7:00 PM - a good time to meet with other members of the organization. Our host for food and drink is MODIS, courtesy of Jane Bullington, a former Board member of St. Louis Web Developers.

Our regular meeting will start at 7:00 PM. Our Program for the evening is " ASP Odyssey: One man's odyssey as he tries to navigate through setup and deployment of his organization's information filled website ".

Alan Barasch has been in the process of converting a website that was originally 3200 static pages (created from his Excel macros) to ASP and SQL Server for over 6 months. The first draft is online at http://missouri.mophil.org. He would like our help in building the DataGrid and web.config.

Alan Barasch has been involved with the St. Louis Web Developers organizationand its predecessor since before 1995. At present, he is an unemployed Excel developer who also happens to know a thing or two about web development. He is a director and vice-president of STLWebDev.

We look forward to seeing you on Tuesday.

Marcia O'Brien, President
St. Louis Web Developers Organization

Welcome to the St. Louis Web Developers Blog!

We at the St. Louis Web Developers Organization are excited to have this resource available to our members and hope all of you find it is a useful and informative.

Many thanks to James Durbin of Durbin Media for his efforts in the creation of this blog. By the way, there is a link on our home page to his presentation “ Recruiting Blogging: Connecting Candidates and Employers in a Web 2.0 World.

Marcia O’Brien, President
St. Louis Web Developers Organization

The July meeting of the Stl Web Developers has been cancelled for scheduling. See you in August.

If you are interested, we're accepting St Louis blog links. Get yourself a little search engine action and a free ad if you're looking for work, looking for business, or looking for readers.

If you have a blog or a website in St Louis, send me a note at jdurbin@durbinmedia.com and we'll reciprocal link you from the Stl Web Developers blog.

-Jim Durbin

I made some basic changes.

1) A site meter (as soon as the code is posted)
2) A Swicki Search Engine
3) More Links

I'm working on adding RSS content from indeed - don't know if I can do that from blogger.

What we're looking for is some people willing to post. Allan, any thoughts?

Inspired by tonight's meeting speaker, Jim Durbin, we've created a blog for our group. It'll be fun to see how our members utilize this new feature. We expect this to be an extension of our email mailing list and that similar issues covered there can also be included here. But this forum will also provide our monthly meeting speakers with a place to start sharing ideas they will be covering in their talk--or for speakers that have already spoken to keep ideas flowing that came up when they were with us in person.