Michelle Schulp: Beyond Whitespace – Designing for Complex Content
We’re all enamored with the minimalist websites that employ only the most essential use of color, images, and space. But what happens when the volume of information can’t be boiled down to something...
View ArticleChris Ford : Designing Your Process (For Fun and Profit)
How to apply the lessons I learned in project management.
View ArticleDustin Meza: WordPress Upgrade Anxiety No More – 5 Steps to Having a No...
WordPress upgrades, they bring us new features, faster sites, and better security. But pushing that upgrade button can be a scary moment, unless you’ve ensured your site is ready and compatible. I’ll...
View ArticleJason Tucker: What Is oEmbed and Why You Should Use It.
oEmbed has been around for a while and most people take them for granted. Just typing or pasting a YouTube URL in your post results in an embedded video on their website but there is to this. In this...
View ArticleTabitha Chapman: Kids and WordPress
Our fast moving technology means that kids are using gadgets way earlier each year. This discussion will discuss how children can utilize WordPress.Presentation Slides »
View ArticleJohn Hawkins: How to Build an Autonomous Website
Prior to starting a full time job, John had an idea for a website that would earn a little money…and require zero day-to-day interaction to run smoothly. In his presentation, John will share the...
View ArticleZack Tollman: HTTPS Migrations – The Hard Parts
You’ve decided to move your website to HTTPS. What now? In this session, you will learn how to manage the difficult aspects of an HTTPS migration using techniques that work for small to large sites. We...
View ArticleJon Brown: Work Here, Work There, Work Everywhere
Two years ago I did a well received talk on Work/Life Balance and remote work, the was more about setting work/lifestyle/travel goals and achieving them. This will be much more focused on trials and...
View ArticleJess Boctor: Stop Marauding Excel Sheets
“These spreadsheets are killing me” was a complaint said to me about a year ago. Since then, I have been partnered with my client to build an internal tool that can standardize their sales quoting...
View ArticleBrianna Privett: Curating a Pattern Library
Heroes? Pricing tables? THE GRID? Why DO all websites look like the same? Starting with a well-organized theme framework and a little SASS, this talk will cover how to identify user experience patterns...
View ArticleEugene Kovshilovsky: How to Best Optimize Your Caching
I will walk the audience through the different caching options they might have at their disposal depending on their hosting needs and the hidden gotcha's they might not be aware of.Presentation Slides »
View ArticleJacob Arriola: Getting Started With SVGs For WordPress Theme Building
SVGs provide designers, developers and users with an array of benefits including performance, styling and animations. In this talk, theme developers will walk away with the benefits of using SVGs in...
View ArticleNathan Tyler: Using WordPress as an App Framework
There has been lots of discussion around using WordPress as an app framework. In this talk, we’ll take a detailed look at the ups and downs of using WordPress to build a web app (hireotto.com) with: WP...
View ArticleMika A. Epstein : Dependency Inferno
We want our code to be fast, to work well, and look good. But do we really need all the bells and whistles? Understanding the burdens we place on end users when we code, such as large plugins and...
View ArticleRussell Aaron: A Problem With WordPress Theme Demonstrations
One of the awesome parts about buying a product always includes the test drive or the free sample. The same goes for Themes and Plugins. However, are Theme demonstrations being completely honest when...
View ArticleAndy Fragen: Contributing to Open Source
Contribute, contribute, contribute. Forums, GitHub, or Core pick one or all. A brief overview of how to start contributing to WordPress.Presentation Slides »
View ArticleJen Miller: Creating and Maintaining Sites While Mobile
Introduces design, development and blogging app resources that allow WordPress users the freedom to manage a business, team, multiple websites and other assets while on the go.Presentation Slides »
View ArticleCandice Gilliatt: Get Off The Workflow Roller Coaster
As a website designer, you can drive yourself crazy with the on-again, off-again roller coaster of building websites. The opportunity for you to engage clients beyond the website build exists and can...
View ArticleAlicia St Rose: Boom Chakra-laka – The Holistic Approach to Web Design
We’ve all heard something along the lines of this before from a potential client: “We want a simple website, 5 or 6 pages and 3 navigation tabs. A shopping cart and a contact form”. Hmm…Okay. Yeah,...
View ArticleGreg Taylor: Content Development
We are all competing with not only each other, but will the big boys for attention. Good will never be good enough again, only Superb content will move the needle for your business goals and get you...
View ArticleJerrett Farmer: WordPress for Lazy People
What are some of the ways to quickly get a WordPress site up and running with a minimal amount of effort? An over view of core plugins, page builders and themes as well as the latest cutting edge...
View ArticleThomas Patrick Levy: A Developer’s Guide to Support
What I’ve learned, as a developer, about interacting and empathizing with those poor non-developers who have given me money for code I have written and now expect me to help them, teach them, and...
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