September 25, 2019 — Since CSS Grid was introduced in modern browsers in 2017, developers finally are able to create complex layouts with less code. CSS Grid works a bit differently than the CSS frameworks developers are used to, so there’s a learning curve to get it. In this talk I want to show some examples how to use CSS Grid on websites, including either support or fallback layouts for Internet Explorer 10 and 11. Because this shouldn’t be an excuse anymore not to use CSS Grid today!

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September 24, 2019 — Seguramente alguna vez, estando fuera de casa, te ha pasado eso de “¿me he dejado la luz encendida?”. Si estás cerca, lo más probable es que vuelvas a comprobarlo; si estás lejos, no te quedará más remedio que esperar a volver o, en el mejor de los casos, llamar a alguien para que vaya a echarle un vistazo. Pero, ¿y si pudieras comprobarlo desde tu página web? ¡E incluso controlarlo!

En esta charla juntaremos WordPress y el Internet de las Cosas, veremos cómo podemos controlar la iluminación de nuestro hogar desde una página web y, por supuesto, para ello cacharrearemos con Arduino y/o Raspberry Pi, ¿te apuntas?

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September 24, 2019 — As somebody who has been both a developer and marketing team leader in my career, I’ve been able to see when projects go wrong between developers and external or internal marketing teams.
In this talk, I’ll share a few areas on where relationships break down, how to avoid problems before they arise, and also tips to get marketing teams on your side so you can both serve a happy client.

September 24, 2019 — Have you ever wondered how many people are clicking on a submit button, entering a shopping cart-but not buying, accessing your directions, or watching a video? The WPFlow Google Analytics event tracking plugin can help you do just that.

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September 24, 2019 — Website development and hosting is getting more and more competitive. Website services like Wix and Square Space are putting downward pressure at the lower end of the market. The key to competing in this space is lowering the cost of delivery. Using WordPress, a page builder, a good website host, a few plugins and some elbow grease you can put together a website saas service (waas) the dramatically decreases the amount of time is takes to build, deploy and maintain a website.

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September 24, 2019

September 24, 2019 — CSS can be a source of deep frustration for developers, both new and experienced. Over time, this has resulted in a portion of the web community with a fundamental misunderstanding of CSS – not only of how to write it well, but of what CSS is in the first place: a domain-specific, declarative programming language.

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September 24, 2019 — The session will cover practical security tips that anyone (especially beginners) should take, and what to do if you find yourself in an unfortunate situation. Most importantly, it will cover how true success lies in cooperation and collaboration, and by not letting others define you by your online perceived persona.

September 24, 2019 — What can you do to improve your site’s security and performance instantly? It’s not clickbait — it’s updating to a modern PHP version. Keeping PHP up-to-date with the latest version pays off enormously with increases in performance, security, and better overall compatibility. It’s not always instant, especially for larger sites, but we’ll cover the benefits and importance of updating, planning for an update, testing for issues, and dive into some modern PHP features and functionality.

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September 24, 2019 — “In this talk I’d like to talk about how our team exclusively leverages WordPress for our healthcare clients., and how others can build upon our agency model. We’ve built 50+ WP sites with a combination of existing themes, and now use our own baseline setup based on bootstrap and the WP Codex.

Discuss the unique challenges designers and developers face when working with healthcare clients including HIPAA considerations, the problem of having a to build for a broad demographic that also has a wide array of technology know-how. How to manage clients who have very little time to dedicate to their own projects.

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