Author Archive

  • Tracy Apps: You Are Not Your Audience – How To Create User Centered Design.

    WordCamp Chicago 2017Speaker: Tracy Apps

    August 29, 2017 — Tracy (or @tapps) is a Visual/UX Designer for Cornershop Creative and loves solving problems creatively. Her overlap of skills in design, user experience, strategy, front-end development, photography, video, and traditional art help her not only think outside the box, but to stay miles away from the box altogether! With over 20 years of web development experience, and over 15 years of client work under her belt, Tracy approaches design very strategically, thinking from all angles to ensure a consistent and effective creative solution… not just something that “looks pretty.” She also could probably deadlift you.

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  • Robert Dall: It’s Always The Embeds

    WordCamp Vancouver 2016Speaker: Robert Dall

    August 29, 2017 — What is the biggest thing I have seen done wrong or not thought about in reponsive design. The embeds, it always the embeds whether it be enternal ads, youtube videos or external content. I will show show some large websites that still have this problem! (One of them is a internal stock market’s blog that runs off WordPress) How do you solve this problem with WordPress? It’s very easy!!! I’ll provide snippets of code that you can use in your function file to correct these problems.

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  • Mike Hale: Building a Developer Friendly WordPress Plugin

    WordCamp Chicago 2017Speaker: Mike Hale

    August 29, 2017 — With nearly fifty thousand WordPress plugins available, there’s one for just about everything. However, sometimes a plugin doesn’t do exactly what you need. Working with existing plugins can be a frustrating experience when the developer has not considered how other developers might use it on a client’s web site. In this session, I’ll share some common roadblocks working with plugins, how you can make your plugin extensible, and the benefits of building a developer-friendly plugin.

  • Wendy Bolm: The Tough Stuff – When and How to Fire a Customer

    WordCamp Chicago 2017Speaker: Wendy Bolm

    August 29, 2017 — Whether you’re freelancing, working for a firm, or you own a small business, working with the public can be tough, especially when your clients lack tech smarts. Finding clients is hard enough; knowing when a working relationship should be let go can be excruciating. In this presentation, I’ll go over some of the signs to look out for with problem clients, how to rebuild relationships when possible, and how to know when to let go.

  • Piotr Niewiadomski: Obiektowe tworzenie motywów z użyciem silnika szablonów Twig w WordPressie

    WordCamp Lublin 2017Speaker: Piotr Niewiadomski

    August 29, 2017 — W swojej prezentacji Piotr opowie o rozdzieleniu pracy frontend i backend developera, odseparowaniu warstw prezentacji i logiki dzięki implementacji template’ów Twig, przechowywaniu struktury motywu w bazie danych i ograniczeniu możliwości edycji stron z poziomu wp-admina, tylko do predefiniowanych fragmentów.

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  • Peter Chodelka: Ako sa dá zarobiť pomocou webovej stránky?

    WordCamp Bratislava 2017Speaker: Peter Chodelka MSc

    August 29, 2017 — Poviem vám jedno tajomstvo: nikdy nebolo tak jednoduché začať zarábať na internete ako teraz!

    K dispozícii máte veľké množstvo rôznych nástrojov na tvorbu webu, ktoré sú navyše zadarmo, ako aj nespočetné množstvo návodov, blogov, článkov, kníh či affiliate kampaní, ktoré môžete propagovať. Ak čakáte na pravú chvíľu, kedy začať, je to presne táto.

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  • Jakub Hladký: Internetový marketing pomocí témat

    WordCamp Bratislava 2017Speaker: Jakub Hladký

    August 29, 2017 — Jednotlivé kanály internetového marketingu jsou spojené nádoby a měly by se vzájemně doplňovat a posilovat. Často ale na jednom projektu PPC specialista neví, co dělá SEO oddělení, natož lidé mající na starost newslettery. To snižuje výkonnost. Témata jsou snadným a užitečným jednotícím prvkem, který pomáhá s návaznostmi a navíc pomáhají srozumitelně prodávat zboží i služby.

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  • Karol Trybulski: Kompletujemy witrynę na WordPressie. Przegląd technologii

    WordCamp Lublin 2017Speaker: Karol Trybulski

    August 29, 2017 — Kompletujemy witrynę na WordPressie: Google AMP, meta dane, push notification, cache, testy prędkości, google search console, dostosowanie Open Graph, mały wstęp do badania tego co user robi na stronie. Z czego korzystać, aby nie pozostać w tyle.

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  • Scott Towne: Converting Website Visitoros in to Business Leads

    WordCamp Vancouver 2016Speaker: Scott Towne

    August 26, 2017 — Business owners work hard and pay money to bring visitors to their website. Most businesses are missing out on being able to directly communicate with that well-earned traffic after they have left the website. Email marketing is proven to be effective for lead conversions, however it can be difficult to get someone to join your list. In order to earn new subscribers, you need to add value to your visitor’s lives and trade them something useful in return for their equally valuable email address. We’ll walk through three non-technical pieces of a lead capture set-up that will help to increase the number of people that join your list and gives business owners the chance to further build trust with their visitors and develop those leads into customers.

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