Author Archive
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Miljenko Rebernišak: Scaling WordPress with Amazon Cloud
WordCamp Norrköping 2015Speaker: Miljenko RebernišakOctober 9, 2015 — What will happen to your website when it gets hit by a huge traffic spike? It will almost certainly go down if you are not prepared. Discover how to set up WordPress on Amazon cloud, covering vertical and horizontal scaling. Amazon offers many different components, but testing them can be time consuming and exhausting. Learn how to choose the right instances’ types and sizes, how to separate web server and database tier, and how to make them highly available with auto-scaling.
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Niklas Högefjord and Peter Elmered: The Woo Whisperer – Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless E-Commerce Store
WordCamp Norrköping 2015Speakers: Niklas Högefjord, Peter ElmeredOctober 9, 2015 — WooCommerce is a popular and powerful e-commerce platform, but it adds an advanced layer to your WordPress-powered website. Keeping the installation up to date requires more of you as the administrator than a blog or a basic website does. In this presentation, we give you practical tips and advice on how to build an online store that works well and will function over time.
The presentation is intended for those who have basic knowledge of WooCommerce and want to learn more about how to build an online store according to current recommendations. You don’t need to be an advanced developer to keep up with the examples we will go through.
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Erik Bernskiöld: High Converting Websites and Pages—What Do They Have In Common?
WordCamp Norrköping 2015Speaker: Erik BernskioldOctober 9, 2015 — All websites we build have a goal, usually to convince a visitor to do something we want in one way or another. Optimizing websites for conversion requires knowledge about how we humans work, how we make decisions and how we can predict our irrational behavior and use it for good. In this session, we’ll explore working techniques and methods of high converting websites and landing pages, building ourselves a tried-and-tested toolset to make our website achieve business success.
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Franz Vitulli: Table Tennis and Meeting Rooms – How to Get Things Done in a Co-working Space
WordCamp Norrköping 2015Speaker: Franz VitulliOctober 9, 2015 — As working remotely is getting more and more popular in the WordPress industry, many of us are choosing to work from co-working spaces. But is everyone familiar with co-working etiquette?
In this talk, Franz will present some insights on how to be a good co-worker, boost your productivity in a co-working environment and nurture the co-working culture. He will share the most common challenges he has encountered whilst working from a co-working space and how he overcame them.
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Steve Zehngut: Survival Skills – 20 Years in Tech
WordCamp Los Angeles 2015Speaker: Steve ZehngutOctober 9, 2015 — Maintaining any business for 20 years is difficult. But keeping a tech business running strong for 20 years is a big challenge. Zeek Interactive just turned 20 and Steve will discuss how to stay ahead of the game in an ever-changing tech environment.
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Milan Ivanović: Using Sage WordPress Starter Theme
WordCamp Norrköping 2015Speaker: Milan IvanovićOctober 8, 2015 — My talk will be on developing WordPress themes using Sage WordPress starter theme based on HTML5 Boilerplate, gulp, Bower, and Bootstrap. I will go through the theme development process, then I will be guiding the audience through starter themes and reach Roots Sage project and present how to develop / test / finish theme development process.
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Chris Do: Your Client Is Not Your Enemy
WordCamp Los Angeles 2015Speaker: Chris DoOctober 8, 2015 — Learn to embrace the client dynamic and avoid one of the most common mistakes in running a creative business. Treat your client as an adversary and you will foster a short term relationship that is contentious and unfruitful.
As design professionals, we need to let go of the “artist” persona and embrace the creative entrepreneur as one who solves not just design problems but business problems.
Learn how to:
Pivot when you are getting negative feedback
Define objective goals to reduce frustration and endless revision cycles
Talk about money
Charge for value versus time -
Dallin Harris: Hit The Target – Client Satisfaction and Profitable Projects in One Easy Step
WordCamp Los Angeles 2015Speaker: Dallin HarrisOctober 8, 2015 — In this session, we dig into what it means to really satisfy a client (with a fun dip into some cognitive psychology), develop a process to find out what the Target is so you can hit it every time, and discuss why it’s easier, more profitable, and more effective than trying to “Wow” everyone you work with.
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Jasmine Powers: Using WordPress as a Learning Management System to Make Income
WordCamp Los Angeles 2015Speaker: Jasmine PowersOctober 8, 2015 — This talk covers the use of premium content development and services like Rainmaker Pro, ZippyCourses, Optimize Press and Premise to set up automated and password protected content and marketing systems to sell information to users. Heavy emphasis of the class will be on content development and delivery, which ultimately is why WordPress is the best tool for self-hosted e-learning platforms.
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Jerrett Farmer: WordPress For Lazy People
WordCamp Los Angeles 2015Speaker: Jerrett FarmerOctober 8, 2015 — What are some of the ways to quickly get a WordPress site up and running with the minimal amount of effort?
Templates, page builders, and emerging technologies will be covered. Many tips and tricks will be reviewed helping those who suffer from the lazy find a way to become part of the WordPress community.
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