October 15, 2013 — This presentation covers the important aspects of developing a Theme with Child Theme-friendliness in mind, including proper referencing of bundled Theme resources, incorporating template action hooks, making Theme functions pluggable and filterable, and making Theme options extensible.

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October 15, 2013 — Designers and Developers get together to discuss workflow, frustrations, best practices, and things they wish the other side knew about what it is they do!

October 14, 2013

October 14, 2013 — In this talk learn to write your CSS faster and more efficiently. CSS pre-processors like SASS and LESS let you write DRY CSS that can be modularly used to create themes and sites quite a bit faster.

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October 13, 2013 — This talk delves into CSS3. What can and should be used progressively, how to use these techniques, and what we can expect in the future from this technology.

October 13, 2013 — This talk is about attention to detail in your code and design work. Before you lay down one single pixel, or one single line of code, you need to make sure that everyone (you, your client, your clients client, etc) are on the same page and make sure you are managing expectations on what the desired project outcome is.

October 12, 2013 — This talk is about the challenge of selling code in today’s marketplace, especially product niche markets.

October 12, 2013 — This talk takes you through the process of sizing images and graphics correctly in Photoshop and Google +.

October 11, 2013 — A panel of WordPress developers and website owners answer and discuss questions from the audience about planning, functionality/plugins, design/theme, content, SEO, social engagement and measuring success.

October 10, 2013 — This talk is about how to view your own web content by seeing it through the eyes of the user. It discusses methods of improving UX by employing simple and effective psychology alongside common-sense SEO and how methods of effective in-person conversation can be applied to web content strategy.

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