June 21, 2019 — Making your clients happy, and keeping them that way, is the key to growing your business.

Happy clients will want to work with you again and again and they’ll recommend you to all their friends. But that doesn’t have to mean working yourself into the ground or being available 24/7.

These 5 golden rules will ensure great client service… without you losing your mind.

June 21, 2019 — This topic intends to inspire novices embrace WordPress as a way of sharing their experiences in the fields they love most and how their passion can be used to bring in an extra dime alongside their jobs.

June 20, 2019 — Are you ever frustrated because you just can’t seem to get a page ranked in Google? Or because you’re ranking for a search phrase without getting any meaningful traffic?

Keyword research is the first step to a good SEO strategy. But it’s not easy: to rank, you need to know what words people type in to find you. Come up with keywords you can rank for. Take your competition into account. But how? Unfortunately, no tool can do it for you. You need to do research yourself. In this talk, I’ll guide you through the essential steps of keyword research, so you can get your most important pages ranked.

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June 20, 2019 — Ten years ago the HTML5 proposition saw the light for the first time. HTML5 introduced new and extended APIs to support more interactive pages, and a whole stack of new semantic elements to delight us.

So after a lifetime (in web terms), how extensively are these elements being supported by browsers, used by developers, and how have they impacted upon the accessibility of websites that use them?

We’ll look at some successes, some elements where more browser or assistive technology finesse is required, and a frustrating selection where we are still a long way from being ‘match ready’.

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June 20, 2019 — Everything has a pattern underneath. Designs can be broken down, distilled into patterns. When you think in patterns the process can be faster, easier. I’ll show you in this talk, that whatever you label it, the concept is powerful, natural. A fragmented approach to design goes perfectly with modern development and gives you a robust workflow for the future.

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June 20, 2019 — Web Accessibility gives your clients and their clients full and equal enjoyment of their website for gaining information and purchasing products and services.

With the increased media attention on websites that are not compliant with Web Accessibility, and the opportunistic trolls that target small business, it is important for Web designers and developers to understand the WHO should comply, WHAT is and WHY of Web Accessibility, WHEN should you start with Accessibility plus HOW to talk to your clients about Accessibility and the VALUE it adds to your services and reputation.

In this presentation, Sumner M Davenport will cover:

– What difference does it make to be/not be Accessible;
– Recent cases in the news;
– Troll activity against small businesses and how to protect yourself from being a target;
– Ease of adding code, and/or use of Plugins;
– Testing tools; and
– Value added to your Web Design business

June 20, 2019

June 20, 2019 — Unsurprisingly, last December’s release of WordPress 5.0 made us nervous. Today, some of our themes are in need of extensive upgrades.

While reviewing the oldest of such designs, 2005’s classic default theme Kubrick. We’ll rediscover why it is important to WordPress’ past and discuss new opportunities. In this session, Kubrick’s design will be applied to blocks allowing users to anticipate exactly what to expect before they hit publish.

If we can modernize Kubrick for Gutenberg in 2019, we can do anything.

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June 20, 2019 — Jon is a payments expert and has spent the last ten years helping web hosts, software companies and developers earn recurring revenue by bundling payment processing with their core product offering as a value-added-service.

Jon attended 11 WordCamps last year and is passionate about empowering the community by educating store owners and store builders on how to lower costs through interchange optimization and increase security through best practices.

When he is not snuggling with his cats and cooking with his wife he loves to travel and enjoys seeking adventure in the places he visits through watching live music, rock climbing, trail running, hiking and surfing.

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June 20, 2019 — April 5, 2019, 2:30 pm WordCamp Santa Clarita 2019, Vasquez Rocks Room, University Center, College of the Canyons — Speed matters. People are impatient. If your website or a client’s website doesn’t load quickly – within a just a couple of seconds – many visitors will abandon it completely. A slow site means lost time & revenue. But figuring out how to speed up a slow site can be HARD. Everyone’s got a suggestion and an idea for how to fix your performance issues, but most are just guesses, and not based on real data. STOP GUESSING. If you have a performance issue, or just want a faster site, you need to KNOW exactly what is slowing things down, and how to fix it. Matt Kopala’s talk will show you how.

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