April 7, 2019 — This workshop is an introduction to the basic principals of Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) and how to practically implement them on a WordPress website.

April 7, 2019 — Integrating Facebook adverts and WordPress/WooCommerce websites.
How to setup pixel on your website
How to use Facebook Ad-Manager to gain website traffic.
What type of adverts work the best.
Drive traffic to your website from Facebook
Checking the traffic on Facebook Ad Manager to your website.

April 7, 2019 — For New Beginners that know nothing. Do you want to know how to start and make an easy webpage in wordpress?
Start with buying a domain, the step by step on how to create a webpage and the important things to know to create your first website.

April 7, 2019 — Facebook advertising is hands down one of our biggest business opportunities. But the majority of us aren’t using them effectively (if at all!). Once you know how to make Facebook work for you – you can drive thousands of people to your content for very little spend.

In this session I’ll show you some of the best ways to make the most of Facebook ads.

April 7, 2019 — Topic description: Whether you’re nomadic and remote full time, working from home or occasionally from a coffee shop, I’ll show you 7 ways to hack your life to accomplish more. Bonus tips for staying productive on the road.

April 7, 2019 — A look at Progressive Enhancement and what it means, what it doesn’t mean, why it’s more important than ever, and how to get buy in from your clients, colleagues and team.

We’ll review how initial research and discovery can help you identify a site’s core content and functionality and how in turn you can then use progressive enhancement as a development approach.

We’ll look at the mistakes I’ve made and how you can avoid them, as well as how you can add value and improve your sites through peer review.

We’ll also discuss why one seemingly innocuous statement – ‘browser software may ignore this tag’ – was fundamental in making the web what it is today.

April 7, 2019 — This talk offers a perspective and an approach uniquely tailored to independent practitioners. It is based on lessons learned in the field over the past 3 years, and will focus on the soft-skills, strategies, and mind-set, which a new WordPress service provider might wish to adopt in order to ensure longevity, stability, and satisfaction in their role.

April 7, 2019 — In this talk I will be showing the various features of the Jetpack plugin, from its built in analytics, to form and portfolio building, and how you can use the Jetpack plugin to improve your site’s visibility. I will use real examples from my own site to show how much you can do with this one plugin.

April 7, 2019 — My talk / presentation will be a exploratory walkthrough of setting up a demo WordPress site and optimising the website’s speed.

Various optimisation techniques will be covered in the talk:
1) Image optimisation
2) Plugin(s) and code performance
3) Minification and combining scripts and styles
4) Caching – database and pages
5) Content Delivery Networks
6) CloudFlare – Minification, Polish, Mirage and Railgun
7) Google PageSpeed module for Apache

I will have set up a few different versions of the test website on a series of subdomains. Each version will contain the optimisations that I experiment. Each subdomain will be tested using Google PageSpeed and GTMetrix. Screen shots will be shown through slides. Test result links will be added to the slides.

April 7, 2019 — NO AUDIO FOR FIRST 22 SECONDS

Why do so many websites look the same? As our tools have improved and we’ve been able to do more with the web, there’s been a growing trend toward websites that look exactly alike. Join me on a magical ride through the history of web design (watch out for animated gifs and midi files!) in order to figure out how we got here—and where we can go next.