January 6, 2019 — In this session, we’ll be looking at bleeding edge CSS techniques and some of the cool properties that are available today or just around the corner.

Our Speaker, Keith is the co-founder of Highrise Digital – a specialist WordPress development team.

As a serial community starter, he is the founder of the WordPress London meetup group, co-founder of codeHarbour – a web meetup in Kent – and started Folkestone Cycling Club. Keith has been building WordPress sites for over eight years and has worked with agencies and clients of all size.

January 6, 2019 — WordPress draws a lot of its success from the fact that it jumps through hoops to maintain backward compatibility. Most WordPress sites can be smoothly updated to the latest version of WordPress Core with the click of a button. However, this compatibility comes at a steep price: through this absolute priority on backward compatibility, the project sets itself up to continuously accumulate technical debt in the process. The effects of this are an increasing effort to maintain the codebase and an increasing difficulty to add new features. Let’s examine how these two factors interrelate and what this means for WordPress’ current state and future evolution.

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January 6, 2019 — I will talk about a study we did comparing mouse tracking to eye tracking showing that mouse tracking is not the best way to go to base design decisions on. Furthermore, I’ll talk a bit about new online analytics approaches as eye tracking and emotion tracking as well as heart rate tracking and how they can be used to actually test UX and not just usability.

January 6, 2019 — In this talk, we’ll consider what makes WooCommerce a great platform for eCommerce sites of all kinds. We’ll compare it to other platforms and dig into why it is so flexible.

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January 6, 2019 — Whether you’re writing a client proposal or documenting the success criteria of your web presence, explicitly accounting for accessibility provides benchmarks to measure the success of your project against and establishes important expectations. This talk will discuss when, where, and why to account for accessibility in projects or an organization.

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January 5, 2019 — Understanding your users’ behavior will help you improve the user experience of your site or product as well as how you market to new users. In this talk, you will learn how to use different types of surveys to learn about your users. We will discuss:

Using surveys to segment your audience
Creating survey questions without question bias
User research surveys
Post-sale surveys
Experience surveys
When to survey your audience and users
and more…

When you walk away from this talk, you will have the tools and resources needed to begin understanding your users and using that data to improve your site or product.

January 5, 2019 — I will explain what GDPR is, how it will affect businesses and the steps to ensure evidence of compliance.

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January 5, 2019 — You’ve designed a beautiful website. Every detail is perfect; every angle considered. But does Google like it? If you can’t get the website to rank, your gorgeous design is never going to be seen or used. We’ll cover five of the most common design practices that could be tanking your SEO.

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January 5, 2019 — Ever catch yourself repeating the same task over and over again? If you can document the steps you can automate it! From high-level concepts like the development of systems and processes to detailed examples of how to harness the power of forms and Zapier to save hours of tedious work this talk will inspire you to look at every task in your business and ask … can this be automated?

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January 5, 2019 — Let’s take a tour of Gutenberg blocks from a developer’s viewport. We’ll walk through the underlining block architecture, settings and option controls, user-experience, how users can interface with your block and proper build execution. Let’s build beautiful blocks together!