January 7, 2017 — This presentation will focus on businesses and individuals using WordPress to deliver their message and grow.
– Determining your web strategy
– Why WordPress is a good fit
– Effective planning and implementation
– Turning visitors in customer
– Managing maintenance and enhancements

January 7, 2017 — WordPress 101 is a full-day workshop designed for those who are just getting started with WordPress, or who may not even have a WordPress website yet.

Below is a brief outline of the topics covered.

What IS WordPress Anyway? On overview of the software.

WordPress.com vs Self-Hosted WordPress
Installing WordPress
Adjusting The General Settings

Review the General Settings
Review Your Writing Settings
Review Your Reading Settings
Review Your Discussion Settings
Review Your Media Settings
Getting to Know Your Dashboard

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January 7, 2017 — Who needs designers anymore… right? Well, everyone, actually.

Designing for interactive media is much more than pushing pixels into place. There’s so many more dimensions to good design, and some amazing tools to help us successfully solve these greater problem solving challenges. Designers, developers, project managers and even content creators all play a role in this process, so lets look at how design has “grown up” and become so beautifully complex, yet exponentially more exciting than it ever has before.

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January 6, 2017 — Justin reveals the fool-proof way to get your premium theme & plugin issues resolved in a timely manner. Cut your resolution time in half with these simple steps!

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January 6, 2017 — Google is pushing Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) in a big way. AMP pages restrict what you can do all for the sake of performance on mobile devices. In this talk we’ll cover the basics of AMP, how it’s different than mobile-ready and responsive design, and the plugins you’ll need to take advantage of AMP on your WordPress site.

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January 6, 2017 — In this session Adam will detail how he discovered WordPress and the open source community, the many businesses that he’s started and failed at, and how he’s utilized these experiences to continually fuel his entrepreneurial spirit and create his own path to a work/life balance and how you can too.

No matter what your passion, WordPress can be an integral tool to helping you achieve your dreams and success in your own business.

“It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.”
― Babe Ruth

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January 6, 2017 — The internet is an amazing tool for sharing information with users all over the world, but what happens when “online” isn’t a guarantee? This was the question posed after 10up built an web-based product catalog for one of the world’s leading water technology providers. With a sales team of hundreds, how could we be sure that the sales materials were always available to the sales team, regardless of internet connectivity?

This session is a case-study on taking a web application offline, synchronizing JSON data and assets while maintaining a consistent user experience. Attendees will gain insight on the unique challenges of taking an app offline, as well as the technologies available and strategies for keeping data intact and the user experience seamless.

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January 6, 2017 — In this session you will learn the ins and outs of giving the best support possible for your clients and customers, for both free & paid products or services. Learn from my mistakes, find out the tools I use and see how I stay sane through it all.

January 6, 2017 — As more developers move their environments to virtual machines, the need for a good debugging system grows. Amongst the myriad of options we are given, some exceed expectations and make this process as needed as it is easy to put in place.

In this session, I will debug a complete WordPress installation on a Vagrant machine with PhpStorm, Google Chrome and Xdebug, step by step with real project examples so the audience can easily follow along throughout the session.

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January 6, 2017 — Teaching through Online Courses & eLearning is booming and WordPress along with some cool plugins are making it easier than ever. In this session, I will share why you should consider creating online courses and how to do it.

We will discuss which tools, plugins, and resources to use to create, host and sell your online courses (starting with WordPress, of course!). I’ll talk about how you can package your intellectual property and make online courses to sell. We will then give case studies of successful online courses and how they were able to leverage the power of online courses to teach more effectively and grow their audience.

(I believe that learning how to properly teach online and package it together using WordPress based tools is a very popular topic and something that many will want to learn about in my session.)