January 18, 2016 — What to do when things get funky? During my talk about the tools and approaches to debugging within WordPress, I’ll review my own experiences in confronting various bugs and issues that everyone encounters from time to time.

January 18, 2016 — During their career, every freelancer develops their own strategies for pricing their services most often charging by the hour or per project. In this talk, Tomaz is going to highlight some of the mistakes we all do, that hurt is as individuals and as the industry as a whole.

January 18, 2016 — Advanced Custom Fields is the best plugin to happen to WordPress – allowing you to create rich custom fields with maps, images, galleries, repeaters and more. It helps designers and developers alike and even allows us to rapidly prototype backend functionality. It facilitates communication with clients and your team and its code is so simple, anyone can use it. In this talk I’ll show you some of the techniques I use every day, some use cases and how you can start using ACF to your advantage right now.

January 18, 2016 — Formjack is a brand new open source PHP library meant for easy form creation, implementation and validation. In this short presentation we will take a look on how this minimalistic library helps us to quickly implement a custom form into our WordPress site and how can we use the internal validator to do a fairly complex data validation with just “few lines of code”.

January 17, 2016 — You’re getting ready to build your website. Or maybe you’re thinking of a complete redesign. There are plenty of options out there in the world of WordPress, and building a custom design or purchasing a premium theme are crucial decisions you need to make and live with. Each have great benefits and equal pitfalls, but key knowledge on them will help you succeed.

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January 17, 2016 — Learn about amazing tools to help you improve your blogging. We will go over a variety of tools including tools for idea generation, planning, creating, editing, and marketing. Take your blog to the next level by learning about these tools today!

January 17, 2016 — A complementary look at my WordCamp Tampa 2015 “Mobile-First Development: Why and How” talk, we’ll look at the design aspects of what mobile-first is and what it entails. We’ll look at examples of great designs and some pitfalls to avoid, as well as my pet peeves as a mobile consumer of content.

How many of us use services like Pocket to get a nice view of the content because the site owner didn’t account for mobile or did a poor job of it? I Pocket over 1.5 million words last year avoiding poorly-designed mobile sites.

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January 17, 2016 — Amit Bajracharya, currently working in Project Management department at Leapfrog Technologies and founder of thebootstrapthemes.com. He talked about Website conversion, the most important factor to the success of the online marketing strategy and goals.

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January 17, 2016 — So many devices, so little time! Learn how to efficiently and effectively design your website so it will look amazing… from mobile to big screen (and everything in-between)! A combination of strategy, design and code tips for designing for all devices. A little something for everyone (and most technical levels).

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January 17, 2016 — In the field of Information Architecture (IA) and User Experience Design (UX), there is a practice known as Usage Modeling, which maps user scenarios and stories to business priorities. This technique has been traditionally employed in software development to help define the Minimum Viable Product (MVP) for first candidate release.

In this session, you will learn how the Usage Modeling process can be applied to your or your clients’ website and mobile projects to:

– put the end-user first
– prioritize features
– scope out functionality you thought was important (but isn’t)
– determine an appropriate budget for the project

The format of this session is unique: part lecture, part hands-on simulation of an actual Usage Modeling Workshop in the boardroom so you can experience the methodology first-hand with a seasoned facilitator.

If you are considering a large web project for yourself or your organisation, or if you often quote on web work for clients, then this session is not to be missed!