July 30, 2014 — A great website is the foundation of a successful marketing strategy, but it takes a lot more than just a website to bring in leads and convert them to sales; It’s important to support your site with a strategic and integrated marketing plan. This session goes over how to start developing a strategy to optimize your website using traditional and digital marketing, including SEO, social media, email, content marketing, and more.

July 30, 2014 — WCAG Guidelines and simple changes every user and developer can implement to make their website accessible to those with disabilities.

July 30, 2014 — Website security is important to everyone who has a website, as well as everyone who uses a website. Whether it gets five visitors a day or five-thousand, hackers are looking to compromise, break, infect and virtually own every website that they can for monetary and social purposes.

July 27, 2014 — Whether your site is five pages or 500, it needs a strong foundation that plans for growth.

We’ll cover site maps, content strategy, user interaction and experience so you have a plan for your site now, and down the road. We’ll also touch on best practices for doing it all over again for mobile [hint: it’s not just shrinking everything down!].

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July 26, 2014 — In my agency, we handle a couple of 1,000+ site multisite networks for the mortgage industry. This talk goes over the challenges we’ve faced, both technical and business.

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July 26, 2014 — WordPress Multisite is great, but what most people actually want is multiple networks. In this talk (good for all experience levels), I’ll explain what networks are, why you’d use them, and how to unlock this powerful and hidden WordPress core feature.

July 25, 2014 — This presentation will change how you interact with your clients, colleagues and future employers. For designers and coders who want to see more of their work materialize, you’ll walk away with techniques you can start using immediately.

From this presentation viewers will:
1) learn how to sell your web designs,
2) understand how to better communicate with clients/bosses, and
3) build web designs without regret.

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July 24, 2014 — As developers, one of the first things we do when starting a new project is enqueue jQuery and start writing code. That’s the way it’s always been, and works for you. But as devices get smaller, processors get slower, and web apps get more complicated, jQuery can cause some fairly serious performance issues. So let’s take a step back from jQuery and talk about ways VanillaJS is faster and simpler. It’s time to stop writing jQuery, and start writing JavaScript.

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July 23, 2014 — Wireframing is a tool designers and developers use to solidify content placement and layout on a page before visual design is applied. This presentation covers the ins and outs of wireframe development, when to present (and in some cases when not) to the client, and popular tools an apps used to develop informative and well designed wireframes.

In addition to examples of both low fidelity and high fidelity wireframes, annotation and presentation of the deliverable with also be covered.

July 23, 2014 — Understanding why your page is rendering slowly is the first step to improving your page load speed. The faster your pages load, the better the site will convert and the happier your clients will be!

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