June 24, 2014 — When building a project or platform it’s important to consider how your users will use the product or service. This presentation dives into a project example to understand how to effectively execute User Experience for platforms.

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June 23, 2014 — As an agency that builds and maintains large numbers of WordPress-based customer solutions, we have been searching for more efficient ways of developing themes. What we want (need!) is reusability, standards, clean object oriented code, a meaningful file structure.

This talk shares our best practices: Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) applied to WordPress theme development!

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June 23, 2014 — If you are not yet using a CSS preprocessor, now is the time to dive in. In this talk you will learn how to start using SASS (Syntactically Awesome StyleSheets) in your WordPress themes and streamline your CSS workflow. We’ll talk about variables and mixins, how to extend styles you’ve already written, and wrangle in those large hard to maintain CSS files.

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June 22, 2014 — WordPress への貢献（Contributing to WordPress）

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WordPress オープンソースプロジェクトには開発者・デザイナー、そして問題解決が得意な人にとって参加の機会がたくさんあります。このセッションでは WordPress のエコシステム、そして WordPress コアプロジェクトに関わる興味深いグループの数々、それらに参加するためのリファレンスをご紹介します。また、「WordPress に貢献することで日々の業務にどういった好影響があるのか？」という疑問にもお答えします。開発サイクル、コア機能開発の新アプローチ、プラグイン開発ベストプラクティス、Twenty Fourteen 次期デフォルトテーマなどについても触れています。

スピーカー: コンスタンティン・オーベンランド
通訳: 高野直子

June 21, 2014 — WordPress is for more than just blogging. Create and manage more types of content, like a portfolio, events, testimonials, images, people, cats anything you can think of you’d like to have a website about. Learn how to add content types like they were built in.

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June 21, 2014 — Learn about the collaborative process that was used to create a new website for the Harrington School of Communication and Media, including site navigation, design, work with web developers, university administrators and IT professionals, and members of the faculty.

June 20, 2014 — So how do we keep responsive WP sites from looking like each other? And where does mobile-first fit into all of this? What are the obstacles? The obvious approaches? This presentation looks at the ideal case, the bare-bones case and a middle ground – and some tools we can use to get started.

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June 20, 2014 — Jesse Friedman takes a look at some ways you can build a dynamic web environment”, that adapts to users needs. With a good developer, some great data and a little imagination you can start delivering impactful, intuitive, personalized websites. Websites, that bring content to users rather than making them hunt and peck for it.

June 20, 2014 — Uli Gencarelle gives insight into best design choices when building a site.

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June 19, 2014 — If you are tasked with putting together a WordPress theme for a client organization or business the theme you select is very important. Perhaps your first inclination is to choose a theme that looks great or let your client choose a theme that they are happy with. This practice however can have negative repercussions for your client. This talk discusses how to appropriately choose a theme or build a theme that supports your clients goals. Using information architecture we can better select themes or build new ones.

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