May 12, 2014 — Beautiful websites are great but if you’re in business, there are essential components your website must have to ensure success in business. Does your website have what it takes to grow your business?
May 11, 2014 — Creating video is just the beginning. Now you need to drive views and make sure the search engines know where the videos are. 85% of the videos on web pages are not found by search engines. Embedding videos from YouTube does not mean Google sees the video on your web page. This talk covers the best practices with examples and case studies of successful Video SEO campaigns.
May 11, 2014 — This presentation walks through a few of the biggest WordPress tips, features, and tricks we wish we’d known more about when starting developing on the platform. Topics covered are custom post types, user logins, WordPress multisite, WordPress as a CMS, and eCommerce.
May 11, 2014 — Join Konstantin Obenland and Michael Cain for a whimsical trip down Advanced Theming Lane, where they’ll shed light on some of the dastardly mishaps in Themeland and how they fight them with their Swords of Best Practices. Structured like a TV morning show!
May 10, 2014 — Being a WordPress developer is about a lot more than just making a ‘functional site.’ This talk examines what ‘client-first development’ means, looking at the role of Theme Options, the appropriate use of Custom Post Types and Custom Meta Boxes (including meta box descriptions).
May 10, 2014 — This presentation goes over the process to create color palette options within a theme’s customizer using a combination of Sass lists, Sass’ @each loop, a custom Control class and a filter hook.
May 10, 2014 — WordCamp Atlanta 2014 Keynote Address
May 9, 2014 — Today’s designers and developers must format and code images so that they look great across a multitude of screen sizes and resolutions. This presentation focuses on how to ensure your next WordPress project has razor-sharp, responsive, imagery.
Topics will include: How images are handled on high-density / Retina displays, Which image formats to use, and when (jpg, gif, png, svg), Working with vector (svg) graphics in Photoshop / Illustrator and in the browser (XML/CSS), How to enable / work with SVG images in WordPress
May 9, 2014 — If you are a theme developer, using Sass or Syntactically Awesome Stylesheets is a time saving way to write your code and it is easy to learn once you are familiar with CSS. In this session, learn how to harness the power of variables, nesting, and mixins and take advantage of everything that Sass has to offer to write awesome code. In order to get the most from this session, you must have a good understanding of HTML and CSS.
May 9, 2014 — The lifeblood of any website is its content. This presentation covers how to take new and existing projects, identify what content is the most important, then design and present that information so your client’s site guides visitors in a clean and predetermined path.