February 5, 2014 — Joe goes over some of the core content from his book, Responsive Design with WordPress, which teaches you how to leverage WordPress to get the most out of responsive design, implement best practices, automate important processes and make your life easier overall.

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February 5, 2014 — Discover the art of digital storytelling through the use of user interfaces, user experience design, and the implementation of content strategy. Learn to better understand the detail oriented processes of wireframing, creating information architecture, and interface design.

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February 4, 2014 — We all know that WordPress is an amazing tool, but producing an amazing website is never a given. A little planning goes a long way, so take a little time to get organized before you place the first pixel or spend hours searching through themes.

This session walks through the needs analysis and planning phases for a typical small business or personal brand website. Covering: Audience profiles, Project goals, Content requirements & strategy, Wireframes, Rapid Prototype and Style Board

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February 3, 2014 — So you’ve built a website now what? Learn how to attract and engage your visitors and keep them on your website. Turn those visitors into loyal followers, clients, or buyers.

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February 3, 2014 — Content Rules! WordPress lets you easily update your web site even if you are not technical. This presentation goes over how to add pages and blog posts step by step, including text, images and other media. Learn the difference between pages and posts, when to use each, and understand WordPress terminology.

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February 2, 2014 — This presentation talks about the most popular attacks going on right now that are taking out WordPress sites, security best practices for building plugins and themes, and it covers workflow best practices (are you the reason your client’s site got hacked? Maybe!)

Then the other side of the coin — once your site has been hacked, what do you do next? How to get things cleaned up and make sure that they stay that way

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February 1, 2014 — This session is for beginners that are new to WordPress and would like to learn the essentials of how to setup a website utilizing WordPress’ awesome built-in features such as the blog, themes, widgets, and plugins. I will also cover the basics of what you need to do to maintain and manage your site, as well as resources for where to get help in the community and online.

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February 1, 2014 — This presentation covers what WordPress is, the history and community behind it. Then moves into installation – the difference .org vs. .com, selecting hosting, registering domains, and installing.

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