September 30, 2011 — Working as a freelance web designer and at several small studios, I’ve gained some experience in designing and marketing websites to small businesses. Since I started using WordPress for most of my websites, I’ve found that the value that independent designers are able to offer their clients increases exponentially.

Pairing WordPress on-site SEO advances with an intelligent and realistic internet marketing campaign will generate new focused leads with minimal upkeep. If you can design beautiful and eye-catching websites and gear them for better search engine visibility, then you’re in business.

September 29, 2011 — The goal of this session is achieve successful design principles overall for websites and how WordPress can help achieve this! We’ll be covering how to identify a bad design, how to plan for an efficient design, and cover best practices for user experience in regards to websites and suggest strong strategies.

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July 17, 2010 — Are you interested in WordPress template design? Find out how to create your own unique, flexible design to set your site apart from the crowd! This is an introduction to theme file structure and logic, followed by a look at a theme frameworks and how to modify them. It includes a heavy focus on child theming and framework design.

July 10, 2010 — Josh Byers, Kevin Conboy, and Kevin Menzie discuss the challenges and peculiarities of designing specifically for WordPress, including thoughts on full-stack development, methods and techniques for getting started and staying on-target, and how to design for clients’ needs.

Video provided by Blaze Streaming Media.

May 1, 2010 — Jane Wells uses real examples to demonstrate how to best design your WordPress user experiences to mesh with those of the core software and fulfill the expectations of your users.

Video provided by Blaze Streaming Media.