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Andrew Forbes
Building Themes For Clients: What You Need To Know When Handing Over The Keys To End Users.
You’ve built a stunning WordPress powered theme and installed the site for a client. The code is top notch, the design is pixel perfect and you’re just about to hand it over to the client, but what now? How will the client use the site? Is your theme in a strong enough shape to allow clients to update the content on the fly? Do they know what to do? Learn from a panel of local Calgary Developers on the tips and tricks of handing over a web site to a client. Everything from how to create tutorials to what plug-ins to improve the end user experience will be answered in this panel.
Time: 3:00-4:00 | Location: Classroom
Panelists:
Moderated by Connor Turner
Dan Stephenson
Building Themes For Clients: What You Need To Know When Handing Over The Keys To End Users.
You’ve built a stunning WordPress powered theme and installed the site for a client. The code is top notch, the design is pixel perfect and you’re just about to hand it over to the client, but what now? How will the client use the site? Is your theme in a strong enough shape to allow clients to update the content on the fly? Do they know what to do? Learn from a panel of local Calgary Developers on the tips and tricks of handing over a web site to a client. Everything from how to create tutorials to what plug-ins to improve the end user experience will be answered in this panel.
Time: 3:00-4:00 | Location: Classroom
Panelists:
Moderated by Connor Turner
Irene Seto
Generating Success from your WordPress site, How To Get Exposure In a Crowded Online Market.
It can be difficult standing out within the crowded online world. How do you gain exposure and accomplish your online goals? What is the best way to attract attention and new viewers to your web site? Join a panel that covers a wide spectrum of different background to help provide ideas on how to attract the attention of media, the social media sphere, online readers and customers in discussing how to make your site standout.
Time: 3:00-4:00 | Location: Macdonald Hall
Panelists:
Moderated by Tony Grimes
Ernest Barbaric
Generating Success from your WordPress site, How To Get Exposure In a Crowded Online Market.
It can be difficult standing out within the crowded online world. How do you gain exposure and accomplish your online goals? What is the best way to attract attention and new viewers to your web site? Join a panel that covers a wide spectrum of different background to help provide ideas on how to attract the attention of media, the social media sphere, online readers and customers in discussing how to make your site standout.
Time: 3:00-4:00 | Location: Macdonald Hall
Panelists:
Moderated by Tony Grimes
Finding Your Voice – Learnings From 6 years of Failure
It took over 6 years of failure, and trying thousands of tips, tricks and best practices to build an audience and a blog presence. One morning, everything changed. The right words came out through the keyboard, they connected with the right people, traffic quadrupled almost instantly, Publications came knocking and business started coming in from across the globe.
The journey is long, and in this session, Ernest Barbaric shares the most important lessons learned along the way.
Time: 11:00-12:00 | Location: Macdonald Hall
Aleah Dunfield
Building Themes For Clients: What You Need To Know When Handing Over The Keys To End Users.
You’ve built a stunning WordPress powered theme and installed the site for a client. The code is top notch, the design is pixel perfect and you’re just about to hand it over to the client, but what now? How will the client use the site? Is your theme in a strong enough shape to allow clients to update the content on the fly? Do they know what to do? Learn from a panel of local Calgary Developers on the tips and tricks of handing over a web site to a client. Everything from how to create tutorials to what plug-ins to improve the end user experience will be answered in this panel.
Time: 3:00-4:00 | Location: Classroom
Panelists:
Moderated by Connor Turner
Tony Tighe
Generating Success from your WordPress site, How To Get Exposure In a Crowded Online Market.
It can be difficult standing out within the crowded online world. How do you gain exposure and accomplish your online goals? What is the best way to attract attention and new viewers to your web site? Join a panel that covers a wide spectrum of different background to help provide ideas on how to attract the attention of media, the social media sphere, online readers and customers in discussing how to make your site standout.
Time: 3:00-4:00 | Location: Macdonald Hall
Panelists:
Moderated by Tony Grimes
Jeff Archibald
Inside the Black Box of Web Design Pricing
Web design costs come in a huge range of shapes & sizes. Thanks to that range, clients can struggle with understanding why websites cost what they do, and freelancers/shops can struggle with how to price their services. That’s what we’re going to uncover: the thought processes, variables, logic, and math that goes into pricing custom web design & development from the perspective of someone who’s grown from a two-person home-based business to a 6-person shop.
Time: 2:00-3:00 | Location: Macdonald Hall
Nicolas Beique
Kurt Archer
WordPress 3.9.1 Walkthrough
Front-end Developer Kurt Archer will walk users through all the new features and shortcuts of WordPress 3.9.1. (commonly referred to as Smith). By the end of this session, you’ll have some more tricks in your web design and content creation arsenal.
Time: 4:00-4:30 | Location: Classroom
Mike Tighe
Designing Your Site With Intent
Do you have goals for your website?
What about a plan for how different pages on your site help accomplish those goals?
Do your plans and design considerations change on different devices?
Join Mike Tighe for an exploration and discussion of how smart design, planning, and consideration for user experience can make a huge difference in your (hopefully Responsive) WordPress site.
Some of the topics he’ll cover:
Time: 12:00-1:00 | Location: Macdonald Hall
Michael C. Breuer
Advanced Theming with HTML5
David and Michael will delve into some advance concepts surrounding WordPress theming and development. Showing attendees how to craft custom WordPress Child Themes and even walk you through how to add HTML Video elements straight into a custom comments section.
Time: 11:00-12:00 | Location: Classroom
Pro Level Workflow
Michael and David will show you some of their tips, tricks and best practices for developing custom themes for WordPress. Learn how to set-up a workflow that transitions a freelance methodology right to the collaborative environment of an Agency. They’ll touch on how to use Git, local environments and how to master your own development workflow to run with the pros.
Time: 11:00-12:00 | Location: Classroom
Sean Goresht
Reclaiming the Editor
A deeper look into customizing the WordPress content editor (TinyMCE), and extending or even replacing the editor to match the needs of modern content editors. We will start by looking at what makes modern content “stand out”, then look at the default ways to customize TinyMCE within WordPress, then look at some commercial plugins to customize WordPress (and how to customize those tools). Finally, we will explore some techniques for working with word processing programs like Microsoft Word, and dealing with tabular (nested) data along with free tools available online to assist us in the content editing process.
Time: 2:00-3:00 | Location: Classroom
David Luecke
Advanced Theming with HTML5
David and Michael will delve into some advance concepts surrounding WordPress theming and development. Showing attendees how to craft custom WordPress Child Themes and even walk you through how to add HTML Video elements straight into a custom comments section.
Time: 11:00-12:00 | Location: Classroom
Pro Level Workflow
Michael and David will show you some of their tips, tricks and best practices for developing custom themes for WordPress. Learn how to set-up a workflow that transitions a freelance methodology right to the collaborative environment of an Agency. They’ll touch on how to use Git, local environments and how to master your own development workflow to run with the pros.
Time: 11:00-12:00 | Location: Classroom
Erin Rosar
Generating Success from your WordPress site, How To Get Exposure In a Crowded Online Market.
It can be difficult standing out within the crowded online world. How do you gain exposure and accomplish your online goals? What is the best way to attract attention and new viewers to your web site? Join a panel that covers a wide spectrum of different background to help provide ideas on how to attract the attention of media, the social media sphere, online readers and customers in discussing how to make your site standout.
Time: 3:00-4:00 | Location: Macdonald Hall
Panelists:
Moderated by Tony Grimes
These are the people that make this event happen. They work tirelessly for weeks and months to plan, coordinate, and execute the best event possible. If you get a chance to thank them, please do!
Mike Tighe (+ add me)
Doug McLean (+ add me)
Tony Grimes (+ add me)
Connor Turner (+ add me)
Details TBD.
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