T-Rave
Evolving Your Content
Join T-Rave for a look at online media and how you can improve your personal or business content through the use of multimedia and telling your brand’s story.
Jason Woolliscroft
How to: Find, Hire, and Manage Designers and Developers
So you have an entrepreneurial idea. Maybe it’s in production but needs improvement or perhaps it’s not yet ready for launch… The fact is your idea matters and it needs to be built. You could hire an agency, but that’s expensive – you could find a freelancer, but which option is best? Where do you find qualified leads? How do you approach your prospects? Make the hire? Manage & <hopefully not> fire?
I will be talking about the best ways to find, hire, manage and even fire designers and developers in the wild-wild-west of the webernets. I will be speaking from both sides of the aisle as I am a designer/developer that has been hired to work on various projects, and I’ve managed projects driven by agencies and freelancers alike. It truly is the wild-wild-west, so let’s go gold diggin’ together.
Jason is the Sr. UI/UX Designer at Freightview, an app incubated from within Freightquote. Prior to working at Freightview, Jason was a consultant who had the opportunity to work with clients like The Kauffman Foundation, Space Center Houston, TD Bank, and Aviation Schools Online.
TL;DR
Freightquote is the largest online U.S. freight shipping provider delivering solutions that enable customers to instantly quote and compare freight rates for hundreds of U.S. carriers. With more than 1,400 employees nationwide and annualized revenues exceeding $900 million, they move more than one million shipments across North America per year.
Freightview is a new idea that launched April 21, 2014. It is a web app that connects to your carriers and brokers to retrieve your rates so you don’t have to run quotes on multiple websites (the “kayak.com” of the freight industry). It also has a full suite of features including: compare your rates, schedule pickups, print bills of lading, print shipping labels, track your shipments, unified address book, multiple users and shipment history (among many others).
How to: Find, Hire & Manage Designers & Developers
From: Leawood, KS | dislocated from the west coast
Twitter Bio: Sr. UI UX designer & developer at freightView.com
Links: jasonw.me | @jasonw_me | freightview.com
Brianna Privett
Customizing the WordPress Dashboard for Better Workflow
Jim Grant
Unboxing WordPress
Join Jim Grant as he teaches the basics of installing your first WordPress instance.
Setting Up WP for the First Time
**THIS SESSION WILL BE IN THE MEETUP SPACE AT KCPT**
And here’s where you get directions!
There are a lot of questions when you first dive in to WordPress. Join me as I walk you through the unboxing of a WP site. He’ll talk about the beginning technical decisions and maneuvers you’ll need to get from “I think I’ll use WordPress” to publishing your first content. Bring your notebooks, laptops, and questions and learn about hosting decisions, migrating existing data, and The Five Minute Setup Myth.
Slide: http://www.slideshare.net/jimgrant2/word-press-basics-for-meetup
Brent Schultz
Better Theme Organization
The functions.php file is the heart of your theme yet it’s almost always the longest and most unorganized file in most themes. This talk will cover the reasons to keep it clean and organized such as extensibility, open sourcing, code reuse and bug fixes. Treat your theme with care and make it easy to share with a few simple strategies. Freelancers and professionals alike can benefit from this session on “heart healthy” theme development.
Slide: http://prezi.com/yl4x6et37erm/better-theme-organization-brent-schultz-at-2014-kc-wordcamp
Basic Plugin Recommendations To Get Your WordPress Website Started
So you started a WordPress powered website, or you’re contemplating it, or you already have and not sure what to do next. Out of the box WordPress can do a lot, but there are some functionalities you might want it to do, like:
– Allow people to contact you
– Allow people to share your articles over social network sites
– Some plugins for search engine optimization
– Plugin suggestions for security
… and a few other fun plugins in case you need them
This session is to help you get your best foot forward with a basic list of plugins to get your site rolling right away, even today!!!
Making Money with WordPress
Can you make money with WordPress? Yes, you can. With thousands of sites starting up each day, it’s probably a daunting thought on how you can get a piece of the pie. Being a small business owner is tough, so how can you keep afloat and leverage WordPress?
WordPress is a content management system. What you do with it is your decision. In this presentation, I’ll go over some general ways that any niche can leverage their business using WordPress. Some points that will be covered are:
This presentation is for both the newbie business owner, and the ones struggling to find their way. Oh, and for those who are making it already, I also encourage you to come and share your own inspirational advice. Come with an open mind and questions. Let’s walk away fired up and ready to grow as business owners that proudly use WordPress.
Slide: http://www.slideshare.net/blondishnet/making-money-with-word-press
Jeremy Fuksa
Best Practices for the Post-Photoshop World
As responsive design and progressive enhancement become mainstream design practices, the decades old approach of using Adobe Photoshop to comp up page designs for clients is becoming increasingly irrelevant. A quick search online shows designers quickly clamoring for a better way to do their work.
Along with new tools to learn, there’s also the challenge of acclimating a client base that has been used to seeing fully-rendered Photoshop designs for decades. How do these new practices benefit them?
This presentation looks at some “post-Photoshop” design practices and how they might fit into a designer’s workflow. Additionally, Jeremy will share how a new design workflow has worked for his team at Clickfarm and how clients have received this new way of looking at their projects.
Slide: http://www.slideshare.net/3rdmartini/alternative-design-workflows-in-a-postpsd-era-37139781
Rick Knudtson
Designing Applications on WordPress
I will be talking about practical examples of using WordPress for more than just brochure sites or classic CMS. Some of my talk will walk through consumer facing apps and internal process apps like CRMs. I’ll provide real world apps out in the wild and walk through how we went about building WeHeartDesigners.com as an example.
Michael G. Calvert
Unlocking the power of Disqus on WordPress
Disqus is a free service that makes it easy for anyone to create or participate in an online conversation. Their magic is in connecting people to stuff that’s worth talking about and providing tools to empower your community to make good content upworthy.
Join Michael G. Calvert from Disqus as he teaches you how to identify good content that tends to generate the most comments and keep readers coming back regularly. Learn how to quickly remove and filter undesirable content from your site and apply both technical and human approaches to develop a more active and constructive community from his 5+ years of experience working with sites from around the web. This talk will give you the practical do’s and don’ts for managing your community with Disqus on WordPress.
Dave Navarro Jr.
Mobile Development vs Responsive Design
Mike Stowe
Getting “Hooked” on WordPress Hooks
In this session we will be taking a look at some of the more popular WordPress filter and action hooks, what they do, and how to implement them.
Slide: http://www.slideshare.net/mikestowe/get-hooked-on-wordpress-hooks
Shane Purnell
Telling Your Story with About Pages and Author Bios
Your About page isn’t about your products and services; it’s not even about you. It’s about your customers and how you can solve their problems.
In this session we cover:
Come ready to take notes because we will be covering both practical application and theory!
Michael R. Hunter
How to Find, Choose, and Install The Best Theme for You!
I will teach beginner and intermediate WordPress users where to find, how to select, and how to install the best WordPress theme for their blog or website. I have created a 5 point checklist that anyone can use to measure the quality of any WordPress theme.
Jason Yingling
WordPress Security is Like a HHAM Sandwich
This presentation reviews the four key areas that affect WordPress security, the four areas that users need to consider to keep their sites safe: hosting, hardening, access and maintenance. It’s targeted at beginner / intermediate users. Some light coding is required but nothing exceptional.
Slide: http://www.slideshare.net/Red8Interactive/hham-for-wp-security
Marc Benzakein
How to Rock a WordCamp Even if You’re a Total n00b
And here’s where you get directions!
I’ve now been to about 20 WordCamps and discovered that they all have the same problems. Newbies seem kind of lost and by the end of the day they seem to feel like their head is going to explode. My talk would cover how to get the most out of a WordCamp and how to start giving back to the Community immediately.
Slide: https://speakerdeck.com/javaboy42/how-to-rock-a-wordcamp-even-if-you-are-a-n00b
How I Tell a Customer They are Wrong and Make Them Love Me
We’ve all heard that “The customer is always right,” but as service people, know that this is not usually the case. This session will cover ways you can let your customer know that they are wrong and make them a raving fan at the same time.
I will present case studies from my own experience in which I’ve taken clients from hostility to praise (and in some cases public apologies) to help ensure that they are life-long customers who are happy to sell your product for you.
Slide: https://speakerdeck.com/javaboy42/how-i-tell-my-customer-their-wrong-and-make-them-love-us
Kristin Falkner
Building Your Business Around WordPress
This talk will focus on the business side of WordPress-based design & development work. It will touch on tips for selling WordPress to clients, finding your niche inside WordPress’ opportunities, WordPress-specific contract points to consider if you’re a freelancer, methods to train clients on WordPress projects once built, ongoing client support opportunities and more.
Slide: http://www.kristinfalkner.com/wordcampkc-kfalkner.pdf
James W. Lane
Jeremy Green
Using Sass in your WordPress Projects
Sass, a CSS preprocessor, allows you to write faster, more powerful, and more manageable CSS. You will learn how easy it is to setup your project to use Sass. Once Sass is ready to go, you will discover the powerful tools that Sass provides to take your CSS to the next level. Integrating Sass with WordPress can be tricky at first, so we’ll take a step by step approach showing you how to seamlessly take your Sass files and use them in your WordPress project.
Slide: http://www.slideshare.net/greenhornet79/sass-withwordpresskc
Rebecca Haden
The Basics of Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
Join Rebecca Haden as she teaches the basics of Search Engine Optimization (SEO).
Learning Your New Favorite CMS
**THIS SESSION WILL BE IN THE MEETUP SPACE AT KCPT**
And here’s where you get directions!
To a lot of people, one CMS is just like another. Join me to learn the basics of your new favorite CMS. We’ll cover the Dashboard, how to navigate the left nav, the best organization strategies, and even a few getting started content pointers.
WordPress: When You Mean Business
Recently I to talked to businesspeople who have concerns about using WordPress for business. They hear that it’s a DIY thing and they figure that it’s really intended for bloggers who just want to share pictures of their kids and cats. Or they worry that they won’t be able to do what they want with it.
WordPress is a CMS, a content management system. Anything you can do on a website, you can do on a WordPress website. WordPress allows you or your web firm to make quick, economical changes with your content without disturbing your design. The open source repository of plugins — pieces of software you can plug into your site — also allow you to have functionality that would be very expensive and time consuming if you had to have it built.
Those two facts add up to one simple fact about WordPress for business: a WordPress site can be a nimble website that does more than you’d expect for the price.
Slide: http://www.hadeninteractive.com/wordpress-when-you-mean-business/
Frankie Jarrett
Version Control Using Git
Pippin Williamson
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!
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