Can one day’s work benefit thousands of people in the local community? Yes. For every do_action there is a positive and empowering re_action.
Hear the inside scoop about the first do_action day to take place in Europe, a one-day hackathon where we created WordPress sites for 5 non-profits and charities in the South West.
This talk provides a transparent account of why Bristol chose to do_action, what successes and challenges we faced, who it helped and how it made an impact.
Remote work is all the rage these days as more and more companies have started to go remote or offer remote friendly positions, but not everyone knows how to navigate this new reality.
I’m going to talk about the fabulous benefits of remote work, the potential pitfalls and how to mitigate them, how to hold on to your sanity, not need to shrink the kids (if you have them), and have a grand old time doing it all.
A talk with tips and tools to increase creative confidence and positively shift mindfulness. Sharing stories and knowledge learnt from experience in the creative industries, to support and improve your design process and output.
When the new block-based editor was released earlier this year, WordPress development was about to get a lot harder. Instead of the low barrier to entry PHP we are used too, along came React and JavaScript based development practices.
How are “traditional” developers like me supposed to keep up? Well, fear not as I will show you in this talk the ways in which I build WordPress sites, using the block editor, developing custom blocks which meet the clients’ needs.
I will outline how we standardised our block-based development into a plugin which we use on many of the sites we build today.
The fabulous @wpmark doing his talk 'Build blocks without writing JavaScript' at #WCBRS.
Are you ever frustrated because you just can’t seem to get a page ranked in Google? Or because you’re ranking for a search phrase without getting any meaningful traffic?
Keyword research is the first step to a good SEO strategy. But it’s not easy: to rank, you need to know what words people type in to find you. Come up with keywords you can rank for. Take your competition into account. But how? Unfortunately, no tool can do it for you. You need to do research yourself. In this talk, I’ll guide you through the essential steps of keyword research, so you can get your most important pages ranked.
The fabulous @jesseteaching giving his talk 'The magic (key)word: why your site is not getting the traffic it deserves'.
With the internet producing 2% of global carbon emissions and growing fast, it’s imperative that all web projects embrace efficiency in order to create a sustainable web for the future.
Having developed a carbon calculator to measure the carbon footprint of websites, we found that encouraging clients to embrace efficiency and commit to reducing their website emissions was surprisingly challenging. To help us understand why, we thought it only right that we practice what we preach and redesign our own website with the aim of improving efficiency and reducing our carbon footprint as far as possible.
This is the story of what we learned in the process, told from the perspectives of a director, a designer and a developer involved in the project.
The outcome was a 75% reduction in carbon emissions, greatly improved page load speed and better user experience. We’ll show what we did in design and development, and how buy in from all stakeholders was crucial to success.
Ten years ago the HTML5 proposition saw the light for the first time. HTML5 introduced new and extended APIs to support more interactive pages, and a whole stack of new semantic elements to delight us.
So after a lifetime (in web terms), how extensively are these elements being supported by browsers, used by developers, and how have they impacted upon the accessibility of websites that use them?
We’ll look at some successes, some elements where more browser or assistive technology finesse is required, and a frustrating selection where we are still a long way from being ‘match ready’.
The fabulous @coolfields giving his talk 'So what have the new HTML5 elements ever done for accessibility?'
As an Agency owner, I have learnt that Collaboration has been the key to our success. Sharing those experiences and ideas is providing other agencies / individuals with the chance to learn that by grasping the WordPress community ethos of sharing ideas and working with other companies is a Benefit NOT a issue. I will demonstrate that it can be a great way to:
Learn Increase revenue Give back
Everything has a pattern underneath. Designs can be broken down, distilled into patterns. When you think in patterns the process can be faster, easier. I’ll show you in this talk, that whatever you label it, the concept is powerful, natural. A fragmented approach to design goes perfectly with modern development and gives you a robust workflow for the future.
Problem solving may not sound like the most rock and roll topic of conversation… and that might be so, but it’s at the core of everything we do, a skill so universal it transcends software, job role, even occupation.
Everything has a pattern underneath. Designs can be broken down, distilled into patterns. When you think in patterns the process can be faster, easier. I’ll show you in this talk, that whatever you label it, the concept is powerful, natural. A fragmented approach to design goes perfectly with modern development and gives you a robust workflow for the future.
The fabulous @karmatosed doing her talk 'Thinking in patterns' at #WCBRS.
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