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See What I Mean: How to Use Comics to Communicate Ideas
How do you get a point across within 10 seconds? Comics are a unique way to communicate, using both image and text to effectively demonstrate time, function, and emotion. Just as vividly as they convey the feats of superheroes, comics tell…
Responsive Web Design
Your site is about your content. With mobile devices, iPads, phones, gaming consoles, etc: people can access your content many different ways and formats. How can we maintain some control over the display of our content and keep our brand…
CSS3 Features: Making Snow in the Summer without JavaScript
Improved browser support of CSS3 has allowed us to build a richer web with visual treatments like rounded corners, animations, transformations, gradients, transparency and drop-shadows. But with great power comes great responsibility. Just because you can add a skewed animated…
Awesome Up Your Boring Theme: WordPress Post Formats
Ian explains just what the heck WordPress Post Formats are and why they’re so awesome. Come and find out how to take advantage of that awesomeness and how easy it is to save your WordPress Themes from boring monotony.
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Building Custom CMS Applications on WordPress
It goes without saying that WordPress is not just for blogs but also the ideal platform for CMS applications.* In this talk I’ll show how WordPress can be used to build very specialized, custom CMS applications. Along the way, I’ll…
Getting Involved: Contribution and Courtesy
A conversation about methods of contributing to WordPress and the community, why you should do it, and how it benefits everyone – including you.
About the Speakers: Aaron Campbell is the owner and lead developer at Xavisys, a…
Making Money And Having Fun Selling WordPress Themes
You could say that 2010 was the best year yet for WordPress themes — a banner year in an already explosive marketplace. Entire companies are building their lives and businesses around selling themes, and they’ve flourished along with amazing growth…
Version Control for Designers
This talk will discuss how designers can take control of their designs with version control. It will give an overview of popular version control systems, why designers should start using version control, and when and how designers will need to use…
Scaling, Servers, and Deploys — Oh My!
This talk will discuss professional WordPress development, scaling up and out to meet demand, and strategies for deploying everything that will keep you sane. Topics for discussion: Apache, Memcached, APC, nginx, NFS, rsync, Git, Capistrano.
Check out Mark’s…