With all of the new passed and proposed privacy laws, it is clear that what it means to have a website that collects personal information is changing. Attendees of this talk will learn (1) which websites need a Privacy Policy, (2) why Privacy Policies are important, and (3) why web professionals should be the ones to talk to their clients about privacy.
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Images: What's in Your Library?
What happens when you upload an image to your website? Why you should or should not care? How I trimmed back my upload directory.
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SEO Tech 2020, Voice Search, Google's New Natural Language recommendation, New Google Blocks and other new critical SEO issues.
Google is yet again changing how they search and display. Will cover precise SEO tech you need to have in your page for 2020, including mobile, local, speed, 1st byte, how to voice search, better tagging for Google, new Google Event and Job Blocks, Answering a Google Question, mass page generation and posting on GMB and Google Search Console. Will also cover my experience working on a dozen sites, several with millions of impressions and what works now!
Power & Scale-Up WordPress Products with Atomic Design
Whether you build Themes, Plugins or Headless WordPress, whether you use PHP, JavaScript or something else, your products can be more flexible, resilient and organized using an Atomic Design approach. Codebases organized using Atomic Design are easy to navigate when you come back nine months later or hire new developers. Suddenly change requests will come with less sting and the iterative next version without scrapping everything will look less daunting. In this session we’ll talk about splitting Atomic components, best practices and common issues and mistakes.
Lift and Shift WordPress to the JAMstack
Learn how modern WordPress sites have evolved by adopting best practices from the fastest growing open source software communities. We’ll demonstrate how everyone from the absolute beginner to the seasoned developer can learn new tricks and approaches to improve their workflow and become more productive by using the JAMstack.
How to Reduce Work Loneliness
I will be discussing the AIDA Model and how it can be applied to interpersonal work relationships. The model is composed of four stages: awareness, interest, desire and action. It is used by marketers, to describe and observe a consumer’s journey from being aware of a product or service to purchasing the product or service.
In my opinion, it can also be applied to interpersonal work relationships to relieve people of work loneliness.
Why WordCamp Miami? The Open Door for Youth in South Florida STEM
This lightning talk speaks about the impact of WordCamp Miami for youth in Stem in the South Florida Community: Academically, Socially, and Emotionally through STEM. This lightning talk will explore the resources, networking opportunities, and STEM-related speakers available to educators and students to thrust our youth’s future in business, entrepreneurship, and STEM careers.
Contributing to WordPress: From Just Getting Started to Closed Ticket
One of the greatest benefits of using WordPress is that it’s open source and is constantly being improved by the community. However, few people know exactly what that process looks like.
When you identify a bug in WordPress, where does that information need to be reported? Who fixes it? And how does it eventually get sent out to 25% of the web in the next WordPress Core release?
In this talk, we’ll look at the progression of a bug ticket from beginning to the very end and see how the software we use every day is continually improved. Attendees will learn how they too can contribute to WordPress, even if they don’t code.
Accessibility: Digital Transformation or Social Digital Transformation
The importance to think about disability, what are the internet disabilities, how can we integrate accessibility first strategies to our digital process, how inclusive business is important to create websites, applications and digital documents.