Jean Perpillant - The Value of Developer and Client Transparency. This talk I will discuss the necessity of honesty with clients from the discovery phase all the way post launch follow ups. I’ll also discuss the outlines of introverts and extraverts and how this plays a roll in choosing your next
Freeing Up Time With Website Automation
Josh Shashaty - Managing Multiple Sites The Right Way There are a variety of companies that offer WordPress management, but what if you want to do it yourself? Josh will cover techniques that anyone can use to manage multiple websites without letting any fall through the cracks. Josh discussed
Getting Started with WordPress for Adults and Kids Alike!
John Hughes - My Journey as a WordPress Newbie - From Zero to Ready to Outsource in 2 Years What began 2+ years ago as an immediate need to build a website, with zero capital, due to a loss of employment, John embarked on what became a meteoric journey to build his initial website as well as a
Analytics are Awesome!
How do you find customers and how do you tailor your offerings to the customers that you want? Our speakers discussed choosing new audience segments, listening to your existing customers and visitors, and providing the proper marketing to those visitors to help you sell the right things to the right
Accessibility and Security on the Web
Helena Zubkow - Including Everyone: Web Accessibility 101 https://youtu.be/jb_sRERr5b8 If your website wouldn't work for anyone living in the state of New York, would that be a launch-blocker? Of course! So why are we ignoring the even larger population of people with disabilities? Designed
WordPress Local Development Environments
If you missed the meetup on local development environments or need links to the software that we used, we've compiled a list of links to download all of the tools. Demian Seiler - XAMPP (and MAMP and
Meetup – WordPress SEO
Chris Edwards - Optimizing Your Website and Identifying Quality Content for SEO SEO is a broad topic with many pieces and parts. I will dive into some of the secret tricks I have used on over 450 different websites that help them out rank their competition. I will focus on WordPress and one page
Lisa Melegari – Clean Content
For our second talk at the Spring Cleaning Meetup, Lisa Melegari taught us a bit about cleaning up content on your site, as well as reviewing past content to make sure that it complies with best SEO practices. Strip away SEO tricks and the core principal of ranking on Google is quality content.
Gregory Pearcey – Sparkling Structures
At the Spring Cleaning Meetup, Gregory Pearcey taught us a bit about making site structures and sitemaps to determine what pages we need, as well as investigating the template structure of a theme. Most of us choose our WordPress themes based on the way it looks and we end up doing zero research