Category: Full Talk

  • Web Heuristics Every Designer and Developer Should Know

    Mastering the fundamentals of digital design is pivotal for achieving marketing success in the digital age. Drawing from his agency’s wealth of experience in user research and UX design, Scott Jones will introduce you to the 7 essential web heuristic categories that every designer, developer and marketer should be versed in. Through a mix of…

  • How to nurture your client relationships & grow your client base

    The wise man built his house upon the rock and all that; foundations are key. The success of a client/agency relationship starts with the curator of these relationships, you. You have to be a cornerstone in whom they trust. In her 20-minute talk, Mollie will share her insights on how to build lasting client relationships.…

  • Write Great Tech Content

    Technical content can be challenging to write. It often calls for complex ideas to be conveyed in clear language, and yet the result must be easily digestible by an audience that doesn’t always have a strong relationship with the written word. In this session we’ll dive into different types of technical content, and how to…

  • Contentless Marketing

    Almost everybody relies to some degree on some form of content marketing. We do market and keyword research, and we try to spot opportunities. We build landing pages and write articles to try and boost our rankings, optimize our ads, get traffic, and convert visitors. So what happens when that stops working? It’s time to…

  • Workshop: accessibility testing for non-techies

    How to check if a site is accessible for people with a disability, when you are not a developer or web savvy designer? For example if you want to check if there are accessibility issues in your own site. Or when you need to choose a web agency and you want to check their work.…

  •  Launch a site on ‘Humanity’ Amnesty’s Open Source WordPress theme

    We will run through our launch process for onboarding an Amnesty websites, covering some of the common gotchas when launching a site, we have so far launched 45 and counting so we hope to share a thing or two.

  • 10 Things a Developer Should Do After Adding their Plugin to the WordPress Directory

    In this talk I’ll go through the 10 things that every developer should first do – from securing their content to making sure they keep in touch with their user’s needs.

  • The Greggs Tech Culture

    Born in the North East, Greggs is now one of the nation’s favourite food to go brands, renowned for being both fun and fun-loving – but what’s it like to write code for them? When the pandemic hit in 2020, we rapidly accelerated our multi-channel development strategy and, because of this investment, our numbers have…

  • Performance vs Scale: Why Enterprise WordPress isn’t just Big WordPress

    What do we really mean when we talk about “high-scale” sites or projects? What’s the difference between performance and scale? And why are some multi-million projects slower than your 5 minute side project? Using lessons learned from real-world experience working on enterprise projects and running a host serving billions of views a year, we’ll explore…