Learn how to take better photos with your smartphone and stand out on social media. With a little knowledge and practice, you’ll be taking photos that nobody will even believe were shot on your phone.
Join us as professional photographer Maryann Davidson shows us the Rules, Tools, Tips, & Tricks to level-up your PHOneTOGRAPHY.
Requirements:
- A smartphone with a camera.
- Able to find & operate the camera on your phone and download/open apps.
P.S. Last time, 3 people arrived with dead phones. Hey it happens. So don’t forget to juice up your battery. 😉
P.S.S. If there’s something specifically you’ve struggled with or want to improve, bring your questions with you. Maryann will be available afterwards for Q&As.
You have the proper keywords, good content, and some decent backlinks, but you still are not ranking well in Google. Technical SEO is the foundation on which all other SEO activities are built on. If the technical foundation is weak, it limits the overall success of a site. In this presentation, we will go through some of the biggest technical SEO challenges and what we can do to fix or avoid them.
Elementor is one the the most popular Visual page builders for WordPress with over 4 million active downloads! And it’s popular for a reason. It’s intuitive drag and drop editor will have you designing your site just like a pro in no time flat.
And today, we’ll learn how to streamline our design process even MORE by using two features inside Elementor Pro called Theme builder and (the brand new) Global Theme Styling. This powerhouse combo will allow you to launch your new website lightning fast.
Folks like to talk about maintenance and tools and themes for their website but don’t often have a really great understanding of how all of these components work together. Building a great site is not a random collection of metrics and code you find online. It should be built from the bottom up with scalability and sustainability in mind. I will introduce a Website Health Pyramid that ties together all of the seemingly independent strings many follow. Website owners and website managers can gain an overview of how to approach their website health long term. This pyramid can be great for leveling up your own game as well as a useful foundation to explain development or maintenance concepts to clients.
Divi, a popular visual WordPress page and theme builder, is a website designer’s answer to building custom WordPress themes for clients without any coding experience. In this session you will learn how easy it is to use Divi to design a WordPress theme from scratch. You will see how quickly you can build a unique WordPress theme branded and tailored for your client’s specific needs. As an added bonus you’ll also learn how to use Divi to package themes for resale. You will finally be able to add WordPress theme builder to your website design business with zero coding experience needed.
There are many calendar and event plugins out there but which one to use? Let’s compare the top contenders with the pros and cons of each one and the questions to ask (your client or yourself) to help you narrow it down to the best choice.
The tools and plugins that we use every day slowly change over time, and I love to share them so that we can learn from one another.
In particular, I’ll be talking about:
- Tools for your website, for things like handling backups, updates and security.
- Tools for your business, for things like billing, contracts and proposals.
- Tools for getting things done, for things like task management, contacts, email and more.
Are you feeling overwhelmed, lost, confused, unsure…join the club, you are not alone! Many of us have been in your shoes. I’m not a programmer or developer, just a normal guy who uses WordPress and WooCommerce in my businesses. This is the unbiased story of my journey into WordPress and WordCamps with many helpful hints, tips, and lots of resources provided along the way.
Here are some things that will be covered:
- Why use WordPress?
- What does it all cost and how can I save money?
- What do you need to get started or grow your WordPress site?
- Common terms/expressions you will hear and wonder about
- How you can learn more
- Resources for music, video, fonts, plugins, extensions, and widgets
- How to get the most out of WordCamp
- What is a WordPress Meetup?
- Anything else I feel could be useful to you that I can cram into our time together.
Using Beaver Builder and a few other favorite plugins, I am sharing my system for speedy deployment of basic websites- with easy customizations!
So much mis-information has been circulating the WordPress world in terms of security that most WordPress users believe that installing one single plugin is enough to protect their sites forever. We will cover how security is a multi-tiered approach and not just a one plugin fits all.
