Talks

Now that WordPress is maturing and the ecosystem is thriving, it may seem overwhelming to start a new business. But you can do it.

Many of you may be soloprenuers running a one-person agency. In this talk, I will share how I started an $18 a year service that turned into thousands per month. Hint: I didn’t get venture capital, do crazy marketing, or anything shady.

Let’s talk about digital tools to help your side hustle become a business — including what to do and what not to do. Tools, tricks, laughter, and tears. See you there!

User experience personalisation is the process of presenting a unique and tailored experience to a website visitor, based on things you already know about that visitor. FOr example, where did they arrive from, what pages have they visited before or on this session… are they a return visitor – and so on.

In this talk, I’ll show you a simple everyday scenario where this can be used to give the user a more streamlined and helpful experience, and improve conversions for the website owner.

The big brands have been doing this for some time, and now we can too even for the simplest and smallest of websites.

Ten years ago the HTML5 proposition saw the light for the first time. HTML5 introduced new and extended APIs to support more interactive pages, and a whole stack of new semantic elements to delight us.

So after a lifetime (in web terms), how extensively are these elements being supported by browsers, used by developers, and how have they impacted upon the accessibility of websites that use them?

We’ll look at some successes, some elements where more browser or assistive technology finesse is required, and a frustrating selection where we are still a long way from being ‘match ready’.

Louise will show you how her her team built a packing application for a warehouse, the challenges they faced taking data from a WooCommerce website, and building a fully featured Laravel application. Using a bespoke WooCommerce plugin with a combination of technologies including the REST APi, webhooks and web sockets. Adding in real time information and third party APIs from shipping providers makes for a lot of complexity. Louise goes through the challenges some of the implementation and provides ideas for how you might tackle such a project.