Special Guest Presenter: Sofia Woods
As part of our 2015 CMS Program
Sofia Woods - Director at Shortie Designs. Co-Coordinator of the Brisbane WordCamp 2015. Am also a rookie DJ.
https://twitter.com/shortiedesigns
http://shortiedesigns.com/
https://www.facebook.com/SHORTIEDESIGNS
On Why We Use Wordpress
It makes good business sense (just acquired Woo Commerce... adding to it’s growing dominance in the market place)
Clients have control over content - allows clients to publish confidently on you have delivered their web
Rapid Development - themes, plugins and frameworks to produce work quickly and iteratively (allowing you to be cost effective and competitive)
No need to write special functions (such as calendars etc)
Open source non proprietary (clients do not to pay a license fee to use/access)
It’s good for SEO
On Working with clients
Consult + Plan and Structure + Design and Develop + Testing and Launching (including support resources for client to maintain their new web product) + Review and Evolve
On WP Tools
Theme Framework - such as Genesis
Wordpress Codex
Child Themes and Plugins
Team Communication tools - Slack. Australia Slack group.
Build responsive sites - The latest Google initiative that some are calling the ‘Mobilegeddon’ - Google has changed its algorithm to favor mobile-friendly sites. See Forbes article: Can Your Business Survive Google's 'Mobilegeddon'?
On Working in the Industry
Commercial web or digital agency
Freelance
Your own agency
Theme & plugin agencies
VIP WordPress Agencies - such as Auttomatic (producers of Wordpress) and Human Made
On Wordpress Communities
International conferences, Meetups, Wordcamps
On Building a Professional Profiles
LinkedIn, Twitter, Slack
Blog - professional ideas on current trends, your processes, sharing code on github, thoughts on updates... problems and challenges encountered and/or overcome
On Local Internships
Orange Digital, Josephmark, Thoughtworks, Shortie Design!















