The Razorfrog team attended WordCamp San Francisco this past weekend, and as always, we like to share a few of our lessons, talks, links, and other takeaways from the conference. There’s a lot to take in over two days, so I’ll try to be brief! You can also read Scott’s thoughts here.
It’s good to be back at Mission Bay, even if it’s for the last time! It’s a fair point however that we’ve outgrown the space – it was absolutely packed full of attendees and sponsors. And swag. Lots of great talks and takeaways, from plugins, services, best practices, and business policies.
I spoke with the staff of Stream (opens in a new tab) and Leadin (opens in a new tab) – two great plugins that we’ve used briefly and plan on rolling out to many more of our client’s sites. Stream provides a log of all user activity and changes, and Leadin helps provide data on website form submissions.
Jeff Veen of Typekit (opens in a new tab) had a compelling segment, Momentum, covering corporate structure, team progress, and some lovely typography. He also touched on the benefits of team-chat software Slack (opens in a new tab), which WordPress started using internally as of Sunday.
Luke Wroblewski talked about our multi-device world in From the Front Lines of Multi-Device Web Design. Lireo Designs has a great re-cap posted on their blog (opens in a new tab).
Sara Cannon (opens in a new tab) was back this year with Typography and User Experience and has posted her slides online (opens in a new tab). She covered everything from design history, modern examples, improvements in webfonts, and Google font recommendations (opens in a new tab).
Jenn Schiffer’s (opens in a new tab) talk, Growing Up WordPress presented an entertaining look at the 10 year history of WordPress using a WordPress-based slideshow plugin (opens in a new tab) that we’ll likely be adapting soon. She also has some fantastic Javascript-based art at vart.institute (opens in a new tab).
Saturday night, we met with the great folks from WPEngine and discussed the growth of Razorfrog and how to best grow our hosting needs. We’ll be working with them more closely in the future and expect life to get easier as we do so.
Sunday, Matt Mullenweg presented the State of the Word (opens in a new tab) which was helpful, informative, and powerful as usual. If you use WordPress, I’d recommend watching the linked video.