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WordCamp Vancouver Bonus Items

Rebecca Bollwitt — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 00:26:37 +0000

We’re very lucky and proud to have sold out WordCamp Vancouver and want to make sure our attendees have the very best experience. Aside from your admission getting you access to some great speakers, talks, the Genius Bar, coffee, lunch, a social at Granville Island Brewing, and there are also a couple of bonuses…

The first are the buttons designed by Dale Mugford of Brave New Code and made by Six Cent Press:

We also have water bottles featuring all of our major sponsors made by Linusco:

Finally, we have a raffle where you can enter to win two tickets to Bard on the Beach:

All of these items are included with your admission so be sure to enter the draw when you arrive and pick up your free button and water bottle while you’re at it. See you Saturday!

Panel Discussion: WordPress as a CMS

Duane Storey — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 23:19:25 +0000

There is going to be a panel during WordCamp Vancouver focusing on using WordPress as a CMS. To gauge audience interest, the panel members have asked the following to be posted on the site. If you could take the time to leave a comment, that would be great and would help the panel members target their content.

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At the 2010 SXSW Interactive Festival designers debated whether or not WordPress is killing web design. The idea is that WordPress and other CMS are constraining designers to think outside the box and turning them into lazy designers. This panel discussion revealed that WordPress is not the culprit, designers are the ones being lazy when relying on existing themes.

WordPress is a very powerful tool that allows you to create any site you want. Cameron Cavers, Dave Zille and Christine Rondeau have been building sites using WordPress as a CMS and will discuss how best to approach this avenue. What you need to consider when planning your website; what are the limitations; are there any limitations… We’ll also show a few examples and the code used to create sites that no longer look anything like WordPress sites.

If you are interested in using WordPress as a CMS and have a question for the panel or would like to share some of your code, please leave it in the comments and we’ll plan our panel discussion accordingly.

And Here We Go

Duane Storey — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:31:18 +0000

Well, it’s official – we have a website! Setting up a website for an event like this is always a bit of a challenge. Do we use an open-source theme or try to create our own? WordCamp Whistler used a modification of the Minimalia theme, which worked fairly well. This year we ended up choosing this theme, iBlogPro, graciously donated to us by PageLines. If you’re looking for commercial GPL themes, then definitely check them up.

Thanks to everyone who has given advice or guidance with regards to this years conference. A special mention goes out to Aaron Hockley of WordCamp Portland and beer drinking fame for giving us some information about the successful Portland event.

Stay tuned for some more WordCamp Vancouver information, as well as a few surveys to help us better target the event.