{"id":1087,"date":"2015-01-06T15:54:13","date_gmt":"2015-01-07T01:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2015.maui.wordcamp.org\/?p=1087"},"modified":"2015-01-16T12:22:46","modified_gmt":"2015-01-16T22:22:46","slug":"speaker-spotlight-tracy-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maui.wordcamp.org\/2015\/speaker-spotlight-tracy-apps\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Spotlight:  Tracy Apps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"float: right;margin-left: 20px;margin-bottom: 10px\"><img alt='' src='https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/a32c4b96e9b9ba20ca7b085ab7c18618ba66af2bc63f5587244cc5bd6f5e52a4?s=250&#038;d=mm&#038;r=g' srcset='https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/a32c4b96e9b9ba20ca7b085ab7c18618ba66af2bc63f5587244cc5bd6f5e52a4?s=500&#038;d=mm&#038;r=g 2x' class='avatar avatar-250 photo' height='250' width='250' \/><\/p>\n<p>Have you developed enough WordPress skills to make your own custom themes, but they still look like crap? Don\u2019t worry, there\u2019s some simple steps and tools that can help you design less like a developer. Come with your questions, leave with concrete examples and tools to use right away&#8230; and designers everywhere will thank you.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Company:<\/strong> Tracy Apps Design, LLC<\/p>\n<p><strong>Website:\u00a0<\/strong> iamtapps.com<\/p>\n<p><strong>Talk title:<\/strong>\u00a0 How To Not Design Like A Developer<\/p>\n<p><strong>Talk summary:<\/strong> Have you developed enough WordPress skills to make your own custom themes, but they still look like crap? Don\u2019t worry, there\u2019s some simple steps and tools that can help you design less like a developer. Come with your questions, leave with concrete examples and tools to use right away&#8230; and designers everywhere will thank you.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What do you love about WordPress:<\/strong>\u00a0 As someone who&#8217;s formal education is in art, and who&#8217;s completely self-taught with front-end development, WordPress has been an invaluable tool for my web development projects. Because of WordPress&#8217; flexibility and robust features, I&#8217;m able to &#8220;bend&#8221; WordPress to create very easy to use web solutions for my clients. Then I&#8217;m able to train clients of ANY technical level how to take control of their own web presence, which speaks to the quality of WordPress as a platform. And not only that, the WordPress community is the best out there. 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Come with your questions, leave with concrete examples and tools to use right away&#8230; and designers everywhere will thank you. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maui.wordcamp.org\/2015\/speaker-spotlight-tracy-apps\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Speaker Spotlight:  Tracy Apps<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14070086,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[9463],"class_list":["post-1087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speakers","tag-speaker-spotlight"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Sfes-hx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1091,"url":"https:\/\/maui.wordcamp.org\/2015\/speaker-spotlight-arlen-nagata\/","url_meta":{"origin":1087,"position":0},"title":"Speaker Spotlight:  Arlen Nagata","author":"ElenaRego","date":"January 6, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Arlen makes Tech and WordPress web design simple.\u00a0 If it\u2019s all \u201cGeek\u201d to you, you need Arlen. 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