Central Sydney Meetup: Responsive Web Design

This topic is aimed at intermediate users, developers and designers.

With a shed-load of different mobile devices being used we have to think about how our websites will be displayed on them.

Welcome to the world of responsive design. We'll take a look at some device design considerations and some dev techniques to make your site more responsive.

== SPEAKERS ==

Designing for WordPress with Responsive in mind
Desc: Designing small business websites for responsive devices and some of the tools I use, and the techniques (such as building on an already-responsive base and making sure images are suited to resize rather than static sizes etc), video embedding for resizing, all the things

Speaker: Cath Beaton @PhaseCreative

Cath Beaton owns Phase Creative (http://www.phasecreative.com.au/), a boutique web design and development business working with small businesses and professionals. Her passion for usability and design teamed with the limitless potential of WordPress has allowed her to not only get her hands dirty building beautiful websites, but also to focus on empowering her clients to get the most out of their WordPress website investment.

Planning your Responsive Website

Desc: 55% of your visitors spend less than 15 seconds on your website, attention spans are even shorter for visitors on tablets and smart phones. You could rush in and make a responsive website, or you could plan your responsive website first to achieve far greater traction.
Christopher Jones details three areas of responsive design which can take your user engagement to the next level when you build your next wordpress website.

Speaker: Christopher Jones

Christopher Jones is digital designer who worked in Berlin for over a decade creating some of the best websites and digital projects for German automotive and financial brands. Christopher has trained students and designers in web and multimedia design. In Australia he also runs one of the largest online cycling communities and is now focussed on training for a charity bike ride from Adelaide to Darwin which starts in October.

Image galleries for everyone

Desc: Image galleries are pretty awesome. But how to go about building them responsively? We'll go into a few different approaches, tips and tricks to get your galleries looking great on all devices and screen sizes.

Speaker: Isabel Brison @ijayessbe

Isabel is a front end developer at Fairfax Media. Her spare time is divided between veggie gardening and building image-rich websites and portfolios with WordPress.

Rough agenda:

6:00pm Pre Meetup Networking, Beer & Pizza

6:30pm Welcome and Introductions

6:45pm Presentations

8:00pm Open conversations and questions

Pub time to continue conversations at the Agincourt Hotel http://www.agincourthotel.com.au/ )

Fishburners Venue Location Details:
https://goo.gl/maps/PCJph (http://www.limecanvas.com/wordpress-sydney-meetup-location/)

Beer is provided courtesy of Fishburners (http://fishburners.org/).
Pizza is provided courtesy of Envato (http://www.envato.com/).