Pre-SmashingConf talks!
I loved this OGN. It was reduced number, actually controlled and it gave more space for people to talk, mingle, “network”, and you could actually ‘breathe’.
Sponsors:
Bladerunner.js
wagtail.io
Responsive Redesign Projects
Joe Leech – http://joeleech.net/
Big clients/hotel projects. Bigger customers, higher numbers and bigger responsibility about costs (in a multimillion company a small error/problem could cost millions).
He suggests: conversion numbers in between non-responsive and responsive -> get closer to a parity. (A/B testing, etc.)
Introduction To Digital Adaptations
Paul Boag – http://boagworld.com/
Need for helping and advising customers changing mentality to have web not as aside tool, but as a business motivation and more at is centre (core maybe?).
He suggests: Help customers/company to ‘integrate’ instead of being the ‘code monkey’.
How I Put The Domesday Book Online
Anna Paul-Smith – http://anna.ps – @darkgreener
Created a great historic map with added metadata based on the Doomsday Book – http://domesdaymap.co.uk – using geodjango
A Fresh Take On Content Management
Tom & Ollie – from wagtail
Created streamlined, clear-looking CMS, using Django.
“NIH – not invented here”