Open Source, Standards and Platform Enthusiast - Melbourne, Australia
SMX Sydney 2015 (#smxsydney or #smxsyd15) took place this year at the SMC Conference and Function Centre on Goulburn Street in the heart of Sydney, Australia. SMX is one of the premier search marketing conferences and one of the few quality search … [Continue reading]
WordPress Menus might not be a very "cool" topic, but a solid site structure and user friendly navigation is an extremely important component of any website. Well thought out navigation and menus help overall user experience and lay the foundations … [Continue reading]
WordPress training seems to be a common question I get via my contact form, so I thought I'd post about an upcoming session taking place over the next few weeks at the Footscray Community Arts Centre. I'll be hosting training workshops on how to … [Continue reading]
Choosing the right WordPress Theme is critical, the success of your site is riding on it. Last night I took a session on WordPress Themes at the Melbourne WordPress User Meetup at Inspire9 in Richmond, below is the slide deck for anyone interested. … [Continue reading]
You've probably heard about the 'Poodle' vulnerability, it's been front page news on most tech new sites today. Poodle is the name that has been given to a vulnerability which is the result of a design flaw in a 17 year old protocol - SSL version … [Continue reading]
Shellshock (or Shell Shocker) is the name given to a recent vulnerability affecting systems running the Bash shell. Bash is the default shell on most Unix/Linux systems, so it's a big deal. If You're Using a Hosting Provider Most hosting providers … [Continue reading]
OpenSSL is a software package and developer library that programmers have used to create the systems used for encrypted communications on the majority of servers. These communication channels include a variety of services and protocols, the most … [Continue reading]
If you're learning about WordPress and looking for some help getting started, here's a presentation I gave at the Melbourne WordPress Meetup going over downloading and installing WordPress using cPanel, setting up a MySQL database, as well as a few … [Continue reading]
Here are some slides from a presentation I gave at the Melbourne WordPress Meetup on the topic of WordPress, Domain Names and Web Hosting Basics. It's was a beginner-level talk, but it was great fun covering a fairly broad range of topics in a short … [Continue reading]
Here is the slide deck from a presentation given at the October 2013 Melbourne WordPress Meetup by myself, Peter Mead and Michael Jones. Thanks to everyone that attended, it was great fun :) Introduction to SEO and SEO for WordPress from … [Continue reading]
Thanks to everyone that came along to my talk at the Melbourne SEO Meetup on Web Performance Optimisation. Here is the slide deck for anyone interested. Web Performance Optimisation from chris-burgess … [Continue reading]
