{"id":334420,"date":"2013-10-16T08:00:43","date_gmt":"2013-10-16T13:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2013.toronto.wordcamp.org\/?p=334420"},"modified":"2013-10-15T09:55:49","modified_gmt":"2013-10-15T14:55:49","slug":"featured-speaker-al-davis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2013\/featured-speaker-al-davis\/","title":{"rendered":"Featured Speaker: Al Davis"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/2.gravatar.com\/avatar\/2ef1ba8ffbff6277210bbb2dc6210605?s=100&amp;r=pg&amp;d=mm\" \/>When not at his day job in the hosting industry, Al teaches WordPress at a Toronto, Ont college and also does corporate WordPress training. As a freelance web developer, he is always busy building sites on the WordPress platform. All this leaves him very little time to ride his Harley and watch NFL football.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3>Presentation:\u00a0PSD to WordPress<\/h3>\n<p>In this double session, we&#8217;ll go over the different steps to take a PSD document from image to WordPress reality. We&#8217;ll build 3 different pages to give you an idea of some of the things to look for. While not a complete course,this session\/workshop will you give a good starting point to continue building your knowledge and skills.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>What do you want people to learn from your presentation?<\/h3>\n<p>That building custom themes doesn&#8217;t need to be intimidating.<\/p>\n<h3>What attracted you to WordPress in the first place?<\/h3>\n<p>I have always liked the versatility of WordPress. While the complexity has increased over the years with the additional functionality that has been added, it is still a relatively easy platform to get started with when compared to other options.<\/p>\n<h3>What are you most looking forward to at WordCamp Toronto?<\/h3>\n<p>Seeing old friends and making new ones.<\/p>\n<h3>Why did you decide to speak?<\/h3>\n<p>I love speaking at WordCamps. With Toronto being my hometown WordCamp, it was a no brainer for me.<\/p>\n<h3>What is your favourite plugin or theme, and why?<\/h3>\n<p>I am still a big fan of <a title=\"Backup Buddy for WordPress\" href=\"http:\/\/ithemes.com\/purchase\/backupbuddy\/\" target=\"_blank\">Backup Buddy<\/a>, has saved me all kinds of time over the years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When not at his day job in the hosting industry, Al teaches WordPress at a Toronto, Ont college and also does corporate WordPress training. As a freelance web developer, he is always busy building sites on the WordPress platform. All this leaves him very little time to ride his Harley and watch NFL football. Presentation:\u00a0PSD [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6358608,"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":[18001],"tags":[168065],"class_list":["post-334420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-speaker","tag-al-davis"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6358608"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334421,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334420\/revisions\/334421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}