• Design Around UX Myths - For Success Part I

    This session will include a step-by-step overview on how to create engaging websites with proper user experience. Learn how users interact with sites in modern times and what UX myths to avoid to ensure you are directing your visitors to maximize ROI.

    Breanna will walk you through the most frequent user experience misconceptions and explains why they don't hold true. These myths are backed by research findings and articles by design gurus, not just Bre's fantastic opinions. Myth #1: People Read on the Web, Myth #2: All Pages Should Be Accessible in 3 Clicks, Myth #3: Important Content Should Be Above the Fold... You get the idea. Challenge your misconceptions and work your way into successful web design.

    Group 3
    Wed 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
    • Design
    • Introductory and overview

  • Design Around UX Myths for Success -- Continued!

    This session will include a step-by-step overview on how to create engaging websites with proper user experience. Learn how users interact with sites in modern times and what UX myths to avoid to ensure you are directing your visitors to maximize ROI.

    Breanna will walk you through the most frequent user experience misconceptions and explain why they don't hold true. These myths are backed by research findings and articles by design gurus, not just Bre's fantastic opinions. Myth #1: Stock Photos Improve Experience, Myth #2: Usability Testing is Expensive, Myth #3: White Space is Wasted Space... You get the idea. Challenge your misconceptions and work your way into successful web design.

    Group 3
    Wed 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
    • Design
    • Introductory and overview

  • Maximize your User's Experience for Optimal ROI

    Does your website consider your visitor? How much are you asking them to read, decide and do? UX is a buzzword that is underdelivered and overhyped. Let us help you overdeliver with basic, but under leveraged UX best practices. Do you want free advice? We are looking for you to let us dissect your site and give you free advice on how to improve your visitors experiences.

    Does your website guide your visitor to take desired action? Is your copy short, clear and directive? Pretty without a brain, is not that pretty. Let us help you put the life into your website. During this session we will ask attendees to allow us to work through their website and point out where UX is lacking and how to best enhance your UX to optimize your ROI. As we work through sites, you will learn hands-on how to ensure you leverage the best UX practices.

    Group 4
    Wed 2:20 pm - 3:20 pm
    • Design
    • Introductory and overview

  • Liquid Content Showdown

    A quick overview of Liquid Content Components - Content Types, Content Items and Visualizers Templates - showing live examples, using Visualizer Templates Placeholders and Filters with HTML, CSS and Bootstrap to achieve completely different content look and functionality (such as sliders, grid lists and detail, etc.) all using with the same Content Type and entered data.

    Group 4
    Thu 10:10 am - 11:10 am
    • Design
    • Intermediate

  • Safeguard Your Website Design with Structured Content

    Want to be able to easily add and edit content without having the risk of breaking your beautiful website design? Then you need structured content! In this session I'll introduce you to structured content solutions and walk through incorporating it into a DNN theme.

    A common problem in the web world is conversion from a design to a fully functional working website. And these websites usually have content managers that are unfamiliar with front-end coding techniques. Yikes, what now? Minimizing the "damage" that can be inflicted is essential. Is there a way to provide a simple and wonderful editing experience for the simple and complex content alike? Absolutely!

    In this session, I will cover taking your theme and implementing structured content solutions that allow creation of beautiful, theme appropriate content that is editable without touching any code.

    Group 3
    Thu 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
    • Design
    • Intermediate

  • Case of the Reluctant Coder

    in building a membership site of obscure glossary terms from a famous mystery writer, I've wrestled with what visualization tool to use atop DNN to use to edit and display the terms. I'll be sharing my experiences with 2SXC, Plant An App, and EasyDNN.

    Group 3
    Thu 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
    • Design
    • Introductory and overview

  • Content-driven design using 2sxc

    I will show you how to create a listing of content, leveraging 2sxc to speed up the design process with a focus on UI/UX.

    Group 3
    Thu 2:20 pm - 3:20 pm
    • Design
    • Introductory and overview

  • Marketing Outside the Box

    Want free marketing advice? Who doesn't. Want to learn to think less like everyone else and how to stand out? This session is for you. Cassidi will walk through her non-traditional thought process and help you learn how to think outside the box. Plus, she will be handing out free marketing ideas.

    This is a hands on session, so bring your company's marketing challenges and let Cassidi help you break them outside the box. She will help you come up with ideas to increase ROI and recognition. Expect to learn through the process as Cassidi analyzes and breaks down ideas for different companies. She will walk you through how to think successfully in an oversaturated marketplace. On top of highlighting some extremely successful outlandish ideas, she will walk through online ad segmentation and overlooked ad opportunities to help you reach your target audience without having to compete for attention.

    Group 3
    Wed 10:10 am - 11:10 am
    • Marketing
    • Introductory and overview

  • Technical SEO & JavaScript

    The web is an ever-changing platform and so are the websites we create. With new technologies and possibilities come new challenges for both developers and SEOs.

    In this session, we will talk about how developers and SEOs can become a team and solve challenges together. We will look into a few scenarios where this collaboration can bring success to a project. You will learn the lingo of developers and how to troubleshoot technical issues with JavaScript sites.

    Group 1
    Thu 9:00 am - 10:00 am
    • Marketing
    • Intermediate

  • Brand Trust – The Power of Being a Better Neighbor

    In this age of data management regulations and privacy fears, trust is becoming the new commodity. Brand Trust differentiates with customers, but how can YOU, as an individual, help build this trust? How can you be a better neighbor to your audience through customer engagement and ethical marketing?

    Join me on a journey into building trust through individual relationship and community building. Anybody in an organization, regardless of role, can contribute. The more the merrier! We’ll explore an ethical approach to advocacy to build trust using 3 guidelines:
    1. Be Honest
    2. Be Kind
    3. Be Helpful

    Learn how to improve your connection with your audience!

    While organizations, as a whole, focus on data privacy and brand trust, individuals can also contribute to the overall customer engagement and building of trust building through community building and ethical marketing practices. Our focus should be on being human - on being Honest, Kind, and Helpful. We need to build connections to create customer trust in the brand. The session will speak to these 3 guidelines, how each role in the organization can contribute, and the benefits and challenges of this ‘neighborhood’ community approach.

    Ultimately, this is all about informing individuals how to win over customers by building relationships. Every individual, regardless of their role, can help their organization with an ethical outreach approach. Organizations can, in turn, help individuals by providing the frameworks and support for individual participation in this relationship-building with customers. With trust as the differentiator in the market, individual brand advocates need to know how they can build up that trust so that their organization can succeed in a competitive customer landscape!

    Group 3
    Thu 9:00 am - 10:00 am
    • Marketing
    • Introductory and overview

  • What happened to Google Analytics???

    In mid October Google rolled out Analytics v4 and a lot has changed about tracking. Lets take a high level look at implementing analytics 4 with Google Tag Manager and Analytics 4 on DNN. We will also look at how to get a legacy code if needed and how to implement the new stream codes.

    Group 4
    Thu 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
    • Marketing
    • Introductory and overview

  • Understanding the Psychology of a Website Visitor - Get More From Your Traffic

    It takes .05 seconds for a website visitor to form an opinion about your website. As cheesy as it sounds, even seemingly small changes to your website can lead to big changes in how visitors interact and view your site. By understanding the psychology of your website visitors you can develop the perfect formula to engage your visitor and convince them to take action.

    Group 1
    Thu 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
    • Marketing
    • Intermediate

  • Why story matters. (And how to make sure you’re telling the right one!)

    They say everyone has a story to tell. Fair enough. But why do some stories resonate more than others? In this session, we will explore the basic components of effective storytelling, the importance of creative collaboration as it relates to critical content, and how best to incorporate these elements into your website (and beyond) brand narrative in order to ensure a lasting connection with your target audience.

    Group 2
    Thu 2:20 pm - 3:20 pm
    • Marketing
    • Introductory and overview

  • Build a Website using only DNN and 2sxc

    I will demonstrate how to build a more complex website using only DNN and the 2sxc module.

    Group 1
    Wed 10:10 am - 11:10 am
    • Intro to DNN
    • Intermediate

  • Applications of Form and List

    it's more than meets the eye, and a very powerful tool for keeping company info on a website. I'll be sharing a couple specific examples of how it can be used.

    Group 4
    Wed 10:10 am - 11:10 am
    • Intro to DNN
    • Introductory and overview

  • DNN Upgrades Made Simple

    If you've ever even read about upgrading DNN, you know that any number of things can go wrong. There's no shortage of horror stories, for sure. Did you know that nearly 100% of those horror stories were avoidable, though? After maintaining DNN websites for over 15 years, you'll learn the approaches I take to upgrading DNN websites. Following this session, you'll learn the processes, tips, tricks, and methods that help me upgrade client websites flawlessly.

    Group 1
    Wed 2:20 pm - 3:20 pm
    • Intro to DNN
    • Introductory and overview

  • Get to know the updated DNN Store

    DNN Corp is revamping the online Store to give a better buying and selling experience. Want to make money by selling DNN extensions, you can do that easily now.

    Group 2
    Wed 2:20 pm - 3:20 pm
    • Intro to DNN
    • Introductory and overview

  • Instantly Enhance the Persona Bar UX

    This session will highlight core DNN features and how to use them to extend the capabilities of the Persona Bar for Content Editors and Admins.
     
    Examples will showcase:
     
    • Previewing what your pages will look like on multiple screen sizes
     
    • A fast and accessible way to add content modules to your pages
     
    • Quickly previewing what your pages may look like in search engine results
     
    Attendees can expect to see code examples, dev recommendations, lessons learned, and demos of existing commercial modules that use these DNN features today.

    Group 3
    Thu 10:10 am - 11:10 am
    • Intro to DNN
    • Introductory and overview

  • Local DNN Installation: Testing, Development & Playground

    Quickly and easily set up a local DNN installation for various use cases. We'll cover techniques for installing multiple instances and being able to manage them all with minimal effort, including overwriting and removing them. Best practices for DNN extension development, as well as core development, will be shared. Need a playground for fleshing out new ideas and concepts? No problem!

    This will be a session not to miss. Whether you are a beginner or a seasoned professional, you'll surely find this session useful!

    Group 2
    Thu 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
    • Intro to DNN
    • Introductory and overview

  • DNN Jeopardy

    Come watch the fun of Jeopardy as DNNSummit attendees battle wits and knowledge to dominate a board of DNN trivia, tips, troubleshooting and code facts.

    Group 4
    Thu 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
    • Intro to DNN
    • Introductory and overview

  • Getting Started With DNN CLI & Extension Starter Projects

    This will be a proper introduction to DNN CLI, a new command-line interface for DNN. This powerful tool can help kickstart your DNN development efforts. Whether you are contributing to the core or developing a custom extension, this tool is for you. You can even use it to quickly setup your own custom starter projects for local development.

    In addition to DNN CLI, we'll take a full tour of the many available extension starter projects.

    - Web API
    - SPA, MVC, WebForms modules
    - Persona Bar modules
    - Scheduled Jobs
    - Libraries
    - Themes
    - Theme Objects

    This is a great way to get started developing solutions on DNN Platform!

    Group 1
    Thu 2:20 pm - 3:20 pm
    • Intro to DNN
    • Introductory and overview

  • Supercharge DNN with Vanjaro

    Join me in this session to build an enterprise level multi-language responsive site with content staging, approval workflows, and revisions in under an hour. We will explore many features of Vanjaro including Drag & Drop Site Builder, Image Editing, and Digital Assets Management.

    Group 4
    Thu 2:20 pm - 3:20 pm
    • Intro to DNN
    • Introductory and overview

  • DNN Leadership Roundtable

    Join the 4 leaders of the DNN Platform community for a roundtable discussion regarding the future of DNN Platform.

    Group 1
    Thu 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
    • Intro to DNN
    • Introductory and overview

  • A SPA module template for the new age

    A new open source module template to get your new project stared in seconds with Github Actions, Semantic versioning, Automatic release, release notes generation, build/debug/deploy/package automation, Reusable WebComponents, Entity Framework, all you need to streamline your development.

    Group 2
    Wed 10:10 am - 11:10 am
    • Development/Security/Upgrades
    • Introductory and overview

  • Structured Content in DNN

    In this session, Ryan Moore with Moore Creative presents an introduction to Structured Content and how you can use DNN to power external use of DNN-controlled data. We will demonstrate and explain both the DNN Evoq Liquid Content solution and comparable Community solution(s) including DNNSharp API Endpoint & XMod Pro (2SXC/Forms&List/Etc.).

    Group 1
    Wed 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
    • Development/Security/Upgrades
    • Intermediate

  • Building DNN Yourself

    You've always wanted to build DNN yourself and begin tweaking its code, but the repo is huge and where to begin? This session will familiarize you with the repo and show you how to get started.

    Group 2
    Wed 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
    • Development/Security/Upgrades
    • Intermediate

  • Advanced CSS — Leveraging SCSS

    Converting your front-end development to leverage SCSS can help provide more consistency in your code, reduce development time, and support future changes and enhancements with ease.

    In this session we will walk you through the process of getting setup with scss and point you to some documentation on getting it setup on your local machine. It’s easier than it looks! Once setup and running SCSS we will walk through the process of compiling with scss and some of the great benefits of SCSS like leveraging variables, mixins, loops, and more. We will end off with providing you a cheat-sheet for using SCSS in your projects and discuss the benefits of auto-compiling and auto-uploading to your environment.

    This session pairs well with the Coding a Custom DNN Theme: DNN Theme Boilerplate session as the Boilerplate theme is built using SCSS.

    This session pairs well with the Headache Free CSS session and will incorporate many of the strategies discussed in the Headache Free methodology.

    Group 4
    Wed 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
    • Development/Security/Upgrades
    • Intermediate

  • Using Robots.txt on a Multi-Site Instance of DNN

    If you've ever dug into DNN, you may have noticed that there is only one robots.txt file for you to use. This may not seem like a big deal at first, but what if you have two or more sites on the same instance of DNN? You may want to have changes that are unique from site-to-site. This session will help you learn how to support unique robots.txt on a multi-site instance of DNN.

    Group 1
    Wed 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
    • Development/Security/Upgrades
    • Intermediate

  • DNN & .NET Core Utilizing The Best of Both

    DNN Platform is an amazing foundation for many types of applications, however, there are times that you might REALLY need to utilize .NET Core for some portion of an application. This session focuses on some real-world lessons in working with a combination of DNN Platform and .NET Core.

    Learning the positive, and negative portions of both platforms, it is easy to architect a solution that can provide great flexibility, performance, and security and still leverage all of the helpful bits of the DNN Platform you come to expect.

    Group 2
    Wed 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
    • Development/Security/Upgrades
    • Intermediate

  • Headache Free CSS

    Writing CSS is easy. Writing clean, scaleable, extendable and future-proof CSS is a bit tricker. The good news is that you can start to incorporate some of these Headache Free CSS strategies into your projects to keep your style sheets from becoming an unwieldy rats nest.

    In this session we will give you some tips and tricks to code for the future of the website and to save yourself some headaches.

    Group 4
    Wed 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
    • Development/Security/Upgrades
    • Introductory and overview

  • A Front-End Developers Checklist Before Going Live

    Pump the brakes! Before you go live with your shiny new website you should take a look at these items. This list contains things you can look to do to improve site performance, user experience for administrators, and avoid future pain-points.

    We will review and provide you a functioning checklist to leverage before deploying your website. And best of all, this is a vetted list we use and continually add to. This list will result in a consistent and more structured deployment strategy.

    Group 3
    Wed 2:20 pm - 3:20 pm
    • Development/Security/Upgrades
    • Introductory and overview

  • Best first impression with AMP Sites and DNN

    Most often, SEO and optimization come as the last step of our site development. This leads to chaos and we end up having a site that's too hard to optimize. What if there was a way to optimize it with best practices right from the beginning. Here is where AMP comes in. In this talk, you will learn about this fantastic web framework that promises amazing performance and optimized SEO. We will go through a quick tour of how to implement AMP with your DNN sites without much extra effort.

    Group 2
    Thu 9:00 am - 10:00 am
    • Development/Security/Upgrades
    • Introductory and overview

  • Evoq & DNN Community Upgrade and Migration Scenarios

    I have had the pleasure of upgrading DNN instances from version 3 up through version 9 and know that there are many hurdles and steps involved to a smooth upgrade! Additionally, migration, copying and moving or splitting DNN instances can be complex!

    In this session, we discuss 10+ years of experiences with DNN upgrades:
    - Copying a Portal within a DNN instance
    - Moving a Portal to a new DNN instance
    - Backup and migration tools and steps
    - DNN upgrade path, common breaking points and issues
    - What to do when you must remain on an older version
    - Upgrading DNN from 5x to 9x
    - Upgrading from DNN Community to Evoq
    - Challenges involved with "sidegrading" or downgrading from Evoq 8x to DNN Community
    - Addressing failed upgrades & issues
    - "Upgrade or Rebuild?" discussion points

    Group 4
    Thu 9:00 am - 10:00 am
    • Development/Security/Upgrades
    • Intermediate

  • Build a Yelp like site w/Low Code App Builder

    In this session, we will build an application like Yelp, complete with member profiles, reviews, ratings, search, & filtering. We will use the new Live Visualizer 2 - an app builder for DNN Platform to build an app under an hour that is secure, scalable, and extensible.

    Group 1
    Thu 10:10 am - 11:10 am
    • Development/Security/Upgrades
    • Intermediate

  • Configuring your DNN development environment

    Get an overview of how to configure your development environment for building DNN Extensions.

    Group 2
    Thu 10:10 am - 11:10 am
    • Development/Security/Upgrades
    • Introductory and overview

  • Implement systems 40 times faster with DNN and Low-Code

    Low-Code is the biggest paradigm shift in software development since Agile. Learn how to implement systems 40 times faster than before on DNN using Plant an App, the latest module from DNN Sharp.

    Group 1
    Thu 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
    • Development/Security/Upgrades
    • Intermediate

  • Create Angular SPA in minutes on DNN and use Live-Reloading during development

    Learn how to integrate Angular with DNN in minutes, and in a way which let's you develop while live-reloading the solution in DNN

    Group 2
    Thu 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
    • Development/Security/Upgrades
    • Advanced
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