1. USER EXPERIENCE FLIGHT
CHECK
WORDCAMP LA • 2011

2. WHAT DO YOU DO?
DESIGNERS DEVELOPERS

3. SITE AS SOFTWARE
Release worthy
Respect users - even if it’s just you & your cat
Fixes take time & money
Build with upgrades, new features in mind
Cut the right corners - aka ad hoc QA

4. WORKS AS EXPECTED
Blog, Website, Both, Who Cares?
Snozberries taste like Snozberries
Be Yourself, Be Creative, Be Careful
Experience Extends to Content Creators
URLs Are Your Currency
Tame Dynamic Plugins

5. BE FLEXIBLE
Embrace Constraints Your users are your users
Pick your battles Evolution vs. revolution
Don’t give into dogma Iterate

6. KNOW YOUR USERS
Tailor content and experience to your users
Your users may include machines
Respect, Flexibility & Control
Mobility - Is your content & culture mobile?
Analytics are your friend

7. MASTER CHECKLIST
BLOG SINGLE PAGE
Sharing tools Comment Gravatars
Permalink Structure Links to Comment
Permalinked Elements Author
Pagination / Next & Prev Author Comment
Number of posts Coloring
Featured Posts Pagination
Alt text Threading
Discussion Beyond Blog

8. MASTER CHECKLIST
CONNECTIONS ANALYTICS
URL services Google Analytics
Subscribe via email Chartbeat
Facebook like Click Tracking
SEO Tools 3rd Party Stats
Twitter Flash video, JWPLayer,
Trackbacks etc

9. MASTER CHECKLIST
FALLBACKS WORST CASE
Search box Image sizes breaking
Search results Layout
Smart 404 Garbage code in posts
Empty sections
RANDOM Overloaded sections
Author links
Performance
Favicon

10. MASTER CHECKLIST
FEEDS & EXTRAS
Full Posts
Authors
Comments
Permalinks
Yahoo! Pipes
Feedburner

11. EXTRAS (FEEDS)
RSS feeds more info: http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Feeds
Category RSS Feeds:
http:// example.com /category/categoryname/feed
Tag RSS Feeds:
http:// example.com /tag/tagname/feed
Author RSS Feeds
http://example.com/author/authorname/feed/

12. EXTRAS (PAGINATION)
Pagination plugin example:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-paginate/

13. EXTRAS (PERMALINKS)
More info about permalinks:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks
http://codex.wordpress.org/Settings_Permalinks_Screen
Common pattern:
http:// example.com /year/month/post-name
http:// example.com /year/month/day/post-name

14. EXTRAS (EMAIL)
More info on using Feedburner for Email Subscriptions
http://bit.ly/qManJO

15. EXTRAS (TWITTER)
More info on using adding twitter and facebook to your comments:
http://bit.ly/oB5ZNP (twitter)
http://bit.ly/oD5FaD (facebook)
http://bit.ly/qqL04X (general social tool integration w/ comments)

16. EXTRAS (404 PAGE)
More info on creating custom 404 pages:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_an_Error_404_Page
Sample 404 pages:
http://en.wordpress.com/askgsadkgad
https://github.com/kgasdkgasd
http://wufoo.com/404/

17. WPHAPPYHOUR.ORG
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