WordCamp Jakarta 2017 Session Five Things to Worry Later for Stress-free Site Making by Hafiz Rahman #wcjkt

1. Five Things to Worry Later
For Stress-free Site Making
Hafiz Rahman
https://hafiz.blog

3. CHAPTER I
The Right Domain Name

4. hfz.io
trendy, hacker domain

5. hfz.im
.io renewal too expensive

6. hafiz.blog
Company owns .blog, has actual name

7. Naming things is hard

8. So,
do it later

9. When developing,
set site as private

10. Maintenance mode
Block search engines

11. Use host’s
temporary address

12. Add real domain name
when really ready

13. CHAPTER II
SEO

14. “What is a good permalink structure?”
“Title first then site name,
or site name first then title?”
“How do I add META tags?”

15. Before optimizing,
you must have
something to optimize

16. Content

17. With poor content,
SEO is useless

18. Who is your site for?

19. How will your content
help your audience?

20. How will you do it
uniquely?

21. What media will you use?

22. Publishing schedule
Editors
Authors

23. CHAPTER III
Themes

24. “What’s a good theme
for selling t-shirts?”

25. “What’s a good theme
to promote local tourism?”

26. Right layout
Good pictures

27. Steal their layout

28. Stock Photos
http://bit.do/find-free-media

29. Typography
Clear, readable, context-appropriate

30. Colors
Dark text on light background

31. Whitespace
Things need room to breathe

32. Theme Design Overview
http://bit.do/learn-theme-design

33. CHAPTER IV
Plugins

34. No plugins
unless you really,
really,
really need it.

35. Add slowly,
test individually

36. Have an actual plan,
a business plan

37. All plugins should
serve a purpose
in your plan

38. CHAPTER V
Getting Things Right
Immediately

39. WordPress is easy

40. WordPress is hard

41. Be realistic

42. It can be done,
just not by tomorrow

43. Make it easy and cheap
to test and break things

44. Have a backup system

45. Consider a staging system

46. Find who can help you

47. Take your time
Join community

48. Thanks
Hafiz Rahman
https://hafiz.blog