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It’s been an incredible journey since we reconvened earlier this year. The enthusiasm and involvement continue to exceed our expectations. In August, we had another laid back social event at The Coffee Bar & Kitchen. Thanks to Andy and the team for the great venue, food, and drinks.

Natasha led an engaging open discussion session that touched on a range of topics. From AI to the potential metamorphosis of Stoke-on-Trent into a ‘Silicon Stoke’—the conversations were as dynamic as the topics themselves.

We want to take a moment to thank everyone who participated in August’s meetup—long-time attendees and newcomers alike. To those who joined us for the first time, we extend a warm welcome, and we’re glad to have you with us. Your enthusiasm, knowledge sharing, and engagement are integral to what makes our meetup special.

Turning to the future, we’re setting our sights on September’s meetup. We’re excited to share that we’re exploring a potential new venue. While details are still in the works, we’re optimistic about the potential it holds. Keep an eye on the Meetup page for updates; any venue changes will be communicated via email.

As always, our mission remains to foster a space where design, development, and technology enthusiasts can come together to exchange ideas, insights, and inspiration. If you share our passion and want to be a part of our community, whether as a sponsor, speaker, or attendee, we’d love to hear from you.

Mark your calendars for the next meetup, set for September 14th. Whether it’s your first meetup or you’re a regular, RSVP now to reserve your spot. We can’t wait to see you there!

Thanks for coming along to the September edition of Staffs Web Meetup.

A massive thank you to our sponsors – My Clever Group, Dataflexnet, Codeweavers, VesselsValue and Kanuka Digital.

Talks

Big Data Quality

Louise Bradshaw — Senior Data Analyst, VesselsValue

In an ever expanding data environment, data quality management is becoming more important and challenging than ever. Louise will look at data quality principles and what to think about when designing new products.

Improving your UX approach

Natasha W — UX/Front-end Developer, VesselsValue

Slides

In this talk I aim to outline the complexity of UX and the responsibilities required to achieve a good UX approach. I will demonstrate key ways to help you improve the UX of a service, application or website and show you how to go about creating user personas and journeys to ensure better understanding of your customers and identify areas which require improvements. I will also discuss the benefits of performing UI and usability testing with your users to confirm whether these improvements are successful.

Thanks for coming along to the August edition of Staffs Web Meetup.

A massive thank you to our sponsors – Codeweavers and Kanuka Digital.

Talks

CSS is dead, long live CSS

Elliot Evans

In the fast paced world of web development, new standards are made and there are new architectures to follow and it seems writing vanilla CSS is no longer common practice. Despite this CSS is always considered as a styling language which does not do as much as you want, form the early days of the internet proposing new standards to the modern day where developers are using different languages to enhance there ability to style websites.

The talk explore why CSS is no longer being used such as: why there has been a huge shift in recent years away to other languages such as SCSS? What is CSS-in-JS and why it exists? Future of CSS / CSS Working drafts and to conclude why the language is not dead.

How to build what your customers want

George Wilde

User stories are a tool that helps software teams understand what a customer needs. So what happens when they are written badly, or misleading? The wrong things get built, there is confusion and wastage. Find out how to write great user stories that get everyone working together to build the things that your customers want.

Thanks for coming along to the July edition of Staffs Web Meetup.

A massive thank you to our sponsors – Codeweavers and Kanuka Digital.

Talks

Going to the dark side, they have cookies

Tim Nash

Everyone should be a little bit worried about security of their site, and at conferences lots of security talks focus on practical steps people can take. In this talk Tim will flip the norms and instead focus on several real examples of sites being hacked but from the attackers perspective.

We will see the whole attacks from the bad actors view identifying targets, analysing vulnerable sites, adding payload, exploiting in doing so showing how sites are infected, how some tools do prevent certain attacks and how clever and indeed not so clever bad actors can circumvent lots of hardening done.

Each step we can analyse what could have been put in place to prevent and frustrate the attack and then look at how this can be implemented on your site.

SEO Mythbusting: Our 5 Most Common Misconceptions

Chris Munday

Being relatively new to client side digital marketing means I’m witnessing for the first time the initial flurry of questions that we’re peppered with during on-boarding.

And while SEO has come a long way since the black hat, link farming days which focused on quick wins and short term planning, some misconceptions have survived, particularly with businesses that are not traditionally found online.

Here are 5 of the most common questions and misconceptions put to us from clients, with some fixes and solutions for dealing with them.