{"id":921,"date":"2018-06-08T15:00:58","date_gmt":"2018-06-08T18:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2018.halifax.wordcamp.org\/?p=921"},"modified":"2018-06-08T17:06:43","modified_gmt":"2018-06-08T20:06:43","slug":"speaker-spotlight-david-moore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/halifax.wordcamp.org\/2018\/speaker-spotlight-david-moore\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Spotlight &#8211; David Moore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1011\" src=\"https:\/\/2018.halifax.wordcamp.org\/files\/2018\/05\/Speakers-Spotlight-David-Moore.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/halifax.wordcamp.org\/2018\/files\/2018\/05\/Speakers-Spotlight-David-Moore.jpg 700w, https:\/\/halifax.wordcamp.org\/2018\/files\/2018\/05\/Speakers-Spotlight-David-Moore-300x148.jpg 300w, https:\/\/halifax.wordcamp.org\/2018\/files\/2018\/05\/Speakers-Spotlight-David-Moore-500x247.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Founder, Director of Operations at ShadesColour &amp; Associates. David Moore is an eCommerce expert and developer, with over 10 years of real world experience both building online stores, and running them.<\/p>\n<h3>What\u2019s been your best experience with WordPress?<\/h3>\n<p>I&#8217;m happy to a be a WordPress\/woocommerce developer. I&#8217;m really happy. I run other businesses and WordPress has given me the means in which I can represent my own businesses, and in turn, help other businesses to better represent themselves on the internet.<\/p>\n<p>I was an early adopter of WordPress. I&#8217;ve been using it since Version 2, and I&#8217;m really proud to be involved with something that has really grown in all kinds of leaps and bounds.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still finding new uses for WordPress, which I think is awesome!<\/p>\n<h3><!--more--><br \/>\nTell us a bit about your WordCamp Halifax talk.<\/h3>\n<p>It&#8217;s all about the basics of eCommerce. It all starts with the thought of, &#8220;I think I&#8217;d like to sell something on the internet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>How do you get to that point of actually saying to the world, &#8220;Hey, look at me, I&#8217;m selling something, and my store is all ready for you to use.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll cover things from shipping and payment gateways, to images and compression, some mobile functionality, I&#8217;ll probably bring up speed and using too many plugins&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>eCommerce is not necessarily a hard task. Like anything it&#8217;s a skill you can learn. There is a lot of little moving parts to eCommerce and I think it&#8217;s a lot of fun. So we&#8217;ll take a walk through choosing a product, setting up a store, enabling all that you need to enable, and be ready to start marketing it.<\/p>\n<p>And if anyone wants to dive a little deeper, I can entertain that too!<\/p>\n<h3>What\u2019s your favourite thing about WordCamps, or if your first one&#8230; what are you looking forward to?<\/h3>\n<p>Happiness Bar. It&#8217;s a chance for me to sit down with someone, typically one on one and try to solve a problem they&#8217;re having. I like puzzles, I&#8217;m problem solver\/nerd&#8230; but with spectacular people skills, and I&#8217;m an extrovert; in my experience that&#8217;s a rare mix in the world of developers.<\/p>\n<h3>Let&#8217;s get philosophical&#8230; what are you most proud of?<\/h3>\n<p>Starting a business, watching it grow and fall apart, and from the ashes growing a much larger businesses, which will soon go national&#8230; We&#8217;ll talk about this in my talk too.<\/p>\n<h2>Session Details<\/h2>\n<p>eCommerce is a really <strong>REALLY<\/strong> big thing in the world, yet Canadians are still dragging their feet in the mud when it comes to selling online. Let\u2019s break down some walls as I guide you through the basics of setting up an online store.<\/p>\n<p>There is a reason I\u2019m one of the few WooCommerce developers in Nova Scotia\u2026 eCommerce scares people, even devs! This talk is good for anyone interested in e-commerce.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll go over the basics: physical products vs digital products\/services, shipping providers, taxes, payment gateways, SSL\/security. Depending on how people feel, we\u2019ll go a little deeper, and maybe collectively pray to the shipping gods that USPS buys out CanadaPost &amp; saves us all. (half joking).<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to eCommerce, there are no stupid questions, no matter how small, and I\u2019ll happily answer any questions anyone has.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Founder, Director of Operations at ShadesColour &amp; Associates. David Moore is an eCommerce expert and developer, with over 10 years of real world experience both building online stores, and running them. What\u2019s been your best experience with WordPress? 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