Speaker Spotlight – Brooks Walch

What is the name of your company and can you tell us something about yourself?
design is casual. I am Brooks Walch, an interactive designer who was attracted to WordPress’ elegance as a publishing platform after working with more overly complicated and expensive custom cms for design/ad agencies.

Can you tell us why you love WordPress?
I love WordPress providing the essence of what people wish for in a sophisticated editable website. Being open source and free and always improving, allowing people to nurture and customize their websites as their imaginations and technical abilities allow. From there, anyone can share in the community and there becomes potential for a lot of interesting creations.

What is your topic for WordCamp?
Since including WordPress as an option to get clients on the web, and delving into customizing WordPress themes a bit, I have now gone through the process of creating a simple html5, css3 ready, casual theme, and have submitted it to the wp theme review team.

What do you hope attendees learn from your session?
I thought this would be a nice topic to celebrate the casual theme, and informative for anyone thinking about preparing their own theme for the public themes directory.

How do you use WP in your business?
design is casual is available to design and customize WordPress websites, cultivating clear communication and design.

About karenalma

I've been part of the WordPress community since 2010, when I co-founded the Albuquerque WordPress meetup and co-organized the first-ever WordCamp Albuquerque. Over the years I co-organized four WordCamps in Albuquerque and spoke at events from Buenos Aires to Rio de Janeiro to Phoenix, in both English and Spanish, including an early WordPress for Kids session in Albuquerque that I'm still a little proud of. I spent the better part of a decade at Automattic building the company's Talent Acquisition function from the ground up, and somewhere in there, life got full: family, work, etc. Now I'm back, still at Automattic and stepping into the role of Head of Operations and Events for the WordPress Project and genuinely glad to be here. I have a deep love and respect for this community and a lot of energy to pitch in and help make WordPress!
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