- Web 101 for Designers
What you need to know before you design your first website
Based on a talk given to the Twin Cities Creatives' Group, this session will cover the following:
- What is HTML and CSS? What about XHTML, HTML 5? What jargon should I learn?
- What size do I make my website?
- How do I do positioning, layout, line breaks, color matching... ?
- When do I use a JPG or a GIF or a PNG? What is a PNG?
- Browsers and platform differences and how to embrace them
- What fonts do I use? Safely?
- Tips to keep your insanity as a designer!
- Drupal 101 for the rest of us
What can this CMS thingy do for me or my clients?
A great content management system can give your clients the control they desire over their own website and free you to do what you do best. This session will cover:
- What the heck is a CMS?
- Drupal as a CMS, what it's made of, how to get it
- Core functionalities of Drupal and why you should pay attention
- Different environments & setting Drupal up on your own computer
- Drupal modules - there's a party out there
- The modules I don't leave home without
- Basecamp 101
Simple project management: keep sites on track, clients happy
When I first started Ten Seven, I only had two or three clients. Their needs were really easy to keep track of in my head... but once I got more clients and projects, things quickly become unmanageable without a system. Enter Basecamp, from 37signals. We'll cover:
- Simple, simple, simple project management
- It's a web app, everyone can use it
- Different plans, choose the right one: we use time tracking
- Organize into clear projects and companies
- The dashboard, and why you'll love it
- Do all your communication through Basecamp: messages, files, threads and comments online, through email or an app.
- To-do lists, milestones and when to use each one
- Writeboards, for those of us who are writers! Or, need to share private information.
- Throw Microsoft Project in the trash
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