Higher Ed Web 2013 presentation - Field of Dreams, build it and they will come

This document provides an agenda and overview for a class on websites and design skills. It discusses using GitHub for collaboration, technologies that power websites like HTML and CSS, search engine optimization, business models, and an upcoming project involving designing a website business. Students are asked to review an existing website for SEO and business factors for homework.

WordPress is the most widely used Content Management System because it's easy to use, easy to customize and it's free! What a lot of people don't realize is how powerful WordPress can be with the right tools. This presentation will show you how powerful WordPress can be with minimal knowledge of how to design or develop websites. We'll cover the themes and plugins you need to know about and hopefully do some things you didn't think WordPress could do. This presentation is for everyone whether you are using WordPress already or not. Users, non-users and developers alike should all walk away having learned something new.

Drupal sessions are presentations held every two weeks by members of the netnode team on Drupal and web development topics. The sessions have a clear structure including an introduction on what will be covered, an overview of the topic, how the topic works, why it is interesting, and where to find more information. The presentations are prepared during two hours of work time and published on netnode's blog and social media channels. Potential topics include Drupal 8, Drush, HTML5, code samples, Drupal distributions, the Drupal services module, and mobile development. The goal is to inspire learning and sharing of knowledge between team members.

The team at Picnic Software giving a detailed walkthrough of their application architecture and development processes for a large Angular and .NET Event Sourcing application.

(Video here: http://confreaks.com/videos/5014-RubyConf2014-6-reasons-jubilee-could-be-a-rubyist-s-new-best-friend or https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=FFR0G89WXI8) Rubyconf 2014 talk on Jubilee, a Vert.x module that runs rack apps. Alternate titles Beyond Rails while using Rails Rails can't do everything I want and <fill> makes me want to cry Rubyconf abstract Do you do web development in Ruby? Have you been forced to go to node or other technologies just for concurrency/websockets etc. Do miss your gems, and tire of functionality you have to implement from scratch? Do you hate javascript? Well no need to switch languages/platforms, Jubilee could be your new best friend. Jubilee, a rack server on top of Vert.x gives you * Concurrency * Speed * Easy Websockets support * Shared Memory * Access to the JVM ecosystem * Ability to reuse your existing Ruby knowledge and gems "Say Hello to your new friend" - Al Pacino

This document profiles Angela Samuels, a technology educator. It outlines her areas of expertise including WordPress, social media, and internet marketing. She has an Associate's degree from Henry Ford Community College, a Bachelor's from Eastern Michigan University, and a Master's from Wayne State University. Her experience includes work at GM and Chrysler, and she has been a freelance trainer for authors and small businesses since 2008. Her clients include web developers and small business owners seeking training.

This document provides information about the author and discusses how to set up a local development environment for WordPress websites. It recommends creating a source folder, adding entries to the hosts file and Apache virtual hosts file, creating a database and user, uploading WordPress files and configuring the site, and restarting web and database services. Finally, it suggests avoiding the built-in WordPress editor and provides contact information for the author.

This document provides an introduction to WordPress, including its history and features. Some key points: - WordPress is a free and open-source content management system (CMS) released in 2003 that powers over 60 million websites. - It allows users to easily create and manage blogs and websites without needing advanced technical skills or coding experience. - WordPress has a large community that contributes thousands of plugins, themes, and support options to extend its functionality. - It is one of the most popular CMS platforms along with Joomla and Drupal, but WordPress is noted as being the easiest to use and having the most extensive library of plugins and themes available.

Convincing an organization that performance matters and is worth investing in is often a tough thing to sell. This was no different at Intuit, who operated many sites built in the pre “web standards” era. Then, one day, one test changed everything – an A/B comparison successfully demonstrated that faster page loads increased conversion and SEO. And the conversation quickly changed from “Not interested” to “How quickly can you make the rest of our pages faster?” A performance team was formed, and optimization began across multiple properties in a phased approach with each release delivering incremental performance gains. As we iterated through the core performance principles, the team introduced additional techniques that led us to exceed our original performance goals. Techniques such as lazyloading, prefetching, smarter image optimization/spriting, and module rewrites enabled us to successfully shave off additional time. This session will cover the steps that we took, lessons learned including what worked well or didn’t work well, as well as the performance improvements that were realized, and their impact on business metrics. Some of the topics include: * How we went from 15s web pages to 2s web pages * How combining CSS/JS files and image sprites had both positive as well as negative impact * How lazy loading of resources and JavaScript rewrites improved our page render times (including our experiments with Control.js) * How we addressed blocking as well as high-latency third-party components * How we solved for issues/constraints arising from shared code across multiple sites * How we optimized for user flows spanning multiple pages with positive results * How automated benchmarking enabled us to continuously monitor our performance health * How we succeeded in making “performance” a common theme among developers, marketers, and stakeholders

Despite the title, this presentation aims to shed some lights to both clients & vendors on how to execute acceptable Drupal projects, focusing on asking the 10 questions discussed in the slides.

Page loading performance, also known as front-end performance, refers to how quickly a web page and all its components (CSS, JS, images) load. It is important for Drupal sites because users expect fast sites and Drupal powers many large, international sites. The document discusses tools for measuring performance like YSlow and Jiffy and provides an overview of optimizations that can be made to Drupal like enabling CSS/JS aggregation, leveraging a CDN, and putting JavaScript files at the bottom of pages. It also outlines challenges and potential solutions discussed in the author's bachelor thesis around CDN integration and relocating JavaScript.

This document discusses challenges of responsive web design and provides solutions. It addresses issues like designers thinking in pixels rather than percentages, page bloat from multiple image versions, and lack of ideal design tools. Suggested approaches include using a fluid grid, delivering optimized responsive images, modular CSS, and conditionally loading content. The document also recommends starting with a community theme like AdaptiveTheme, Omega or Zen to save time. Drupal 8 is advancing responsive features like mobile initiatives and conditional loading to improve front-end performance.

http://newtricks.me Beginners to WordPress sometimes miss the valuable role that Posts can play in making a website a Content Management System.

Learn about Local Development Enviroments and WordPress Multisite. Learn how to create a simple plugin or custom theme. Local Development tools are also covered.

A presentation by John McCaffrey of RailsPerformance.com on how to manage technical information, ask technical questions, expand Ruby and Rails knowledge, and work on interesting side projects for open source, non-profits or as a freelancer

Do you want to learn how to double the value of Confluence in your organization and become a collaboration superhero? Get an overview of how Confluence can be extended through add-ons, integrations and APIs, enabled by the Confluence platform and Atlassian Connect.

The Malvern Red & Black Society needed to update their aging website to better engage alumni and share information. They chose WordPress because it allows non-technical users to easily update content, has a large community for support, and is cost-effective. They worked with a consultant to create a new WordPress site that features photo galleries, forums, surveys and other improvements over the static previous site. While the new site is nearly complete, the Society aims to continue improving it with photo galleries, social publishing and email list management tools.

Presentation I gave at Higher Ed Web 2016 about how the ILR site redesign fostered culture change in the administration of the school.

You’re smart. (You do work in higher ed, after all.) You know your stuff. You have ideas. New ideas. Good ideas. And yet—your clients (internal or external) don’t want your ideas. Or your style guide. They know what they want: the same thing they’ve been doing for the last ten years. Why won’t they just listen to you? The answer is finding ways to turn to client relationships into real collaborations. When we move from a conformance mindset to a collaboration mindset, we can find ourselves in the position to do our best work—work our clients will love. What you’ll learn: • How to move from a conformance to a collaboration mindset. • Using workshop techniques (like job stories, pair writing, mad libs, and more) in meeting settings. • How to uncover the real problems your clients are facing, and solve them—together.

Imagine a world where web CMS (content management system) users are lead through a standardized process, ensuring content meets established guidelines and is properly maintained. Lovely idea, isn’t it? Too often this process flops. Our downfall is overlooking the way people really work. Workflow must be realistic, not idealistic. Yet, content strategy relies on people and process to succeed. So, let’s talk about making content workflow for your CMS the useful process it should be. (Spoiler: Your CMS may not be the solution.)

In this presentation, John Lincoln covers the power of search engine optimization. This is a beginner SEO course that looks at how people are searching on the internet today. https://ignitevisibility.com

WordPress provided a scalable solution for a magazine publishing business that had been struggling with custom content management systems that took too long to build and were difficult for editors to use. The business implemented WordPress which allowed them to build sites faster, empower editors to publish more content independently, and increased traffic while reducing costs. The success of implementing WordPress demonstrated how an open source solution could meet the needs of a growing publishing business.

This document discusses iterative web redesign and micro redesigns. It advocates for taking small, deliberate steps to improve a website over time rather than waiting years between large-scale redesigns. Examples are provided of small changes made to a university website, such as changing the layout of story teasers, that led to major improvements in click-through rates. Tools for tracking website usage and testing changes are also presented. The document encourages attendees to start the redesign process by defining business objectives and tracking key metrics before making small, measurable changes.

User Experience is an increasingly important piece of your online presence. Learn about ways to increase your conversions, decrease your bounce rate and appeal to Google by improving your user experience. We will cover the “what to do’s” the “what not to do’s” and the “why’s” to help get you on your way. Presented By: Mary Davies

The document discusses how to make a SharePoint site intuitive by defining three things: the user, the task, and metrics for measuring success. It covers usability best practices like minimizing cognitive load on users and leveraging users' expectations by following design patterns and conventions. Visual design is important for communicating the site's purpose and guiding users through their tasks. Defining specific success metrics up front helps ensure a site is truly easy to use.

This document discusses lessons learned from implementing responsive web design (RWD) for various nonprofit organizations. It provides four key lessons: 1) Assess website designs and objectives through annual post-season reviews; 2) Engage audiences by building for their attention spans, simplifying calls-to-action, and facilitating sharing; 3) Focus on creating and optimizing content; 4) "Open your (web) horizons" by prioritizing mobile access, using techniques like media queries and fluid designs, and testing across environments. Case studies are presented on how the American Diabetes Association, National Kidney Foundation, World Wildlife Fund, and Be The Match applied these lessons in their RWD implementations.

What Makes SharePoint UX Good?What is UX? What defines good UX? Evaluation Criteria for SharePoint UX Key Tips from the Field The Future of SharePoint & Office 365 UXUX is the short for User Experience UX is the experience that the user has while interacting with your X It’s more about how the user feels when they use your X Many different parts compose the UX, no “one things” makes it UX is NOT the interface or design of your X UI is short for User Interface It’s what you see in the browser Help messages, buttons, modals, characters, style, menus, navigation, pages UI is an incredibly important part of UX

The design, UX and ecommerce experts at agency Digital River, who will walk you through steps you can take to optimize the flow within your website and maximize conversions, showing examples and common mistakes made. To view the on-demand webinar, register now at: https://hs.wpengine.com/webinar-form-function-maximum-conversions

Branding alone cannot support the user experience in SharePoint. The successful redesign of an existing SharePoint site is dependent on multiple factors that are often overlooked. This session is designed for Architects, Designers, and IT Pros and includes the following: -Common Causes of Branding Problems in SharePoint -Demonstration of "crappy content" and impact on branding Overview of the elements of User Experience (UX) -Methods to improve user experience and overall look and feel without touching a master page

- The speaker led an effort to remove over 4,300 unnecessary inline links from technical documentation to improve readability, build times, and the ability to refactor content. - Removing the links was challenging due to the large number of topics and complex connections between them. Writers had to evaluate each link and determine if it could be deleted or needed an alternative solution. - Some writers found it difficult to let go of links they had used for task-based documentation, while others enjoyed streamlining content. Ongoing work is focused on better structuring documentation and finding alternatives to links.

This document provides an overview of the InboundWriter software company and its content optimization platform. InboundWriter automates, measures, and scales content creation for reach, engagement, and conversion. It provides insights into what readers care about and automates research/topic modeling. The software coaches writers with tips to maximize content value. It has received awards for its impact on metrics like traffic, ranking, and conversions. The company is working on an enterprise tier to make optimization simpler at scale for teams through features like multi-user functionality, advanced reporting, and precision in keyword/topic research.

This document provides an overview of Google Chrome DevTools for developers. It discusses how to open DevTools, the benefits of using it such as inspecting and editing HTML/CSS in real-time, debugging JavaScript, and measuring performance. Live demonstrations are provided of editing HTML/CSS, using the console to run JavaScript commands, debugging JavaScript code, and analyzing network performance. The document also briefly describes Thinkful's web development program which provides mentorship and career preparation.

The document discusses the fundamentals of fundraising in the digital world. It shows how fundraising has evolved from Fundraising 1.0, which relied on methods like direct mail, telephone, and in-person solicitation, to Fundraising 2.0, which incorporates digital channels like online, email, and mobile. The document outlines four steps for nonprofits to effectively fundraise in the digital age: be a good fundraiser, be a better marketer, let go of outdated practices, and learn from mistakes by analyzing data. It emphasizes testing approaches, analyzing metrics, and continually improving practices.

Presentation from webinar with the Blue Fish Development Group on using Alfresco Share as a Corproate Intranet.

The document summarizes an organization's journey towards adopting agile transformation. It discusses how the development team was previously perceived as slow, expensive, and operating without visibility. A large project exemplified these issues. The organization explored adopting agile/scrum practices to improve collaboration, increase flexibility, and deliver higher quality products faster. Initial results were positive with successful mini-releases and feedback. However, the journey is ongoing and communication remains vital as agile/scrum must be adapted to each business. The document cautions that while agile/scrum helped, it is not a "silver bullet" and ongoing improvements are needed.

Are you an internal communicator who owns and manages the intranet? Are you looking to redesign your intranet but are not sure how Microsoft's Modern Communication sites fit into your project? Attend this session to learn about what features Communication Sites provide and how you can leverage them. This session will also be demo heavy to showcase key features that are available for 1st Release users in Office 365 tenants.

I use personas to support the development of the University of Edinburgh's corporate Content Management System and associated services. A significant challenge is to try to ensure that all members of the team understand and empathise with the personas that represent our CMS user group. This session (first presented February 2014 at a Web Publishing Community session) outlines activities I use to help foster shared understanding within the team and wider group of stakeholders.

A content type in Drupal is a set of fields that define a particular type of content. It has two primary elements: the base configuration, which sets default properties; and fields, which are categories of data that can be added. To create a content type, go to Structure > Content types > Add content type and add the desired fields. Views is used to manage how content is displayed on the site.

Drupal Camp Cebu 2019 is a guide on how to become rich and famous through Drupal. It recommends finding an open source project like Drupal that you enjoy, contributing to it, creating a LinkedIn profile, and waiting for job offers to come in. The guide was started by a student and notes that the company that makes Drupal, PBC, is currently hiring.