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- Day: Oct 12
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A practical guide to creating web content
Based on the forthcoming book of the same name, this workshop is a day long bootcamp in getting you from a blank page to a confident content wrangler.
We will be working on a real website, your website in fact, as we look at how we can find out what content you already have, how to improve it and what we can do next. A personal site or small business site, such as a blog or portfolio, is perfect for this and I honestly don’t mind if you’ve never written a word or if you have an archive of 500 articles.
Along the way we will discuss working with clients and how you can help them create good content on time and on budget, what makes good content work, and when to use audio, visuals or text to convey information and narrative.
We will cover auditing content, creating tools such as styleguides, page tables and content plans, measuring and adjusting content and simple copywriting techniques, that apply to projects big and small. You will be able to take what you have learnt and executed on this small scale and apply it to much bigger things with confidence.
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Building web and native mobile apps for iOS, Android and more with HTML5
As mobile, tablet and other platforms proliferate, the demand for native apps, as well as mobile and tablet optimised web sites and apps has grown dramatically.
With web technologies, developers can have their cake and eat it too, developing sophisticated native mobile and tablet apps, as well as mobile and tablet optimized web sites and apps using the technologies they already know well — HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
Because there is no “one size fits all” approach to mobile development, we will walk through a few of the cross-platform mobile approaches that developers and designers can take to build mobile apps and sites.
If you are a web designer or developer comfortable with HTML and CSS, and you know your way around JavaScript, then you’ll be more than equipped to participate. In advance of the workshop, you might find it useful to brush up on your jQuery skills as they will definitely come in handy.