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Learning Markdown: 20 minutes that will change your life

site building / content strategy / big ideas
Beginner

Don't you wish there was a way to write content faster without having to log into your WordPress site?  Turns out there is and it is called Markdown, which can be written in any text editor you choose.  Based on the basics of HTML and with a goal of making marked up content as readable as possible, Markdown takes only minutes to learn and is the most transportable way you can write your content.  Sites like GitHub, Bitbucket and Reddit already expect it and coming with WordPress 5.0, your default editor will be expecting it too.  

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Just What We Do: A Holistic Approach to Accessibility & Compliance

testing / content strategy / ux
Beginner

Walk away from this creatively practical, amusing, and down to earth look at Accessibility with a firm understanding of the Accessibility Life Cycle and the roles each of us plays in its success.

  • Better understand how Accessibility impacts all users

  • Learn the difference between WCAG 2.0 & 2.1 and see where 508 compliance fits in

  • Have a short list of common issues to help you set the stage with stakeholders

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Upgrading your local development ...

Looking to move your local development environment to a more modern solution? This workshop will introduce students to DDEV, a Docker-powered local development environment built on modern principles and designed to be flexible, customizable, and powerful.

The workshop will include hands-on exercises for installing DDEV and its prerequisites on Mac OS X, Ubuntu, and Windows 10, as well as the basics of getting both new sites and existing sites up-and-running. Finally, we’ll cover the basic, day-to-day DDEV commands.

Beginner

Navigating the Issue Queue - A be...

Many Drupallers dream of contributing to the Drupal project. But where do you begin? And more importantly, what are some of the tools you use to navigate the adventure successfully?

In this half-day training, we will discuss why contribution to open source is important and look at some of the tools necessary for working in the Drupal issue queue as a new contributor.

Beginner

A Drupal 8 Crash Course for Non-D...

A Drupal 8 Crash Course for Non-Developers, What am I getting myself into?

Are you responsible for project management, content, or vendor selection and preparing to work with Drupal? This one-day training delivers all of the tools you need to get started. Delivered by an Acquia Certified Drupal Developer, this training will answer the questions you didn’t even know to ask. Targeted to the non-developer, this training is perfect for individuals that need to get up and running in Drupal - fast!

Beginner

Drupal 8 Content Migrations

Learn to move content to Drupal 8 using the Migrate module without writing a single line of PHP. This training is aimed at site builders who will learn to combine various core and contributed modules and write YAML files to accomplish content migrations. No prior experience with the Migrate module is required.

Source, process, and destination plugins will be explained to learn how each affect the migration. By the end of the session, you will have a better understanding on how the Migrate module works and the thought process required to plan and perform migrations.

Beginner

The Psychology of Fake News (And What Tech Can Do About It)

big ideas / being human / beyond drupal
Beginner

Fake news spread six times faster in social media than true stories. As technologists, our industry has built the tools that enable the spread of disinformation across social, the web, and beyond. But fake news is nothing new. With each advancement in the technology that powers the spread of information, from the printing press to blogging, fake news is there. What makes fake news so appealing? Is it a tech problem or a human problem?

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Design for Non-designers rkoranda Fri, 07/27/2018 - 22:17
design / ux / being human
Beginner
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Watch the session video here.

Great design helps you reach your audience, increase credibility and achieve organizational goals. Unfortunately, sometimes it’s impractical to hire a designer for every visual task—whether it’s editing an image for social media, creating a flyer or an entire website. You may be left to your own devices when it comes to visual decisions.

101 Usability improvements (more reasons to choose Backdrop CMS)

beyond drupal / ux / editor experience
Beginner

In this session we'll showcase many of the user experience improvements that went into (and are still going into...) Backdrop CMS.

Because Backdrop's audience is a slightly less technical crowd than Drupal's it was important that the software be more intuitive and easier for everyone learn. Because many Backdrop projects may be also be considering WordPress as a software solution, Backdrop needed to be nearly as straightforward while still retaining it's ability to produce more flexible highly customized websites.

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