A brief introduction of Web Literacy, Web Development, and WordPress as a subject of discussion in Techie Youth in Brooklyn, New York.
Presented by: Irene Bogues (Information Technology Mentor and Advocate)
3. Learning Objectives:
Technical Learning Skills in Web Development
● Ability to evaluate, synthesize, navigate, search engaging content online.
Creative and Critical Writing Skills
● Ability to build and create timely, relevant and meaningful web content.
Communicate and Participate
● Ability to communicate effectively and safely, with communities that share,
build and sustain meaningful content online
5. Topic Outline: Part 1
● Steps in Website Development Process
○ Requirements & User Stories
○ Information Architecture
○ User Experience & Interface Design
○ Build & Test
○ Launching and Maintenance
● Hand Built or CMS (content mgt. system) or Hosted
● CMS Leaders: Drupal, Joomla, Wordpress.org
6. Topic Outline Part 2:
● Designing your first Website.
● Mobile Optimized Website
● What’s a Static Website compared to a Responsive Website
○ >>> ALL websites today should be Responsive - 50% of traffic
from mobile
● Mobile Website vs. Mobile Application
○ >>> Anyone can access mobile site, app must be downloaded
from Apple or ‘droid store
7. Topic Outline: Part 3
● Wordpress Basic Features.
● Installation & Initial Setup
● Choosing & Customizing Wordpress Themes
● Using Wordpress Plugins
● Customizing Wordpress (CSS, custom plugins)
● Social Media Integrations
9. What is Web Development all about?
● broadly refers to the tasks associated with developing websites for
hosting via intranet or internet. The web development process
includes web design, web content development, client-side/server-
side scripting and network security configuration, among other
tasks.
● Web development is also known as website development.
20. What is WordPress
is an online, open source website creation tool
written in PHP. But in non-geek speak, it's
probably the easiest and most powerful
blogging and website content management
system (or CMS) in existence today.
31. Why you should integrate Social Media in your
website
Link building:
● As search engines get smarter, it is
increasingly difficult to stay on top of all the
ways to make sure people can find your
business online when they search.
32. Why you should integrate Social Media in your
website
Being visible:
● The social links/buttons should be at the top, bottom or
side of your home page;
● Links or buttons that stay with the user as they navigate
through the site or from page to page are optimal;
● To make sure users don’t leave your website completely,
make sure the links open the social media channels in a
33. Why you should integrate Social Media in your
website
Improving your ranking in search results:
● adding links to your social channels from your website
actually helps increase the chance that users will find your
website when they search on Google, Bing, Yahoo! and
other engines.
34. Particate in local and online communities
● http://hivenyc.org/
● https://www.meetup.com/WordPressNYC/
● https://www.meetup.com/Big-Media-WordPress-Meetup/
● https://www.meetup.com/NYC-Wordpress-Support/
● https://stackoverflow.com/
● https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/
● https://plus.google.com/communities
● https://www.sitepoint.com/community/
35. Take advantage of Free Online Courses
& Coding Bootcamps
● Codecademy
● NYPL Tech Connect
● MIT OpenCourseware
● Coursera
● Free Code Camp
● Mozilla Developer Network
● Noble Desktop
● A List Apart
● Harvard Extension
● Connect to Learn
● Udacity
● Khan Academy
● ICT Literacy
● Open.Edu
● Grace Hopper Academy
● NP Power Technology Service Corps
● HTML5 Rocks
● Flatiron School
● Udemy
● Coding Dojo Algorithm Prep