Archive for the ‘work’ Category

AIM7: The Dawson Way of Doing Things: A Study of Our Path Using WordPress

Tuesday, October 10th, 2017

Presented by Jonathan Perlman Dawson College in Montreal, Quebec, Canada with 10,000+ students and 1,000+ faculty and staff has adopted WordPress as our primary web publishing platform. We’ve mostly had success, but we’ve also had our share of failures and growing pains. In this case study, I’m going to talk about how we started out […]

AIM4: Mobile First: Writing and Designing Page Content in the Age of Mobile

Monday, October 9th, 2017

Presented by Catherine Harwood Are your website pages full of phrases such as “look in the right column” or phone numbers without area codes so they’re not easy to dial on a mobile device? Are your page’s text layouts, tables, and images optimized for both desktop and the responsive move to mobile? With 70 percent […]

AIM6: Taking Content Beyond Mobile

Monday, October 9th, 2017

Presented by Travis Totz Most institutions, companies, and startups are constantly wrestling with how to deliver content to their constituents and users on many different experiences. Adopting a content strategy that focuses on varied intake of your content will enable a myriad of benefits that go far beyond delivering the right content to the right […]

AIM2: Encrypt All The Things: Practical Encryption from SSL to Email and Beyond

Monday, October 9th, 2017

Presented by Chris Wiegman There’s a lot of talk about website security, keeping sites updated and making sure passwords are strong, etc. These techniques might be great for your site itself but aren’t helping your privacy or your users and, in the right circumstances, can leave your fancy new passwords and other data open to […]

DPA1: Discover the Hidden Power of Chrome Developer Tools

Monday, October 9th, 2017

Presented by RJ Bruneel Chrome Developer Tools is a great tool for inspecting and debugging code, but it is capable of so much more. For example, did you know you can modify CSS/SCSS code in Chrome and automatically save your changes to the corresponding CSS file? Chrome Developer Tools can be intimidating and there is […]

WPScan WPscan false positives

Wednesday, April 27th, 2016

WPscan is a popular command line tool for scanning WordPress installations to find vulnerabilities. It is a frontline tool used to find access points for your site – and – if it’s good enough for that hackers, you should be using it too! I recommend downloading it immediately to test your sites. However, I just […]

Webinar: 50 Shades of Gray. Is it accessible or not?

Wednesday, January 28th, 2015

Where: online When: Wednesday, January 28, 2015 at 1pm CDT Google “degrees of disability.” Go ahead; google it. I’ll wait. 112 million results? That’s a lot, isn’t it? From government agencies to higher education institutions, everyone has their own guide to help them determine levels of disability. What does this tell us? That it’s pretty challenging to determine […]

WordPress and Beer – Feedback

Tuesday, November 18th, 2014

Just received the audience feedback from my 2014 HighEdWeb presentation and wanted to share. Thanks again to everyone who attended! Evaluation Summary I didn’t really have an estimate on how many people attended my initial session, but looking at the numbers it was a packed house. A total of 69 people filled out an evaluation. […]

Better Living Through Automation: Defeating Time Sucks and Doing Better Work

Tuesday, October 21st, 2014

Presenters Jesse Lavery – Allegheny College Location: Skyline II As a small office (or office of one) tasked with managing your institution’s website, social media accounts, and teams of co-workers and work study students, there’s a LOT to keep track of and not enough time in the day to deal with it. What if we […]

Moving to the Client – Writing Full Applications in JavaScript

Tuesday, October 21st, 2014

Presenters Chad Killingsworth – Missouri State University Location: Pavilion Ballroom East JavaScript has moved from providing minor interaction to a full scale development platform. Major application such as Gmail and Google Calendar have hundreds of thousands of lines of code all written in JavaScript. Mobile browsers have full featured browsers but performance and memory constraints […]