hiring and working with website designers and developers

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You're the expert in social change. So, why are you expected to know whether to build your website in Drupal or WordPress? To know the difference between CSS and CMS? Get answers to all your questions about managing website contractors and vendors, including: - What is a content management system? OR Why can’t I make my own updates to our site? - What’s a WordPress theme? AND, are the free ones really free? - We’ve hired folks to re-design our website. Do they build it too? (This is one portion of a webinar I facilitated as YTH's director of marketing and communications for Ford Foundation grantees. The webinar was co-facilitated by Alex Medina, coordinator of web content and social networking at Answer/ Sex, Etc.)

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Hiring and Working With

Tech Vendors #1:

Website Design and

Development

for the Ford Foundation

Lauren Girardin, @girardinl, lg@laurengirardin.com

Director, Marketing and Communications, YTH, @YTHorg

Young

people

deserve real

information,

when they need it,

how they need it.

@girardinl @YTHorg

CSS

HTML

SEO

CMS

IA

SEM

UI/UX

RESPONSIVE DESIGN

THEMES

@girardinl @YTHorg

HTML

HyperText Markup Language

start tag content end tag

attribute value

<h1>Post title</h1>

<p>Paragraph <em>text</em> with a

<a href=http://url.com>link</a>.</p>

@girardinl @YTHorg

CSS

Cascading Style Sheets

element property value

rule

declaration

h1 {

color: #ffffff;

font-size: 10em;

font-family: Arial, sans-serif;

}

@girardinl @YTHorg

YOU ARE

THE {CSS}

TO MY <HTML>

@girardinl @YTHorg

CMS

Content Management System

front end back end

theme database

website visitors

content managers

@girardinl @YTHorg

CMS

Content Management System

CMS

Content Management System

IA

Information Architecture

Home

About

Staff

Board

Contact

Programs

Women

Children

News Blog

Social Search

@girardinl @YTHorg

SEO

Search Engine Optimization

SEO

SEM

Search Engine Marketing

SEM SEM

SEO

Responsive design

One site for every screen.

Creative Commons image from http://sparksheet.com/theres-no-such-thing-as-responsive-content/ @girardinl @YTHorg

UI/UX

User Interface / User Experience

Image based on one produced by @ed_lea, inspired by @jeanniehuang via @jeffrey @girardinl @YTHorg

Themes

Deploy your content.

@girardinl @YTHorg

GOOD

FAST CHEAP

PRICEY SLOW

CRAPPY

you can pick TWO @girardinl @YTHorg

GOOD

FAST CHEAP

PRICEY SLOW

CRAPPY

you can pick TWO @girardinl @YTHorg

Resources

• General: Lynda.com web tutorials ($), CodeAcademy.com

• HTML & CSS: w3schools.com, Turnwall.com Web

Development Basics

• SEO: Google Webmasters on YouTube,

SearchEngineWatch.com, The Moz Blog

• Responsive design: Smashing Magazine, Mashable

• UI/UX: DesignShack.net post, WebDesignerDepot.com post

• RFPs: TechSoup’s RFP Library

• If you can tolerate irreverence and blue humor, check out The

Oatmeal’s comics, How a website design goes straight to… &

Why you don’t like changes to your design

@girardinl @YTHorg

yth.org

@YTHorg @girardinl

facebook.com/YTHorg

Register!

YTH Live yth.org/live

April 6-8, 2014, San Francisco, CA

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