Session Track: Design

ic_devices_other_black_48dpWeb design is just as important as the code that powers it.  Usability and mobile support are what define people’s experience with your product.  Our design track covers this.
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An Intro to Syntactically Awesome Stylesheets (SASS)

Ash Grove A

Sass is the most mature, stable, and powerful professional grade CSS extension language in the world. Sass lets you use features that don’t exist in CSS yet like variables, nesting, mixins, inheritance and other nifty goodies that make writing CSS fun again. Once you start tinkering with Sass, it will take your preprocessed Sass file […]

Beginner Design Training
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Drupal 8 Theming with Twig

Great Falls

Master Drupal 8’s new Twig templating engine to create fun and fast websites with simple steps to help you move from concept to completion. Starting from the bottom up we will walk through setting up and configuring a new Drupal 8 website, learn how to work with core themes and create a Twig theme. We […]

Beginner Design Drupal Tutorial
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Modern Front-End Development Techniques

Ash Grove A

With websites growing in complexity we have an increasing need for better tools to help build, test, and monitor our code. Everything from build scripts to monitoring and device testing. In this talk we will run through the current state of front-end development, from Mobile-First design, automatization to accessibility and linked data. You will learn […]

Design Intermediate Javascript
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Mobile Websites are More Important than You Think

Ash Grove C

With more searches taking place on a mobile device than any other platform. Mobile websites are more important now than ever before. Ensuring that your site is mobile friendly, and not just mobile viewable. This presentation will explain why your website should be mobile friendly and also cover how users treat mobile and desktop site […]

Design Intermediate
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AMP your Site: An Intro to Accelerated Mobile Pages

Fairfax

Is your website mobile friendly? Do you think about how your website is experienced on a mobile device? Make your mobile website truly mobile friendly by using AMP. This presentation will guide you along the way to making your mobile website render fast, even on slower connections.

Design Intermediate
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Website Accessibility: it’s the Right Thing to do

Ash Grove B

Website Accessibility refers to the idea that people of all abilities and disabilities be able to access online content. These disabilities can impair vision, hearing, and movement. Since the early days of the web, accessibility focus in the US has been on government run, and government funded websites. This may soon change. Even if the […]

Beginner Design
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Design Systems and Drupal

Great Falls

Modern web design requires thinking not of a series of pages, but of content, in the abstract. It requires not building a design, but a system. Fortunately, some content management systems fit that model extremely well. In this session, we’ll explore the concept of design components and atomic design, and how they can be realized […]

Beginner Design Drupal
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