Website 101 Podcast

Sean was interviewed on the Craft Entries podcast. Listen to a snippet of the episode here. You can listen to the full episode at Craft Entries

• Lunch Bytes - our live stream every 1st and 3rd Wednesday at 11:30am EST.
• Cool Projects
• Testimonials
• Referrals
• Gifts

• Disabling copy/paste
• Open in new tab
• Click here
• Using placeholder text and not using labels
• Low contrast text
• Not enough white space / breathing room
• No comments in your code or unformatted code
• For clients: Identify problems, don't suggest solutions.
• Dates on blogs that are infrequently updated
  
• Carousels / sliders
• Popups, modals, lightboxes
• Full size images on mobile

• What is ADHD?
• Chris's history and experience with ADHD
• Challenges for women getting diagnosed
• How does ADHD impact Chris's career in web develop
• Things an employer can do for an employee with ADHD
• Time awareness / blindness
• Reactions Chris receives when people learn he has ADHD
• What teachers can do to support students with ADHD
• See all the resources and links Chris has prepared for people with ADHD here: https://adhdftw.com/website-101/

• Ryans path to online teacher
• First course was with Pragmatic Programmers
• The switch from a la cart to subscription modal
• Udemy and course platforms
• Communication with Pixel and Tonic about upcoming features and changes
• Advantages/disadvantages of discord servers
• Chat GPT
• CraftQuest is launching a discord server!
• How Ryan learns new technologies
• Ryan's approach to teaching explained
• Ryan has strong opinions about Craft CMS
• What makes a good topic for a course, a lesson, or a livestream
• What Ryan does use for screen recording and editing

• Turn it off and on
• Our experiences providing technical support
• How to troubleshoot before submitting a support request
• Rubber ducking
• Use the correct support channel: not DMs on social media
• When providing support a public, discoverable approach, such as github issues, is recommended
• RTFM - read the docs
• What to include in a support request
• What to exclude in a support request
• Sean's mistake asking Ben for support a few months ago
• Security issues
• Closing the issue

• Geocities
• Table based layouts
• Float based layouts

• Clearfix

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• Github stars and forks
• Packagist
• What is a boilerplate
• Save time by pre-configuring settings for all projects
• Wireframe components
• What to include in a boilerplate
• What to exclude from a boilerplate
• Disadvantages to a boilerplate
• ReadMe file and documentation
• Feature requests for your boilerplate
• Personal conventions

• Kevin's origin story
• How important is doing work that you enjoy doing?
• Routine work vs cool projects
• Luck is when preparation meets opportunity - Roman philosopher Seneca
• Imposter syndrome
• Don't beat yourself up, go for a walk, talk to a colleague
• The industry changes so rapidly its impossible to keep up
• We're all partial stack developers
• There's always somebody better than you. The person you should compare yourself to is yourself.
• Burnout
• Ideas to get over burnout
  
• The ancestor to every action is a thought - Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Feast or Famine
• Money management
• The juggernaut of fear, guilt
• Schedule time for yourself (self care)
• Set boundaries and limits
• Inspiration

• How Mitchell helped Sean start his freelancer journey
• Mitchell's encouragement to people to start freelancing
• You'll never be ready to start a business. Better to start it then later in life wonder What if?
• Customer service
• Soft skills
• Most important thing to do when you realize you don't have enough work
• Self care
• Hire expert help for sales and marketing - delegate work
• Abundance mindset vs scarcity mindset
• Focus on current tech stack vs pick up something new
• Vertical markets / ideal clients
• Hedghog Concept - Jim Collins
• How to find and vet help for marketing
• Social media