Website 101 Podcast

By Sean Smith, Mike Mella, & Amanda Lutz

The Website 101 Podcast offers advice on how to build and manage websites. Whether you’re a web developer, or someone who manages your organization’s website, learn how to do your job better. Hosted b... more

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The podcast currently has 89 episodes available.

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June 28, 2022Talking to a New Dev
We talk to new developer Shopnil Mahmud about learning web development at Seneca College and starting work in the field. Questions were submitted by current students at Seneca College.
Web technologies
Learning new frameworks
Is what is taught in a course enough to get a job?
Side projects
UX/UI Design vs Developer
Continuous learning
What was the most important thing you learned at school for your current job.
Dealing with stress
Job search & Interviews
Advice for new developers
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35min
June 14, 2022Contract Opinions From Not a Lawyer
We talk to Tim Scollick about working with freelancers and agencies both using and not using a contract.
Tim's history as a freelancer.
Contracts are super important but they don't always have to be legally binding.
Break work into smaller chunks helps to build trust.
Lawyers are expensive.
Non competition clauses
Small claims court
Red flags
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31min
May 31, 2022AlpineJS with Caleb Porzio: Lightweight javascript in your markup.
Learn all about AlpineJS from it's Creator Caleb Porzio. We also discuss how accessibility is baked into the new Alpine Components.
What is AlpineJs
The origin of the name Alpine
Caleb's background and history
Online courses
Alpine Day conference
Tailwind and Alpine - a perfect pair
Alpine in your HTML markup
Alpine components
Accessiblity
The future of Alpine
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Laracon

Laravel

Livewire

VueJs

Code Course

Laracasts

Alpine Weekly Newsletter

Alpine Day Conference

TailwindCss

CSS Zen Garden

Alpine Components

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36min
May 17, 2022Hiring Junior Devs and How to Stand Out from the Crowd
Learn about the process for hiring junior developers and get insight into common mistakes made as well as how to stand out from the crowd.
Terence has 12 years of experience with hiring.
Number of applicants and number of interviews
What's important in filtering candidates to interview
Soft skills
Advice for developers on portfolio sharing
Contracts
Job ad requirements
Code test
Attention to detail
Common applicant mistakes
Bootcamps
Tips to stand out during the application process
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Goat

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38min
May 03, 2022Vanilla Javascript - Fundamentals before Frameworks
Learn why Chris Ferdinandi believers there's a simpler, more resilient way to make things for the web with vanilla Javascript. We also take a detour into accessibility.
Chris's background and history with web development
Single Page Applications
Libraries
Tiny libraries that Chris recommends at: The Vanilla JS Toolkit
Accessibility and best practices with JavaScript
Living with ADHD
JavaScript and education recommendations
Recommendations for novice developers starting out
What's coming up in JavaScript that Chris is excited about
Go Make Things - Website 101 Podcast Listener Page
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Go Make Things

Alpine Js

Vue

React

Angular

jQuery

WebAIM

The Vanilla JS Toolkit

The A11Y Project Checklist

Sean uses a screen reader

A11Y Nutrition Cards - blog post

A11Y Nutrition Cards

MDN Web Docs - prefers-reduced-motion

Vanilla Js Academy

Go Make Things - Website 101 Podcast Listener Page

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48min
April 19, 202211 Things to avoid doing on your website
We discuss various things to avoid doing with your website and why they are not a good idea.
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
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stop disabling copy/paste in form fields (tweet)

Should external links open in a new tab or not?

Why you shouldnt say click here

Season 4 Episode 1 - Click Here

Should I use a Carousel

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40min
April 05, 2022Meet Your Host - Amanda
Sean and Mike interview our new co-host Amanda Lutz. Amanda's goal is to out nerd Sean and Mike in this episode.
Amanda made her first website in 1994 - a university provided website
Amanda's major is Computing and Information Sciences
Amanda has learned these languages: Basic, Pascal, C++, Java, C#
Amanda is a Windows/Android user
Made a time tracking website as a personal project in the early 2000s
Worked on a ticketing website back in 2005 (Audience View)
10 years since Amanda, Sean, and Mike met up for the first time at an ExpressionEngine meetup.
Teaches web development at Seneca College.
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Lotus Notes

Audience View

Canada Learning Code (Previously Ladies Learning Code)

Seneca College

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41min
March 22, 2022CSS is Awesome with Kevin Powell
Kevin Powell CSS evangelist discusses everything to do with CSS and why it is awesome.
Kevin's history with web development and teaching
Teaching in classroom vs online teaching
How do you decide what you are going to teach?
Where do you go to learn about new things in CSS that you want to teach?
Upcoming CSS including Cascade Layers, CSS nesting, Container queries, and Query units
Kevin's thoughts on frameworks (Foundation, Bootstrap, Tailwind) and Sass vs regular Css.
min-content max-content fit-content
Browser support and progressive enhancement
Accessibility
CSS naming conventions - BEM
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CSS Layout News

CSS Weekly

Modern CSS newsletter

Tailwind CSS

Bootstrap

Foundation

SASS

3 useful CSS values that most people don’t know about

The 6 most important CSS concepts for beginners

5 important HTML concepts for beginners

BEM

Scrimba

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48min
March 08, 2022Starting my own Website with Bill Campbell
We talk with Bill Campbell, one of our subscribers, about the process of planning his website and then working with a web developer and hosting.
Introduce our new co-host Amanda Lutz
Bill's background
3 products that Bill will sell on his website
Planning pages and page content
Newsletter call to action
Domain should be separate from hosting company
Ecommerce & Security
Selling courses and coaching
Hiring a developer
DIY - pros/cons
User testing
Backups
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S03 E01 Do You Really Need a Website?

S03 E11 Own your own content

S01 E08 What is a Landing Page

S02 E02 Web Jargon Part One

Shopify

Kajabi

WordPress

Woo Commerce

S01 E03 Web Design Shortcuts You Should Never Take

Google Analytics

Google Page Speed Insights

S04 E09 Website Optimization and Speed

Shopify Backups

Shopify Apps

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54min
February 22, 2022Tailwind CSS with Adam Wathan
Adam Wathan, co-founder of Tailwind CSS, talks about what Tailwind CSS is, why he built it, and the future of Tailwind.
Is Tailwind CSS a framework?
What is Tailwind CSS
The biggest inspiration for tailwind is...
Inline styles vs Tailwind
Tailwind 3 and Just in Time (JIT)
Build tooling
Tailwind Browser Dev tools
Arbitrary classes
Tailwind UI
Tailwind documentation and examples
How to choose what to add in Tailwind.
What makes something a plugin rather than part of Tailwind core.
Tailwind 4 and the future
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Tailwind CSS

Bootstrap

Atomic CSS

Tachyons

BEM

Tailwind UI

Refactoring UI

Tweet about running a product

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FAQs about Website 101 Podcast:

How many episodes does Website 101 Podcast have?

The podcast currently has 89 episodes available.