• Wes's history and background in web development
• How does Wes learn enough on a new technology to start teaching it?
• How to decide what to learn with new technology or languages
• Important advice for a new developer
• Most important technical skill
• Learn the fundamentals
• No code design
• Weakest development skill
• Online courses vs Bootcamps
• Emerging technology

• Bootcamps / college
• Started with Macromedia Flash
• Mike was a drummer in 4 different bands - learned web development to build the band websites
• First website built for his band in late 90s
• First client site - restaurant (February 2000)
• First job was web developer at a magazine publisher
• Build tools
• Design vs Development preferences
• Advice for new web development

• Sean's first website was a Geocities website built in 1997
• First client website built in 2008
• Started full time self-employment in 2013
• Provided official support to end-users of ExpressionEngine
• What does Sean like the least/most about web development
• Sean's advice for new web developers

We start off by defining what Typography is. Then the various types of fonts including serif and sans-serif fonts and when to choose which to choose.

• I (uppercase I), l (lowercase l), 1, a, g test
• The difference between legibility and readability
• Comic Sans and Helvetica fonts
• Avatar and Papyrus
• Heading, body fonts, and fonts that can be used everywhere
• Oliver Judges Sean's website headings
• Tips on how to choose fonts for a website
• Web font marketplaces
• 5 common web typography mistakes and how to avoid them
• Leading and line height
• line length
• Oliver gives a review of the Website 101 Podcast website typography.

• What is a bootcamp
• Why a bootcamp vs other paths
• Favorite part of web development
• Least liked part of web development
• How Owen became an instructor at Juno college
• How to keep up with changing technology
• Advice for a new developer
• How to evaluate what to learn
• No code developers
• Most important skill a developer should have

• Laura, talks about her role as a business owner, website designer, and building bespoke websites for her clients.

• The difference between a pre-built theme and a theme builder such as Elementor.
• Lauras default plugin stack for WordPress sites.
  
• Rank Math SEO vs Yoast
• Optimizing WordPress sites for performance
• Updating WordPress and Plugins
• Website Maintenance
• WordPress Hosting

Site speed is a ranking signal for google. Ensuring your website is fast and efficient can give you a boost in your SEO results.

We also discuss:

• How optimizing your site can improve your bounce rate
• Contributing factors to a slow website\
• What you can do to improve your site without touching code
• Limit the number of tracking scripts
• lazy loading images / maps
• Web hosting - shared vs VPS
• Caching & Minifying
• Image Optimization / Responsive Images

Google image srcset peas to find the article by Eric Portis that Andrew Mentions.

Stay tuned to the end of the episode for a bonus tip to help you improve your website.

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Reasons to consider using an alternative to google analytics include concerns about privacy and a simpler, easier to understand interface.

• Google is very complex and difficult to understand
• Fathom Analytics is privacy oriented
• Fathom and Stat Counter have a simpler easy to understand interface
• Things that you want to understand and know how to track with whichever analytics you use
• If it's free (google analytics) then you are the product

Gaurav starts off by defining what content marketing is and why it's important. Later we discuss the similarities and differences between content marketing and advertising.

• Funnels
• Advertising vs content marketing
• SEO
• Long tail keywords
• Newsletter and blog
• Social Media & content marketing