{"id":241768,"date":"2014-11-08T16:00:20","date_gmt":"2014-11-08T21:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2014.toronto.wordcamp.org\/?p=241768"},"modified":"2014-11-02T17:26:58","modified_gmt":"2014-11-02T22:26:58","slug":"featured-speaker-david-hickox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2014\/featured-speaker-david-hickox\/","title":{"rendered":"Featured Speaker: David Hickox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;margin: 10px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gravatar.com\/avatar\/549895c46a63bec3b6fb804ca6d2c6da?s=128&amp;d=identicon\" alt=\"\" \/>&#8220;I\u2019m a web designer from Birmingham, AL with 15 years of agency experience building websites big and small for a wide variety of clients. I\u2019m passionate about usability, obsessive about typography, and addicted to the mobile web. When I\u2019m not designing, I also make music and grow a beard. I\u2019m a freelance designer and also a contractor for Modern Tribe, which is a name that I\u2019m sure is recognized in the WordPress community.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m a huge typography nerd and am passionate about creating great content presentation and reading experiences on the web.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"David Hickox\" href=\"https:\/\/2014.toronto.wordcamp.org\/speaker\/david-hickox\/\">View David&#8217;s speaker profile.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Presentation: <a title=\"Designing for Content\" href=\"https:\/\/2014.toronto.wordcamp.org\/session\/designing-for-content\/\">Designing for Content<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In this talk, I\u2019ll go over the method I\u2019ve created for designing websites from the content outward. I\u2019ll cover aspects of designing in code, type choices, line height and typographic scale, creating a proper base style sheet for your child theme, usability best practices, semantic structure, and more. Since the web is fundamentally a text-based, utilitarian medium, making good type choices is arguably the most important aspect of web design. In this presentation, I\u2019ll walk you through the things I\u2019ve learned in my 15 years designing for the web.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I\u2019m a web designer from Birmingham, AL with 15 years of agency experience building websites big and small for a wide variety of clients. I\u2019m passionate about usability, obsessive about typography, and addicted to the mobile web. When I\u2019m not designing, I also make music and grow a beard. I\u2019m a freelance designer and also &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2014\/featured-speaker-david-hickox\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Featured Speaker: David Hickox<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6358608,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speakers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6358608"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241768"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241771,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241768\/revisions\/241771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}