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I’m a huge typography nerd and am passionate about creating great content presentation and reading experiences on the web.<\/p>\n
Designing for Content<\/a> in the Designer<\/a> track<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n My hope is that all attendees will come away with some basic guidelines for laying out great-looking text on the web. Those at a more advanced level will also gain some specific implementation details that ought to help them write clean and reusable CSS to build a base typography stylesheet.<\/p>\n I’ve done this talk before and was very surprised by the the feedback and enthusiasm I got from the attendees. I wanted another venue for giving the talk and I’ve heard Toronto is a beautiful city, so it was an easy choice.<\/p>\n As a designer who has always coded, there was a missing piece that kept me from being able to be self-sufficient and build out websites from start to finish. WordPress fill in that piece in a very easy to learn and approachable way. And the community around it is fantastic.<\/p>\n Advanced Custom Fields – it’s super easy to use and allows me to customize pages and templates in an effortless way.<\/p>\n Meeting new people, seeing a city I’ve never been to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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’m a freelance designer and also … Continue reading David Hickox<\/span> About your presentation<\/h2>\n
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