{"id":1550,"date":"2018-11-27T18:00:27","date_gmt":"2018-11-27T23:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2018.toronto.wordcamp.org\/?p=1550"},"modified":"2018-11-27T13:05:15","modified_gmt":"2018-11-27T18:05:15","slug":"featured-speaker-christie-witt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2018\/featured-speaker-christie-witt\/","title":{"rendered":"Featured speaker: Christie Witt"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Christie’s session is\u00a0Migrating 1,300 websites from HTML to WordPress<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Christie specializes in corporate brand implementation across both print and digital platforms.<\/a> Christie graduated from the Graphic Design course at Algonquin College, specializing in web\/interactive design and motion graphics. Her hobbies are fine arts, traveling, and being a CSS whiz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why did you choose your topic?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I learned a lot of valuable lessons during the massive 1300 website migrations from HTML to WordPress that would definitely benefit other WordPress users.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

What do you want people to learn from your session?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

That there are continuous challenges and lessons learned from any website migration. You can overcome these challenges by asking lots of questions and diving deeper into problems.
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Why did you decide to speak?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I usually speak with a team during panel discussions at WordCamp Ottawa<\/a>, specifically the “Women in WordPress” and “Designers and developers: bridging the gap” panels last year. Now that I’m comfortable with that, I’d like to do a solo presentation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What brought you to WordPress in the first place?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Ottawa WordPress community<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What are you most looking forward to at WordCamp Toronto?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Networking and learning more about Gutenberg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What’s your advice for other WordCamp attendees?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Network and absorb as much as you can during the conference!
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