i’m in class today, so a lot of these helpful hints have to be attributed to my professor, Andrew Smyk.
today we’re talking about how to get your website noticed and up to responsive web design standards. my professor purposefully broke his website and made his code terrible as a teaching tool. a pretty effective tool, at that. it’s like a scavenger hunt for bad code!
anyway, here are some dos and don’ts for all of your beautiful webpages:
- DO: a favicon. let me repeat that. a favicon. apparently this will increase clickability in the browser by 50%. you know how when you have a bunch of tabs open you’re more likely to go back to the tabs with pretty pictures instead of a nondescript blank page icon? yeah. that.
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on October 21st, 2014, I attended the WEST (Wearable Entertainment and Sports Toronto) Conference. it was my first ever conference, and basically is the reason I’m now an active follower of wearable news and tech (they got me with their promises of exciting biostats data, obviously). after attending a few more conferences, it is still my running favourite. I livejournaled the event, so I thought I would share. here it is! your new content (and by that I mean it’s from October):
9:21am.
So. First conference! I feel underdressed. Definitely need to add about 17 blazers to my wardrobe. Things I’ve learned so far:
1) I’ve never felt so official as when I received my personalized lanyard at registration. Welcome to the big leagues, kid.
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thoughts and musings and maybe something helpful, or whatever