Revenge of the Nerds - Speaker Deck

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REVENGE OF THE NERDS *Print is only part of the process

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david@ﬁvable.com davidleininger dleininger heyyou dleinin I have social skills... David Leininger Find me, I’ll talk nerdy to you...

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I’m a Professional Nerd

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Today’s Agenda AKA... What I’m going to talk at you... 1. Current trends 2. Show and tell 3. Why you should be teaching this 4. What you should learn and how to learn it 5. How you can teach your new skills 6. Tools the pros use 7. El futuro de Internet en todo el mundo 8. Pizza Party and Team Building Exercises

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Current Interwebs How is it being used? • It’s responsive (It’s flexy) • It’s open sourced (It’s free) • HTML5 & CSS3 • Web Typography & Icon Fonts • Mobile • NO Flash or Internet Explorer

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Responsive Web It just works. • Flexible Grids • Media Queries • Flexible Images (at a minimum)

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Open Source Free Dollars • Community Driven • Do-ocracy • Content Management Systems • People are always looking for developers for these CMS’s

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HTML5 & CSS3 The new standard • Eliminates the need for Flash • Integrated Media • It’s WAY faster

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Web Typography It’s not just 7 fonts anymore!!! • Google Web Fonts • Typekit • @Font-Face • Icon Fonts

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Mobile It’s not just the desktop Mobile Safari still holds around 50% of the mobile web browser share

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Just Say NO Seriously! • No Flash • No Internet Explorer • No Flash • No Internet Explorer

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Current Interwebs How are we using it? • Email Campaigns • pURLs • Storefronts and eCommerce • QR Codes & MS Tags • Augmented Relaity

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Show and Tell

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Show and Tell

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Show and Tell http://fivable.com

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Show and Tell

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Show and Tell

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Show and Tell

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Show and Tell

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Show and Tell http://likify.net

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Show and Tell

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Show and Tell

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Show and Tell

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Show and Tell

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Show and Tell Jimmy Fallon Messed Up mirrored to be on youtube...

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Why Teach Web? Everybody wants it, nobody is doing it. • The students want these skills • The industry wants those skills • Teaches the ability to learn new skills • It’s way less expensive than printing equipment • Helps teach problem solving • The tools are we use for the web is good, but far from great

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The Ron Swanson Eﬀect It’s real. I promise you.

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What to learn Take baby steps • HTML & HTML5 • CSS & CSS3 • Javascript and jQuery • Content Management Systems (CMS) • PHP or other server side languages • Objective C or other mobile app programming langages

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Where to learn This is where I started...

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Where to learn This is where I started... CSS-Tricks

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Where to learn This is where I started... A List Apart

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Where to learn This is where I started... A Book Apart

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Where to learn This is where I started... Dave Rupert

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Where to learn This is where I started... Codecademy

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Where to learn This is where I started... jQuery

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Where to learn This is where I started... Net Tuts

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Where to learn This is where I started... lynda.com

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Where to learn This is where I started... Front-End Design Conference

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Where to learn This is where I started... Local User Groups

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Let’s get practical How can you teach this stuff?!?!? • Business Card Sites (Personal Website) • Portfolio Sites (Personal Website) • Social Networking Aggregator (Personal Website) • Fictional Email and pURL campaigns • Run polls or contests in school news outlets • Give messed up sites and have the students ﬁx them (This part is always overlooked...)

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So what tools and apps should you use? *These are the ones that I use...

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Text Editors Dreamweaver works, but is far from the best! • Coda 2 • Text Mate • Sublime Text • Text Wrangler (Free - but you get what you pay for...)

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Design Tools There are a some different opinions here... • Photoshop (the old standard) • Fireworks • InDesign

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Photoshop Add-ons These are so freaking cool! • Layer Cake • CSS-Hat

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Local Testing Because it’s not good to test when it’s live • MAMP and MAMP Pro • WAMP • LAMP • Custom Solution for CMS

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Adobe Shadow Flash sucks, but this is jawesome* • It’s FREE Dollars • Works on iOS and Android • Updates all devices at once • Right now only works in Chrome *jawesome = awesome mixed with a shark http://www.onebitzero.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/ Adobe-Shadow-Helps-You-Test-And-Debug-Websites.jpg

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Adobe Shadow Flash sucks, but this is jawesome* *jawesome = awesome mixed with a shark How to get it... • Download the app from http://labs.adobe.com/ technologies/shadow/ • Get Chrome extension • Download app on all your mobile devices • Browse the interwebs. http://www.onebitzero.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/ Adobe-Shadow-Helps-You-Test-And-Debug-Websites.jpg

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El Futuro It’s called Future-Proofing... • You have no control over screen size • More Open Sourced development • Fonts, Fonts, and Fonts • More mobile power • More International (translation on the ﬂy) • Realtime content and collaboration • Augmented Reality in mobile web apps