132 Resources for Continuing Your WordPress Education.

We have a great panel of WordPress educational experts and developers this Saturday, Morten Rand-Hendriksen from Lynda.com, Kim Shivler, from Whiteglovewebtraining, Jackie D’Elia from  Jackie D’Elia Design and our co-host John Locke from Lockedown Design.

What are the various resources that we have used before? What are the websites, books, seminars, conferences, and courses that we recommend?

Show Table of Contents

0:00 Intros

3:03 WordPress story #1: The Future of eLearning by Chris Lema.
http://chrislema.com/future-of-elearning/

29:44 WordPress story #2: Apply for the Kim Parsell Memorial Scholarship from the WordCamp US 2016 blog. https://2016.us.wordcamp.org/2016/10/03/apply-for-the-kim-parsell-memorial-scholarship/

40:16 Main Topic: Resources for Continuing Your Web Education

40:52 What resources would you recommend to someone who is a total beginner at web design and development?

44:50 Learning the web in the early days vs. learning web design and development today.

48:46 Some great resources for learning web design and web development

57:24 Know what your end goal is, and know what the job market for web design and development looks like.

1:01:44 John recommends some books and sites for learning web design and development

1:03:17 How long does it take to start making a living from web design and development?

1:04:48 Jonathan recommends some books and courses for WordPress development

1:08:32 Why Jackie uses Genesis for WordPress development and some recommended resources for learning WordPress development.

1:12:16 Jackie lists some resources for learning PHP and JavaScript

1:15:02 Kim recommends some resources for learning databases and MySQL.

1:17:34 Podcast outros.

 

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Links and websites mentioned during the show:

 

Wes Bos
http://wesbos.com/courses/

Zac Gordon: JavaScript for WP
https://javascriptforwp.com/
https://www.wp-tonic.com/podcast/104-zac-gordon-wordpress-educator/

Treehouse
https://teamtreehouse.com/

The App Design Handbook and
Designing Web Applications by Nathan Berry
http://nathanbarry.com/books/

Vi
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vi

Code School
https://www.codeschool.com/

Codecademy
https://www.codecademy.com/

Judi Knight
https://twitter.com/judiknight
https://newtricks.com/

LinkedIn Learning
https://www.linkedin.com/learning/

Lynda
https://www.lynda.com/

dBase
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DBase

Guil Hernandez on Twitter
https://twitter.com/guilh

Know The Code
https://knowthecode.io/

Know The Business
https://knowthebusiness.io/

Multiple Intelligences
http://www.institute4learning.com/multiple_intelligences.php
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_multiple_intelligences

Multiple Inteligences and Learning Styles
http://epltt.coe.uga.edu/index.php?title=Multiple_Intelligences_and_Learning_Styles

Director for Macromedia (Adobe Director)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Director

Designing With Web Standards
https://www.amazon.com/Designing-Web-Standards-Jeffrey-Zeldman/dp/0321616952

A Book Apart
https://abookapart.com/

An Event Apart on Vimeo
https://vimeo.com/channels/aneventapart

Andy Clarke
https://stuffandnonsense.co.uk/
https://stuffandnonsense.co.uk/books
https://24ways.org/authors/andyclarke/
https://speakerdeck.com/malarkey
https://vimeo.com/88392292

A List Apart
http://alistapart.com/

Jeremy Keith
https://adactio.com/
http://clearleft.com/is/jeremy-keith

CSS-Tricks / Chris Coyier
https://css-tricks.com/

Shop Talk Show
http://shoptalkshow.com/

Ethan Marcotte
http://ethanmarcotte.com/
http://unstoppablerobotninja.com/

Jeffrey Zeldman
http://www.zeldman.com/

Digging Into WordPress
https://digwp.com/

The Lodge | CSS Tricks
https://css-tricks.com/lodge/

Professional WordPress Plugin Development
https://www.amazon.com/Professional-WordPress-Plugin-Development-Williams/dp/0470916222

Pippins Plugins - Learn Plugin Development
https://pippinsplugins.com/learn/

StudioPress Blog
http://www.studiopress.com/blog/

Sridhar Katakam - Genesis and WordPress Tutorials
https://sridharkatakam.com/

Carrie Dils, Lynda.com course author (Genesis, WordPress)
https://www.lynda.com/Carrie-Dils/965233-1.html

Morten Rand-Hendriksen, Lynda.com course author (WordPress, web development)
https://www.lynda.com/Morten-Rand-Hendriksen/725535-1.html

Tom McFarlin: A Perspective on Professional WordPress Development
https://tommcfarlin.com/

Rebecca Gill / Web Savvy Marketing
https://www.web-savvy-marketing.com/seo-consulting/

David Powers, Lynda.com coure author (PHP)
https://www.lynda.com/David-Powers/310454-1.html

Foundation PHP
https://foundationphp.com/

Stanford University Free SQL Mini-Course
https://lagunita.stanford.edu/courses/DB/SQL/SelfPaced/about

Khan Academy Intro to SQL course
https://www.khanacademy.org/computing/computer-programming/sql

SQLCourse.com (older site, but still informative)
http://www.sqlcourse.com/

 

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