I’m a content strategist and user experience specialist on a mission to connect people through the web. I work for non-profits, businesses, and universities who need user-friendly websites with memorable content. I also consult for website development firms when they have clients who require content or user experience expertise. Sometimes I give talks on how to improve websites.

I have experience and training in these areas:

• content strategy
• usability and user experience design
• photography and video
• writing and editing
• graphic design

When I’m not working, I like to be outside or on my yoga mat as much as possible. You can often find me with my two favorite people in the world – my husband Josh and my daughter Parker.

WCATL 2015 Session – Top Strategies for Better Photography on Your Website

Visuals are important to engage website users, but often photos are put on a website without sufficient thought. What’s the difference between an average photo and one that wows? What do website users like to see? How do you decide which are the best photos to use from a photoshoot? Does the rise in mobile affect your choices? How do you manage a professional photographer — or get great photos when you have to DIY?

Receive helpful answers from an experienced content strategist trained in visual communication. Get practical tips to improve the photography on your site now and make your websites users happy.

You will:

• Understand the difference between an average and a great photo
• Learn what is most attractive to website users, based on usability and eye-tracking research
• Discover how to avoid common photo pitfalls by looking at example websites, both good and bad.

Josh, is the owner of and a developer for CalderaWP where he sells WordPress plugins and training and the community manager and contributing developer for Pods, a free WordPress development framework.

He is also a WordPress core contributor and has written for Torque, Smashing Magazine, Tuts+,and WPBegginer.

WCATL 2015 Session – Using Composer to Increase Your WordPress Development Powers

Composer, the PHP dependency manager, is a simple tool that can make it easier for you to reuse your code across projects, speed up your plugin, theme and site development, use other people’s code more efficiently and can even improve your site deployments. In this talk you will learn how to add Composer to your projects, publish Composer libraries, use other developer’s open source Composer libraries, improve your site deployments and otherwise make your life easier.

Ken Granger has taught more than 10,000 small business owners how to brand their business and leverage the power of the internet to increase sales, brand loyalty and quality of life. Ken has been working with WordPress since 2008 and he and his team have built more than 5,000 WordPress websites. BrandCo helps small businesses build their offline and online branding with things like logos, business cards and fully custom WordPress websites.

WCATL 2015 Session – Understanding Google Analytics

Even without speaking your visitors are telling you something! Learn how to read your Google Analytics data to make better decisions on managing your website. From beginner to advanced there is something for everyone in this session.

I’m Ms. Henderson and I focus on developing bespoke websites utilizing WordPress, PHP, JavaScript, HTML5, Sass and CSS. After earning my Bachelors in Computer Science, I began my career as a website manager for a boutique firm in Atlanta, Ga. A few years later I decided to branch out as an entrepreneur.

As the founder and director of A.H. Web Design I find myself reading about the latest web technologies as the major part of my daily routine. A few years ago there were some intriguing articles surfacing about Sass. It wasn’t until last years’ WordCamp, listening to Suzette Franck speak on the topic, I was actually inspired to dive deep into the pre-processor. Since then I’ve been in love with all things Sass! I speak about Sass and Web Design at a few High Schools in the Atlanta area and attend the Atlanta Sass meet up group monthly. I’m a huge fan of WordPress and have been working with the CMS since version 2.9 (Carmen McRae). I’ve developed over 90% of my client’s sites using WordPress as the foundation.

Feel free to ask me any questions about Web Design, WordPress, Sass or to simply say hi 🙂
web: www.AishaHenderson.com
tweet: @ah_webdesign
linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/aishahenderson

WCATL 2015 Session – Sass and WordPress: Enhancing Your Front-End Workflow

An awesome workflow can save you many hours, which in turn provides more freedom to spend time doing things to relax your mind 🙂
I will cover how to start your theme development with Sass and WordPress, using Underscores as the starter theme. While this session is geared towards beginning WordPress theme designers I recommend this for anyone inquiring about Sass and it’s awesome features. Let’s Get Sassy!

The goal is to walk away with a basic understanding of:

• Using GUIs with Sass
• Sass Folder structure
• Some of Sass Features:
  • Variables
  • Nesting
  • Partials
  • @mixins
  • functions
  • @extend
  • Conditions
  • Sass Maps
• Source Mapping using Chrome DevTools
• AutoPrefixer