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<\/div>\nHow and when did you get started with WordPress?<\/h2>\n
I got started with WordPress in 2009 when my employer started planning to move their websites to WordPress. I was a non-technical content writer and editor at the time and was sent to WordCamp Boston 2010 to explore the blogger\/content track. I went to a few developer oriented sessions at that conference because I was curious to see what they were like and those sessions piqued my interest in learning to build websites. When I went home, I started to tinker with WordPress and learn HTML and CSS. By the time my second WordCamp (it was Philly!) came around later that year I had become determined to learn to code and had just accepted a slightly more technical online communications management role at my job. I thought that this position had the potential to be a role where I could obtain the skills to become a developer, which ultimately proved to be true!<\/p>\n
If you’ve attended WordCamp Lancaster before, what’s your fondest memory of it? If not, what do you like most about WordCamps?<\/h2>\n
I attended WordCamp Lancaster for the first time last year and had an amazing time. My fondest memory of it was the after party. I had lots of really great conversations with people that I already knew and also met a few new people who have become friends since then. I also really loved the hat swag attendees received last year!<\/p>\n
What do you hope attendees will take away from your talk?<\/h2>\n
I hope attendees will take away a few actionable tips that will help them work more collaboratively and happily with their designer\/developer colleagues to build websites that have true design integrity and polish.<\/p>\n
What are you currently learning?<\/h2>\n
I am currently working on truly learning JavaScript. I’ve always found JavaScript to be super hard and intimidating to learn and have therefore avoided it a bit. In 2016 I’m trying to learn how it works from the ground up, “deeply”, as some might say.<\/p>\n
Do you know what a stroopie is? No googling.<\/h2>\n
I haven’t the faintest idea what a “stroopie” is. It might be some sort of pie, but I have no idea what a “stroo” would be. Or perhaps a “stroopie” is something that is droopy?<\/p>\n
What did you do during the blizzard?<\/h2>\n
I watched an unreasonable number of episodes of “Murder, She Wrote” while working on a website and refusing to leave my apartment.<\/p>\n
Where can we find you online?<\/h2>\n
You can find me on Twitter @bethsoderberg<\/a> and at my website: bethsoderberg.com<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n Beth Soderberg<\/a>‘s session is titled\u00a0Bridging the Gap Between Design and Development<\/a>. View the full schedule<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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