Understanding Wordpress & How Web Accessibility Can Improve your Business

Hello,

We have been working hard behind the scenes to finalise the SIMS 2016 schedule and we're proud to announce that this January we have two fine speakers.

Our first speaker is Andy Proctor. He will be explaining the "how's and why's" of Wordpress websites along with a few tips and advice to go along with it.

Edit: We will also be announcing SIMS' competition for small businesses at this event. All details will be available on the night so be there!

This talk will cover:

• Free tools and services to help you with your website, with the focus on a WordPress website.

• Elements of functions, layouts and marketing to show you how a website should be more than something you should have, but a tool that gets brand awareness and contact.

• How to ‘properly’ add and amend pages.

• Using the Widgets and changing the home page.

• Editor access and how you can use any developer.

• What you should remove from a website and why.

• All important Google Bounce explained in 90 seconds.• Links to keep Google happy while measuring sales/contact.

• How much can you control yourself without your developer.

• What to make sure your developer promises to do ongoing.

• The basics you need to do if you make the website yourself.

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Angie Vale will be explaining how web accessibility can improve your business.

Web accessibility means that people with disabilities can use the Web. More specifically, Web accessibility means that people with disabilities can perceive, understand, navigate, and interact with the Web, and that they can contribute to the Web. This also includes people with changing abilities due to aging.

Web accessibility also considers the technology used to view websites such as browser choice, broadband speed and mobile devices.

Websites and applications that don’t consider these needs may be missing out on potential business.

This talk will cover:

• What is web accessibility

• Why web accessibility is important

• How you can make your website more accessible

• How you can test your website for accessibility

• How web accessibility can help your business

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