The Website Workshop: Create your own portfolio or blog site

Are you...

• a racialized/ BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, Person of Colour) artist, designer, or creative?
• looking to design a personal website to showcase your work, thoughts, or next project?
• tired of paying monthly for website builders that lock your content into their platform?
• not sure what a website domain is, or where to find good fonts to use?
• searching for a chill and welcoming community of creatives to collaborate with, get feedback from, and exchange ideas with?

You're in luck! Join us this June for a Pay-What-You-Can website workshop. 🌐

Over the course of three 2-hour sessions, you'll learn how to plan out your website, design the look and feel using Penpot (a Figma alternative), and create the site using Publii (a site generator). All the tools we'll be covering are free, open source software, and cross-platform.

We'll go over the fundamentals creating a website, such as:

• what even is a website, anyway?
• picking out awww.domain-name.com
• planning out your site's structure

• finding cool fonts, colour combinations, and inspo
• using an interface design tool to mock-up the site

• building the website using a static site generator (SSG) and content management system (CMS)
• customizing a theme with simple Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
• adding custom embed code to add interactive elements like tip jars
• tips and tricks for keeping the site accessible
• hosting the website online for FREE!

The workshops aim to strike the right balance between teaching how the tools works, creative techniques, and thinking critically about websites.

If you're interested in joining us, complete the registration form. The workshop series is drop-in, so you can register for all the sessions, or just the ones you're interested in.

I would like to honour the original owners and custodians of the land on which we inhabit and create. This workshop series will take place on the unsurrendered territories of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg (Odàwàng).

As a guest on these lands, I am committed to listening to Indigenous people, working towards the strengthening of solidarity between Black and Indigenous communities, and supporting the movement toward decolonization.

Have questions, concerns, or comments about the program? Interested in sponsoring or providing an in-kind donation?
Reach out via the contact form

Thank you to the for sponsoring this event through the subsidized facilities rental.

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