In this slow-paced, two-day workshop, you will create a portfolio-based website that you can easily customize and update. Without any prior experience in website design, you will be able to personalize your own mobile-friendly site, connect it to social media, exhibit a gallery of your work, maintain a blog, and manage a mailing list of your audience. You will also secure your own website name (tomspottery.com) and will put your site live on the internet by the end of the workshop.

This is a hands-on workshop where you create your own website, and so please bring your own laptop (a physical keyboard & mouse is highly recommended).

Instructor Bio: Thomas Ruble is an educator, software engineer, and interactive artist living in Spokane. He holds in an M.A. in Western Philosophy and an M.S. in Computer Science from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. While at the university, he taught computer programming and served as a research assistant at the Phenomenology Research Center. He is an avid conference and hackathon participant, contributing talks, workshops, and mentorship to regional events. Currently, he works as a team leader developing artificially intelligent web applications for health care. He is enthusiastic about sharing the joy of code and enabling people to build things and solve problems with the help of computers.