It is our pleasure to extend a warm welcome to you on behalf of everyone here at WebProfessionals.org.
We are committed to helping you succeed in all aspects of being a practicing government web professional. Whether you are a web designer, web developer, web administrator and/ or web project manager, we are committed to helping you succeed.
Successful practitioners tend to take advantage of the numerous opportunities WebProfessionals.org offers. It is our hope you will do the same.
As part of your membership, we invite you to take advantage of the following resources:
- Sign up for our blog/ newsletter.
- School of Web.org. [Our education delivery portal]. Contact us for access. We encourage you to check out available resources and let us know which are of greatest interest to you. This is one way to keep current in our fast paced and ever changing field.
- Sign up for our WebProfessional Job Directory. Contact us for access. This is your opportunity to promote your knowledge, skills, and abilities.
- Feel free to contact our Membership coordinator when you have specific questions.
Content available to members only
Recent WebProfessionals.org interviews. We typically make the first 5 minutes of an interview public and post it on our weblog. You can find the full interviews at the links below (via our School Of Web). Contact us if you do not have access to this environment. We also make the full interviews available to members before they appear on our weblog.
- Christopher Schmitt – SVG filters December 12, 2017
- Ben Forta (Adobe) – Adobe Spark overview January 18, 2017.
- Glenda Sims (Deque) – What’s happening in WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines). December 2, 2016.
We may offer additional webinars soon. We created a chatbot to ask you what seminar topics you are most interested in. Please take a moment and visit our chatbot and let us know.
When those webinar links are available, we encourage you to participate. Please use your full name and enter as a guest (no password required). If you live in a different time zone, please use a time zone converter.
- Oct. 20, 2016 2 p.m. [Chicago time] Best practices when starting to work with a client [recording now available in Presentations within our School of Web Moodle learning management system].
- Nov. 10, 2016 2 p.m. [Chicago time] Web accessibility with emphasis on ARIA [recording now available in Presentations within our School of Web Moodle learning management system].
- Dec. 1, 2016 2 p.m. [Chicago time] Security fundamentals [recording now available in Presentations within our School of Web Moodle learning management system].
We periodically send newsletters to our members. Follow the links below if you would like to download current versions.
- Summer, 2019 issue (download your copy for reference) or (view on your mobile device). This issue includes a review of our 16th national web design and development competition, an introduction to some of our advisory board members, a review of our recent advocacy efforts on behalf of members and much more.
- Summer/ Fall, 2018 issue (download your copy for reference) or (view on your mobile device). This issue includes a review of our national web competition (this was our 15th year), an overview of artificial intelligence and the possibilities for innovation, an overview of recent improvements to our certifications and much more.
- Spring, 2018 issue (download your copy for reference) or (view on your mobile device). This issue includes a discussion of how cyber security is changing the web design industry, several articles discussing changes coming to our national web design competition this year, an overview of GDPR (and its potential implications) and much more.
- Fall, 2017 issue (download your copy for reference) or (view on your mobile device). This issue includes a request to help define the term search marketing strategist for the U.S. Department of Labor, a review of our involvement with the WorldSkills web design and development competition in Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates), and an update regarding the Illinois School for the Deaf and the web design course donated by Web Professionals and CTeLearning and more.
- Summer, 2017 issue (download your copy for reference) or (view on your mobile device). This issue includes an overview of evolving accessibility guidelines (by Shawn Lauriat (Google) and Jeanne Spellman (The Paciello Group)), a review of our recent national web design contest, and an overview of how our web design curriculum is being used at the Illinois School for the deaf. There are other articles as well.
- Winter/ Spring, 2017 issue (download your copy for reference) or (view on your mobile device). this issue summarizes our 20 year organization history.
- Fall, 2016 issue (download your copy for reference) or (view on your mobile device)
- Summer, 2016 issue (download your copy for reference) or (view on your mobile device)
- Spring, 2016 issue (download your copy for reference) or (view on your mobile device)
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