{"id":2325,"date":"2018-04-18T18:05:03","date_gmt":"2018-04-18T23:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2018.raleigh.wordcamp.org\/?p=2325"},"modified":"2018-04-18T10:18:06","modified_gmt":"2018-04-18T15:18:06","slug":"speaker-spotlight-andrea-ferguson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2018\/speaker-spotlight-andrea-ferguson\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Spotlight: Andrea Ferguson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Andrea (Andi) Ferguson is Founder &amp; President of AndiSites Inc., an award-winning web design and development firm based in Chapel Hill, NC. AndiSites specializes in WordPress, including design, development, support, and maintenance. With 20+ years\u2019 experience in project management, 12 years\u2019 experience in corporate communications, and 10 years\u2019 experience in web design and development, Andi knows what it takes to give clients an effective website\u2013while they enjoy the process. Andi is a WordPress expert who loves sharing knowledge; bringing technology down to earth; and making the web a friendlier, more open, more welcoming place. Andi is also a film\/TV actress (as Andrea Powell) and avid world traveler with husband\/writer Paul, sweet dog Teddy, and rebellious bunny Dusty.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Andi will be presenting \u201c<b>We Like Big Buttons &amp; We Cannot Lie: User-Friendly Design Tweaks for Your WordPress Website<\/b><\/span><span class=\"s2\">. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Whether you\u2019re designing a new website or updating an old one, user-friendliness is key. Large fonts, big buttons, and strategic color motifs make calls to action obvious.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Help users take the actions you want them to. Help website users be happy.<\/span> <span class=\"s1\">Happy website users convert to happy customers. Happy customers help your business thrive.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrea (Andi) Ferguson is Founder &amp; President of AndiSites Inc., an award-winning web design and development firm based in Chapel Hill, NC. AndiSites specializes in WordPress, including design, development, support, and maintenance. With 20+ years\u2019 experience in project management, 12 years\u2019 experience in corporate communications, and 10 years\u2019 experience in web design and development, Andi &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2018\/speaker-spotlight-andrea-ferguson\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Speaker Spotlight: Andrea Ferguson&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7973571,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Speaker Spotlight: Andrea Ferguson: Join Andi from @AndiSites present \"We Like Big Buttons & We Cannot Lie: User-Friendly Design Tweaks for Your WordPress Website\" #WCRaleigh","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9463],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speaker-spotlight"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9CHoB-Bv","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7973571"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2325"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2328,"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2325\/revisions\/2328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}