WordPress: Create a Professional Website from Scratch
Influences
A course by Anyssa Ferreira , Designer and Web Developer
About the video: Influences
Overview
“In this class, I will introduce some people who influenced me during my career. I'll talk about how "hacktivist" Aaron Swartz, designer David Carson and artist Tarsila do Amaral helped me define my principles, have more creativity and create an identity.”
In this video lesson Anyssa Ferreira addresses the topic: Influences, which is part of the Domestika online course: WordPress: Create a Professional Website from Scratch. Discover the entire process for easily publishing a custom web page.
Partial transcription of the video
“Influences In this class, I’ll talk about the people who influenced me throughout the career. The first influence is Aaron Swartz. He was a programmer and political activist, that made a big impact on the internet, although unfortunately he died at the age of 26 in 2013. He was involved in creating Reddit, in the RSS Feed format, Creative Commons licenses, among other initiatives. And he left a legacy, not only related to the technologies he developed, but also to your ideals. The second person who inspires me is the designer David Carson. He started his career in the 80s, working with surf...”
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Course summary for: WordPress: Create a Professional Website from Scratch
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Digital Product Design, No-Code Development, Web Design, Web Development

Anyssa Ferreira
A course by Anyssa Ferreira
Anyssa Ferreira is a graphic design graduate and has worked as a web developer for over ten years. She won the first Kim Parsell Scholarship in 2015 from the WordPress foundation. She is an organizer for the WordPress community in Sao Paulo.
As co-founder of the studio Haste, she specializes in developing websites, systems, and plugins. She has collaborated on projects for major companies like Totvs, Companhia das Letras, Elo7, and Knewin. She also speaks at international conferences for web developers like WorldCamp Europe 2020.
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