Code For Cape City (Code4CT) is an initiative aimed toward instructing younger women the facility of internet improvement and design.
With an estimated 75,000 digital jobs coming on-line in South Africa throughout the subsequent 5 years, in response to the Code4CT website, this initiative goals to equip younger women with a skillset in CSS, HTML and WordPress to set them aside from their friends, serving to to solidify their future inside a society extra reliant than ever on know-how.
“We desires[SIC] to place this energy into the palms and hearts of each lady,” Code4CT says of their imaginative and prescient assertion, “…as a result of quickly not understanding the language of computer systems will probably be as difficult as being illiterate & innumerate are in the present day.”
A number of months in the past Obox – the Presswp authors behind Layers – have been invited to run a session at Code4CT, introducing the ladies to constructing a web site, and exhibiting how their product, “Layers” can take the heavy lifting out of coding and design.
“Once I arrived on the venue, the primary shock was the sheer quantity of scholars in attendance.” says Marc Perel of Obox. “Sometimes the mindset of a 17 12 months outdated doesn't take into account the significance of an additional mural class, however the attract of studying new abilities should be robust. A testomony to the Code4CT program.”
Some normal banter adopted till the room settled down and the presentation started.
As the ladies knew the fundamentals of WordPress, Marc set about exhibiting them the completely different methodologies Layers makes use of to create internet pages. Nonetheless, he quickly discovered he was shedding the eye of the room.
“All was quiet with some women passing off Layers as simply one other software within the chain.”
“It was solely after I modified a picture from Sq., to Rectangle, to Rounded with just a few clicks that the ladies began getting actually excited and cheering.”
“Together with extra changes; including sliders, map widgets with completely different column widths, the response from the ladies grew to become increasingly excitable.”
In just a few brief minutes, Marc was capable of decrease the barrier to entry for these women, and present that you would be able to in-fact construct one thing compelling with out years of coding expertise.
Layers takes care of the basics in order that designers and builders don’t need to.”
“As an alternative of spending hours twiddling with CSS, Layers customers have their bases lined in order that they'll deal with what actually counts; the design and content material of their web site.”
“Including in extensions like Layers Professional virtually fully removes the necessity to use CSS in any respect apart from for actually bespoke duties.”
After little greater than an hour, the group was creating a totally custom-made web site starting with little greater than a clean sheet of paper.
“Layers is responsive by default, the location seemed nice on all gadgets we used to preview it on.”
Obox has recntly dedicated to giving a quarterly Layers presentation at Code For Cape City.
“Upliftment by way of design and code is an thrilling idea, we hope that Code4CT can department out to extra nations and uplift extra than simply the communities round Cape City.”
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