Web Design and Development

If you are in the Ann Arbor area, please join us for our monthly meetup. Its going to be a great night, we have three great speakers presenting on some really cutting edge technology. We will be meeting on the third floor of the Ann Arbor library in the “Free Space”.

The following will be presenting:

Nick DeNardis

Designer of the Wayne State University Library and Information Science website. He will discuss the latest release of the website, their goals, process and challenges.

Brian Kerr

Information architecture, user experience, and django development guru. Exact topic details to come…

Paul Tarjan - Yahoo! SearchMonkey

The fine folks at Yahoo! are sponsoring this event and promise to bring lots of swag as well as give a short presentation on their new open source semantic web search in your own applications and websites. This new product they are releasing is called “Search Monkey”.

Whats is Refresh Detroit

If you are not aware of Refresh Detroit, we are a group of Web Developers, Designers, Search Engine Marketers, User Experience and any other type of Internet Profressional who meet once a month to talk about the latest trends and show off our cool projects. Should be a blast!

Obviously its been a while since posting, but I figure I will start up again and start sharing some information, tutorials and what not. I always feel if your not going to post regularly then don’t post, I’m sure a few people would disagree with that.

Anyone in the Ann Arbor area should definitly com checkout out our next Refresh Detroit meeting. All the details are listed on our website. We are doing a demo night, where anyone can come and show us their latest websites, designs, applications, tools, and products. You do have to RSVP if you are wanting to demo something, so please checkout out the site for more details.

For anyone that doesn’t know what Refresh Detroit is, we are a group of web developers, designers, usability specialist and anyone who has a passion for the web. We get together to talk about industry trends, special techniques, marketing and a whole assortment of topics.

If you are like me, then most others involved in your life don’t really care about how you used some really cool techniques to code a web site or hear you talk about the usability of a certain site, kind of sucks! The best is how my girlfriend gets so annoyed when I view the source of a site we are randomly checking out. Only us web nerds can understand that type of stuff, so why not get together and talk about it with each other.

With that said, look forward to hearing more post on various ecommerce topics. Since starting my career in ecommerce last year, I have been working on a lot of cool things such as Comparison Shopping Engines, Affiliate Marketing and my dive into the world of software engineering.