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Just wanted to say I had a great time joining Jeff Davis, Tommy Yi, and Craig Teel on the panel at Refresh OKC yesterday evening. Moderator Chad Henderson provided some great questions for us to discuss as a group. Some of the highlights were discussions about our “setups” (paralleling my recent blog post), the recent social media mash-up on Skittles.com, how we approach our design process, how to deal with clients, and of course “boxers or briefs?”.

If you are an internet person in the Oklahoma City area, Refresh is a great way to meet and get to know people that do what we do around here—and there are more of us than you might think!

Update

For those of you interested, the audio podcast version of the evening has been posted at RefreshOKC.org.

I am pleased to announce that I will be speaking at Tulsa TechFest 2008 on October 10th. Here’s the description of the session, Javascript Libraries for Designers:

Javascript and AJAX-style effects are everywhere on the web, but thanks to a new batch of easy-to-use libraries, sophisticated animation effects can be used by designers with no programming or Flash needed. Tailored to the accomplished designer with limited programming skills, this session intends to practically show how to tap into the power of “write less, do more” Javascript libraries. This is a practical, how-to session that will benefit a wide-range of designers.

It’s something I’ve wanted to present for awhile now. Many designers have jumped into XHTML and CSS but think that they need to be a “programmer” to use JavaScript. Many of these libraries are very accessible and even geared toward designers who lack programming skills. The session will focus on showing designers how easy it is to incorporate sophisticated visual effects into their website designs.

I’ve not previously attended Tulsa TechFest but I’m looking forward to the event. Hope to see some of you there.

Just a quick reminder that I will be presenting at tonight’s Refresh OKC meeting. The topic is Typography Techniques for the Web, A practical guide to tips, tricks, and best practices for achieving elegant type in HTML and CSS.

The meet-up is this evening, August 21st, 2007 at 6:30pm. We meet at the downtown library in Oklahoma City. If you’re in the area please stop in — it’s a great little meet-up and refreshments will be served. More info at www.refreshokc.org.

Hope to see you there!

I wanted to everyone a heads up that I will be presenting at the upcoming Refresh OKC meeting. The topic is Typography Techniques for the Web, A practical guide to tips, tricks, and best practices for achieving elegant type in HTML and CSS.

The next meeting is next Tuesday, August 21st, 2007 at 6:30pm. We meet at the downtown library in Oklahoma City. If you’re in the area please stop in – it’s a great little meet-up and refreshments will be served.

For those of you who haven’t been before, Refresh OKC is a community of designers and developers working to refresh the creative, technical, and professional culture of Internet professionals in the Oklahoma City Metropolitan Area. It’s part of a national movement to promote design, technology, usability, standards, and our local cities. You can find out more at the group’s website, www.refreshokc.org.

Hope to see you there. Please say “hi” if you can make it – I’d love to meet more of you all.