The Raleigh-Durham Web Design & Markup Group September Meetup

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Points for Discussion
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September Design Heuristic: Human Factors - Interface considerations, Heuristics, Tips

Artists, please come and share your design tips!

Other optional standing tickler topics . . .

The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Bring us a URL of a Web site, whether the best, the worst, or merely adequate. We'll talk about it. Let us know if it is yours and we'll be nice.

AJAX Tips
Show off your favorite AJAX effect, tool, library, or technique.

Back-end Server Coding
Have a problem grokking server-based code or architecture? Just Ask. Wanna discuss a Web service? We can do that too.

Book Review
Pick up a particularly interesting book relating to Web Design, design in general, or a cool Web technology? Or did an impulse buy turn out to be a waste of time? Tell us about it.

If you have an idea for a topic ]let me know. I'd be happy to update the agenda.

Design Heuristics

We have requests to cover design aesthetics and artistic techniques. To address those requests, tentative future "tickler" topics are listed. If we pace ourselves, we could hit one topic at each of the coming meetings and still discuss a back-end topic too.

Oct: AJAX & JS Animation & Libraries
Nov: Flash Basics & Tools
Dec: Dinner & open discussion

Past Meetings:
Jan: Site critique; What is "Reasonable Disclosure" for a freelancer?
Feb: Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
March: Firebug debugger & Firefox extensions (proposed Book swap a non-event)
April: Color - Theory, Web Rules of Thumb, Design Resources
May: Layout - Space, Composition, Template Design & Idioms
June: Fonts - Typesetting jargon, Good Style, Controlling, Tools
July: Vector Art - Basic Techniques, Tools, Resources
August: Bitmaps - Image Editing, Basic Photo Tips, Tools, Resources
These topics may be juggled, depending on volunteer speakers.
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Otherwise, discuss member's Web questions, talk about what's new, volunteers welcome to present anything of interest to Web professionals, novices, and/or hacks. The stock agenda applies of course:
* Strut your stuff. Show us your recent design work, whether programmatic or artistic.
* Q&A. Get answers to big picture and little detail questions.
* Nifty tools, technologies, and practices you find "just work well".
* Meet! Mingle! Talk!

About the Location

Panera has WiFi access, deep pots of coffee, and plenty of room. Please be polite to the staff and mindful of other customers. We do need to vacate by 9pm so the staff can close up!

*** GOOGLE/YAHOO/MAPQUEST MAPS ARE WRONG ***

The location info has a link to work around problems with Google and Yahoo Maps. The address on the embedded map was tweaked to get the Yahoo link to point to the geographical vicinity.

Mitch made a better map on MapBuilder: Map Builder Map of Panera Bread

- Mitch