Re: [webdesign-463] New member

Hello, Everyone!

Let's get a date and a speaker and jump in! My background is deeply

entrenched in film, video and multimedia production. I'm an enthusiastic

advocate of convergence and convergent thinking and have been working with

many of my clients over the past few years to incorporate the multimedia

content we are creating into their existing and new website designs. I've

done quite a bit of commercial and corporate work and recently have been

doing a lot of work with Yale and other companies in the New Haven area

producing on-line program and faculty intros and web modules. I'd be happy

to share what I can about how to design and create effective and focused

video and multimedia production and learn more from all of you about web

architecture and design. If that's something that anyone is interested in

I'm preparing a talk on it for the Greater New Haven Design and Marketing

Group meet-up coming up on January 9th and could certainly offer it as a

future talk for us too. I'm with AVITY, www.avity.com a full service web

software and applications design firm. Happy Holidays to all.

Michael

> I've been hoping for this meetup to get started.  I would love to meet
> with other web designers in the area.  As far as where to meet, I agree
> with Shelly.  We are all over the state.  I like the idea of maybe having
> meetups in alternating locations.  For example, in Hartford area one
> month, and New Haven area the next...or something to that effect.
>
> I'm fairly new to web design but I've grown quite passionate about it.
> Currently I can offer feedback about HTML, CSS, information design and
> wiring diagrams, Dreamweaver, etc.  Like Shelly, I've also dabbled with
> PHP quite a bit through my ecommerce website, so I can offer some tips
> there although I probably could use more help myself.
>
> Hopefully we can get this meetup going!
> :o) Kasia
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Shelly Cole <[address removed]>
> To: [address removed]
> Sent: Monday, December 17, 2007 9:14:47 PM
> Subject: [webdesign-463] New member
>
> Hello all -
>
> I just joined this group tonight.  Been looking through the site here,
> and I'm surprised to see that a meetup has yet to occur.  The last
> discussion I see of it possibly happening was back in October, and the
> idea seems to have died.
>
> I also saw some stuff that people were interested in learning about, and
> some of the stuff I actually know.  So I was hoping I could light a fire
> and maybe get a meetup to happen, as I'd love to be able to network in
> this area.
>
> I see that one of the big issues is where people are located -
> apparently we're all over the state.  (I am located in Simsbury, which
> is not far from Farmington/Avon/Bloomfield.)  Although I'm not too
> familiar with CT yet (I'm a recent transplant), I'm never afraid to hop
> in the car and take a trip to somewhere I haven't been yet.  I've found
> that it's pretty hard to get lost in this state - I've tried ;)
>
> So I was thinking - and I know this is a nice-sized group, so maybe this
> isn't too far-fetched - what if we kind of split it?  Instead of all of
> us in one place, maybe two smaller groups in two different places?  or
> perhaps have two meetups that are in different parts of the state, so
> that one is more accessible, and if someone lives farther away but is
> willing to drive, they can go to both?  I don't know - thinking out
> loud, I guess.
>
> Anyway, as to what I can offer the group (at least, I hope I can!): I do
> CSS/XHTML coding (haven't done a tabled layout in *years*), W3C
> standards compliance, I dabble in PHP and I am *excellent* with
> CMS/Blogging platforms (think MovableType, WordPress - *especially*
> WordPress, actually - pMachine/Expression Engine - even dabble in
> MySpace sometimes)  I'd love to know more about PHP (I know enough to be
> scary) and MySQL, and as far as platforms go, I'd like to get my hands
> into Joomla.
>
> So there it is, and hopefully I hear back from you all soon :)
>
> ~Shelly
>
>
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