Our second “Fresh-up” is centered around the process that goes into building a website. Process is near impossible to perfect as it likely changes with every new experience. The tried and the true often only stay that way for short amounts of time as we are enlightened to new ideas and better ways of thinking.

A few local professionals will be speaking about their design and development process in hopes of us all learning a few new techniques and ideas. David Yeiser will be speaking about his process when he embarks on a website design. I will be covering some of the web-based tools we use in our process in hopes of exposing a few new products on people, many of them free or in Beta. Thommy Browne will be speaking some about the process that goes into web design and production at PCUSA which is likely to be a very unique exposure to the way design happens inside internal companies.

If anyone would like to present or discuss please speak up. All are welcome to participate and no presentations or multimedia are required, just bring your thoughts if you’d like.

Join us on Tuesday March 24th at the Buffalo Wild Wings @ Springhurst at 7pm. Look forward to hopefully seeing everyone who turned out last month and growing our group. Follow us on Twitter, join the facebook group and generally spread some love for the group to your friends and coworkers.

We are a different breed. Every day we use the internet to communicate to people in unique and ever changing ways. What yesterday offered us, tomorrow will use to rethink, rebuild, re-engineer and refresh what we know. In this regard, it’s time we had a place to gather and discuss the industry of web design and development exclusively.

Refresh Louisville is seated to help us grow as a community and as individuals in this field. We will come together to discuss our work, our views, as well as our hopes and fears. The Refresh idea has been adopted for Louisville and our surrounding areas by way of the Refreshing Cities movement.

We (Deanna Mitchell, Dennis Sheridan and Todd Budnikas) started this project in June of 2007 after becoming aware of the Refresh concept. It was intriguing in that there was no one person to carry the weight of the group, but also no fees, nor guidelines to follow. The group sustains itself on passion for what we do every day, not because we need to get our money’s worth.

As I’ve been telling people, the beauty of Refresh is that there is no rule book. There is no governing body and the members of the community help define the group more than any administrator or facilitator. That means we need participation. Much of the focus of this community will be around monthly gatherings, the first of which will be on Tuesday February 17th at 7:00pm. We’ll gather at the BBC Taproom on 636 E. Main St. Louisville, KY 40202. Please RSVP for the event if you plan to come.

In the meantime have a quick look around the site. Visit the forums, join our Facebook group, create an account for the site, follow us on Twitter, subscribe to the feed and generally spread the word that we’re here, and we’re ready to party. As we grow in number, the more networking, information, ideas and fun we can have here locally, without always turning to virtual communities the better.

I’m proud to be a part of this and I hope you will join us.