http://www.refreshlouisville.org/forums/ Refresh Louisville Community Forums en Sat, 31 Jul 2010 18:39:30 +0000 http://www.refreshlouisville.org/forums/topic.php?id=109#post-439 Wed, 16 Jun 2010 12:44:44 +0000 Todd Budnikas 439@http://www.refreshlouisville.org/forums/ <p>Thanks Joe for posting this and capturing thoughts from our May meeting. Some thoughts:</p> <ol> <li>Would love to have Jared Spool come talk, but we'd need to do a lot more planning and fundraising than normal to get a decent space, etc. The taproom wouldn't cut it. I've seen Jared speak at <a href="http://www.aneventapart.com">An Event Apart</a> and he's awesome.</li> <li>Would love a demo of some inspiration sites or as you have "Successful design in..." and somebody could do a case study or something. May take this on myself actually.</li> <li>Not sure what Compass is so I guess i'd be up for a presentation regarding it if someone was game</li> <li>I like the idea of an open critique. Maybe we just have a projector and a laptop and people can show in progress (client permitting) or recent work and ask for feedback and critique.</li> <li>I'd love for people to showcase recent work coming out of the Louisville area. We're all building cool stuff everyday for ourselves, the public and our clients. Similarly to the critique maybe everybody has a chance to show off what they're been working on in more of a presentation rather than critique. They could then answer questions, etc. I'm thinking this is a good topic for July actually.</li> </ol> <p> Again, thanks Joe for getting this started, others, please add and discuss. We're always looking for input but it's hard to come by sometimes. </p> http://www.refreshlouisville.org/forums/topic.php?id=109#post-438 Fri, 11 Jun 2010 14:10:26 +0000 aboveaveragejoe 438@http://www.refreshlouisville.org/forums/ <p>Hey folks, finally getting around to posting some ideas for future discussion topics and more. This is a mix of ideas stemming from my own research and thinking, as well as a number of ideas that came about through some submissions I received and discussion after the last event. I figured I'd go ahead and start the thread, and see how people are feeling about this list. This really is about the group and it's members, so any additional thoughts or possible ideas? We're all ears and eyes. We'd love to hear 'em. Thanks a ton, folks!</p> <p><strong>Topic List (thus far):</strong><br /> Legal Issues for Early Stage Startups/Freelancers<br /> Successful Design in the Music/Movies/Comics/Literature Web Worlds<br /> Video On The Web<br /> Revealing Design Treasures from Amazon (this was a talk given at a Philly Refresh meetup by Jared Spool that might be interesting if we can bring him in - <a href="http://www.uie.com/about/)" rel="nofollow">http://www.uie.com/about/)</a><br /> Design Trends (or the occasional lack-there-of) in Political/Government Websites<br /> Better Understanding of TypeKit, @font-face, and the move towards accessible web font usage<br /> How You Can Use Twitter<br /> Sass and Compass<br /> Flexible Web Templates for Various Content (from writing more flexible CSS to generating different on the server based on content properties)<br /> Responsive Web Design (see: <a href="http://www.alistapart.com/articles/responsive-web-design/)" rel="nofollow">http://www.alistapart.com/articles/responsive-web-design/)</a><br /> Design/Function Critique: Mobile Web/Apps vs. Desktop Environment vs. Print</p> <p>Also, a couple of other ideas that we can do on a regular/semi-regular basis:<br /> Monthly Site Critique/Discussion<br /> Possible Lunch/Breakfast Meet-ups </p> http://www.refreshlouisville.org/forums/topic.php?id=108#post-437 Thu, 03 Jun 2010 00:27:03 +0000 Todd Budnikas 437@http://www.refreshlouisville.org/forums/ <p>We need to lock down a topic or presenter for Refresh this month. There have been some topics thrown around both in the <a href="http://www.refreshlouisville.org/forums/topic.php?id=106">forums</a> and at the last meeting. If you are interested in presenting on one of the topics you or someone else recommended, please let us know by posting here. If not, we at least need some topics for discussion. </p> http://www.refreshlouisville.org/forums/topic.php?id=107#post-436 Wed, 19 May 2010 18:31:51 +0000 Todd Budnikas 436@http://www.refreshlouisville.org/forums/ <p>Thanks to a one Miss <a href="http://www.refreshlouisville.org/forums/profile.php?id=39">Deanna Mitchell</a> I came across the <a href="http://code.google.com/webfonts">Google Font Directory</a> today. Gives you simple stylesheet hosted by Google with all the @font-face goodness you need to render said font in your page. </p> <p>The link looks like so:</p> <pre>&lt;link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Cantarell' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'&gt;</pre> <p>And then all you need to do is declare <strong>font-family:"Cantarell"</strong> for your element in your stylesheet and away you go. Pretty handy.</p> <p>They also provide a way to build a small stack including weights and variants in 1 call to a stylesheet as seen in the API documentation:<br /> <a href="http://code.google.com/apis/webfonts/docs/getting_started.html#Syntax" rel="nofollow">http://code.google.com/apis/webfonts/docs/getting_started.html#Syntax</a> </p> http://www.refreshlouisville.org/forums/topic.php?id=106#post-435 Tue, 11 May 2010 15:52:32 +0000 Todd Budnikas 435@http://www.refreshlouisville.org/forums/ <p>Hey Matt. Nobody has really approached the topic but I'd certainly be interested to hear more about YUI and others. I've touched a few others like Blueprint etc but not enough to truly understand the benefits, etc. </p> <p>I will say that our discussion about Transcending CSS next Tuesday in most cases goes against what a lot of Frameworks do. Would be interesting to have the other side of the conversation in a future meeting. </p> <p>Hopefully we'll catch up on Tuesday.? </p> http://www.refreshlouisville.org/forums/topic.php?id=106#post-434 Tue, 11 May 2010 15:19:12 +0000 gantner 434@http://www.refreshlouisville.org/forums/ <p>I haven't looked over past presentation so you might have already done this:</p> <p>Would it be valuable to others to present an overview of popular CSS, Javascript frameworks? I have begun using Yahoo's YUI (Yahoo User Interface Library) framework which has been a pleasant experience so far (for the one site I have developed with it). YUI provides CSS, Reset, and Javascript libraries with fantastic documentation and examples. Not as flashy as jQuery, jQuery UI or Moo Tools, but Yahoo's best argument is that they use these libraries themselves and they are 'battle-tested' with heavy traffic.</p> <p>My own site uses the YUI library for a grid layout and jQuery for effects so mixing libraries is also an option.</p> <p><a href="http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/2/" rel="nofollow">http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/2/</a> </p> http://www.refreshlouisville.org/forums/topic.php?id=106#post-433 Fri, 07 May 2010 16:56:04 +0000 Todd Budnikas 433@http://www.refreshlouisville.org/forums/ <p>Planning our upcoming meeting for Tuesday May 18th. If you have any desire to speak, present or have any idea for topics or discussions please post here. If nobody speaks up for presenting we'll likely just have a roundtable-like discussion as we did in February and pick a few topics. </p> http://www.refreshlouisville.org/forums/topic.php?id=105#post-432 Tue, 04 May 2010 14:25:40 +0000 davidyeiser 432@http://www.refreshlouisville.org/forums/ <p>Haha, I changed it to something a bit more business-casual. Although I think the former title still applies.</p> <p>Also, here's a direct link to the PDF slides: <a href="http://designintellection.com/media/presentations/PDF-noMeta-One-Source-to-Rule-Them-All-DAY2010.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://designintellection.com/media/presentations/PDF-noMeta-One-Source-to-Rule-Them-All-DAY2010.pdf</a> </p> http://www.refreshlouisville.org/forums/topic.php?id=105#post-431 Tue, 04 May 2010 13:12:38 +0000 Todd Budnikas 431@http://www.refreshlouisville.org/forums/ <p>Dude, what happened to the title!?!? </p> http://www.refreshlouisville.org/forums/topic.php?id=105#post-430 Tue, 04 May 2010 12:30:48 +0000 davidyeiser 430@http://www.refreshlouisville.org/forums/ <p>I've uploaded the slides for the presentation I gave last month at SlideShare: <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/davidyeiser/once-source-to-rule-them-all" rel="nofollow">http://www.slideshare.net/davidyeiser/once-source-to-rule-them-all</a></p> <p>You can download the full PDF there too. </p> http://www.refreshlouisville.org/forums/topic.php?id=104#post-429 Fri, 23 Apr 2010 02:23:15 +0000 Ricky Irvine 429@http://www.refreshlouisville.org/forums/ <p>Please don't mind this cheap plea. I need to make some room on the shelves and have a few books you might want. Please see: <a href="http://rickyirvine.com/sale/" rel="nofollow">http://rickyirvine.com/sale/</a> </p> http://www.refreshlouisville.org/forums/topic.php?id=103#post-428 Wed, 21 Apr 2010 13:48:54 +0000 Todd Budnikas 428@http://www.refreshlouisville.org/forums/ <p>I promised a few people a few things last night mainly in the form of links so here are hopefully all of the things I mentioned:</p> <p><strong>Online/Cloud backup solutions</strong></p> <ul> <li><a href="http://jungledisk.com">Jungledisk</a> - backup solution I'm currently using</li> <li><a href="http://mozy.com/">Mozy</a></li> <li><a href="http://backblaze.com">Backblaze</a></li> </ul> <p><strong>Other Random Links</strong></p> <ul> <li><a href="http://chrisglass.com/album/">Chris Glass' Photography</a></li> <li><a href="http://mobilewebbook.com/">Cameron Moll's Mobile Web Design Book</a></li> </ul> <p>If I've forgotten anything, let me know here and I'll post it. Others, if you also mentioned somethings please share links and such here as a reference for others. </p> http://www.refreshlouisville.org/forums/topic.php?id=101#post-426 Fri, 16 Apr 2010 14:13:58 +0000 Todd Budnikas 426@http://www.refreshlouisville.org/forums/ <p>i have a copy of tech tool pro which may be able to help you sir. It's a bit more powerful than disk utility and you can boot from it. I'll bring it to Refresh on Tuesday. </p> <p>If you still need to get another, all I can say is that I went to CompUSA a few years ago and got one for my iBook, but as far as I know it's not in business in town any more.</p> <p>That being said, i did get a keyboard replaced on my powerbook from <a href="http://www.elantech.net/ElanTechnologies/Home.html">Elan</a> a while back. Their pricing was good. Might at least add them to your list of "to considers". I think either Apple Store or MacAuthority are probably both good, might just be a matter of turnaround and price.</p> <p>Sorry man, hope your day turns around. </p> http://www.refreshlouisville.org/forums/topic.php?id=101#post-425 Fri, 16 Apr 2010 13:40:43 +0000 Thommy 425@http://www.refreshlouisville.org/forums/ <p>I has many sadz. The hard drive on my iMac at home has kicked the bucket. I booted OSX from a disc and tried to run disk utility but it doesn't even recognize the hard drive anymore.</p> <p>I plan on getting another hard drive, but my question is where should I get the work done at? Apple store in Oxmoor? MacAuthority? Somewhere else I don't know about?</p> <p>HALP </p> http://www.refreshlouisville.org/forums/topic.php?id=100#post-424 Wed, 14 Apr 2010 15:29:17 +0000 Todd Budnikas 424@http://www.refreshlouisville.org/forums/ <p>Great free resource that offers a new PSD download for free every day for a year.</p> <p><a href="http://365psd.com/category/premium/">365psd</a> </p> http://www.refreshlouisville.org/forums/topic.php?id=99#post-423 Mon, 12 Apr 2010 19:01:48 +0000 Todd Budnikas 423@http://www.refreshlouisville.org/forums/ <p>Jeremy Keith posted his slides from the <a href="http://carsonified.com/online-conferences/html5/">Carsonified HTML5 Online Conference</a> happening today. Nice little run down of some tag changes I wasn't aware of and overall good guide.</p> <p><a href="http://adactio.com/extras/slides/html5onlineconf/">http://adactio.com/extras/slides/html5onlineconf/</a> </p> http://www.refreshlouisville.org/forums/topic.php?id=88&page=2#post-422 Tue, 06 Apr 2010 18:28:44 +0000 Todd Budnikas 422@http://www.refreshlouisville.org/forums/ <p>Fresh out Alex. But do post links to your work for any others who may have some to share. Welcome to the Refresh Community! </p> http://www.refreshlouisville.org/forums/topic.php?id=96#post-421 Tue, 06 Apr 2010 18:10:32 +0000 Todd Budnikas 421@http://www.refreshlouisville.org/forums/ <p>Hey stranger! BTW, working through the mobile version of our site as posted today on Dribble: <a href="http://drbl.in/13820" rel="nofollow">http://drbl.in/13820</a> </p> http://www.refreshlouisville.org/forums/topic.php?id=88&page=2#post-420 Tue, 06 Apr 2010 18:07:49 +0000 Alex b 420@http://www.refreshlouisville.org/forums/ <p>I lost count is there any invites left, I would like to try it out. Thanks </p> http://www.refreshlouisville.org/forums/topic.php?id=88&page=2#post-419 Thu, 01 Apr 2010 17:43:59 +0000 Todd Budnikas 419@http://www.refreshlouisville.org/forums/ <p>not sure if you can see this but try: <a href="http://dribbble.com/site/about" rel="nofollow">http://dribbble.com/site/about</a> </p> http://www.refreshlouisville.org/forums/topic.php?id=96#post-418 Thu, 01 Apr 2010 16:53:57 +0000 diggum 418@http://www.refreshlouisville.org/forums/ <p>Lookin good boys, lookin good. I'm with you...never enough time to work on your own stuff but it looks like you got a really solid base going.<br /> I do particularly like the color coding of the sections and the ul styles to match. I think my favorite page is the Contact page. :) </p> http://www.refreshlouisville.org/forums/topic.php?id=88&page=2#post-417 Thu, 01 Apr 2010 16:46:58 +0000 diggum 417@http://www.refreshlouisville.org/forums/ <p>What is this dribble thing? I'm so behind the times. </p> http://www.refreshlouisville.org/forums/topic.php?id=88&page=2#post-416 Tue, 23 Mar 2010 19:31:52 +0000 Thommy 416@http://www.refreshlouisville.org/forums/ <p>Oh, I'm dribbbling ... </p> http://www.refreshlouisville.org/forums/topic.php?id=88&page=2#post-415 Mon, 22 Mar 2010 14:38:41 +0000 Todd Budnikas 415@http://www.refreshlouisville.org/forums/ <p>Thommy: drafted! That wiped me out... thanks for playing! </p> http://www.refreshlouisville.org/forums/topic.php?id=88#post-414 Mon, 22 Mar 2010 14:31:32 +0000 Thommy 414@http://www.refreshlouisville.org/forums/ <p>Tood or David, hook a brotha up! </p> http://www.refreshlouisville.org/forums/topic.php?id=88#post-413 Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:05:37 +0000 davidyeiser 413@http://www.refreshlouisville.org/forums/ <p>I have two invites as well.</p> <p>Brian, do you have one yet? </p> http://www.refreshlouisville.org/forums/topic.php?id=98#post-412 Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:50:52 +0000 Todd Budnikas 412@http://www.refreshlouisville.org/forums/ <p>I would have a hard time believing anybody still needs an invite to <a href="https://typekit.com/">Typekit</a>, but if you need one, I have 5 to share. </p> http://www.refreshlouisville.org/forums/topic.php?id=88#post-411 Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:08:01 +0000 brianbrooks 411@http://www.refreshlouisville.org/forums/ <p>I've been interested in what this Dribble thing is all about</p> <p>Needs some updating, but here's what I got: » <a href="http://www.brianbrooks.org" rel="nofollow">http://www.brianbrooks.org</a></p> <p>(moved from Louisville to Hood River Oregon a couple months back - hope that doesn't disqualify me - still rockin the 502 area code :) </p> http://www.refreshlouisville.org/forums/topic.php?id=88#post-410 Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:49:37 +0000 Todd Budnikas 410@http://www.refreshlouisville.org/forums/ <p>I've got 2 more invites if people want them. Please share some examples and let's get you drafted! </p> http://www.refreshlouisville.org/forums/topic.php?id=97#post-409 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:34:37 +0000 Todd Budnikas 409@http://www.refreshlouisville.org/forums/ <p>It's not bad. Hard to figure out who exactly they're marketing to. Seems like entry level stuff in some cases. Maybe it's just their tone and presentation in that they are very young and (as far as I know) unknown. </p> <p>That being said, content is pretty good, decent production and a cool concept. I'm always up for tutorials and video podcasts. Thanks for sharing. </p> <p>Oh, and yes, the "tagline" they are using is really annoying and hardly original. </p> http://www.refreshlouisville.org/forums/topic.php?id=97#post-408 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:03:53 +0000 Thommy 408@http://www.refreshlouisville.org/forums/ <p>A co-worker sent me a link to <a href="http://doctype.tv/">Doctype</a> today. Don't know really what to think of it. Right off the back I don't like that they stole A List Apart's tag line. I do like that the hosts are one designer and one developer, but the transitions are already driving me a little crazy. Thoughts? </p> http://www.refreshlouisville.org/forums/topic.php?id=96#post-407 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:55:44 +0000 Thommy 407@http://www.refreshlouisville.org/forums/ <p>The new site looks grrrreeat. I love the use of the color on each section. Good work team MD! </p> http://www.refreshlouisville.org/forums/topic.php?id=96#post-406 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:52:14 +0000 Todd Budnikas 406@http://www.refreshlouisville.org/forums/ <p>After way too many months and never finding enough time to get to work on it, we finally launched the new version of missiondata.com I've been talking about for the past 9 months. Still a lot to do, mainly in the form of a little less text and some more visuals to communicate ideas, but it's worlds above where our site was 2 days ago.</p> <p>Have a look and would love to get feedback from others.</p> <p><a href="http://www.missiondata.com">http://www.missiondata.com</a> </p> http://www.refreshlouisville.org/forums/topic.php?id=94#post-404 Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:42:58 +0000 Thommy 404@http://www.refreshlouisville.org/forums/ <p>PUUURRRRRFECT! </p> http://www.refreshlouisville.org/forums/topic.php?id=94#post-403 Wed, 24 Feb 2010 22:34:48 +0000 Todd Budnikas 403@http://www.refreshlouisville.org/forums/ <p>actually, the new version of the <a href="http://fugue-icons.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/all.png">Fugue Icons</a> have all that you need I believe. </p>