Yesterday I “automatically” upgraded the Refresh Tallahassee site from WordPress 2.9 to 3.0, and when I was finished, all that remained of the site was a fatal error message. Nice. After a little searching, I found out that the Event Calendar plug-in was the culprit. After removing this plug-in via FTP, everything now seems to be working fine. Now you know.
I don’t find the prize all that motivating, but here’s the recently announced Ball Watch Contest.
Good design is innovative.
Good design makes a product useful.
Good design is aesthetic.
Good design helps us to understand a product.
Good design is unobtrusive.
Good design is honest.
Good design is durable.
Good design is consequent to the last detail.
Good design is concerned with the environment.
Good design is as little design as possible.
Source: DesignApplause
Source: Adaptive Path Blog
Source: poptech.org
As I continue to consider organizing a conference for the benefit of the Refresh Tallahassee family, I thought this post made a great (and sobering) point about the value of web design conferences in general.
The summary: My verdict for the future of web design is to stay away from expensive conferences. If you are a conference person and can spare the money, good on ya! But don’t be fooled into thinking that you have to attend them to keep up with future web design trends. Attending smaller, local meet-ups with like-minded people and following the ‘celebrities’ via Twitter is a much cheaper and rewarding experience.
The source: brizk design blog
That being said, stay tuned for details about our next meeting in late May. It looks to be another GREAT one. In fact, we may even hold the event in the Planetarium at the Challenger Learning Center!
The State College of Florida Manatee-Sarasota (former Manatee Community College) is looking for a Web Development Specialist. They are using the OmniUpdate CMS. “Salary depending on experience”, but on a rainy February day in the Capital City the idea of moving south and being closer to beaches may seem particularly appealing. Also, this job is at the Bradenton campus, less than five miles away from the Ringling Museum of Art – just the place to go when you need inspiration for that Rubens-inspired Drupal theme you’ve been pondering.