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Designing Web Forms
Web forms are often critical to our sites success. Forms are becoming even more prevalent now that web apps are becoming increasingly popular. Forms do not need to be a painful process for you or your visitors. This Months presentation will help guide you in the direction of successful, usable, and attractive form design.
- Date:
- August 18th 2010
- Time:
- 6:30
- Location:
- The Urban Hive 1931 H Street, Sacramento, CA 95811
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Black Screen Social
This month we are holding our first "Black Screen Social". Which is really just a fancy way to say that I have been too busy to actually prepare a topic.
A Black Screen Social is a night where we get together for our two hours to socialize, show off what we are working on, get some feedback, ask questions, but not have a specific topic on the agenda. I will be returning from vacation on Wed. and will try my best to attend the event. However, even in my absence I will make sure there is pizza and drinks available for those that show up.
- Date:
- July 21st 2010
- Time:
- 6:30
- Location:
- The Urban Hive 1931 H Street, Sacramento, CA 95811
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Kickoff Meeting
In an effort to kick off the meeting series for the Web Standards Group and start building some momentum for this group, there will be a general, open discussion meeting on November 18th at 6:30PM at Round Table Pizza on Arena Blvd in the Bell-Air shopping center. Here is the address, 3290 Arena Blvd, Sacramento, CA 95834, Caution! Both Google and Bing place the location on the wrong side of the freeway. However, it is right off the freeway to the west a few hundred feet. Here is a link to the google map for Bell-Air in the same shopping center. http://is.gd/4RjSh
This initial meeting will be a general open topic meeting as well as a meet and greet. I would like to discuss openly our location options, meeting dates, group name, future topics, as well as encourage sign-ups for presentations, etc. If you have a topic that you think would be good, let's get it in the queue.
See you there!
Meeting Notes—November 18th
Thank you everyone that showed up either in person or in spirit. It was great seeing some old faces, and meeting a few new people as well. After each meeting I thought I would post a listing of items covered, links, etc for those that missed the meeting. Since this was a kickoff meeting there will not bee that much to list, but here it is for those interested.
Administration Items:
- Official domain name will be www.sacwebstandards.com 86% of the votes in favor.
- Official meeting time will be 6:30-8:30
- Official location TBD
- Please subscribe to the forum if we are going to have any chance of making it useful.
- Possibile affiliation with "Refreshing Cities" as a Sacramento chapter. Thoughts and feedback is encouraged in the forum.
- Delicious links tagged with "SacWebStandards" will be listed on the website
News & Notables
- w3.org got a makeover
- An Event Apart – December 7th & 8th in SF
- Jeffery Zeldman new book: third edition "Designing with web standards"
- Jason Santa Maria – On Web Typography
- The jQuery Summit – November 19
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Announcing the Sacramento Web Standards Group
Hello and welcome. I am very excited to be officially announcing the Sacramento Web Standards Group. This group is just forming so details are still a bit hazy. This post will be updated as developments unfold.
Location
I have several promising locations. However, if you should know of a good location please let me know in the comments below. Here is what I have so far:
- Page Design Group – Corner of 29th and S Streets
- Joint Medias – 1600 H (16th & H) street
- Round Table Pizza – Arena Blvd
Dates
My initial thought was to meet once a month on Wednesday; possibly the first Wednesday of each month. Thinking something cliché like "Web Wednesday" might help people remember.
It was mentioned that two other prominent user groups meet already meet on the second Tuesday of the month and the third Thursday of the month so we should avoid those days if possible.
Domain Names
Because I have been thinking about creating this group for soem time now, I have already purchased a series of domain names that we can choose to use. I am torn between all of them so I wanted to get your feedback on what domain name makes the most sence to use. Here they are in no particular order: (okay it's acutally alphabetial order)
- saccss.com
- sacstandards.com
- sacstandardsgroup.com
- sacwebmeetup.com
- sacwebstandards.com
UPDATE: I created an online poll for the domain name issue. Please vote for the domain name that you think best represents our group. This will become the main domain name for the group. I will let the remaining names expire unless we have a compelling reason to keep them.
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