This week 450+ higher ed web workers converged in Milwaukee, WI for the HighEdWeb 2009 conference. I was lucky enough to not only be part of this group but also give a presentation. The conference was filled with great people, sessions and excursions. The tone of the conference was very easy going and friendly. I [...]

Turn your everyday photos into something that looks like it was taken by a semi-pro. This four-step tutorial is fun because it doesn’t require hard work and the final outcome never disappoint! Lets start!
STEP 1
Once you’ve picked your photo, Duplicate the layer.

STEP 2
With the duplicated layer selected, go to Image > Adjustments > Desaturate. This [...]

This week we had our first campus communicator meetup. In the past it was a once per year half day event with presentations and mandatory attendance. This year we scaled it down to a 1-2 hour discussion on timely topics with a smaller group.
About 20 communicators from across campus attended the meetup. We had salad, [...]

Earlier this week I gave a presentation about Web Standards and Accessibility to the ASIS&T Wayne State Student Chapter.
I gave the presentation as an overview of the importance of web standards and accessibility. Not only as the right thing to do but also how they can benefit any web project. Not only is there a [...]

In our continuous effort to support microformats, we are proud to announce expanded hCalendar support on the Wayne State University Events Calendar.
If you are not familiar with microformats the goal is to use plain HTML and embed through classes and Semantic HTML information about the content. Similar to XML to describe content but in plain [...]

Well-known Flash and Flex author Joey Lott will be speaking at the September 23, 2008 Refresh Detroit meeting. Joey is traveling across the country, from east coast to west coast, on his way to Adobe MAX in San Francisco and we’re his first stop.
Thanks to the local Adobe user groups, FlashFocused and Detroit Area Adobe [...]

If you are a web worker and haven’t seen it yet, please take ten minutes to complete the 2008 A List Apart survey so we can build a snapshot of our industry.

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Refresh Detroit is a part of the Refreshing Cities organization. They are a group of web professionals whose goal is to promote web standards, usability, and accessibility, and to spread the knowledge of web design in the Detroit and Ann Arbor Michigan areas.
The next Refresh Detroit meeting will be 6:30pm, Wednesday, June 18, 2008 at [...]

I know a lot of people are dying to learn Flash, but feel intimidated by the program, so I decided to do an introductory level workshop going over Flash in general and a couple very basic tutorials. Our marketing department has been doing these “crossover” type workshops now for over a month and I [...]

A few days ago I gave a workshop titled “Introduction to the Web” to the whole creative team in the marketing department. I think it went quite well, I threw it together in an hour and just started talking not knowing what type of reactions to expect.
For some of the team who are print designers [...]