Yesterday, we presented a DesignCast for HOW Magazine about how designers can create great sites without getting buried in technology. Apparently we struck a cord, because we set an all-time attendance record for one of HOW's webinars, maxing out the GoToWebinar system when it hit 1,000 attendees.
If you weren't able to attend my presentation for AIGA San Francisco on Building Dynamic Websites Without Getting Buried in Technology, you have another chance: I'll be presenting similar material in a free "DesignCast" webinar organized by HOW Magazine.
Many experienced designers grew up with print and want to focus on their creative skills, rather than on web technologies. At the same time, clients expect increasingly complex sites that require multiple layers of technology to design and deliver.
We've launched a new series of talks for the North Bay web design community, which we'll be hosting at the Webvanta offices in downtown Sebastopol. And we're even providing lunch.
After two decades of going to San Francisco and beyond for conferences, and getting to know dozens of great web designers and developers who are in Sonoma, Marin, and Napa counties, I'm thrilled to announce the program for the first North Bay Web Design Conference, which will be held April 12, 2011 in Rohnert Park, CA.
If you're in the North Bay area, stop by and meet the Webvanta team. We're having an open house at our new office, along with our office-mates in the newly formed Sebastopol Design Center: Athena Design Group and Performance Design Group.
It's been an exciting couple of weeks at Webvanta—we've moved into a new office and added two new staff members.
We are adding to our team, and we have a full-time position in our Sebastopol office for an experienced front-end web developer with excellent communication skills.
Our design partners tell our story more compellingly than we can, so we've been conducting a series of interviews. We've just published the first one, with Luke Green of Inspira Digital.
On Saturday, I had the opportunity to give a 5-minute Webvanta demo as part of the BizTechDay conference in San Francisco. It's a challenge to convey the power of Webvanta in such a short demo. I chose to focus on how Webvanta supports any design, and allows the designer to easily build database-driven pages.