Who We Are

August 4, 2006

 By: admin @ 2:00 pm

We are proud to be a part of Refreshing Cities, the web design movement promoting the spread of usability, accessibility, and web standards. With a publishing medium as infant and chaotic as the internet, the industry can only reach its full potential if we band together and strive for excellence.

Refresh Detroit aims to create an environment of “learning through each other” in the Michigan area. What is in the future of Refresh Detroit? Published documents, conferences, seminars, and workshops. By promoting web standards, by furthering each other, we can further ourselves.

Refresh Detroit was started by CheckEngine USA - web site tune-ups and overhauls, and 3.7 Designs - Web Design and Marketing.

Interested in participating?

Show your interest by leaving a comment below or by sending us an email (info at refresh-detroit NOSPAM dot org).

Core Participants:

12 Comments »

  1. Self-taught non-geek webmaster of disability related websites. I want to join!!!

    Susan

    Comment by Susan Fitzmaurice — September 5, 2006 @ 3:00 pm

  2. usability professional
    master’s student in human-computer interaction
    programs manager for the society of tech comm

    may i join????

    Comment by Anthony Viviano — April 24, 2007 @ 11:58 am

  3. Anyone in the web profession is welcome to join. The only requirement is that you must be enthusiastic about web standards, usability, etc! Just show up at a Refresh Detroit meeting.

    Comment by Dennis — April 25, 2007 @ 10:09 am

  4. Hey - I don’t know if Dennis is still involved here but can you remove my name from the list? Thanks - Brian

    Comment by Brian Ashley — May 8, 2007 @ 10:10 pm

  5. I am in Toledo, but I would be happy to join!

    Comment by Jaan Kanellis — May 25, 2007 @ 11:05 pm

  6. My name is Nick DeNardis and I work at Wayne State University in the Web Services unit. I am interested in joining Refresh Detroit, I have worked in the web industry since 1998 or so, I’ve always had a passion for the web, usability and standards.

    A little more about myself, ill keep it short I hope. I was born and raised in Sterling Heights, MI. I have done freelance work since 1998 mainly on teacher union and e-commerce sites. I started at Wayne State pursuing my computer science degree and started working in the Web Services unit in the Marketing department as a student assistant, then moved to a full time developer, then lead developer and recently promoted to oversee all the web work that comes out of marketing.

    The university has been decentralized web wise since the beginning, central marketing 4 years ago started taking on schools/colleges/departments one by one to bring them in to the University identity and a central server system. We have done roughly 200 web sites, html emails, flash games, you name it and we have done it and continue to grow daily. We have built an in house CMS that integrates with the universities unique requirements.

    We work in the LAMP environment at work and now Ruby on Rails in my freelance life. I have included a few URL’s below of our work at WSU and my personal site. The WSU work is in alpha order and some of the sites in there now may be out of validation because the school/college/department have control of the site now. Also we oversee wayne.edu, which we did not design or develop and I am currently heading the committee for its redesign and it is going to be 100% valid, accessible and a lot more usable.

    If there is anything else you need from me just let me know. I really enjoy the idea of Refresh Detroit, I love this city and always enjoy helping people out, a lot of our staff is students and we teach them the basics all the way to best practices and working with high traffic sites in a shared server environment. I hope I can be some help and look forward to hearing back.

    WSU Marketing Portfolio:
    http://wcs.wayne.edu/portfolio/

    My Site:
    http://nickdenardis.com/

    Comment by Nick DeNardis — September 13, 2007 @ 9:53 pm

  7. I’d be happy to join. I’ll look forward to the next meeting

    Comment by cathy healey — November 6, 2007 @ 11:56 am

  8. Internet Professional program student at Washtenaw Community College, lives in Monroe County south of Ann Arbor and north of Toledo. Thanks Deborah for inviting me!

    Comment by Kathleen Navarre Venzke — November 15, 2007 @ 12:11 pm

  9. Hi Kathleen,

    Glad to see you last week! Hope I see you at our meeting next week.

    Comment by Deborah — November 20, 2007 @ 9:03 am

  10. I plan on attending the next meeting. I’ve been a web designer for 10 years and currently run my own design agency. I’ve been a big advocate of web standards since I first started writing HTML.

    Please check out my work at http://eight6.com

    Best,
    Noel

    Comment by Noel Jackson — February 12, 2008 @ 9:57 pm

  11. Greetings Folks,
    Interesting group!
    Hope to contribute. I love to learn, and love to teach.

    -a

    Bio: Aydin Akcasu is a Senior Software Engineer/Architect at a small software company. He is also the founder of A Vision, Inc ( www.A-V-I.com). He has over 20 years of experience, and provides innovative solutions using technologies such as Java, JavaScript, ASP, Visual Basic, VB.Net, C#.Net, ASP.Net, Flash, XML, XSL.

    He is a part time ‘C#.Net’ instructor at Washtenaw Community College (www.wccnet.edu) and will be designing and teaching a new class ‘Advanced C#.Net’ winter 2008.

    He has given many presentations and classes to local area groups, as well as a few in Bangalore, India, in topics such as:
    ‘Help, I need to learn Javascript’, ‘Cover you ASP’, ‘VB- What is it good for?’, ‘FLASH-in-the-Pants?’, ‘C#, ASP.Net on a Budget’, ‘Introduction to ‘C#.Net’, ‘AJAX - A What’, ‘Google Maps API-Wheres’Waldo?’, ‘Wii Will Wii Will Rock You! !! !!!’. He is a frequent speaker at Day Of Dot Net ( www.dayofdotnet.org ) (’Kids Programming Language’, ‘Introduction to Object Oriented Programming Using C#’, ‘’Microsoft Virtual Earth, Now in 3D’).

    Comment by Aydin Akcasu — February 25, 2008 @ 11:04 pm

  12. Welcome Neil and Aydin!

    Glad you stopped by our site. Hope to see you at our meeting tonight at the Ann Arbor Public Library.

    Comment by Deborah — February 27, 2008 @ 7:20 am

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