Our May 2014 meetup is up on YouTube, and it was awesome! Self-professed computer geek Dan Lyke visits the WIMP Meetup shark tank and gives his witty talk about Node.js and why, despite that JavaScript sucks, you should be using it everywhere! Don’t forget to stay off his lawn!
Author: Cole Geissinger
Beyond Photoshop: Designing for the Modern Web
Our first successful recording of a meetup is now available on YouTube! Open the champagne!
This month, Ben Grace talks about designing for the modern web, including the tools and workflows we use today and where we think it’s going. This was one of our larger meetups with 44 attendees! If you didn’t make it, check out the video from the meetup and enjoy the resources and Ben’s slides.
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Welcome to the new Wimp Website!
Randy “The Man” Hall
As you may have noticed, we have made considerable changes to our website!
We’ve spent some time getting things working and to a point that we feel comfortable to launch an early version. As you traverse the website you’ll notice several pages pretty bare. This is intentional as we couldn’t wait any longer to push this up! Yes, maybe it’s a little premature, but we guarantee, there’s many things you can do
If you visit the Members area, we have improved the user profile system. You can now post status updates, friend other Wimps, private message, join or create groups… and this is just the start.
While we used to have a working Job Board, this new site, does not contain one at the moment. We will be greatly improved this area to tie in with our new user accounts system and some other great tricks we got going on.
If you were familiar with the original website, you’ll see a few new areas. Awards, Resources and Community Wall. While these areas are nothing more than pages with little blurbs, these are some things we have scoped out the future of Wimp. Let’s take just a quick, high level look at these.
Awards - That’s right. We want to celebrate and award the Wimp community. The plan here is to have an “awards ceremony” at the end of every year and award those chosen by our community. This would be a user submitted system covering several categories and voted by our community.
Resources - The WIMP Facebook Group shares a lot. We want to centralize this into a wiki system for our members to easily contribute and share this data at any time. This can be anything from best software for web design, tools for hardcore developers, marketing tips, recommended business advisors, best hosting websites for your CMS, and the list goes on.
Community Wall - We love our Facebook group, but we want to centralize things. The community wall would be a real time chat interface that in time will merge with our Facebook group with cross posting (opt-in/opt-out of course). Now this doesn’t mean we are going to abandon the Facebook group, we are still going to keep that thriving! We have many members that come to the Meetups that don’t have a Facebook account. This is our answer to opening our group up to a wider audience
Now go start using the site!! Woot!