Josh Sager Media: Creative Technologies Blog

I’ve got only one word to explain the experience.  WOW!

What is Pittsburgh Web Design Day?

Pittsburgh Web Design was a one day conference organized by Jason and Val Head of Refresh Pittsburgh and On The Fridge.

My Impressions

This was a top notch one day conference. Jason and Val really out did themselves. The speakers were fantastic, the space was wonderful, and Franktuary + perogies = awesome!

The Speakers featured local and regional web guru’s with some sort of tie to Pittsburgh. I was really amazed at how each session referenced, echoed, and built on prior sessions reinforcing concepts, philosophies, and techniques. It was like a symphony of awesome information.

I am truly honored to have been apart of it. The speakers were Geoff Barnes, Chris Cashdollar, Val Head, Whitney Hess, Jason Robb, myself, and Samantha Warren.

The entire day was chalked full of great conversations, new friendships, stimulating debates, and all around good times. Did I mention Happy Cog was there (Chris and Kevin Hoffman)

The Story of a Web Project

I was floored by the positive reaction to my session. When I was putting it together I had my doubts. Thank you all for your positive feedback, suggestions, and conversations.

As promised I’m posting my slides accompanied with a few other documents to help you establish your own processes.

I am releasing all of the following documents under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License

Slides
Client Questionnaire
The Why of Web Design
Process Chart

Once again I want to thank all everyone for the great time and especially Jason and Val for the opportunity.

Every now and again I come across some ideas I wish I had first.  Some of them are really clever, some are just really simple. Mostly my appreciation comes from thinking DAMNIT I should have thought of that.  Nevertheless I wanted to pass along a few things that are fun, clever, and definitly good ideas.

There is a designer disclaimer here by the way.  If you don’t get it I apologize cause you’re not in the club.  If you do get it then congrats you should be receiving your cool designer live-strong bracelet and horn-rimmed glasses in the mail within the next few weeks.

• A Font Game - Rachel: Credit for showing me
• Font Periodic Table - Ben Pritchard: Credit for showing me
• Study of A-Holes - Samantha Warren: Credit for showing me

Where: Left Field
When: Saturday April 4th 8:30am - 4:30pm
Cost: $40
Limited Registration

There’s a great one day Web Conference going on in just a few weeks called Pittsburgh Web Design Day. The name says it all.  One day of really cool web stuff in Pittsburgh, kind of like a geek holiday. It’s brought to you by the great people at Refresh Pittsburgh, so you knows it’s going to awesome.

I’m especially psyched because I’ve been invited to talk about my processes.  My session is called ”The Story of a Web Project: Process and Best Practices” and basically it’s best practices of identifing good clients/projects, how to cost out a project, avoiding some commong pittfalls, and how to finish a project.

The speaker line up is jammed packed with fantastic people like Val Head, Samantha Warren, Geoff Barnes, and Chris Cashdollar. Spots are going fast so make sure to register early.