Refresh Seattle
- October 24th, 6:00PM
- Speaker: Walker Hamilton, Visicswire
Refreshing Digital Web Magazine
How do you tackle a complete re-do of a magazine’s CMS, with its quirks, thousands of pages, and disparate systems—and do it seamlessly in front of a global audience of web professionals?
Digital Web Magazine, one of the top online magazines for professional web designers, web developers, and information architects has been sailing along for over ten years. However, its underpinnings, though originally conceived by a top programmer, were showing their age and limitations.
Walker Hamilton will discuss how he approached the challenge, and then successfully rolled the existing features and administration applications into a compact whole. He’ll cover the Digital Web site, database, cakePHP, php frameworks, and team development—and reveal the sticky issues and gotchas he encountered along the way.
Walker Hamilton runs a web development and consulting firm, visicswire LLC, and is working towards a master's degree in Information Architectecture at IIT. He rides a fixie around Chicago, the city that loves him back. He has a knack for finding the best places for beers and spirits and enjoys them greatly.
Refreshing Digital Web Magazine
This Refresh meeting is held at the Ballard Library, located just off Market Street. Please RSVP if you'd like to attend.
And don’t forget that we’ll all head over to The Bal Mar for food and drinks after Refresh. Hope to see you there.
