Monday, July 6, 2009

Updating the SQLSaturday Site – Part 1

I’ll take credit/blame for the up to now sparse look of SQLSaturday.com. When we started out we didn’t know what we needed, so we just built it as we needed it and let it evolve over time. I think that’s a valid strategy for this type of effort, but we just never came back to making it look good.

Earlier this year my friend Fabio Honigmann rebuilt the site for the Orlando Code Camp and did a really nice job, so I asked him to do a ‘minor makeover’ of the SQLSaturday.com site. The results that you see live today are based on his efforts but the implementation is all mine – and I’ll be the first to admit that page design and CSS aren’t my strong points. I think it looks better than it did and that’s progress.

Aside from the graphics, the one change most users will appreciate is that the schedule now shows up as a real grid and not just the listing we had before.

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