RefreshDelVal

If you are a web developer living and working in the Delaware Valley, or a student of web development, and you’re looking to learn more about W3 and WAI standards and building websites to meet those standards in an innovative, beautiful, and powerful way using the latest in coding standards and technologies, then Refresh Delaware Valley might be the grassroots initiative you’ve been looking for. Here in DelVal we’re very new, but the precedent has already been set in other cities in North America and Europe, and soon, we hope, to be followed by the rest of the world.

Our plan is to do that in three ways– by providing a webplace for an online community and resource center, by having a meeting every month, and, eventually, by getting out into the schools in the community and spreading the word.

Come Join us!

We post all our Meetups at RefreshDelVal Webstandards Meetup Group, which is free to join and has a great notification service and forum, as well as a way for us to interact and meet with other groups. Please sign up if you wish to join us!

Donations toward the cost of the RefreshDelVal Meetup fee will be most welcome. Contact BJ for more information or to offer help.

Ideas for future meeting topics- Ruby/Rails, Educating decision makers about the need for a standardized accessible web, podcasting, CSS friendly applications, Design Eye for the Tabled Guy, Uses and Abuses of Ajax. Other suggestions gleefully welcome.

Support Us

Do you want to help support the group? Take a peek at our RefreshDelVal CafePress Shop! The small markup helps offset group costs. We’ll be adding RefreshDelVal.org merchandise as time permits.

You don’t need to go to college or spend a lot of cash to learn how to create websites using good W3 standards based code. There are so many resources available on the web that you can pretty much learn what you need without breaking the bank.
As Jesse Kelly wrote in an earlier article, LVS […]

Thierry from CSS-Discuss has developed a VERY cool tool to learn how CSS Z-Index and Stacking Order works in all browsers. You’re going to wanna do what I did and have IE open next to one of the good browsers and compare how IE does things. It will visually show you how IE gets it […]

It is through my association with RefreshDelVal and BJ Novack that I was introduced to LVS Online, an affordable distance learning site devoted to empowering students. LVS, or “Learning Virtual Studies,” uses real instructors and community to deliver an old school experience with modern virtual learning methods. Taking a class means you’ll have an instructor […]