About | Webuquerque | New Mexico Adobe User Group for Web Practitioners

About Webuquerque

Learn, Network, Socialize

Webuquerque is a division of the New Mexico Adobe User Group (NMAUG) that is geared entirely toward web professionals and folks interested in learning more about the web.

NMAUG comprises three "branches:"

motion+connect focuses on animation and motion graphics
AdobeQuerque focuses on print
Webuquerque focuses on web

While we are an Adobe User Group, our primary agenda is not an Adobe agenda. The mission of Webuquerque is to promote standards and best practices in web design and development, while helping support and grow the local web community.

To that aim, we host free, monthly events that begin with a presentation on a web topic, followed by socializing and networking. The goal is to combine education and social.

We meet the first Wednesday of every month at One Up Elevated Lounge in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Webuquerque Co-Managers

Webuquerque was created and is co-managed by local Albuquerque web professionals Jason Nakai and Emily Lewis:

Jason Nakai

Jason is the Multimedia Developer for the American Society of Radiologic Technologists, focusing on the development of distance learning content that combines streaming media and interactive learning objects.

In addition to web application programming and interaction design, Jason creates photo-realistic vector art and is a social media junkie.

Have questions for Jason about Webuquerque? Send him an email.

Emily Lewis

Emily has over 10 years of experience working as a web professional. Currently, she is a freelance web designer, but she also serves as a contributing writer for several industry publications, including MIX Online, ScriptJunkie and .net magazine.

During the tenure of her web career, she has also worked as a back-end developer using ASP and ColdFusion, as well as a project manager for custom web applications. She specializes in semantic XHTML and CSS, accessibility and usability.

Emily writes about web design (and other topics) at A Blog Not Limited, and is the author of Microformats Made Simple.

Have questions for Emily about Webuquerque? Send her an email.

Part of a Larger Community

Webuquerque is just one part of New Mexico's web design/development and new media community. Please support these other professional and social groups for local practitioners:

Webuquerque Sponsors

The following companies support Webuquerque by providing books for review, swag and free software. Please support them in turn.

This Site

This new site for Webuquerque is a work in progress. At present, this is a rudimentary experiment with HTML5 and a sprinkling of CSS 3.

We hope to fine-tune the markup structure as we experiment more with HTML5, and plan to implement additional CSS 3 features. We will also be trying different font techniques, rather than our current implementation of image replacement. Finally, we'll be moving this entire site into ExpressionEngine.