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Further to my previous post, the Web Directions people advise: We’ve now got pretty much all the conference sessions up at the resources section of our site, complete with their podcasts and slides. So, if you’re looking to catch up on a session you missed out on, take a look below. Further, do feel free […]
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Web Directions is one of the major stops on the global circuit of web design and development conferences, particularly for those who understand that web standards matter. It attracts overseas and Australian speakers who actually have something to say: an insight, a perspective, an opinion or a technique they want to share. With four tracks
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On 11 December W3C announced “a new standard that will help Web designers and developers create sites that better meet the needs of users with disabilities and older users. Drawing on extensive experience and community feedback, the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 improve upon W3C’s groundbreaking initial standard for accessible Web content. This new
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My web design conference organisers of choice, Web Directions, have launched their annual State of the Web survey of practicing web designers and developers, which aims to capture how people are developing for the web right now. Say Maxine Sherrin and John Allsopp: It would be great if you could take a few minutes to
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Web-blast is a huge end-of-year party for Sydney’s web community – bringing together web designers, web project managers, interface designers, information architects and other web professionals. Celebrate the end of the year in style on Friday 5th December, 2008. Time: 6pm onwards Where: Bar Broadway Corner of Regent Street and Broadway, Sydney opposite UTS Tower
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Phew! Another Web Directions conference over and once again my brain feels stuffed to the gills (Do brains have gills? They ought to). This year I’m going to try to separate some threads of discussion and points of interest by posting about them separately, but I want to also give a bit of an overview.
Three sessions into Web Directions South for this year, and it’s shaping up as another winner. Lynne D. Johnson’s opening keynote was a cracker. A very engaging speaker, Lynne addressed the issue of whether, as a result of emerging web technologies, print as an information medium is dying or dead. Personally, I think reports of
There’s another top notch web conference coming up in these parts. Edge of the Web will be held in Perth from 6-7 November, hosted by the relatively recently formed industry body the Australian Web Industry Association. Like Web Directions, Edge of the Web has a terrific speaker lineup with international guests Chris Messina (with whom
Not long now until it’s time for Web Directions South again. It’ll be great to catch up again with old friends and make some new ones, but it’s the content of the WD sessions that makes this event indispensable for me and, as usual, this year’s line-up looks great. As a solo freelancer working from
Last year, I was elected to the Committee of Web Industry Professionals Association. WIPA is an organisation that brings Australian web professionals together to exchange ideas, participate in debate, advance education and promote ethical practice. One of WIPA’s activities is holding or assisting events like this one that will help achieve positive outcomes for the
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