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HTML5 Live, a two week online course from John

A quick note to all that with SitePoint, a fan­tas­tic com­mu­nity for web design­ers and devel­op­ers, and pub­lisher of many excel­lent design and devel­op­ment books, I’ll be run­ning a two week course, online start­ing next Monday on HTML5. And best of all, it’s only $US9.95 (yep, less than a … Read more »

More Web Directions @media podcasts and slides come online

Thanks to a lot of hard work from Guy Leech, a whole bunch of the pod­casts and slides from Web Directions @media are now online. It’s always great to give back by mak­ing these avail­able, and we’d like to par­tic­u­larly thank our speak­ers for their generosity.

Help us make it all … Read more »

Three must-​​see presentations which came out of Web Directions @media

After any con­fer­ence we always do our best to share the love by cre­at­ing a pod­cast and resource page for each pre­sen­ta­tion from the event. Apologies that it has taken a bit of time to get these out there this time — we’ve had the small mat­ter of … Read more »

Web Directions South 2010

We’re really excited to take the wraps off Web Directions South for 2010. This has been a big year for Web Directions, with our first ever @media just wrap­ping up in London, and the recently announced Web Directions US in Atlanta.

But our home will always be Sydney, … Read more »

SVG Contest closes Friday

Just a quick update on our “No Bit, Sherlock” com­pe­ti­tion, where you can win some great prizes like XBoxes, Mindstorms and a SONY Vaio just for build­ing an SVG but­ton, or progress control.

There’s plenty of great exam­ples you can learn from (remem­ber, “view source” is not a sin, it’s … Read more »

@media is a wrap, and a huge hit

We’ve just wrapped up the first @media event run by Web Directions here in London, and if we say so our­selves, it’s been a huge hit.

An incred­i­ble array of speak­ers, cov­er­ing a wide range of break­ing top­ics includ­ing CSS3, HTML5, mobile web app devel­op­ment, geolo­ca­tion, but much … Read more »

SVG — the Cinderella of web standards goes to the ball

To date, SVG has been rather the Cinderella of web stan­dards (peo­ple for­get that Cinderella was the beau­ti­ful, but over­looked sib­ling before the whole glass slip­per busi­ness). But since the hand­some Prince (Internet Explorer 9) showed inter­est in her, things have been look­ing up. OK, so I’ve pushed … Read more »

Opera Dragonfly Developer survey

Those of you who use Opera likely know about their very cool, open source devel­op­ment and debug­ging tool Dragonfly. It’s in many ways sim­i­lar to Firebug, IE’s devel­oper tool­bar, and Safari’s Web Inspector.

The folks at Opera are run­ning a short sur­vey to help get a bet­ter under­stand­ing of what … Read more »

@media approaches — along with many web related events

We’re gear­ing up for our first @media fill­ing the huge shoes left by founder Patrick Griffiths, and things are shap­ing up really well.

But @media’s not the only thing on next week. The excel­lent folks at London Web Standards are hold­ing HTML5 and Flash, where are they now?, … Read more »

SitePoint interviews @media speakers Jonathan Stark and Tom Hughes-​​Croucher

Our fine friends, and long time sup­port­ers SitePoint have been doing a num­ber of inter­views with @media speak­ers in the lead up to the event next week. Craig Buckler speaks with Jonathan Stark, on build­ing native mobile apps using web tech­nolo­gies, and Tom Hughes-​​Croucher on Server Side JavaScript … Read more »