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Organizing Our Marvellous Neighbours – Joe Clark’s new book

Many in the web professions will be familiar with (and rightly so) Joe Clark. He spoke at the first conference we were associated with in 2004, and is well known as one of the earliest web accessibility experts, and author of the groundbreaking Building Accessible Websites. Joe has just released his latest book Organizing Our […]

Web Directions Jobs – more than 50 up there now

Just quick note to say we now have over 50 reputable, legitimate jobs at jobs.webirections in just a few short weeks. There’s design, development, IA, and many more positions at the likes of the ABC, Atlassian, Gruden, Medicare, and many more. If you are looking for contractors part timers or full timers, then advertising is […]

First batch of slides available!

The moment you’ve (perhaps) been eagerly awaiting: we’ve added in the slideshows for 10 of the presentations from the recent Web Directions South to the Resources section of this site. We’ll be adding more as time goes by, along with podcasts of the sessions. Check ’em out: Jeffrey Veen Michael ™ Smith Gabriel White Pete […]

Photos from Web Directions South 2008

I’ve just uploaded almost 500 photos taken by our photographer this year, Wade Millican, who might I say did a thoroughly excellent job – thanks Wade! Check them out for yourself. Even better, if you have time and inclination to tag any of them with the names of people who are in them, that would […]

Ignite Geospatial

Stephen Lead is putting together what I think might be one of the first “Ignite” events in Australia – Ignite GeoSpatial. While it’s not entirely web focussed, it’s not hard to see the importance of geo data for the web, and the web as a delivery platform for GeoSpatial applications. If you don’t know what […]

Firefox in Australia – the survey

While the audience of Web Directions probably somewhat skews the sample, Mozilla are looking to get a better understanding of the use of Firefox around the world. So if you have a few minutes, please do head over to their survey. In fact, even if you don’t use Firefox they are still keen on your […]

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