Web Directions

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If you can find a few minutes to take the anonymous survey about web design and development practices, it will definitely help gain a better understanding about current best practice in the industry." 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We've had the great privilege to have him speak at both Web Directions North and South, and hope to do so again in the future.Adrian's list of accomplishments and achievements are long, and almost defy belief. And as mentioned, of all the wonderful, generous folks from the web industry I've had the privilege to meet these last 10 years or so, Adrian has to be one of the very nicest and most generous with his time and expertise.Via Slate, where he gets a name check in a story on the crisis in journalism, I found a reference to a detailed profile of Adrian in the Chicago Tribune earlier this year.If you've got a few moments, I do recommend it." 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But I didn't publish it. I censored myself, because frankly in the current climate, where a man in Queensland is being investigated by what is in effect the child sex offences for what appears to be nothing more than uploading a video that depicts what may be considered child abuse (a child being swirled around rather roughly) to a video sharing site, who knows what will or won't get you in hot water, or worse. The fact that the video had appeared on Television in the US, and viewed by millions around the world. Even viewing it in Australia may be an offence.So, rather than putting my thoughts here, I'll link to an article by the esteemed US journalist William Saletan, at Slate, and his thoughts on the specific situation here. I hope linking to it is not some kind if offence." 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We are looking for a dynamic, self-motivated individual to direct the overall growth and strategic direction of GetUp’s online presence.As the leader of our online team you will manage our cutting edge and comprehensive online strategy, including internal and external promotion, content creation, design development and implementation, and on-line partnership building.

GetUp are currently very active in opposition to the Federal Government's silly planned 'net censorship regime, among many other progressive issues.If you are interested, check out the job posting for more." 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Right now this might all seem a bit like science fiction, but I've little doubt that in not too long, as web designers and developers we'll all be considering these issues on a day to day basis.Really worth a read. 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Can't ever be too any? What do you folks think?" 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They represent the South by Southwest (SxSW) Music, Film and Interactive Festivals and Conferences - for Australia, New Zealand and Hawaii. And, they run the three-day AustralAsian Music Business Conference (AMBC), a biennial powwow for music industry aspirants and professionals alike.IMMEDIA! also provide an extensive array of music industry resources including a music biz bookstore and a highly-trafficked news site, TheMusic.com.au.So, if that sounds like your environment, and the idea of working in a great converted terrace building in Newtown sounds appealing, check out the job description.Oh, and they make a killer coffee too." ["post_title"]=> string(46) "Print and Web Designer/Develop Job at IMMEDIA!" 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Photos can be of objects, people, or environments; they can be artistic gestures or graphic messages. Use your camera as a lens or as a paintbrush, as a tool for revealing, informing, or provoking. But whatever you submit, make sure it has the power to make an emotional connection with others.

Prizes include a trip to attend the lavish BraunPrize Awards Ceremony on September 16th, 2009, in Kronberg, Germany.I know a lot of our readers dabble (and more) with photography, and thought you might be interested. " ["post_title"]=> string(40) "Shoot your inspiration photo competition" ["post_category"]=> string(1) "0" ["post_excerpt"]=> string(0) "" ["post_status"]=> string(7) "publish" ["comment_status"]=> string(4) "open" ["ping_status"]=> string(4) "open" ["post_password"]=> string(0) "" ["post_name"]=> string(40) "shoot-your-inspiration-photo-competition" ["to_ping"]=> string(0) "" ["pinged"]=> string(0) "" ["post_modified"]=> string(19) "2008-12-10 14:36:27" ["post_modified_gmt"]=> string(19) "2008-12-10 04:36:27" ["post_content_filtered"]=> string(0) "" ["post_parent"]=> int(0) ["guid"]=> string(36) "http://www.webdirections.org/?p=1306" ["menu_order"]=> int(0) ["post_type"]=> string(4) "post" ["post_mime_type"]=> string(0) "" ["comment_count"]=> string(1) "0" ["filter"]=> string(3) "raw" } [13]=> object(stdClass)#127 (25) { ["ID"]=> int(1303) ["post_author"]=> string(1) "3" ["post_date"]=> string(19) "2008-12-10 09:06:04" ["post_date_gmt"]=> string(19) "2008-12-09 23:06:04" ["post_content"]=> string(1067) "We'll let you in on a little secret - well, it might come as little surprise, I'm actually wearing my fabulous Moltn: I Like Code t-shirt as I type this, but here at Web Directions we are geeks. We love code, coding, and all manner of technical stuff. So, news from our good friend Rob Manson, whose spoken at Web Directions in years gone by, and who is definitely on the geek tip, about his new open source project Soap Jr, for all you Ajaxian folks out there.

If you want to create clean, fast AJAX API's then SOAPjr is what you've been looking for. Basically, it's the love-child of SOAP and JR (JSON-RPC) ... but what the hell does that mean and why should you care?

So many smart folks out their in the Australian web scene, doing excellent stuff like this. Great to see.If you've got a project you think would be useful or interesting to Aussie web folks, drop us a line and we'll let people know about it." ["post_title"]=> string(20) "Introducing Soap Jr." ["post_category"]=> string(1) "0" ["post_excerpt"]=> string(0) "" ["post_status"]=> string(7) "publish" ["comment_status"]=> string(4) "open" ["ping_status"]=> string(4) "open" ["post_password"]=> string(0) "" ["post_name"]=> string(19) "introducing-soap-jr" ["to_ping"]=> string(0) "" ["pinged"]=> string(64) " http://www.moltn.com/blog/2008/09/15/the-t-shirts-have-arrived/" ["post_modified"]=> string(19) "2008-12-10 09:06:04" ["post_modified_gmt"]=> string(19) "2008-12-09 23:06:04" ["post_content_filtered"]=> string(0) "" ["post_parent"]=> int(0) ["guid"]=> string(36) "http://www.webdirections.org/?p=1303" ["menu_order"]=> int(0) ["post_type"]=> string(4) "post" ["post_mime_type"]=> string(0) "" ["comment_count"]=> string(1) "0" ["filter"]=> string(3) "raw" } [14]=> object(stdClass)#128 (25) { ["ID"]=> int(1301) ["post_author"]=> string(1) "3" ["post_date"]=> string(19) "2008-12-10 07:46:50" ["post_date_gmt"]=> string(19) "2008-12-09 21:46:50" ["post_content"]=> string(259) "The super talented Veerle Pieters, responsible for the design of both the Scroll Magazine logotype, and Scroll Magazine, has a detailed article on the design process for Scroll today." ["post_title"]=> string(36) "Scroll Magazine - the Design Process" ["post_category"]=> string(1) "0" ["post_excerpt"]=> string(0) "" ["post_status"]=> string(7) "publish" ["comment_status"]=> string(4) "open" ["ping_status"]=> string(4) "open" ["post_password"]=> string(0) "" ["post_name"]=> string(34) "scroll-magazine-the-design-process" ["to_ping"]=> string(0) "" ["pinged"]=> string(0) "" ["post_modified"]=> string(19) "2008-12-10 07:46:50" ["post_modified_gmt"]=> string(19) "2008-12-09 21:46:50" ["post_content_filtered"]=> string(0) "" ["post_parent"]=> int(0) ["guid"]=> string(36) "http://www.webdirections.org/?p=1301" ["menu_order"]=> int(0) ["post_type"]=> string(4) "post" ["post_mime_type"]=> string(0) "" ["comment_count"]=> string(1) "0" ["filter"]=> string(3) "raw" } } ["post"]=> object(stdClass)#114 (25) { ["ID"]=> int(1346) ["post_author"]=> string(1) "3" ["post_date"]=> string(19) "2008-12-23 10:01:45" ["post_date_gmt"]=> string(19) "2008-12-23 00:01:45" ["post_content"]=> string(871) "Drew McLellan and Brian Suda, curators of the now traditional "24 Ways" web developers advent calendar kindly asked me to write something for the 2008 edition.So, having been playing around a lot with CSS3 and experimental CSS currently supported in various browsers, I put together a proof of concept using CSS gradients (currently in webkit browsers), text-shadow (webkit, Opera and Firefox 3.1) box-shadow (webkit and reportedly Firefox 3.1), an border-radius (webkit and Firefox 3+), to create buttons which look like this(with not an image in sight!)So head on over to 24 ways and get shining up the web." ["post_title"]=> string(17) "Shiny CSS buttons" ["post_category"]=> string(1) "0" ["post_excerpt"]=> string(0) "" ["post_status"]=> string(7) "publish" ["comment_status"]=> string(4) "open" ["ping_status"]=> string(4) "open" ["post_password"]=> string(0) "" ["post_name"]=> string(17) "shiny-css-buttons" ["to_ping"]=> string(0) "" ["pinged"]=> string(0) "" ["post_modified"]=> string(19) "2008-12-23 10:01:45" ["post_modified_gmt"]=> string(19) "2008-12-23 00:01:45" ["post_content_filtered"]=> string(0) "" ["post_parent"]=> int(0) ["guid"]=> string(36) "http://www.webdirections.org/?p=1346" ["menu_order"]=> int(0) ["post_type"]=> string(4) "post" ["post_mime_type"]=> string(0) "" ["comment_count"]=> string(1) "0" ["filter"]=> string(3) "raw" } ["queried_object"]=> NULL ["queried_object_id"]=> int(0) }