Web Directions

A new web site for Web Directions (well three actually)

• In: Blog, news
• By:John
• March 13, 2008
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If you are read­ing this via RSS, you prob­a­bly won’t notice that there have been some big changes to the site. Firstly, we’ve got a brand new, very stream­lined look, and over­hauled infor­ma­tion archi­tec­ture, cour­tesy of Ben Webster at Conversant. Their phi­los­o­phy is “sophis­ti­cated sim­plic­ity” which is pre­cisely what we wanted to achieve, and what they deliv­ered. We are really excited with the results.

Far beyond the appear­ance of the site, it was impor­tant for us to tame what was becom­ing a large num­ber of event spe­cific sites and resources. What we’ve done is brought all events under the Web Directions site, par­tic­u­larly the pre­sen­ta­tion slides and pod­casts from past con­fer­ences (by the time we get them all up there we’ll top 100 pod­casts from many of the web’s best known inter­na­tional experts, and many local experts as well). If you are look­ing for a pre­sen­ter, you can sim­ply search for their name — but we’ve also tried to encour­age “explor­ing” the con­tent at the site by tag­ging each of the pre­sen­ta­tions, and pre­sent­ing a tag­cloud on every page of the site to help you find pre­sen­ta­tions on sub­jects of inter­est to you.

The site is very news dri­ven — and we are hop­ing to bring you even more news from the Australian web indus­try and beyond, as well as inter­views with speak­ers, and of course news about our con­fer­ences. If you have news, or some­thing you want to pub­li­cize to the web indus­try, drop us a line, and we’ll do our best to get the word out.

We hope you like the new design of the site — please leave a com­ment to let us know!

And stay tuned for news on upcom­ing con­fer­ences — there’ll be a big announce­ment very very soon.

6 responses to “A new web site for Web Directions (well three actually)”:

1. • By:Daniel Burka
   • March 13th, 2008
   

   I really like the sim­plic­ity of the redesign. So many con­fer­ence sites are over-​​branded and this really cuts to the impor­tant con­tent. Stellar work.

2. • By:john
   • March 13th, 2008
   

   Thanks Daniel!

   john

3. • By:Miles Burke
   • March 13th, 2008
   

   Nice site John & Maxine, you’ve done well!

4. • By:Cameron Adams
   • March 13th, 2008
   

   Good refresh guys!

   And you finally changed the South logo from that icky green colour which I sur­rep­ti­tiously tried to change so many times :P

5. • By:maxine
   • March 13th, 2008
   

   Cam! All you needed to do was ask. You know sur­rep­ti­tious just doesn’t work with me :)

6. • By:John Lampard
   • March 17th, 2008
   

   Excellent work guys :)

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