- Bezier curves
- Accessing the gyroscope and accelerometer in mobile browsers (watch a live web based take battle built specially for the night!)
- WCAG ARIA
- Mobile HTML emails (our Sydney winner!)
- CSS3 Media Queries (our Melbourne winner, and great fun)
- Parallax effects in CSS
Writing for the Web Workshop
Perth - 28 August 2007Vision Australia is partnering with respected usability and accessibility expert Dey Alexander to offer a unique Writing for the Web workshop. Dey is co-convenor of the Web Accessibility Network of Australian Universities and is a regular presenter on useable and accessible web writing to the education, corporate and government sectors.Focusing on excellent content writing, this practical workshop complements the Vision AustraliaFurther information is at: http://www.visionaustralia.org.au/info.aspx?page=1653&event=49Web Accessibility Workshop
Perth - 30 August 2007This full-day workshop run by Vision Australia is targeted at web-development team leaders, corporate communications professionals and business managers, along with content authors, web programmers and designers and web contract managers.This workshop provides a thorough overview of accessibility issues and how to address them. 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If you've got an event, or know of one I've missed, do let us know.First up, Microsoft is running a local version of their MIX conference, ReMIX which has strong web focus. See what Microsoft are doing with technologies like Silverlight, their recently released online app framework. It's on in Melbourne, June 25th and 26th.Meanwhile, also in Melbourne next Wednesday, May 30, Professor Margaret Jackson, RMIT Professor of Computer Law, and Jonathan O'Donnell of RMIT are organising a Web Legalities workshop, coveringPrivacy Act Trade Practices Act (and Victorian equivalent) Merchant obligations imposed by banks and credit providersand the relevant legal issues to address when designing a Web site.This is an area that many people, in our experience, know little about, and yet the business and legal implications are potentially very significant. It's free, but do RSVP.The following day, the Web Standards Group has presentations in both Sydney and Canberra. Web Direction's John Allsopp is presenting on Microformats in Canberra (with copies of his new microformats book to give away), along with Brian Hardy of Vision Australia on accessibility and PDF, while in Sydney, Shane Morris of Microsoft and Patrick Kennedy of StepTwo are presenting. Head to the WSG site for details and to RSVP.The same day, Google is holding its first Developer Day in Sydney, which may or may not be booked out - so head over and take a look. They'll also be streaming live their developer day from the Googleplex in Mountain View.Then in early June, on the 7th, Webjam returns to Sydney. It's free and fun. Check it out. There's also a Webjam in conjunction with ReMIX, for those in Melbourne.Plenty afoot, which is great for the local industry. 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Come on in, have a look around, and check out the program and speakers we've lined up for Web Directions South 2007. With more than 30 leading experts, including a dozen international stars of the web industry, across three tracks, Web Directions South will focus on the key technology and business issues of the web in 2007. It really is Australia's premier event for the web industry.
Speakers for 2007 include
- Andy Clarke - Transcendent CSS
- Aaron Gustafson - Javascript and Ajax
- Brian Fling - designing for the mobile web
- George Oates - user experience design for communities
- Bert Bos - co-creator of CSS on the future of Web Standards
- Rashmi Sinha - online communities
- Adrian Holovaty - making data smart
- Mark Pesce - commons based peer production
plus many more new and old faces to educate and inspire us all once again this September. We've even got a couple of surpise speakers up our sleeves as well.
This year at Web Directions South alongside our traditional Design and Development focus, there's a new Management/Strategy track. So, if you design or develop for the web, manage web teams, or if your business relies on the web, we've got two full days full for you.
And that's just the conference. We've also got 6 workshops over the two days before Web Directions South:
- Brian Fling - Designing for the mobile web
- Aaron Gustafson - Progressive enhancement with Javascript
- Andy Clarke - Transcending CSS
- Laurel Papworth - Building vibrant and successful online communities
- Startup and freelance bootcamp. Every thing you need to know about going out on your own as a freelancer or startup company.
- World Wide Web Consortium SIG technology day - W3C experts covering the latest developments in web standards
Be sure to register before June 30 to take advantage of our excellent value early bird price of just $795. And if been to one of our previous conferences check your email on Monday for an additional discount by way of thanks for all your support over the years. If you don't receive this email, please let us know.
This year, in yet another first, we'll be featuring the Web Expo - running thoughout the conference at Darling Harbour.
And perhaps most exciting of all, we'll be hosting Australia's first Web Hack day, on the Saturday following the conference.
And of course there'll be all the usual parties and opportunities to catch up with old friends, and make new connections.
We are really excited with the quality and range of speakers we've been able to get all the way to Sydney, the great new venue at Darling Harbour, with the new Expo, the extended range of workshops, and WebHack, and hope you'll be too. We look forward to seeing you in Sydney at the end of September for what promises to be one of the stand out web events anywhere in the World - Web Directions South 2007.
Maxine and John
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Caution: falling character debris...
[tags] wdo6, raw notes[/tags]
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Port80 touches down in Sydney
Port 80 (the Australian Web Industry Association) is hoping to open a chapter* in Sydney!That's right folks - Sydney folks (and those visiting for Web Directions 06) get to find out what those in WA, VIC, ACT and in the USA have known for a while;- Meeting colleagues and peers in the web industry is great
- It's even better on the first Wednesday of the month, with a beer in hand.
- Hey, lets start a club and have a reason to go to the pub!
- Bezier curves
- Accessing the gyroscope and accelerometer in mobile browsers (watch a live web based take battle built specially for the night!)
- WCAG ARIA
- Mobile HTML emails (our Sydney winner!)
- CSS3 Media Queries (our Melbourne winner, and great fun)
- Parallax effects in CSS
events
What do you know? Video now available
What do you know? That’s the question we posed 20 Australian designers, developers, UX folks and others for our first ever “What do you know” events in Sydney and Melbroune.
The format was simple — each of the speakers had 5 minutes to tell the audience something they know — … Read more »
WA Web Awards — finalists announced
- In: events
- By: John
- July 19, 2007
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The finalists for the third WA Web Awards have just been announced. Last year, I was honoured to be asked to be one of the Judges, while this year, Maxine is one of the judges. We recently discussed just how high a standard across the board the entrants typically … Read more »
Writing for the Web
- In: events
- By: John
- July 19, 2007
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Organisations large and small are beginning to realise that writing for the Web is a specific challenge. Vision Australia is running a writing for the Web workshop in Perth toward the end of August, as well as a We Accessibility workshop. We’ve had VA speakers at Web Directions before (and … Read more »
Australian Web Industry events — May June 2007
- In: events
- By: John
- May 24, 2007
- 2 Comments
Over the coming few weeks there’s a tonne of stuff happening of interest to Australian web professionals. If you’ve got an event, or know of one I’ve missed, do let us know.
First up, Microsoft is running a local version of their MIX conference, ReMIX which has strong web … Read more »
WDS07 — Now open for business
- In: events
- By: Maxine
- May 20, 2007
- No Comments
OK people, the wait is over. Come on in, have a look around, and check out the program and speakers we’ve lined up for Web Directions South 2007. With more than 30 leading experts, including a dozen international stars of the web industry, across three tracks, Web Directions South … Read more »
Notes from the Front Line
- In: events, Uncategorized
- By: Andrew
- September 28, 2006
- 4 Comments
The following posts will be in raw note form for now so as to allow me to keep up with the presentations while getting as much online as possible. When I get some more this evening I will come back and expand upon the points.
Caution: falling character debris…
[tags] wdo6, raw … Read more »
It’s coming — Monday
- In: cool, events
- By: John
- September 22, 2006
- 6 Comments

Port80 event in Sydney on the eve of Web Directions
- In: events
- By: John
- September 17, 2006
- 5 Comments
The indefatigable Miles Burke, of Bam Creative, and one of the founders of the Web industry association Port80, along with a whole tribe of sandgropers (that’s folks from Western Australia for our non Australian audience) are once more heading east for Web Directions. Each year more of them … Read more »
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