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Happy Birthday A List Apart
The (now officially) venerable A List Apart is now 10 years old. For old folks like me it seems like such a short period of time, and yet so long as well.
Congratulations to Jeffrey Zeldman, and all whom over the years have contributed to the success of this ... Read more »
Scroll Magazine is launched
Those who came to Web Directions left with something special - a brand new magazine for web professionals - Scroll. Designed by Veerle Pieters, with a fantastic name courtesy of Maxine Sherrin, and largely the fruit of incredibly hard work by Maxine, Scroll features in depth articles by ... Read more »
Web Directions North - launching next week
A quick note for visitors new and old, that Web Directions North will be launching next week. We are just finalizing speakers and workshops, so that when we launch, you'll know exactly why you should be coming.
This year, Web Directions North moves to Denver, Colorado, for a whole host ... Read more »
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 ... Read more »
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 ... Read more »
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 ... Read more »
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 ... Read more »
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 ... Read more »



