BuilderAU and The Sydney Morning Herald are both reporting on the ongoing disgrace that is online tax lodgement in Australia.
In short, only Windows users can lodge tax forms online. If you use Linux, Mac OS, or any other device, then you are out of luck.
Various groups are ...
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The Australian Design Federation is a web based community for the Australian design and new media industries. It features news, interviews, competitions (currently you can win a ticket to web directions!), reviews of shows and exhibitions, and lots of other cool stuff.
The Design Federation are on board ...
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Our good friends over at Clearleft (home of Andy Budd, Jeremy Keith and Richard Rutter) have just released Silverback - a tool to help you do user testing quickly and effectively. When Andy was out here for Web Directions UX he gave a sneak preview to those doing his ...
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Again, my apologies to those many who posted long, (or not so long) well thought out responses to my initial post. Like Hendrik, I found the level if discourse commendable.
One thing I didn't actually talk about in my original article is that even if I wanted to, I can't ...
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Curiously, the world over, there is only a handful of print magazines for web designers. Japan has several, but elsewhere there are few if any magazines focussing specifically on the web design and development industry. Bucking this trend, Web Designer magazine was recently launched in Australia. The magazine covers ...
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We're looking for a Joomla expert to help us out with one of the panels in the development track at Web Directions South this year. This session, to be run by Lucas Chan, is going to showcase the strengths and weaknesses of a number of backend frameworks in a ...
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Yesterday I caught up with Todd Trevillion and Mark Stanton of Gruden - those of you who came to the very first Web Essentials way back when will recall that Mark gave a presentation on semantic markup - it all seems so quaint now! Sadly pre podcasting, so we ...
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Seb Chan has written a very comprehensive and intellectually generous overview of The Powerhouse Museum's experiences in the first three months of having the images from the Tyrell Photographic Collection available in the Commons on Flickr.
An interesting observation that maybe a lot of us could think about ...
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After last week's (very popular) post here about mobile data pricing plans in Australia, it's encouraging to read The Sydney Morning Herald reporting that the ACCC - the Australian Consumer and Competition Commission - has been prompted to "investigate whether carriers are misleading consumers into a trap ...
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Via Small Surfaces, Web Directions South speaker Gabriel White's website focussing on designing for mobile technology (well worth a place in your RSS feeds) is a story in today's New York Times on how well web sites often work on small screens. Yes, it specifically focusses on ...
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