Interesting story in today’s SMH technology section. Queensland based company Orange Dot are on a mission to design a mobile phone for adults with intellectual disabilities, many of whom find modern phones too complex and difficult to use. That was the experience of a 34-year-old man with Down’s Syndrome, who having missed his bus connection […]
The closing date for this year’s McFarlane for Excellence in Australian Web Design prize is next Monday, so you only have a few days to nominate your site, or someone else’s site for the prize. The McFarlane prize was inaugurated in 2006 in memory of Nigel McFarlane. The goal is to recognise excellence in design, […]
Via our friends at PropellerGlobal we read at Yahoo!7 that The federal disability commissioner has threatened to “name and shame” government departments and agencies which do not make public information accessible to people with disabilities. Commissioner Graeme Innis said Making information as socially important and highly publicised as the GROCERYchoice website and the green paper […]
We launched our web industry focussed jobs site, Jobs.WebDirections only a couple of weeks back, and we’ve already got 27 jobs from the likes of Atlassian, Freshview, NAB, Yahoo!7 and many other fantastic companies to work for. There are full time and freelance jobs for developers, designers, managers, marketers and more. So if you are […]
In 2007 Web Directions headed offshore to Vancouver for our first Web Directions North. Now, we are really excited to announce Web Directions East, to be held in Tokyo, Japan in November of this year, in conjunction with leading local web design and training companies Actlink and allWeb. For our first Japanese event, Web Directions […]
No doubt you’ve all whiled away the odd hour putting your name, and that of all your friends into the famous Baby Name Explorer. But it was always a bit artificial from an Aussie point of view I felt, because the data was from the US. What, no Lachlan?? The good news is, thanks to […]
Well, it’s probably not much of a shock, but much touted research by QUT postgraduate student Kim Mackenzie, (reports in SMH, Australian, SmartCompany and elsewhere) suggests that companies that rushed to set up bases within the cult virtual world of Second Life appear to have wasted their time as many have shut down and others […]
Unless you have been asleep for the last 2 years or so, then you’ll almost certainly have heard of two pieces of technology. The iPhone is one of course, but also getting people everywhere excited has been Surface, the table top based, muti-user, multi-touch device from Microsoft. Right now, probably half the audience at Web […]
Javascript is increasingly playing an important role for all web developers and designers, and obviously at Web Directions as well. Our favourite Ajax focussed blog, Ajaxian, has a post today detailing the current state of pay when it comes to the next generation of the JavaScript standard, ECMAScript 3.1/4. It will no doubt be some […]
Got a great idea for a video game? I know I do. You get these two sticks which you can move vertically up and down the screen to hit a square ball back and forth. As the ball hits the stick, it makes a really cool, lifelike beeping sound…..(if you’re too young to know what […]
If you happened upon a copy of yesterday’s Icon in the Sydney Morning Herald you may have noticed “Dopple Your Fun” – where five local internet gurus – Cheryl Lead, Virginia Murdoch, John Allsopp, Lachlan Hardy and Tim Lucas were asked by the Herald’s Nick Galvan to extemporise on what they thought was “the latest […]
Local web visionary Mark Pesce has become a fixture as our closing keynote at Web Directions South. He spoke a couple of months back at the Personal Democracy Forum in New York, where he was also interviewed on The Alcove. Here’s the interview in full. Mark speaks at length on the good, bad, fascinating implications […]
Words? Code? Design? Which are you? And do you want a free t-shirt so you can let the world know? It’s easy to get your hands on one – all you need to do is blog or Flickr something about Web Directions and tag it ‘moltnWD’. Wear your passion at Web Directions. Cheryl and Scott […]
Sadly, quite a bit of what I wrote in this article is based on out of date information, and on my own testing that had a fatal flaw. I’ve left the article as it is, and added corrections inline Most web designers and developers will be familiar with Image Replacement techniques, pioneered by early CSS […]
Web Directions started out with very much a designer and developer focus. But, based on feedback, and our general observations about the industry, we recognised that there was a need for a wider focus on the web – not just the practicalities of implementation, but the strategic and business side as well. Last year, we […]
I’ve been admiring the Web Directions events for years, and was honored to be part… What a fantastic event!
Ethan Marcotte Inventor of 'Responsive Web Design'
