Drew McLellan and Brian Suda, curators of the now traditional “24 Ways” web developers advent calendar kindly asked me to write something for the 2008 edition. So, having been playing around a lot with CSS3 and experimental CSS currently supported in various browsers, I put together a proof of concept using CSS gradients (currently in […]
Today’s your last chance to do the first “State of the web” survey for web designers and developers. If you can find a few minutes to take the anonymous survey about web design and development practices, it will definitely help gain a better understanding about current best practice in the industry.
While these days Chicago might have an even bigger “local boy makes good” story than Adrian Holovaty, I’m happy to say that I consider Adrian one of the most incentive, and nicest people doing stuff on the web. We’ve had the great privilege to have him speak at both Web Directions North and South, and […]
Last week, I drafted an article on a NSW Supreme Court decision, finding a man guilty of possessing child pornography, in the form of a cartoon depicting various members of the Simpsons family in sexual acts. But I didn’t publish it. I censored myself, because frankly in the current climate, where a man in Queensland […]
A job that will appeal to quite a few of our readers, Online Director at GetUp, just popped up at our jobs board. We are looking for a dynamic, self-motivated individual to direct the overall growth and strategic direction of GetUp’s online presence. As the leader of our online team you will manage our cutting […]
Via the ever excellent core77, a great place to keep up with design trends and events beyond the web, Dan Saffer who’ll be doing both a presentation and workshop at Web Directions North talks about whether “pure” touchscreen systems really are a great interface for desktop type interfaces. More at Dan’s blog. Right now this […]
There’s still a few days to go to complete our State of the Web Survey – along with the well over 1,000 people who’ve done so so far. If you’ve not done so, please think about finding the time – it should only take a few minutes. And remember, we’ll be releasing all the data […]
In what might be some sort of record for Google, Chrome, their webkit based browser, has gone 1.0 today. In our survey of web developers and designers, we asked what browsers people use, and what they test for, and we’ll be interested to see whether early adopter web types are using and or testing for […]
OK folks, you’ve used them many many times, so now’s your chance to contribute to the W3C’s validator project to help keep these vitally important tools for us web people going strong.
With our Jobs site up and running, we don’t post too many job ads here on the blog, but from time to time we want to draw attention to ones that turn up. IMMEDIA!, legendary in the Australian music scene, is looking for someone to replace their long standing, and almost as legendary tech guru, […]
In what is excellent news (via the Open Knowledge Foundation), and hopefully a model for other government agencies in Australia, the ABS has just announced that their soon to be released site update will be licensed under the liberal Create Commons Attribution 2.5 Australia Licence. Here’s hoping that we’ll also start seeing more programmatic interfaces […]
After the great success of the recent GeoSpatial Ignite, bringing together folks from the world of Geo Sciences and the Web, Stephen Lead is putting together Ignite Sydney, to be held Thursday January 22nd, at the Shelbourne Hotel (scene of the last two closing night parties for Web Directions South). Ignite is about fast paced […]
Core77, one of our daily reads for keeping up with the wider design world, along with Braun, have just announced the “Shoot your inspiration” photographic competition. Photos can be of objects, people, or environments; they can be artistic gestures or graphic messages. Use your camera as a lens or as a paintbrush, as a tool […]
We’ll let you in on a little secret – well, it might come as little surprise, I’m actually wearing my fabulous Moltn: I Like Code t-shirt as I type this, but here at Web Directions we are geeks. We love code, coding, and all manner of technical stuff. So, news from our good friend Rob […]
The super talented Veerle Pieters, responsible for the design of both the Scroll Magazine logotype, and Scroll Magazine, has a detailed article on the design process for Scroll today.
Thoroughly enjoyed Web Directions — met some great people, heard some inspiring presenters and added a whole bunch of things to my to-do list.
Joel Roberts Web Developer
