We’ve got a whole bunch of amazing audio content that came out of Web Directions North – all the presentations were recorded – that we’re really keen to turn into podcasts and get out there. Would anyone be able to spare us a couple of days to help us out with editing down the MP3s […]
At Web Directions North, the highly talented Nicole Sullivan debuted her “OOCSS” concept, to much interest. Yahoo Developer Network video recorded a number of the sessions, including Nicole’s. Well have the podcast, and transcript courtesy of Opera Software, up and running soon, but for now, take a look at the video, take a look at […]
Reading about Doug Bowman’s departure from Google, and some of the responses and coverage that has ensued (Kevin Fox, who was a UX designer at Google; Joe Clark, who always has something unique to say; Valleywag), has got a lot of people thinking about something we haven’t questioned for a while: does design matter? Google’s […]
For just on a month we’ve been running a forum asking for ideas for how we can make Web Directions South this year even better than it has been in previous years. Lost of good things have come from this, including ideas and leads for how we can have real coffee at the conference, or […]
Here’s something new and neat for people who collect a lot of image based feeds, from local developer Anson Parker. Llumo is a feed reader which makes the experience of looking at image and photo based feeds much nicer than it is if you’re using a plain old feed reader like NetNewsWire or Google Reader. […]
As reported over at Crikey today, this is pretty embarrassing for the ABC. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation launched “ABC Mobile” yesterday. Unfortunately, the home page does not appear to have been designed in accordance with guidelines for web accessibility for the disabled and may be unlawful. The site was tested using the Test Accessibility Web […]
Just a quick update to John’s previous post… Lots of interest in the very first Ignite Web, which we’ll be hosting in Melbourne on April 1. Stephen, the person who’s actually doing all the hard work and organising the event, has just been in touch to say that all the presentation slots have been filled […]
For folks in Melbourne, remember the upcoming Ignite Web, April 1st, from 5.30pm at The Apartment, 401 Lt Bourke Street, Melbourne It’s free, with some drinks on us, Web Directions, and a baker’s dozen of presentations on CSS, HTTP, WCAG2, Agile, and much more, from folks like Kevin Yank, Mark Mansour, Mark Nottingham, and Alice […]
We thought it was great when Andy Clarke said he’d be keen to head back down to Australia and be a part of our roadshow workshop series in April, but we’re even more thrilled about it now that he has given us all a sneak peak at his slides for the day. First and foremost, […]
With the release of IE8 seemingly imminent, and with many developers still not testing their sites with IE8, the IE team have just posted details of how IE8’s compatibility mode is not necessarily identical to IE7 We strive to make Compatibility View behave as much like IE7 as possible, but we do make exceptions. Many […]
If you came to Web Directions South last year, or followed online, you would have trouble missing the fantastic t shirts our fine friends and great supporters over at Molt:n put together as give aways. Well, you can now get your own (and they even have kids sizes) from their new online store. Wear your […]
The excellent folks at Yahoo Developer Network were out in force at Web Directions North, and among other things, Christian Heilmann (who’ll be running Ajax and JavaScript workshops for us in Sydney and Melbourne in April) interviewed various people in attendance, asking them about how the current economic climate will impact web technologies and the […]
Lots of activity over at the Web Directions forum. There’s a few discussions going on that it would be nice to get a bit more detailed input on – comments are where the real gems of information come out! What we’d really like some help on is the specifics of how we should cover a […]
After the success of the first two Ignite events in Sydney, the first, highly focussed Ignite event is coming to Melbourne in April. Ignite events are now held round the world, and have a very distinctive feature – each presentation comprises 20, 15 second auto advanced slides for exactly 3 5 minutes of presentation per […]
Out of any conference, Web Directions is far and away our favourite
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