webdirections

Following the success of WE04 and WE05, Maxine Sherrin and John Allsopp announce Web Directions 2006. Over two big days of WD06, plus two days of workshops, you'll hear from international speakers: Kelly Goto, Derek Featherstone, Jeremy Keith, Thomas Vander Wal, Andy Clarke and Molly Holzschlag, as well as all the local folk, who have also been doing some pretty exciting things this last year:

• standards based development with (X)HTML, CSS, DOM scripting and AJAX
• the latest design approaches
• web app design and development
• user experience interaction design
• information architecture, including tag clouds and folksonomies
• website and web app accessibility
• workflow and strategy
• RSS and syndication
• designing for mobile devices
• user generated content
• moving your organisation to web standards

WE05 sold out with more than a month to go: if you work with the web, you can't afford to miss this. Read more about WD06 and the workshops, check out the full list of speakers, and details about the venue and pricing, and register now for early bird tickets.

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The wait is over

It’s time to head on over to the all new Web Directions site and check out the line up for WD06.

This year we have the conference on September 28 and 29, with an additional two days of workshops on the 26th and 27th: the last week of September 2006 is going to be a very big week indeed in Sydney.

It’s been a long haul organising the speakers and content, and building the site, but we think we’ve gone the extra mile in bringing something pretty special to Australia this year. Let us know what you think.

Posted by Maxine on 21/05/06 at 2:30 pm | 13 Comments »

There will be a web design conference in Sydney this year

As the saying goes, nature abhors a vacuum.

In the last 12 hours I’ve chatted with three people who expressed concern that there wasn’t going to be a web design conference here in Sydney this year as there has been for the last two years. So, while we were hoping to wait until the paint was dry and the curtains were up, I think it might actually be a good idea to share the good news. Which is….

There will be a conference held in Sydney on September 28 and 29 this year, along with some associated workshops on the 26th and 27th. The conference will focus on

• standards based design and development
• accessibility
• user centred design
• information architecture

with international and local speakers letting us in on all the latest thinking on web design, and in particular, the development of web applications.

And it will be brought to you by myself, Maxine Sherrin, and my business partner John Allsopp, two of the people who brought you WE05 and WE04. An extremely high priority for us will be to maintain and build on the spirit of those previous events, with content which is for developers by developers, in a friendly non-corporate atmosphere.

I don’t want to ruin the surprise by giving away too much more than that, but feel free to speculate to your hearts’ content in the comments, subscribe to the RSS feed so you’ll be the first to know the news, and get in touch if you have any questions at all.

All will be revealed at the beginning of May.

Tags: conference, web, webdirections, wd06

Posted by Maxine on 11/04/06 at 4:42 pm | 50 Comments »

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