Smartial Wayback Machine Text Extractor
This article contains 3 images. You will find them at the very end of the article.
This article contains 2058 words.
Web Directions North | February 6
Northern Exposure
We’re crossing hemispheres and date lines to bring you the first annual Web Directions North. Put together by designers and developers, for designers and developers, and brought to you by Dave Shea, Derek Featherstone, Maxine Sherrin and John Allsopp. Over two days and nights, in Vancouver, Canada, Web Directions North is packed tight with sessions by renowned, inspiring, entertaining speakers and experts, parties, and more.
Hear Kelly Goto, Andy Clarke, Adrian Holovaty, Douglas Bowman, Dan Cederholm, Joe Clark, Molly Holzschlag, Derek Featherstone, Veerle Pieters, Jeremy Keith and many more present and future web luminaries, covering Ajax and Javascript, CSS, Microformats, mashups, standards based web design and development, accessibility, web app development, XHTML and HTML and more. Beginning with an optional day of workshops from some of the web’s best educators, and rounded off with two optional days of skiing and boarding at Whistler, Web Directions North is 2007’s web design and development event not to be missed.
Read More »
Registration Now Open
That's right, we're selling tickets. Go and get yours today! Regular pricing for Web Directions is just $CDN895.
Web Directions News
Digital Web Magazine competition winners announced
Digital Web have just announced the winners of the web directions north design a snowboard competition. There were over 80 designs submitted, including some beautiful rides. Judges were Dave Shea, Veerle Pieters and Dan Cederholm, plus the Digital Web staff: Tiff Fehr, Nick Finck, Kerri Hicks, Matthew Pennell, Walker Hamilton, and Carolyn Woods.
The top 5 winners are
with a top 10 list at Digital Web.
Don’t forget, discount pricing of just $895 closes December 31st - so don’t miss out (and have a little look round at Digital Web, you might even be able to pick up an even bigger discount over there.)
We’ll have some other fun competitions coming up soon, so stay tuned!
Thanks so much to all at Digital Web, and everyone who entered
Dave, Derek, Maxine and John
Posted by John on 13/12/06 at 1:30 am | No Comments »
New workshop: Kelly Goto - The Iterative App
We’ve just added Kelly Goto’s Iterative App to our optional day of workshops, bringing you the best there is in user experience and interaction design, to compliment Derek Featherstone on Accessibility 2.0 and Andy Clarke and Aaron Gustafson on CSS and Javascript.
In this full day workshop Kelly will help you refine your application development process and project management to an art form. Learn the behind-the-scenes techniques for rapid prototyping and see how to include iterative usability testing cycles in your project development.
Great value at just $CDN395 if purchased along with a conference ticket, you’ll come away from this day confident with the iterative development process and prepared for the diverse demands of clients, bosses, engineers, and designers.
Posted by Maxine Sherrin on 6/12/06 at 7:52 pm | 3 Comments »
Session details
A few people have been asking for some more details about the conference sessions, so we’ve updated the schedule with a more detailed description of what to expect from each session, and we’ve even tagged each session with the main areas it will be focussed on. Visit individual days for more on the sessions that day
- Wednesday - Day 1
- Thursday - Day 2
You can also read in depth profiles for each of the speakers at our speakers page. We are really excited by the list of speakers we have, all people that we the organizers admire, and find inspirational.
We’ve got just over two months to go, so start badgering your boss, accountant or whoever spends the money, and we’ll see you in Vancouver in early February.
Posted by John on 30/11/06 at 8:17 pm | No Comments »
Digital Web/Web Directions design competition update
You’ve got until just Monday to get your designs in for the Digital Web design a snowboard competition, to win a ticket to the conference, trips to Whister on the after conference ski trip, as well as a tonne of other great prices, including 50% off for life on Media Temple’s innovative new grid based web hosting service, a copy of Adobe Studio 8, great books from Friends of Ed, New Rider, iStockPhoto Credit, a copy of BBEdit, and more.
All you need to do is design a snowboard - you can grab a blank from here, and check out the current designs for some inspiration here. They can be stylish, witty, minimal, whatever. I can see myself riding this one
a good mix of style and quirkiness - the way I ride (in my dreams, I think I just ride quirky) but there are other great designs there too.
You’ve got ’til Monday, so block out some time this weekend, and you’ll have a great shot at some greeat prizes.
A big thank you to the wonderful Digital Web magazine for putting together such a great competition!
Posted by John on 30/11/06 at 6:25 pm | No Comments »
Web Directions North Affiliate Program
Want to come to Web Directions but feeling a bit nervous about money? We’ve just made it a bit easier for you. We’ve created an opportunity for you to get yourself a free ticket, as well as hotel accomodation and places on the ski trip.
Join our affiliate program and get 4 people to sign up for the conference and we’ll give you a free ticket for youself. And then for every additional 5 after this, we’ll put you up for a night in the conference hotel, or give you a day of skiing and boarding at Blackcomb Whistler - up to you.
All you need to do is get your unique URL from us, and then you can spread the word in whatever way you think is right for you.
To get involved, all you need to do is send us your details via this page and we’ll send you your unique affiliate URL.
Once you have the URL you can promote the conference however you like - and it’s ok to get imaginitive with this. You can simply talk about the conference at your site, and use any of our badges.
Or, it’s absolutely OK to team up with 4 friends, use the URL to sign up, apply for the free ticket, then share the price of the 4 tickets between the 5 of you – this way you each pay just $716 – a 20% discount.
The combination of amazing speakers, fantastic location, and ofter hours events will make Web Directions North about as good as a conference can be. But the connections and friendships that you build there are what will make it even better. Start now with our affiliate program, and see you in Vancouver come February.
Posted by Maxine Sherrin on 28/11/06 at 2:20 am | No Comments »
Keep an eye on what Web Directions North speakers are saying
This is really neat, and thanks to UI Brian who has set it up. Brian has used Google Reader to aggregate the blog posts of all the people who will be speaking at Web Directions North. Check it out.
Posted by Maxine Sherrin on 27/11/06 at 6:43 pm | 1 Comment »
More Like This
February looks to be a hot month for Vancouver web conferences. If you’re thinking of staying in town for a few days after hitting the slopes, you might be interested in checking out the Vancouver PHP Conference, happening on February 12 and 13. Rasmus Lerdorf is making an appearance (if you’re into PHP, I need say no more), as well as other members of the PHP core development community.
A little further out, we’ll see the popular Northern Voice blogging conference returning to Vancouver for the third year running. While it’s probably a strain for those from out of town to stay on until the 23rd, perhaps the locals (or close enough) among you will get a chance to check it out.
Posted by Dave Shea on 21/11/06 at 9:18 pm | No Comments »
Get creative and win a ticket to Web Directions North with Digital Web Magazine
Our very good friends over at Digital Web Magazine are giving away a ticket to the conference (including a post conference day skiing or snowboarding at Whistler), and two runner up prizes of a day’s skiing or boarding at Whistler.
To win, submit your very own snowboard design! In the grand tradition of pro snowboarders and classic boardsmiths like Burton, Lib Tech, and Sims, we invite you to put your design skills into the most radical snowboard ever! Make it geeky, make it awesome, make it classic—whatever you want, it’s your design.
Not a designer? We’ve got an option for you. Take a photo of yourself on an improvised snowboard of your own invention. Sure, it might not be snow-legal, but it could work in a pinch. The more inventive, the better! Absolutely can’t attend? Enter your design anyway - join the fun! Plus, we just might have some other prizes.
Entry details over at Digital Web - so check ‘em out and start designing. - And here’s a blank to get you started.
Posted by John on 20/11/06 at 7:04 pm | No Comments »
Registration now definitely open!
OK,
we’ve resolved out difficulties with a certain unnamed payment service provider, and while registrations have remained open over the weekend (thanks to those people who registered), full service has now been resumed.
Registrations are going very well, and do keep in mind, the super early bird runs out on Friday, so to save yourself an extra $100, sign up this week.
Thanks for your patience,
John, for the Web Directions team
Posted by John on 30/10/06 at 7:52 pm | No Comments »
Registration Opened. Payment… not so much.
After opening registration this morning, we’ve been thrilled with the response. Well, the response from all of you; not so much with that of our transaction provider (rhymes with “hay-gal”).
At the moment, our account is locked; we’ve apparently been flagged due to some “suspicious activity” which we’re told stems from the value of a single drop down menu (from legitimate orders, no less). Yeah, we don’t know either. Security thing, no doubt. The upshot of this is that we can’t receive any money at the moment. We hope to have this resolved within the next 12 to 24 hours, but for now, we’re on ice.
Please continue to register in the mean time, though! This only affects our ability to process actual credit card transactions; your registration details are stored in our own system, which is working just fine. We’ll send out a reminder email to everyone who registers between now and when the account is back up and running. Shouldn’t be long. Thanks for understanding!
Update: Weekends being what they are, we’ve finally gotten through and convinced the transaction provider in question to restore our account access. So now it’s just a matter of flipping a few switches over on our registration system. We’ll update again in once that has been done.
Update: We’re back! All’s back up and running finally. Thanks again for your patience and continuing to register in the meantime, feel free to complete your ticket orders now.
Posted by Dave Shea on 26/10/06 at 9:08 pm | No Comments »
« Previous news stories
More recent news stories »
Images:
The images are downsized due to limited space here. The original dimensions may differ.Click on the image to open it on a new tab.
