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2008 August | Web Directions

Archive for August, 2008

Interview with Mark Pesce at The Alcove

• In: Blog
• By: maxine
• August 18th, 2008

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 ...

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Get a free t shirt from our supporter molt:n

• In: Blog
• By: maxine
• August 18th, 2008

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 ...

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The return of font embedding to the web?

• In: Blog
• By: john
• August 15th, 2008

Sadly, quite a bit of what I wrote in this article is based on out of date information, and on my own testing that had a fatal flaw.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, ...

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New Workshop - Web 2.0 Executive Bootcamp

• In: Blog
• By: john
• August 14th, 2008

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 ...

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On cue - web browsing phone debt fears newstories

• In: Blog
• By: john
• August 14th, 2008

Well, it didn't take long for, as we predicted, the first reports of "unexpectedly high debt from bills for excess data usage" for users of "fast web-browsing phones, such as the new Apple iPhone" (Sydney Morning Herald.) I'm not sure whether this affects a lot of people, or only a ...

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Web Directions South 2008 Schedule Published

• In: Blog
• By: maxine
• August 13th, 2008

Let the decision making begin: Developing for iPhone or Strategies for Social Media Engagement, Creating Sexy Style Sheets or Choosing the Right Web App Framework. Because the official schedule for Web Directions South 2008 has now been set in stone and handed down. I've laboured over ...

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Deafness - our next big accessibility challenge?

• In: Blog
• By: maxine
• August 13th, 2008

Further to John's post on Lisa's article on A List Apart - Deafness and the User Experience - I just wanted to point out a little initiative we have started over the last couple of weeks here at Web Directions. We've been publishing podcasts after our events for some years ...

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On deafness and Deafness

• In: Blog
• By: john
• August 13th, 2008

The wonderful Lisa Herrod, who has spoken at a number of our events, has just had a detailed article focussing on deafness (capital and lower case D - read about the difference in her article) at A List Apart - the pre-eminent online journal for web professionals. The lessons ...

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A big thank you to our Key Supporters, Microsoft

• In: Blog
• By: john
• August 13th, 2008

After last year's Web Directions South we did a survey of attendees to get a sense of what you liked, and where we might improve. It was anonymous, which meant, hopefully, we got very honest answers. The responses were overwhelmingly positive - about the speakers and content, and about ...

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Web site security in the New York Times

• In: Blog
• By: john
• August 11th, 2008

The New York Times has a worthwhile read today on password security (and its serious limitations), with a focus on among other things OpenID (which Myles Eftos will be focussing on at Web Directions South) I think almost all of us would admit to not adhering to best ...

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Aussies at SXSWi 2009

• In: Blog
• By: maxine
• August 11th, 2008

With our country yet again in the grip of that four yearly frenzy of jingoistic nationalism that is The Olympics, even I can't help but come over all patriotic. In that spirit I encourage you all to head on over to the SXSW panel picker and give your vote ...

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Grocerychoice - Accessibility disaster (to put it kindly)

• In: Blog
• By: john
• August 8th, 2008

The Australian Federal government recently launched grocerychoice, a website whose goal is to [help] consumers find the cheapest supermarket chain in their area without having to compare hundreds of prices. A laudable goal no doubt. But sadly, as our friends over at PropellerGlobal note, quoting news.com.au, it's ...

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Painless cross browser vector graphics with Dmitry Baranovskiy’s Raphael Javascript Library

• In: Blog
• By: john
• August 8th, 2008

If you've not heard of Dmitry Baranovskiy yet, well, you will soon. Now at Atlassian Dmitry has only been in Australia a handful of years, coming here with his young family from the Ukraine. Dmitry is not only very smart, he's very imaginative, having wowed the crowd at ...

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Thinking about going to SXSW 2009?

• In: Blog
• By: maxine
• August 5th, 2008

Attending SXSW interactive at least once in your life is a must for any web professional, no matter how far you have to travel to get there. You'll get to see what some of the most interesting people in the industry have been working on for the last 12 ...

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Edge of the Web - Perth is the place to be

• In: Blog
• By: maxine
• August 5th, 2008

Time's running out to take advantage of early bird pricing for Perth's long awaited web industry event: Edge of the Web, brought to you by the Australian Web Industry Association. On the 6th of November there will be a full day two track conference featuring Derek Featherstone, who'll be delivering ...

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Digital Futures report - how do Australians use the web?

• In: Blog
• By: john
• August 4th, 2008

The rather cumbersomely named "ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation (CCI)" has just released the findings of its Digital Futures project. The report looks at internet and web use in Australia. It can be downloaded as a PDF (about 3.5MB), and at first glance makes for ...

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Australian Mobile Data Plans get a touch more realistic

• In: Blog
• By: john
• August 1st, 2008

The Sydney Morning Herald is reporting (as flagged by Cheryl in a comment yesterday) that Virgin Mobile, who will begin selling the iPhone shortly, is offering 1GB data plans with very generous call, text and other caps, for $70 (including no upfront charge for the phone ...

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No liquids or iPods

• In: Blog
• By: john
• August 1st, 2008

Wired (and multiple other sites) is reporting that News.com.au is reporting that "Music fans might soon have their iPods searched by Customs officers at airport checks and face jail if a large amount of pirated music is found on them." Under a treaty - the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement ...

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