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2008 September | Web Directions

Archive for September, 2008

Social Events during Web Directions

• In: Blog
• By: maxine
• September 15th, 2008

Plenty to do after hours during Web Directions South this year - rest assured, you will not be going back to your hotel room after things wrap up at the conference and workshops each day. Please let me know if you're organising something you'd like me ...

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Internet Explorer 8 - are you ready for a CSS renaissance?

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

Because browsers evolve so rapidly, there really is no time to sit back and feel that you already know it all if you are a front end developer. New browsers give you a lot to be excited about with new levels of support for CSS, but at the same time ...

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Web Directions South 2008 - We have Webjam!

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

Some very exciting news for everyone who's going to be in town for Web Directions South 2008. Those four days in September just got even better with the Webjam team announcing that the all new Webjam 8 will happen at ...

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Wifi at Web Directions South this year - latest news

• In: Blog
• By: maxine
• September 10th, 2008

Following on from all the comments we got on the the two blog posts we put out there last week on this topic, John and I decided to do a bit further investigation into extending wifi into the conference theatres this year at Web Directions South. It hasn't quite ...

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Web Directions South - Discount ends tomorrow!

• In: Blog
• By: john
• September 9th, 2008

Only one more day to get the $100 discount for Web Directions South. Don't miss out!

Introducing Aconex, our student scholarship sponsor

• In: Blog
• By: john
• September 9th, 2008

Since we started Web Directions, we've tried to make the conference accessible as possible. Which doesn't just mean accessible to people with special needs, but also as affordable as possible. One way we do this is by making the conference as reasonably priced as possible. Now, you might say $1050 ...

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The history of touch interfaces

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

Via Web Directions speaker Gabriel White's blog "Small Surfaces", is a detailed article of the history of touch technology in user interfaces, going back into the dark ages early 1970s, in the Economist magazine's quarterly Technology Review. Well worth a read ahead of Web Directions, where both ...

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Thanks to our significant supporters - Opera

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

All of us in the web industry know about Opera, the browser, and probably have installed it for testing, and maybe even our everyday web use. What many of us don't really realize is the sheer reach of the Opera platform. The browser in the Wii is powered by Opera Hundreds ...

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JavaScript libraries roundup

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

Keeping up with developments in the world of JavaScript libraries is increasingly a challenge - with new libraries seemingly springing up by the week. If you are interested in what's out there beyond "the usual suspects" of JQuery, Prototype and so on, Six Revisions has a round up of ...

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Web Directions South 2008 t shirt remixes

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

There's some cute remixes of the Web Directions T shirt over at Redbubble already. Very droll, all of you :) You can order “Cloud vs Bird” at Redbubble today ...

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Discount period extended ’til next Wednesday

• In: Blog
• By: john
• September 5th, 2008

In what appears to have become something of a tradition, we've extended the discount period, which was to end tonight, until next Wednesday. So, if you still need to make arrangements, bribe the boss and so on, you have a few more days. This year looks set to be even better ...

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Great backchannel stories of our time

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

John wrote here yesterday about Wifi availability at the conference venue this year. The good news is, if all goes according to plan, we should be swimming in the network, which is great. There's been ...

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Many thanks to our Key Sponsor, Adobe

• In: Blog
• By: john
• September 5th, 2008

Last year, Adobe became involved with Web Directions, as a key supporter. For those of your who'd been to previous conferences, I hope you felt that across the board, the quality of the conference had improved - from the venue, to the number of sessions and tracks, to the ...

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Cappuccino arrives

• In: Blog
• By: john
• September 5th, 2008

I'm more of a latté kind of guy (well, not really), but today sees the arrival of the long anticipated Cappucino framework, from 280 North, makers of the beautiful web based presentation application (think Keynote for the Web) 280 Slides. 280 Slides particularly excited me as a web app, ...

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Web Directions Expo almost full

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

There's only a place or so left for this year's Expo - so if your company might be interested in exhibiting to what is doubtless the finest audience of web professionals in the country, then let the right people in your organisation know, as there's not much time left. ...

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Campaign Monitor 2.0 sneak peak at WDS08

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

For those many folks who use Campaign Monitor, the great email campaign management tool built specifically with designers in mind (we've used it for some years here at Web Directions!), then make sure you check out their stand at the Web Directions Expo, where they'll be showing off sneak ...

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Wireless access at Web Directions South - the past and the future

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

In 2004, at the first conference we ran, there was no wireless access - and I think barely a single person even mentioned it to us. In 2005, we organized wifi connectivity at UTS, which worked fine if you were on a Mac, but caused major headaches if you were using ...

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Local Government on the Open Web - Presentation by Lachlan Hardy

• In: Blog
• By: maxine
• September 3rd, 2008

A couple of weeks back I had the pleasure of attending the closing keynote at the Local Government Web Network Conference. It was an excellent presentation by Lachlan Hardy on the possibilities created by the ideas behind ...

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Sydney Workshop with Indi Young in November

• In: Blog
• By: maxine
• September 3rd, 2008

I'm sure I've spoken about Indi's excellent presentation from Web Directions North earlier this year before. It was such a clear headed explanation of her Mental Models methodology for aligning your design strategy with how people actually work. ...

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What does it all mean?

• In: Blog
• By: maxine
• September 2nd, 2008

I laughed out loud the moment I saw the very first iteration of Carla's idea for the Web Directions T Shirt. It always appeals to my sense of humour to reflect on those painful moments of misunderstanding you have to go through if you are going to participate in that ...

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SitePoint interview with Jeffrey Veen (and more)

• In: Blog
• By: john
• September 2nd, 2008

Long time supporters, and media partners with Web Directions, the great Aussie based publishers of web and print based books articles, and much more for web designers and developers are currently running an interview with keynote speaker, Jeffrey Veen, by Josh Catone. Once again Sitepoint are showing their support for ...

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The Google Browser

• In: Blog
• By: john
• September 2nd, 2008

It appears that the long fabled browser from Google is indeed real, and will be coming soon to a desktop near you. Soon it would seem as in tomorrow according to Google themselves. There are plenty of posts round the the intarwebs about this, including a 38 page ...

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Web Directions South 2008 t shirts by Carla Hackett

• In: Blog
• By: maxine
• September 1st, 2008

Update Our first remix, by Gary Barber....the whale puts in his inevitable appearance. And here's a cute one from Susan MacGillivray - Cloud vs Tweet This year we wanted ...

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Discount pricing ends this Friday - Save $100

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

Another quick note about time running out, this time for our $100 discount, which ends Friday. If you are keen to come, and haven't signed up, make sure you do so before Friday night! If you know someone keen to come, please let them know they can save $100 before ...

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McFarlane Prize nominations close midnight

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

A final reminder that nominations for this year's McFarlane Prize for Excellence in Australian Web Design close tonight at midnight. Nominating is as simple as filling in a two field form. As usual we are having a late rush on nominations. So, don't miss out on the opportunity to have ...

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