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Designers, start your engines — a Web Directions competition

For those coming to Web Directions, we've got some fun stuff planned. One of those is the use of various screens around the conference to show real time content from the audience (blog posts, photos and more) to see what others are saying, thinking and doing at Web Directions.Right now, ... Read more »

Hatch Day on hold

Sadly, based on the feedback of many folks, who loved the idea, and wanted to get involved, but who weren't sure that right now they'd be able to commit the time and effort required to really make a go of Hatch Day, we've decided to put it on hold for ... Read more »

Thanks to our sponsors, Microsoft Australia

As Web Directions has grown from quite humble beginnings, to a conference that well over 500 people will attend this year, the challenges of continuing to improve the quality of the content, and the overall experience for all our attendees has become significant. This year, a number of sponsors have ... Read more »

Microsoft

We are very grateful to have Microsoft as a key supporter for Web Directions South. Through this generous support Microsoft enables us to provide an even better conference for our attendees. Look out for Microsoft's presence at our Expo, where they'll be ... Read more »

Sessions

DesignJonathan Boutelle – AJAX or Flash: what's right for you? Andy Clarke – Think like a mountain Stephen Cox – Making useful things no one knew they needed: building ethnography into the design process Brian Fling – Web 2.0 + Mobile 2.0 = ... Read more »

Announcing Hatch Day 2007

On the day after Web Directions South this year, Saturday September 29, there's going to be a very special event which isfree open to anyone who wants to participate - but you do need to registerHatch Day is a day of web creativity and idea sharing that falls ... Read more »

Hatch Day on hold

Sadly, based on the feedback of many folks, who loved the idea, and wanted to get involved, but who weren't sure that right now they'd be able to commit the time and effort required to really make a go of Hatch Day, we've decided to put that on hold for ... Read more »

Web Directions Student Discounts

Are you a full time student? Do you know any full time students? If you are, or if you do, then hopefully you'll be interested in our student discounts for Web Directions and for the W3C's Special interest group day, running in conjunction with our workshops.Places at the SIG ... Read more »

So much to learn, so little time

OK, I'll be the first to admit to having played fast and loose with the law at various stages of my career. But, I've largely worked as an individual, or as part of a very small, under resourced organisation.There is no excuse at all for playing fast and loose when ... Read more »

“Getting” Web 2.0

Published today in Smart Company, a newly started online Australian magazine focussing on business and technology is an articale by Brad Howarth, Australia's leading business/technology Journalist (at least in my opinion), "Web 2.0: the new divide". Brad and I spoke recently, and quite a bit of what ... Read more »

Web Directions on the internets

Anyone who has been to one of our conferences will probably know we really try to integrate the online and offline, though blogging, flickr photos, t-shirts and so on. In the last year or so, there has been an explosion in the use of services like Upcoming, and social networking ... Read more »

Hatch Day on hold

Sadly, based on the feedback of many folks, who loved the idea, and wanted to get involved, but who weren't sure that right now they'd be able to commit the time and effort required to really make a go of Hatch Day, we've decided to put that on hold for ... Read more »

Speakers

This year we think we just might have come up with the best lineup of local and international speakers of any of our conferences yet. In fact, you'd be hard pressed to find a better lineup anywhere.Cameron Adams John Allsopp Angela Beesley Scott Berkun Bert Bos Jonathan Boutelle... Read more »

Venues

We've grown! This year we need two separate venues to accommodate the workshops and conference. They're very close to one another, and equally convenient to a range of hotels in the Darling Harbour area. But if you are attending both workshops on the 25th and 26th and ... Read more »

Aussie startups revisited

A few weeks back I posted here asking "Where are the Aussie Startups?"There were quite a few who posted comments, or responses at their blogs, who argued that the startup culture was pretty healthy, but others, particularly in offline conversations, who generally felt that we just don't have this ... Read more »

WDN Student Scholarships

I'm very proud of this, and very much hope we can do it for all our conferences.As conference organizers, speakers and attendees, Dave, Derek, Maxine and John have long been aware that while a good conference can be an unbeatable benefit for your career, they are definitely out of the ... Read more »

Announcing Webjam 2006 — December 12 at 6.00pm

Got a hankering to relive a bit of the Web Directions experience? Missed the conference but keen to stay in touch with the developer community? Like parties? Be there for Webjam on the evening of December 12.Brought to you by Sydney developers Anson Parker and Lachlan Hardy, Webjam will ... Read more »

World Usability Day

Last year the usability community very cleverly started "World Usability Day" to promote the profession, practice, and importance of usability. This year, WUD is next week, November 14th, and Events are planned around the world, including in Sydney, at the State Library.The focus is communicating ways of improving the user ... Read more »

Laurel Papworth — upcoming courses

One of the meany fabulous local speakers at Web Directions this year was Laurel Papworth (whose collection of user generated video content was fantastically entertaining, but whose presentation on building online communities was all the more interesting) is giving two courses in the coming weeks. If they look remotely relevant ... Read more »

Web Directions and Web Standards Group presents Jeremy Keith in Melbourne this Thursday

Fresh from sellout shows in Sydney, Ireland's best export since Guinness, Jeremy Keith will be appearing for one night only, in Melbourne, presented by Web Directions and the Web Standards Group.Centre for Innovation & Technology Commercialisation Level 1, 257 Collins Street Melbourne VIC 3000For more info and to RSVP, see the ... Read more »

Mark Pesce — Youbiquity

A presentation given at Web Directions South, Sydney Australia, September 29 2006.The collection of social and information technologies informally known as Web2.0 have created a rich universe of applications - but a scattershot one. We plug lots of our information into ... Read more »

Derek Featherstone — Designing for Accessibility

Screen magnifiers make graphic text blurry, but alt attributes still render as proper text If we’re not writing scripts to suppress the right click menu, perhaps we should avoid suppressing the showing of alt text on images in IE Square brackets are often used to separate links to different document formats; when ... Read more »

Jeremy Keith — Progressive Enhancement with Hijax

Public health warning – there will be code! Taking notes on a code-heavy presentation is a difficult challenge; I strongly recommend you grab Jeremy’s presentation slides to accompany these notes.AJAX is often treated as all or nothing technology, much like plugins – either you have it, or you don’t. Ideally ... Read more »

Andy Clarke — Inspired design

I’m not going to talk about CSS today, I’m hardly going to mention standards Art is design without compromise - Jeffrey Veen Limitations of what we do: Environmental – inflexibility of 2D screen; Materials – limitations of CSS et all; Medium – poor support in older browsers; Ourselves – unlearning what we ... Read more »

Derek Featherstone – Accessibility 2.0, Where do we go from here?

where are we right now Checklist syndrome – Section 508, WCAG, IBM Web Accessibility. These lead to a mindset of compliance over anything else. Accessibility is not just a technical endeavour or a quality assurance process. In reality accessibility is about removing barriers; it is personal. Derek demonstrates a ‘typical’ search bar ... Read more »

Microformats — John Allsopp

How can technology make people’s lives better?John has a 10 month old daughter; he doesn’t get out much. He wants to see a movie, but what good movies are out right now?Centralized solutions - Someone owns this data, we have to trust them not to be biased. Search – 38,000,000 results ... Read more »

Dave Greiner and Ben Richardson — What We Learnt Building Campaign Monitor

Backgroundstarted IT firm ‘Switch IT’ during the first web bubble 2003-2004 approached by more customers to send bulk email Always something missing from existing applications – the seed of idea is planted Took a few hours per day for 6 months to have a go at building their dream email campaign system Designed ... Read more »

Jeremy Keith — Exploring AJAX

“what is Ajax? That is what I’m going to try and answer today”Introduces AJAX and the birth of the term. Maybe it is just a buzzword; maybe that’s not a bad thing X in AJAX adds “the X factor” – if anyone’s looking to coin the next buzzword, stick with X. ... Read more »

Web Directions T shirts and T shirt slogan competition

We announced our "Web Direction's design your own web 2.0 t shirt slogan and wear it to the conference" competition a few days ago. Sadly, because a trailing slash is sometimes important (well, the absence of it is), the link in that post was broken. So one more time, here ... Read more »

First ever Web Directions Tee Shirts

The last couple of years, the number one request has been for conference tee shirts. So we are excited to announce the Web Directions Tee Shirts, featuring our new logo, designed by guru and web superstar, Dave "CSS Zen Garden" Shea, available online now.... Read more »

Web Directions Closing Keynote: Mark Pesce — You-​​biquity

Web Directions Closing Keynote: Mark Pesce - You-biquityWhen we launched Web Directions this year we intentionally left the closing session on day 2 open in recognition of our belief that epiphanies are worth waiting for. In previous years we'd had the crazed irreverence of The Smackdown, something for which ... Read more »

The McFarlane Prize for Excellence in Australian Web Design

Named in memory of noted Australian web pioneer Nigel McFarlane, the inaugural McFarlane Prize, aims to recognize and encourage excellence in web design by Australian developers.The Prize will reward excellence in web design in the broadest sense, from the appropriate use of technology, to design aesthetics, to its impact ... Read more »

Web Directions Event: Lars Rasmussen of Google Maps and Dean Jackson of the W3C

While Web 2.0 is a term that has been done to death, it's also clear something new and exciting is in fact happening on the web. Ajax, web applications and APIs are giving rise to a new breed of solution. One of the major players in this revolution is ... Read more »

Web Directions: what’s in a name?

Quite a few people have asked about the name change for the conference. Web Directions is something of a new start, but most importantly, we wanted to capture both the continuity with WE04 and WE05, and something of a change in focus reflecting the change in the web development world ... Read more »

Who’s speaking?

InternationalAndy Clarke Derek Featherstone Kelly Goto Molly Holzschlag Jeremy Keith Dan Saffer Thomas Vander WalAustralianCameron Adams John Allsopp Ben Barren Ben Buchanan Dave Greiner Cheryl Lead Donna Maurer Laurel Papworth Mark Pesce Ben Richardson Gian Sampson-Wild Kevin YankAndy Clarke... Read more »

2006 workshops

Molly Holzschlag and Andy Clarke - Extreme Standards Using markup and CSS to create detailed, aesthetic and progressive site designsAs Web designers and developers we are often challenged by the complexities of technology and the nuances of design. We want to ... Read more »

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