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WE Rock — web education evening — sponsored by Adobe

WE Rock is a series of events planned for all over the world, and created by Leslie Jensen-Inman, from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.The first WE Rock event, held in Chattanooga in August was a great success, and Australian Web Week sees WE Rock come ... Read more »

Calling Aussie Web focussed startups

Do you have a startup with a focus on technology that would interest attendees at Web Directions as potential customers or partners? Thanks to the generous support of startup-turned-huge success, Atlassian here's your chance to get in front of hundreds of web designers, developers, and decision makers at the ... Read more »

Web Directions Discount period ends Weds night

If you still haven't quite got round to registering for this year's bigger (now 4 tracks), even better Web Directions South (now with added Web Week goodness) then here's an even great incentive - save $100 if you register before midnight Wednesday September 15th, making it just ... Read more »

Web Directions South 09 T Shirt — With Augmented Reality Superpowers

This year for Web Directions South we've produced a superb conference t shirt with augmented reality superpowers designed by Fail Whale creator Yiying Lu. But if you're going to dress in magical style with this shirt at the conference, you need to get in there fast ... Read more »

About NSW — a new project from the PowerHouse museum

Seb Chan, one of the web wunderkinds at the PowerHouse Museum, talks about their new site, About NSWa bit of a Frankenstein creation of different data sets mashed together by a sophisticated backend. The project began with an open-ended brief to be a cross-sectorial experiment in producing new ... Read more »

McFarlane Prize nominations close tonight at midnight

A final reminder to all Australian Web designers, developers, both individuals and teams. Nominations for this year's McFarlane prize close tonight at midnight, and to allow the esteemed panel of judges time to assess the nominations, we simply can't extend that deadline.If you've launched, or significantly updated a web ... Read more »

Web Directions discount period extended ’til midnight September 14th

A huge thanks to all who've already signed up to come to what will be the biggest and best Web Directions to date. For those who still haven't quite decided, or got around to registering, then a quick note to let you know that we've extended the discount period ... Read more »

Win an all expenses paid trip to Web Directions East in Tokyo!

This year one very lucky Web Directions South attendee will get to rekindle that warm fuzzy conference glow just six weeks later by heading to Web Directions East in Tokyo, on us, including airfares, accommodation, conference, two workshops, receptions, dinners, parties ... Read more »

Announcing the W3C Track at Web Directions South

We are really excited to be able to announce the W3C Track at Web Directions South, hosted and curated by the W3C Australian Office, and supported by CSIRO, home of the Office. Laurent Lefort and others at CSIRO have been working incredibly hard for some time now to ... Read more »

Would you like service design with that?

We've just filled the last session in the business track at Web Directions South 09 - Suze Ingram will be speaking on a hot new user experience topic: Would you like service design with that?Service design is a new discipline which focuses on understanding what customers ... Read more »

Wanted: a passionate web geek

Passionate about web design and development? Been tinkering with different web technologies for some time? Keep up to date with the web industry? Enjoy reading and writing? Then a tech editor role at SitePoint might be just what ... Read more »

Matt Webb — Web Directions South 09 opening keynote

The final keynote for Web Directions South 2009 has just been announced: be there on the morning of Thursday October 8 to see what we know will be an exciting and inspirational opening keynote from England's own Matt Webb.Matt will be joining an already terrific lineup:... Read more »

Introducing Australian Web Week

Maxine and I are really excited and proud to announce Australian Web Week, October 2 to 9, a showcase of the strength and creativity of the Australian Web industry. It's a project we've been planning for years, and working hard on for months now.The Design industry has its ... Read more »

The reason it’s been quiet at Web Directions…

Well, there are two big big reasons why, but you'll have to wait until next week to find out. Rest assured, we think you'll be very excited.Have a great weekend, and see you Monday with the news.

Mozilla Meetup Sydney Style

Note, the date of the event is now changed to Wednesday October 7th (venue and time unchanged)! If you've already RSVP's please do so again so we can accurately track numbers. Apologies for the inconvenience.When: 6pm-9pm, Wednesday 7th October Where: Watershed Hotel, 198 Harbourside, Darling Harbour (Map) RSVP: ... Read more »

Web Week Opening Night Party and Launch of Yiying Lu Exhibition

When: 7pm-late, Friday 2nd October Where: Pyrmont Bridge Hotel (Upstairs), 96 Union St, Pyrmont (Map) BOOKED OUT: Our opening night party and exhibition launch is now fully booked out. But please come along to the exhibition any time from Saturday 3rd to Tuesday 6th October.Be there at the ... Read more »

Business track — one session remains

At Web Directions, we like to have most of our sessions all organized before announcing our conferences, but we do usually leave one or two sessions open for breaking developments.We've now got a single session remaining in the business track, and thought we'd do a bit of crowd sourcing. ... Read more »

McFarlane Prize: nominations are now open

Nominations for the McFarlane Prize for excellence in Australian web design opened over the weekend, on Saturday August 1. If you've been involved in the development of a site over the last 12 months that you think deserves recognition for ... Read more »

McFarlane Prize 2009

A quick note to let you know that the McFarlane Prize for Excellence in Australian Web Design for 2009 will be open for nominations from August the 1st for one month.The Prize is free to enter, and is open to any Australian individual or team for a site ... Read more »

Looking for an Illustrator

I'm currently working on what hopefully will be a high profile book for web developers from a very well known publisher. A major problem is I'm a terrible illustrator, and would love these illustrations to be top notch. The illustrations themselves are nothing too complex - for the most part ... Read more »

Cameron Adams on Designing Google Wave

We were really excited to announce that Cameron Adams will be speaking at Web Directions South this year on his experiences working as part of the Google Wave team. For an extensive preview of Cameron's presentation, check out this ... Read more »

Win a ticket to Web Directions South 2009

Want to come to Web Directions South 2009 for free? One of our media partners for this year, SitePoint, is running a quiz, testing your knowledge of the conference, that gives you a chance to win a full free ticket to the conference on October 8 and 9.... Read more »

Graduate Web Designer position at Network Ten

Fresh into our jobs site, a position for a graduate to start as a Junior Web Designer in the Digital Media department at Network Ten. Read more at jobs.webdirections.

Win an iPod Shuffle

With early bird pricing only just over, conference registrations have been coming in thick and fast, putting us on track to go way beyond previous years in fact - it's exciting!This next fortnight we're doing a bit of a push then on that great series of ... Read more »

ChromeOS, another step in the direction of “the web, everywhere”

There's probably little to be added to the gigabytes of responses to Google's announcement a couple of days back of their "ChromeOS".As with the Palm Pre, if not more so, as the announcement says "For application developers, the web is the platform".I said a few days ago, have ... Read more »

$200 early bird discount ends tonight

As we mentioned earlier in the week, our $200 early bird discount ends tonight at the stroke on midnight (AEST).So, to come to Web Directions for the very very reasonable price of just $795 (inc GST) just sign up before midnight.Note, you don't have to actually pay right now ... Read more »

Civility and the great (XHTM(5)2) debate (now in comic form)

Those following recent developments with HTML5 and XHTML2 might have noticed some concerns about the lack of civility, and adult communications by a number of folks associated with this whole currently rather heated issue. Kyle Weems, CSS Squirrel, and web cartoonist has succinctly captured the issue in the nicest possible ... Read more »

CSS3 Reloaded — John Allsopp at Melbourne WSG meetup — July 20

If you're in Melbourne this July 20 there's a whole bunch of really good reasons to go along to the WSG meeting at Loop Bar at 6.30pm.Firstly, along with SitePoint, Web Directions is sponsoring, so, drinks and food are on us.Secondly, ... Read more »

Zero to hero with jQuery workshop — only one space left

Just as they have with the main conference, numbers have also crept up fast with the workshops this year. So much so that Earle Castledine's Zero to hero with jQuery workshop is about to sell out. There's only one place left, so, if you've ... Read more »

Web Directions South 2009 Early Bird pricing ends Friday

With more registrations than we've ever had at this time, we know already that Web Directions South 2009 is going to be our biggest and best event so far, without a doubt.So, if you're thinking about coming along, do yourself a favour and don't miss out ... Read more »

XHTML2 is dead, long live HTML5

The W3 has announced today that the XHTML 2 working group will not be rechartered after its current charter expires at the end of 2009.In many respects, this is not unexpected, and given the direction HTML5, and browsers have been taking, XHTML2 was looking like an increasingly theoretical, however ... Read more »

Scott Berkun “calls BS on Social Media”

Scott Berkun, Web Directions 2007 keynote speaker, has a detailed post at his site "calling BS on social media". Scott's argument is not that all social media is bad, but much more nuanced (despite the provocative title).Well worth a read (as is pretty much everything Scott writes).

Paypal Australia Developer days in July

If you need to add payment options to your sites, or those of your clients, there are many different ways of doing so. At Web Directions we know because over the years we've probably tried just about every way. Different solutions obviously have their particular strengths and weaknesses.One of ... Read more »

Firefox 3.5 released

Mozilla has released Firefox 3.5, after the recently releases of Safari 4, and Internet Explorer 8, the third major browser release this year. With Opera 10 in beta, we should almost certainly see all four major browsers significantly upgraded in 2009.For developers, like Safari 4, Firefox 3.5 is a ... Read more »

Good reasons to install Internet Explorer 8

Hmmm, the reader thinks - where is this one going?At the end of 2008, our State of the Web survey found that somewhat less than a third of the designers and developers responding tested their sites in IE8 (though essentially 90% tested in IE7). Granted, IE 8 was still ... Read more »

First Annual Web Industry Awards — nominations close in 1 week

A quick note to let you all know that nominations for the first annual web industry awards, the national version of the long standing WA Web Industry Awards close in 1 week.There'll be state by state awards, (with an event Tuesday 6th October in Sydney coinciding with Web Directions) ... Read more »

Web Directions South 2009: Early bird pricing extended to July 9

Guess what: you've got just two weeks left to take advantage of early bird pricing for Web Directions South 2009.Getting those training approvals through really is hard. We know this because every year we hear a familiar chorus from people who need just a bit more ... Read more »

@media and Web Directions

Maxine and I are really excited to let you know that from 2010, @media, one of the great web conferences in the world will be presented by Web Directions.@media will stay right at home, in London, and feature the same mix of the world's leading web designers, ... Read more »

First FuelWatch, now GroceryWatch Canned

The Sydney Morning Herald is reporting that the Australian Federal Government's fabled GroceryWatch website has been scrapped. We wrote critically about the dire accessibility of the site when it first launched. In the meantime, consumer advocacy magazine Choice had taken over the project from the government.What happened? ... Read more »

Fix Outlook

Personally, like other old web curmudgeons (OK so Dave Shea isn't really old), I'm not a big fan of either sending or receiving HTML email. But, it's a reality of life, and more importantly if something supports HTML, it should to the extent possible support modern web development ... Read more »

Australia’s Government 2.0 taskforce

Via Slattery's Watch, news of the just launched Australian Federal Government's "Government 2.0 Taskforce", which (a wordpress blog no less!). From the site:Its work falls into two streams. The first relates to increasing the openness of government through making public sector information more widely available to ... Read more »

Sydney UPA Chapter’s 2nd Birthday Celebration — We’re sponsoring!

On Wednesday July 1 at 6.00 there's three very good reasons to come along to the Sydney Usability Professionals Association's 2nd birthday party. Firstly, you'll get to see a great ... Read more »

WDS09 Day 1 closing keynote: Cameron Adams

I actually got a little teary just then when I posted this at the site (not something I normally do while cruising around my Wordpress admin): the day 1 closing keynote at Web Directions South 2009 will be my good friend, Cameron Adams, talking ... Read more »

The incomparable PPK on the current state of Internet Explorer

Peter-Paul Koch, curator of "Quirksmode", has contributed just about as much as anyone to our understanding of browsers, and their quirks, bugs, strengths and weaknesses.He's just published his "State of the Browsers - IE Edition", where he takes a look not at technology, but current market share, and ... Read more »

July 24 Web Standards Group Canberra meeting

Web Directions will be sponsoring the next Canberra Web Standards Group Meeting, to be held on July 24, 2.30 to 4.30 at the NLA Theatre. Come along for the chance to win a ticket to Web Directions South 2009, and to hear a couple of excellent presentations.Simon Pascal Klein - ... Read more »

InfoWorld on HTML5

Usually when you see the adjective "killer" in a tech related story (except about robots I guess), you know you are in for a good dose of hype. Countless stories on Google-killers, iPhone killers and so on have seen to that.InfoWorld has a quite detailed story on HTML5, which ... Read more »

Modal web interfaces

Damien Buckley, from Propellor Global, winners of last year's McFarlane Prize, has some thoughts about the increasingly discussed issue of modality in web design (think lightboxes, registration forms and the like). Damien McCormack, from Vision Australia, one of the speakers at Web Directions South ... Read more »

Loyalty discount extended by 1 week — ends June midnight 19

If you've been to one of our conferences or workshops in the past you should have received emails over the last month about the extra special loyalty discount we have for you for Web Directions South this year. Just $750 - an absolute bargain for what ... Read more »

Web Directions South 2009 — Register now, pay later

With the cut off date for early bird pricing for Web Directions South this year fast approaching, as always, I get a lot of emails about when payment for tickets can be made. The answer is, we're pretty flexible on this, and, for a start, it's ... Read more »

The future of development? Palm’s web technology grounded Pre launches next week

We've mentioned Palm's Pre a couple of times here since it was announced in January this year.Our interest is simple - the way you develop for the Pre and its new webOS is to use CSS, HTML and JavaScript. Now, this was the way Apple ... Read more »

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