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Announcing Style Master 5 for the Mac, from the folks at Web Directions

The reason for the existence of Web Directions is more or less CSS. But the story starts a long long time before Web Directions was ever dreamt of. And a big part of that story is Style Master, the Mac and Windows CSS development software Maxine and I have ... Read more »

Web Directions speakers on Twitter

As you might expect, just about everyone speaking at Web Directions South this year can be found on Twitter - no surprises there. If you're planning on coming along to the conference in October, be sure to say hi to the people below, maybe give them ... Read more »

BarCamp Sydney #5 coming late June

For fans of BarCamp (and indeed folks who've never even heard of them), Sydney's 5th BarCamp is coming up on June 27th at the Australian Technology Park (a great venue!)So, mark it in your diaries and get ready to participate.

New Jobs at Web Directions Jobs

In an encouraging sign given the largely poor economic news we've been hearing of late, this week has seen several high profile new jobs posted to our jobs site.News Digital Media/TrueLocal and looking for a Senior Front-end DeveloperGruden are looking for an Online Project Manager / ProducerDifferent ... Read more »

Google Wave — the next big Aussie success story at Google?

As far too few people know, Google Maps started life here in Australia, and Google continue to have a large Australian engineering presence. Now, Lars and Jens Rasmussen, two of the founders of what became Google Maps have announced Google Wave - built here in Australia by all indications.What ... Read more »

The dawning of real fonts on the web?

Regular readers will know of my near fixation with embeddable/downloadable fonts on the web, as now supported in Safari, Firefox 3.5 and Opera 10, and long supported (in a somewhat incompatible way with these other browsers) in Internet Explorer.But the technology has never taken off. Foundries and many type ... Read more »

Usability — the word on everyone’s lips this week

Lisa Herrod has been breathing a bit of life into the local scene by turning the Social Usability Professionals Association meetups into a regular event at The Arthouse in Pitt St. If you haven't been before, these are a great opportunity to mix with other local usability and UX people ... Read more »

Mark Pesce kicks of the first ever “What’s the Big Idea”

Anyone who's been to one of the Web Directions South conferences will have seen Mark Pesce, inventor of VRML, judge on the ABC's New Inventors, big thinker, and all round guru, speak.While he gracefully retired from our final keynote role after (in fact during) last year's keynote (like John Farnham ... Read more »

JavaScript and Website performance

Techworld has a detailed summary of Google's high performance guru Steve Souder's recent Tech Ed presentation on web site performance, where he singles out JavaScript as a particular culprit in slowing down sites.With Amazon reporting that a 10th of a second slow down in overall page loading reduced sales ... Read more »

How do you solve a problem like IE6?

(As astute, more likely female readers might guess, Sound of Music is now the new favourite movie at chez Allsopp for the 3 year old)We might forget it, but once IE6 represented a great leap forward for the web. At the time, its support for CSS was really as good ... Read more »

We ❤ Adrian Holovaty

As regular readers and Web Directions attendees will know, we are big big fans of Adrian Holovaty here at WD!Adrian's latest short post summarizes I think much of why we are such big fans. Highly relevant to the current widespread debate about the future of news and journalism, ... Read more »

Data driven design — a debate that isn’t going away?

You'll all remember the mini fracas a month or so back when Doug Bowman pulled up stumps at Google, and moved on to the role of Creative Director at Twitter.John and I thought there was definitely enough meat ... Read more »

WDS09 — off to a great start

Thanks to all those who have already registered - WDS09 is off to a great start!We're also very happy to announce our first exhibitors for 2009 - long time supporters of Web Directions, Campaign Monitor, and XERO, providers of a very popular web based accountancy system. XERO ... Read more »

Announcing Web Directions South 2009

After a very frenzied two weeks of finalising speakers and pulling all the content together for the site, Web Directions South 2009 is now open for business. And, we're just a bit excited about what's going to be happening on October 6 - 9 this year.From our humble beginnings ... Read more »

Opera turns 15

A big congratulations to long time Web Directions supporters, browser developers Opera. 15 years old today. (if you youngsters want a taste of the web in early 1994, or we old timers want to relive the glory days of animated gifs and more (sadly no evidence of the blink tag)) ... Read more »

Donna Spencer’s Card Sorting book from Rosenfeld Media — Published today

Web Directions speaker Donna Spencer has got to the end of that long journey and today had her book, Card Sorting: Designing Usable Categories, published by Rosenfeld Media. Congratulations Donna!In this book, Donna describes how to plan and run a card sort, ... Read more »

Web Directions South 2009 Roadshow — It’s a wrap

Thanks very much to all those who came along last week in Melbourne, Canberra and Sydney and made our first Web Directions Roadshow such a success. It was great to see such a good crowd come along to see the six excellent workshops.All the presenters said ... Read more »

Web Directions speaker Dmitry Baranovskiy hits the big time

Many in the Australian Web industry (and beyond), particularly Web Directions attendees will know of Dmitry Baranovskiy, and in particular his fantastic Raphaël JavaScript Graphics Library. Via the excellent Ajaxian site, it's exciting to learn that Blackberry is using Raphaël for a new, highly interactive and ... Read more »

Offline web apps and client side storage with HTML5

Many web folks are probably keeping one eye on HTML5, but it can be difficult, with a great many parallel developments. We are all likely aware of some of the new elements and semantics like , , and so on, but maybe less so of some more low ... Read more »

Fonts on the Web

Regular readers will know the issue of embeddable/linkable fonts for the web is more than a passing interest here at Web Directions.Today, font designer Tal Leming talks about the issues from the perspective of folks who design typefaces, while Jeffrey Zeldman interviews Type designer David Berlow from ... Read more »

On the road part II

For those of our readers in Japan, Web Directions Express, along with HTML5 and CSS3 workshops by me, John Allsopp, will be on in Tokyo, Osaka and Kyoto, in mid May. The workshops and evening events are in English, translated into Japanese. Details can be found at our Web ... Read more »

On the Road again

This year's Web Directions Roadshow, featuring fantastic full day workshops from local and international expertsAndy Clarke (Web Design) Brian Fling (Mobile web design and development) Grant Young (Social Media Strategy) Indi Young (Information Architecture) Christian Heilmann (JavaScript and Ajax) Lisa Herrod (User Testing)in Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra. If you've not yet booked, we've ... Read more »

Know anyone who might be interested in presenting on cloud computing at Web Directions South this year?

John and I are keen to do a "briefing" on cloud computing in the Business track at Web Directions this year - see below for a description of the way we'd see this session going. We'd like to find someone who could present this session without necessarily emphasizing any of ... Read more »

WaSP’s amazing new education project and curriculum

With far less fanfare than it merits, the Web Standards Project recently launched their truly amazing "Interact" web education project, and first stage of their detailed curriculum for educating web professionals.Frankly, it's impossible to convey the amount and quality of work that the team has put into it. ... Read more »

Ask the browser makers — PEte LePage from the Internet Explorer team

In the first of what we hope will be a new, occasional series at Web Directions, we speak with PEte LePage Product Manager, Internet Explorer, Developer Division about their goals with IE8, compatibility mode, with IE7 emulation in IE8 is identical to IE7 and more about the browser. Thanks ... Read more »

Sub Cutaneous Human Interaction Technology at WDS09

Web Directions continues to push the envelop of technology use at our conferences. From our own social networking applications like web connections, to unique visualizations of twitter and flickr traffic, bluetooth video messages from speakers and attendees and much more, we are at the forefront of innovation.So, Web Directions South ... Read more »

Wanted: Someone to help us with podcasts

We've got a whole bunch of amazing audio content that came out of Web Directions North - all the presentations were recorded - that we're really keen to turn into podcasts and get out there. Would anyone be able to spare us a couple of days to help us out ... Read more »

Object Oriented CSS — the video

At Web Directions North, the highly talented Nicole Sullivan debuted her "OOCSS" concept, to much interest. Yahoo Developer Network video recorded a number of the sessions, including Nicole's.Well have the podcast, and transcript courtesy of Opera Software, up and running soon, but for now, take a look at ... Read more »

Does (web) design matter?

Reading about Doug Bowman's departure from Google, and some of the responses and coverage that has ensued (Kevin Fox, who was a UX designer at Google; ... Read more »

Web Directions South 2009 — Submit your program ideas

For just on a month we've been running a forum asking for ideas for how we can make Web Directions South this year even better than it has been in previous years. Lost of good things have come from this, including ideas and ... Read more »

Llumo — Feed reader for image and photo based feeds

Here's something new and neat for people who collect a lot of image based feeds, from local developer Anson Parker. Llumo is a feed reader which makes the experience of ... Read more »

Ignite web in Melbourne April 1st

For folks in Melbourne, remember the upcoming Ignite Web, April 1st, from 5.30pm atThe Apartment, 401 Lt Bourke Street, MelbourneIt's free, with some drinks on us, Web Directions, and a baker's dozen of presentations on CSS, HTTP, WCAG2, Agile, and much more, from folks like Kevin ... Read more »

Andy Clarke’s Visual Web Design Masterclass — a big big day

We thought it was great when Andy Clarke said he'd be keen to head back down to Australia and be a part of our roadshow workshop series in April, but we're even more thrilled about it now that he has given us all a sneak peak ... Read more »

IE8 compatibility mode != IE7?

With the release of IE8 seemingly imminent, and with many developers still not testing their sites with IE8, the IE team have just posted details of how IE8's compatibility mode is not necessarily identical to IE7We strive to make Compatibility View behave as much like IE7 as possible, but ... Read more »

“i like code/​design/​words” Ts now available from Molt:n

If you came to Web Directions South last year, or followed online, you would have trouble missing the fantastic t shirts our fine friends and great supporters over at Molt:n put together as give aways.[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="I like code t shirt as modelled by geek hunk ... Read more »

Inside Web Directions North — YDN Theater

The excellent folks at Yahoo Developer Network were out in force at Web Directions North, and among other things, Christian Heilmann (who'll be running Ajax and JavaScript workshops for us in Sydney and Melbourne in April) interviewed various people in attendance, asking them about how the current economic climate will ... Read more »

Web Directions Forum — Got some comments on some session ideas?

Lots of activity over at the Web Directions forum.There's a few discussions going on that it would be nice to get a bit more detailed input on - comments are where the real gems of information come out! What we'd really like some ... Read more »

Announcing Ignite Web in Melbourne April 1st — brought to you by Web Directions

After the success of the first two Ignite events in Sydney, the first, highly focussed Ignite event is coming to Melbourne in April.Ignite events are now held round the world, and have a very distinctive feature - each presentation comprises 20, 15 second auto advanced slides for exactly ... Read more »

Lovely Facebook data visualisation

Just found this via Seb Chan at Fresh + New(er). Nexus is a little app that takes all your Facebook connections and their connections with each other, and creates a visualisation of this.Here are my constellations.That large galaxy, as ... Read more »

Canberra Web Standards Group Meeting — More free books

Web Directions Roadshow is sponsoring the next Canberra Web Standards Group meeting, on March 18. Get along to the meeting for your chance to win a copy ofIndi Young - Mental Models Andy Clarke - Transcending CSS Luke Wroblewski ... Read more »

The great roadshow book give away

If you've been thinking about coming to one of the workshops at the Web Directions Roadshow in April, now is the time to seize the day and get your registration in: John brought back a whole bunch of excellent web design and development books from ... Read more »

Web Developer Jobs — they are out there

Amid the current economic uncertainty, one little positive point is that good quality jobs are continuing to be posted at our jobs site, currently at almost one a day. So, if you are looking to employ, or pick up a full time, part time of freelance gig, head over to ... Read more »

Web Directions Forum — The First 24 Hours

We're really happy - if a little overwhelmed! - with the number of suggestions, comments and votes our new Web Directions Forum has already generated in its first 24 hrs.As I said yesterday, ... Read more »

Announcing the Web Directions South Forum

As of today, we're officially open to your suggestions about any aspect of the conference this year: please come in and take a look around at the brand new Web Directions forum.And the best part is, every month we're going to be giving ... Read more »

CSS doesn’t suck

During Web Directions North last week, the tired old issue of tables for layout raised its head again, by way of a blog post at Ajaxian.org, referring to a recent rant about this very subject. Nicole Sullivan, who spoke at the conference last week, has posted her own rant ... Read more »

Win a ticket to WDS09

Just by contributing your ideas and suggestionsEvery month, we'll give away a ticket to Web Directions South 2009 to the person who's contributed most to the discussion at webdirections.ideascale.com. Just register and login to be in the running.Give ... Read more »

Scroll Number 2 — Free copy for roadshow attendees

Plans are well and truly afoot for the next issue of our magazine, Scroll, which we plan to release in time for the Web Directions Roadshow workshop series.If you're thinking of coming along to one of the workshops, here's another reason to ... Read more »

Bespin, from Mozilla Labs

Last week in Denver, at Web Directions North, we had the great privilege not only of having a keynote by Ben Galbraith and Dion Almaer, founders of the Ajaxian blog, and now heading up a developer tools team at Mozilla, but they also demonstrated a brand new, ... Read more »

Burning ships — Palm abandons PalmOS, stakes all on webOS

In 1519, Hernan Cortés (quite possibly one of the most murderous people in human history), arrived in the New World seeking fame, and more importantly fortune. Legend has it that after landing, but before setting off for the interior, he burnt all his ships - as proof to his men, ... Read more »

5 difference between iPhone native and mobile-​​web apps

Brian Fling is going to be presenting his Creating Mobile 2.0 Web Apps workshop as part of the Web Directions Roadshow. Andrea Hill attended Brian's workshop when he gave it in Denver last week, and came away with ... Read more »

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