Web Directions - Part 17

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Object Oriented CSS — the video

• By: John
• March 27, 2009

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?

• By: Maxine
• March 24, 2009

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

• By: Maxine
• March 18, 2009

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

• By: Maxine
• March 18, 2009

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 »

ABC mobile web site fails accessibility test

• By: Maxine
• March 17, 2009

As reported over at Crikey today, this is pretty embarrassing for the ABC.

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation launched “ABC Mobile” yesterday. Unfortunately, the home page does not appear to have been designed in accordance with … Read more »

Ignite Web — Presentation Slots All Full

• By: Maxine
• March 17, 2009

Just a quick update to John’s previous post…

Lots of interest in the very first Ignite Web, which we’ll be hosting in Melbourne on April 1. Stephen, the person who’s actually doing all the hard work and organising the event, has just been in touch to say that … Read more »

Ignite web in Melbourne April 1st

• By: John
• March 17, 2009

For folks in Melbourne, remember the upcoming Ignite Web, April 1st, from 5.30pm at

The Apartment, 401 Lt Bourke Street, Melbourne

It’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

• By: Maxine
• March 16, 2009

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?

• By: John
• March 15, 2009

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 IE7

We 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

• By: John
• March 9, 2009

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 »

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