Web Directions - Part 23

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Ignite Sydney coming January 22nd

• By: John
• December 11, 2008

After the great success of the recent GeoSpatial Ignite, bringing together folks from the world of Geo Sciences and the Web, Stephen Lead is putting together Ignite Sydney, to be held Thursday January 22nd, at the Shelbourne Hotel (scene of the last two closing night parties for Web Directions … Read more »

Shoot your inspiration photo competition

• By: John
• December 10, 2008

Core77, one of our daily reads for keeping up with the wider design world, along with Braun, have just announced the “Shoot your inspiration” photographic competition.

Photos can be of objects, people, or environments; they can be artistic gestures or graphic messages. Use your camera as a lens or … Read more »

Introducing Soap Jr.

• By: John
• December 10, 2008

We’ll let you in on a little secret — well, it might come as little surprise, I’m actually wearing my fabulous Moltn: I Like Code t-​​shirt as I type this, but here at Web Directions we are geeks. We love code, coding, and all manner of technical stuff. So, … Read more »

Scroll Magazine — the Design Process

• By: John
• December 10, 2008

The super talented Veerle Pieters, responsible for the design of both the Scroll Magazine logotype, and Scroll Magazine, has a detailed article on the design process for Scroll today.

Australian Government net censorship plans in trouble

• By: John
• December 10, 2008

In what appears to be a triumph of common sense, the much maligned plans by the Australian government to create a mandatory, secret black list or sites that all ISPs must filter looks to be in considerable trouble. With little support from any quarter, even many child welfare groups … Read more »

Chumby — now available in Australia!

• By: John
• December 8, 2008

You may not know, but we here at Web Directions are big fans of Chumby — but it’s not been available in Australia, until now.

That’s right, Chumby is now available thorough ISP Internode.

And they have even got a competition to create Australian flavoured Chumby widgets.

So, if … Read more »

Advice for freelance web designers/​developers

• By: John
• December 8, 2008

Over at Slashdot, a discussion of best practices for freelance web designers and developers. There’s a lot of you folks out there (and doubtless many thinking about making the move), so head over and participate, or soak in the wisdom (and otherwise) of the slashdot crowd.

Bert Bos summarizes the issues around Webfonts

• By: John
• December 6, 2008

Bert Bos, co-​​inventor of CSS, has a detailed summary of the issues around font embedding and standardization from a couple of months back.

Why so much on this of late here? We feel at web directions that this is a development ultimately as significant as the rise of CSS for … Read more »

Webfonts — an excellent article by Jon Tan

• By: John
• December 6, 2008

If you want to get up to speed with the who, what, where how and when of Web fonts, this recent article by Jon Tan is the place to start.

Web fonts — great news with Opera 10 Alpha

• By: John
• December 5, 2008

Opera had just announced an Alpha of Opera 10, with some excellent support for new and emerging standards, including one of my favorites, font linking.

Currently, Safari, Internet Explorer, Firefox 3.1, and now Opera 10 support font linking via the @font-face mechanism. Internet Explorer has in fact supported this feature … Read more »

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