Web Directions - Part 27

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Scroll Magazine is launched

• By: John
• October 8, 2008

Those who came to Web Directions left with something special — a brand new magazine for web professionals — Scroll. Designed by Veerle Pieters, with a fantastic name courtesy of Maxine Sherrin, and largely the fruit of incredibly hard work by Maxine, Scroll features in depth articles by … Read more »

Web Directions North — launching next week

• By: John
• October 8, 2008

A quick note for visitors new and old, that Web Directions North will be launching next week. We are just finalizing speakers and workshops, so that when we launch, you’ll know exactly why you should be coming.

This year, Web Directions North moves to Denver, Colorado, for a whole host … Read more »

State Library of NSW photos on Flickr

• By: John
• October 5, 2008

Today’s Sun Herald reports that The State Library of New South Wales joins the PowerHouse Museum, along with institutions like the US Library of Congress, and the Smithsonian Institute in posting parts of their extensive photographic collections online at Flickr.

Great work SLoNSW and Flickr!

Organizing Our Marvellous Neighbours — Joe Clark’s new book

• By: John
• October 3, 2008

Many in the web professions will be familiar with (and rightly so) Joe Clark. He spoke at the first conference we were associated with in 2004, and is well known as one of the earliest web accessibility experts, and author of the groundbreaking Building Accessible Websites.

Joe has just … Read more »

Web Directions Jobs — more than 50 up there now

• By: John
• October 2, 2008

Just quick note to say we now have over 50 reputable, legitimate jobs at jobs.webirections in just a few short weeks. There’s design, development, IA, and many more positions at the likes of the ABC, Atlassian, Gruden, Medicare, and many more. If you are looking for contractors part timers … Read more »

First batch of slides available!

• By: Guy Leech
• October 1, 2008

The moment you’ve (perhaps) been eagerly awaiting: we’ve added in the slideshows for 10 of the presentations from the recent Web Directions South to the Resources section of this site. We’ll be adding more as time goes by, along with podcasts of the sessions. Check ‘em out:

• Jeffrey … Read more »

  Photos from Web Directions South 2008

  • By: Maxine
  • October 1, 2008

  I’ve just uploaded almost 500 photos taken by our photographer this year, Wade Millican, who might I say did a thoroughly excellent job — thanks Wade!

  Check them out for yourself. Even better, if you have time and inclination to tag … Read more »

  Ignite Geospatial

  • By: John
  • October 1, 2008

  Stephen Lead is putting together what I think might be one of the first “Ignite” events in Australia — Ignite GeoSpatial. While it’s not entirely web focussed, it’s not hard to see the importance of geo data for the web, and the web as a delivery platform for GeoSpatial … Read more »

  Firefox in Australia — the survey

  • By: John
  • October 1, 2008

  While the audience of Web Directions probably somewhat skews the sample, Mozilla are looking to get a better understanding of the use of Firefox around the world. So if you have a few minutes, please do head over to their survey.

  In fact, even if you don’t use Firefox … Read more »

  Thank you

  • By: John
  • September 29, 2008

  There’s so much to come in the hours, days and weeks ahead, but just right now, a huge thanks to all who made Web Directions what it was. Amazing.

  We’ll have much more specific thanks coming soon, but for now, the sincerest gratitude from Maxine and me.

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