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Web Directions South 2010 — nearly here!

• In: Blog
• By: Maxine
• October 5, 2010

It’s a little over a week to go until Web Directions South for this year, and if you’re not quite sure whether you can make it or not, our most recent speaker announcements might just tip you over.

In addition to our already stellar lineup of … Read more »

Amped #1 coming together

• In: Blog
• By: John
• September 18, 2010

Next week sees Web Directions USA head to Atlanta for the first time. We’re really looking forward to what is shaping up as a great event in a town I’ve really grown to like (not least because of the fantastic web folks here).

We’re also really proud to be … Read more »

Seb Chan on Web Directions

• In: Blog
• By: John
• September 12, 2010

One of our favourite Australian digital/​web folks, Seb Chan, has this to say about Web Directions today

Web Directions South is an event we always try to send team members along to to expand their technical and conceptual knowledge of where the web is heading. Paula’s going … Read more »

Agile Australia Approaching

• In: Blog
• By: John
• September 7, 2010

We know that the Agile approach to development is very popular among many of you in web development, and Australia’s Agile methodology conference, Agile Australia, is coming up September 15 and 16 in Melbourne. Lots of excellent speakers and practical content on the menu — so make sure if … Read more »

The McFarlane Prize for Australian web design — nominations now open

• In: Blog
• By: Maxine
• August 25, 2010

Nominations for the McFarlane Prize for excellence in Australian web design have just opened. So, if you’re responsible for a web site launched or significantly updated since September 20 2009 which you think deserves recognition for its adherence to web … Read more »

Introducing Amped, the hackday, reloaded coming to Atlanta and Sydney

• In: Blog
• By: John
• August 23, 2010

When you hear about the latest web technologies and techniques do you ever think “damn, I wish I could play with these right now”?

Enter Amped — the Hackday, reloaded.

We’ve taken the traditional hack day, pulled it apart, thought long and hard about what’s great, what’s … Read more »

Learn CSS3 with John Allsopp

• In: Blog
• By: John
• August 16, 2010

Hot on the heels of my recent HTML5 course with SitePoint, is our new CSS3 Live course, starting today, August 16. It features screencasts, exercises, articles, and live streamed FAQs, and runs for 3 weeks.

We cover selectors, properties, media queries, and more in real depth — so if … Read more »

Sitepoint are looking for a web app developer

• In: Blog
• By: Maxine
• August 11, 2010

Want to work with some of the best developers in Australia? Looking to develop world-​​class websites using the latest web technologies? Keen to be part of an organisation that is a great supporter of the Aussie web industry?

SitePoint are in need of a talented PHP developer — … Read more »

Tech23 — for Australian Technology Innovators

• In: Blog
• By: John
• August 5, 2010

Tech23, in its second year now, is a great event in Sydney focussing on commercial technology innovation. Featuring a combination of insights from leaders in the tech industry, and a shootout for some serious prizes by 23 early stage technology companies, and all wrapping up with a great awards … Read more »

HTML5 Live, a two week online course from John

• In: Blog
• By: John
• July 22, 2010

A quick note to all that with SitePoint, a fantastic community for web designers and developers, and publisher of many excellent design and development books, I’ll be running a two week course, online starting next Monday on HTML5. And best of all, it’s only $US9.95 (yep, less than a … Read more »

More Web Directions @media podcasts and slides come online

• In: Blog
• By: Maxine
• July 20, 2010

Thanks to a lot of hard work from Guy Leech, a whole bunch of the podcasts and slides from Web Directions @media are now online. It’s always great to give back by making these available, and we’d like to particularly thank our speakers for their generosity.

Help us make it all … Read more »

Three must-​​see presentations which came out of Web Directions @media

• In: Blog
• By: Maxine
• July 12, 2010

After any conference we always do our best to share the love by creating a podcast and resource page for each presentation from the event. Apologies that it has taken a bit of time to get these out there this time — we’ve had the small matter of … Read more »

Web Directions South 2010

• In: Blog
• By: John
• June 21, 2010

We’re really excited to take the wraps off Web Directions South for 2010. This has been a big year for Web Directions, with our first ever @media just wrapping up in London, and the recently announced Web Directions US in Atlanta.

But our home will always be Sydney, … Read more »

SVG Contest closes Friday

• In: Blog
• By: John
• June 14, 2010

Just a quick update on our “No Bit, Sherlock” competition, where you can win some great prizes like XBoxes, Mindstorms and a SONY Vaio just for building an SVG button, or progress control.

There’s plenty of great examples you can learn from (remember, “view source” is not a sin, it’s … Read more »

@media is a wrap, and a huge hit

• In: Blog
• By: John
• June 14, 2010

We’ve just wrapped up the first @media event run by Web Directions here in London, and if we say so ourselves, it’s been a huge hit.

An incredible array of speakers, covering a wide range of breaking topics including CSS3, HTML5, mobile web app development, geolocation, but much … Read more »

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