It’s coming – Monday
Year: 2006
Make Connections at Web Directions
For a good while now, Cam “the man in blue” Adams, and Tim “toolman” Lucas have been toiling away on a a killer webapp to compliment web directions, “web connections“. To prove the adage “great minds think alike” only a couple of weeks ago d.Construct’s, Backnetwork app went live too. The aim of both the […]
Web Directions T shirts and T shirt slogan competition
We announced our “Web Direction’s design your own web 2.0 t shirt slogan and wear it to the conference” competition a few days ago. Sadly, because a trailing slash is sometimes important (well, the absence of it is), the link in that post was broken. So one more time, here is the story – start […]
Port80 event in Sydney on the eve of Web Directions
The indefatigable Miles Burke, of Bam Creative, and one of the founders of the Web industry association Port80, along with a whole tribe of sandgropers (that’s folks from Western Australia for our non Australian audience) are once more heading east for Web Directions. Each year more of them come, and each year they seem to […]
Got the developer skills? Then you can “name your price”
Yesterday I was having a chat with someone from a large Australian site who do all kinds of interesting work. They’d have to be close to one of the largest Australian sites in terms of traffic, and do lots of innovative stuff. We were talking about how easy, or otherwise it is to find people […]
WE05 podcasts – back online
Last year the conference we were associated with, WE05, was almost fully podcast within hours of the close of play – one of the first, if not the first fully podcast conference we know of. Sadly earlier this year, the podcasts went AWOL, but as a means of digital preservation, we are bringing them back […]
First ever Web Directions Tee Shirts
The last couple of years, the number one request has been for conference tee shirts. So we are excited to announce the Web Directions Tee Shirts, featuring our new logo, designed by guru and web superstar, Dave “CSS Zen Garden” Shea, available online now. You can of course get a straightforward web directions tee shirt […]
Job Post: gnoos.com.au looking for a developer
Ben Barren of gnoos.com.au, recently launched aussie blog search engine, are looking for a developer. If you are keen, drop him a line. In fact, lots of people ask us for recommendations of freelance or potential in-house developers, and from what I can tell, demand far outstrips supply. So, if you are after a developer, […]
Announcing the Sitepoint closing party for Web Directions
Last year, our impromptu closing night drinks at the Pumphouse Hotel Darling Harbour [1] was a great success. Tired but elated after three days of workshops and the conference, having packed up and left the venue, I walked down to the pub expecting to see a few people having a good time, and found a […]
The Australian Office of the W3C
I think to those coming to or interested in Web Directions, the W3C, or World Wide Web Consortium, founded by Sir Timothy Berners-Lee, will be very well known. We’ve had great presentations by Dean Jackson from the W3C the last two years, and this year he’s the coding judge for the McFarlane Prize. Recently, CSIRO […]
Welcome Crumpler as a supporter
If you’ve got a lot of portable digital gear, laptops, cameras, ipods, game machines, tamagotchis, then you soon realize you need really good bags for keeping it in one piece while lugging it to and from the office, on places, in cars, where ever. A couple of years back, when I started traveling a lot, […]
Emily Boyd and Stephen Cox: debrief
Thanks so much to all who came along last night, but most of all thank you to Emily Boyd and Stephen Cox who went to a lot of trouble to prepare their presentations. More on those in a second. It really was great to see so many new faces last night among the familiar ones. […]
Discount pricing about to end
We’re now just on a month away from Web Directions ’06, and discount pricing of just $AUD850 ends this Monday the 4th of September at midnight AEST, so now is the time to get in if you’ve been trying to make up your mind: register now. Last year’s conference well and truly sold out, and […]
Calling all usability mavens
World Usability Day promotes the value of usability, user-centred design, and everyone’s desire for things that work better. This year, it will take place on Tuesday 14 November. Over the course of 36 hours, events will be held around the globe. Last year, Sydney was among 70 cities in 30 countries which played host to […]
McFarlane Prize nominations close August 31
With all the other things going on round here in the lead up to Web Directions and more, the closing date for nominations for the McFarlane Prize has almost come by unnoticed. Nominations close this Thursday, August 31. If you missed the announcement, the Prize is for Excellence in Australian web design, and is open […]
