A new local speaker for 2007 is Scott Gledhill, from News Interactive. Well, Scott’s a local now, though hails from near Vancouver in Canada. Scott’s newsigh blog, http://standardzilla.com/ provides no nonsense opinion and idea on using standards in a corporate context, and he’s just had a feature article published in Digital Web magazine on corporate […]
Nominations have just opened for the McFarlane Prize for 2007. This prize for excellence in Australian web design will be awarded to an Australian designer or team for a site launched or significantly upgraded between August 1 2006 and July 31 2007. The winner of the prize will be announced during Web Directions South, on […]
OK, I’ll be the first to admit to having played fast and loose with the law at various stages of my career. But, I’ve largely worked as an individual, or as part of a very small, under resourced organisation. There is no excuse at all for playing fast and loose when you are the marketing […]
Maintaining what has become a tradition, we have a late addition to the Web Directions South Workshop program for this year: Dr Nic Williams will be hosting Beginning Ruby on Rails on Tuesday September 25. Anyone involved with the web would be aware of the phenomenal growth in popularity over the last several years of […]
If you have any interest at all in the future of online social networking, and in particular its implications for the education sector, don’t miss this upcoming Education.AU seminar: Danah Boyd: Generation MySpace – Social networking and its impact on students and education Danah, an internationally recognised authority on the way people use networked social […]
A quick final reminder that to get $200 off the full ticket price of Web Directions, (that makes it only $795 including GST) you’ll have to register by tomorrow night at midnight. You can pay later, but that is the final chance to get the early bird discount. Registrations have been absolutely fantastic so far, […]
One of the web’s elder statesmen, and all round delightful person, Jeffrey Zeldman (he did a video keynote for our first ever conference, which you can watch here – it’s about 9 minutes, and a lot of fun) asks today “who should be responsible for an organisation’s web experience?” – Should it be IT? Should […]
While she might not e speaking this year, last year’s speaker Gian Sampson-Wild has an important role to play in conjunction with Web Directions South this year, which we’ll be announcing next week. For now, she’s been in the news a fair bit, and has just published an article on testability for the eminent online […]
Just a quick note for anyone interested in coming to Web Directions for the super discounted price of $200 off, only $795AUD, then you had better move quickly. As has become a tradition, we are extending this discount period for a few more days, until next Wednesday, July 4th – but that really is the […]
While it didn’t make it to the list, I fear this word has probably become so widely and thoughtlessly used as to render it meaningless, so it probably should have a place on this other list. However, for want of a better term, I shall push on regardless. I’m sitting here going through my database […]
Angela Beesley, speaking on Wikis and community collaboration in our management/strategy track is, along with Jimmy Wales (founder of Wikipedia) a founder of Wikia, which aims to be “To be the definitive, unbiased resource of the Web.”. Read/Write Web is profiling Wikia today. They are doing some extraordinary things. Angela is just one of nearly […]
Moving to a much bigger venue at Darling Harbour this year was a bit of a risk. Above all, a big venue can feel very empty even with a lot of people in it. But registrations have taken off really well this year, so hopefully the gamble will pay off. In previous years we’ve sold […]
Don’t just stand around like a pork chop after the closing night party! Impress your newly found friends by whipping out your Opera Mini and pulling up this bookmarked Gridskipper post: Drink Till Dawn in Sydney. Time was when rubbing shoulders with the doyennes of The Taxi Club was your only option, but I’m here […]
We’ve always been fans here at Web Directions of “Remember the Milk“, an amazingly richly featured “to do” app online. Emily Boyd, one of the founders, came and spoke at an event of ours last year, and she and Omar Kilani, the brains behind the app both came to Web Directions South last year. So, […]
This week Westciv is restarting the free course program, kicking off with the brand new edition of their CSS Level 1 course. CSS Level 1 starts with the absolute foundations of CSS and standards based web development so it’s probably a little too basic for regular readers of this blog. However, I thought it was […]
Web Directions South is the must-attend event of the year for anyone serious about web development
Phil Whitehouse General Manager, DT Sydney
