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Image is everything

One serious drawback of moving house in Australia is you’ll typically wait no small time to get your internet connection moved. For the last three weeks, I’ve been in this situation, and as connection is not an option, I’ve needed and alternative until someone could be bothered providing me with a service which frankly should […]

Cameron Adams – The Man in Blue

He’s presented to rooms packed with some of the toughest audiences in the business at 66% of Web Directions Conferences, and survived the horrors of building a site with me as the client. Cameron: Why have you used an anchor element with no content here when you could have added the id to the heading? […]

Web Directions North Podcasts

Late last week we started releasing the podcasts from Web Directions North in January. Shortly I’m going to be gathering them all together into complete resources pages, with the MP3s, slides and any other materials we have, that will be hosted here at the Web Directions site. But if you want to subscribe to the […]

If I were…

If I were a fresh faced young CS undergraduate I would be onto the this opportunity to work for very good guys at Freshview (think Campaign Monitor and Mailbuild) like white on rice. If I were a woman with my finger on the pulse of the Aussie startup scene I’d be putting up my hand […]

Excellent typography presentation from Jeff Croft

The possibility of truly excellent typography on the web, a la that beautiful book The Elements of Typographic Style, has been a reality for the last couple of years. Check out the MP3 of Jeff Croft’s presentation, Typography – Beyond the Font at last year’s Webmaster Jam Session, and follow along with the slides, to […]

Sebastian Chan: DJ by night, web pioneer by day

Years ago I used to love listening to 2SER Radio in the afternoons, I think it was between 1pm and 4pm, when every afternoon a couple of different presenters would come in and play some of the finest music radio I have ever heard. Just good, interesting, largely dance oriented music, presented by people with […]

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