Well, there are two big big reasons why, but you’ll have to wait until next week to find out. Rest assured, we think you’ll be very excited. Have a great weekend, and see you Monday with the news.
We’ve got many great nominations for the McFarlane Prize already, putting us a fair way ahead of previous years, with more diversity than we’ve seen before. Thanks to all who’ve entered so far. For the rest of you, it’s quick, easy and costs nothing to enter a site you’ve released or substantially updated in the […]
At Web Directions, we like to have most of our sessions all organized before announcing our conferences, but we do usually leave one or two sessions open for breaking developments. We’ve now got a single session remaining in the business track, and thought we’d do a bit of crowd sourcing. What focus do you think […]
A quick note to let you know that the McFarlane Prize for Excellence in Australian Web Design for 2009 will be open for nominations from August the 1st for one month. The Prize is free to enter, and is open to any Australian individual or team for a site built or significantly upgraded between September […]
I’m currently working on what hopefully will be a high profile book for web developers from a very well known publisher. A major problem is I’m a terrible illustrator, and would love these illustrations to be top notch. The illustrations themselves are nothing too complex – for the most part schematic illustrations of hoe things […]
JavaScript guru (developer of JQuery among many other things) John Resig, goes into detail about “Web Workers”, a new WHATWG and W3C specification for running background JavaScript in a browser, much like the concept of threading found in many programming languages. Currently supported in Safari 4 and Firefox 3.5, it’s one of the many HTML […]
Fresh into our jobs site, a position for a graduate to start as a Junior Web Designer in the Digital Media department at Network Ten. Read more at jobs.webdirections.
There’s probably little to be added to the gigabytes of responses to Google’s announcement a couple of days back of their “ChromeOS“. As with the Palm Pre, if not more so, as the announcement says “For application developers, the web is the platform”. I said a few days ago, have done so for a long […]
As we mentioned earlier in the week, our $200 early bird discount ends tonight at the stroke on midnight (AEST). So, to come to Web Directions for the very very reasonable price of just $795 (inc GST) just sign up before midnight. Note, you don’t have to actually pay right now – just sign up, […]
Those following recent developments with HTML5 and XHTML2 might have noticed some concerns about the lack of civility, and adult communications by a number of folks associated with this whole currently rather heated issue. Kyle Weems, CSS Squirrel, and web cartoonist has succinctly captured the issue in the nicest possible way with a cartoon in […]
The W3 has announced today that the XHTML 2 working group will not be rechartered after its current charter expires at the end of 2009. In many respects, this is not unexpected, and given the direction HTML5, and browsers have been taking, XHTML2 was looking like an increasingly theoretical, however worthwhile enterprise. One of the […]
Scott Berkun, Web Directions 2007 keynote speaker, has a detailed post at his site “calling BS on social media“. Scott’s argument is not that all social media is bad, but much more nuanced (despite the provocative title). Well worth a read (as is pretty much everything Scott writes).
If you need to add payment options to your sites, or those of your clients, there are many different ways of doing so. At Web Directions we know because over the years we’ve probably tried just about every way. Different solutions obviously have their particular strengths and weaknesses. One of those solutions is of course […]
Mozilla has released Firefox 3.5, after the recently releases of Safari 4, and Internet Explorer 8, the third major browser release this year. With Opera 10 in beta, we should almost certainly see all four major browsers significantly upgraded in 2009. For developers, like Safari 4, Firefox 3.5 is a big step forward, with considerable […]
Hmmm, the reader thinks – where is this one going? At the end of 2008, our State of the Web survey found that somewhat less than a third of the designers and developers responding tested their sites in IE8 (though essentially 90% tested in IE7). Granted, IE 8 was still in late beta when we […]
Web Directions South is the must-attend event of the year for anyone serious about web development
Phil Whitehouse General Manager, DT Sydney
