Core77, one of our daily reads for keeping up with the wider design world, along with Braun, have just announced the “Shoot your inspiration” photographic competition. Photos can be of objects, people, or environments; they can be artistic gestures or graphic messages. Use your camera as a lens or as a paintbrush, as a tool […]
We’ll let you in on a little secret – well, it might come as little surprise, I’m actually wearing my fabulous Moltn: I Like Code t-shirt as I type this, but here at Web Directions we are geeks. We love code, coding, and all manner of technical stuff. So, news from our good friend Rob […]
The super talented Veerle Pieters, responsible for the design of both the Scroll Magazine logotype, and Scroll Magazine, has a detailed article on the design process for Scroll today.
In what appears to be a triumph of common sense, the much maligned plans by the Australian government to create a mandatory, secret black list or sites that all ISPs must filter looks to be in considerable trouble. With little support from any quarter, even many child welfare groups are critical of the proposed scheme […]
You may not know, but we here at Web Directions are big fans of Chumby – but it’s not been available in Australia, until now. That’s right, Chumby is now available thorough ISP Internode. And they have even got a competition to create Australian flavoured Chumby widgets. So, if you’ve got some spare time before […]
Over at Slashdot, a discussion of best practices for freelance web designers and developers. There’s a lot of you folks out there (and doubtless many thinking about making the move), so head over and participate, or soak in the wisdom (and otherwise) of the slashdot crowd.
Bert Bos, co-inventor of CSS, has a detailed summary of the issues around font embedding and standardization from a couple of months back. Why so much on this of late here? We feel at web directions that this is a development ultimately as significant as the rise of CSS for web design and development. We […]
If you want to get up to speed with the who, what, where how and when of Web fonts, this recent article by Jon Tan is the place to start.
Opera had just announced an Alpha of Opera 10, with some excellent support for new and emerging standards, including one of my favorites, font linking. Currently, Safari, Internet Explorer, Firefox 3.1, and now Opera 10 support font linking via the @font-face mechanism. Internet Explorer has in fact supported this feature for many years, using the […]
Matt Magain, from our media partners SitePoint, has an article in this month’s Desktop Magazine (another Media Partner) about Microsoft Surface, along with an interview with Web Directions keynote speaker and chief Surface guy August de los Reyes (and a lovely person to boot). The full article is online here, so check it out.
Ben Buchanan, Web Directions speaker and long time friend has a very detailed discussion of the issues around screen resolution. Long gone are the days where you could reasonably safely rely on a small number of possible screen resolutions. Now, we might be designing for screen sizes from 240×320 high resolution mobile devices, up to […]
Update The results of the survey have now been published. At Web Directions and Westciv, we’ve been strongly focussed on the standards based web, and best practices in web design and development for well over ten years. Over that period, we’ve seen the rise of CSS, along with the decline of presentational HTML. We’ve seen […]
For those on the edge of registering for the conference, here’s something that might just help you make up your mind. For today (Monday December 1st) only, register for the conference, and we’ll give you either a half day workshop of your choice or a day’s skiing or boarding at Breckenridge (return coach and lift […]
We’ve not said anything as yet about the Australian Federal Government’s draconian and ignorant mandatory internet censorship regime, in part due to a combination of incredulity and anger. But, luckily someone is on the case. Action group Getup has an online petition that you should sign, and get anyone you know to sign. There’s just […]
After yesterday’s saga with Facebook, I had hoped the rude message I’d received was the extent of the problems I’d face. Wrong. Today, responding to a birthday greeting for tomorrow on my wall, from a friend, I received the following Clicking the FAQ I discover 1. I have been “blocked from using certain features” because […]
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Phil Whitehouse General Manager, DT Sydney
