After a very frenzied two weeks of finalising speakers and pulling all the content together for the site, Web Directions South 2009 is now open for business. And, we’re just a bit excited about what’s going to be happening on October 6 – 9 this year. From our humble beginnings as a grass roots conference […]
Web Directions speaker Donna Spencer has got to the end of that long journey and today had her book, Card Sorting: Designing Usable Categories, published by Rosenfeld Media. Congratulations Donna! In this book, Donna describes how to plan and run a card sort, then analyse the results and apply the outcomes to your project. I […]
Thanks very much to all those who came along last week in Melbourne, Canberra and Sydney and made our first Web Directions Roadshow such a success. It was great to see such a good crowd come along to see the six excellent workshops. All the presenters said how much they enjoyed giving the workshops and […]
John and I are keen to do a “briefing” on cloud computing in the Business track at Web Directions this year – see below for a description of the way we’d see this session going. We’d like to find someone who could present this session without necessarily emphasizing any of the specific cloud computing solutions […]
The perfect is the enemy of the good Nice quote from Mark Pesce, who has an op ed piece in this morning’s Sydney Morning Herald about the world full of surprises which will open up with the government’s very hi-speed broadband network. Update: I liked this piece on the same topic in Crikey as well, […]
Thanks to everyone who came along to Ignite Web last night at The Apartment in Melbourne, with particular thanks to the presenters for putting so much work into entertaining us all, Steve and Glo and the guys from Molt:n for running it all so smoothly, and the waiter at that cafe in Block Place we […]
We’ve got a whole bunch of amazing audio content that came out of Web Directions North – all the presentations were recorded – that we’re really keen to turn into podcasts and get out there. Would anyone be able to spare us a couple of days to help us out with editing down the MP3s […]
Reading about Doug Bowman’s departure from Google, and some of the responses and coverage that has ensued (Kevin Fox, who was a UX designer at Google; Joe Clark, who always has something unique to say; Valleywag), has got a lot of people thinking about something we haven’t questioned for a while: does design matter? Google’s […]
For just on a month we’ve been running a forum asking for ideas for how we can make Web Directions South this year even better than it has been in previous years. Lost of good things have come from this, including ideas and leads for how we can have real coffee at the conference, or […]
Here’s something new and neat for people who collect a lot of image based feeds, from local developer Anson Parker. Llumo is a feed reader which makes the experience of looking at image and photo based feeds much nicer than it is if you’re using a plain old feed reader like NetNewsWire or Google Reader. […]
As reported over at Crikey today, this is pretty embarrassing for the ABC. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation launched “ABC Mobile” yesterday. Unfortunately, the home page does not appear to have been designed in accordance with guidelines for web accessibility for the disabled and may be unlawful. The site was tested using the Test Accessibility Web […]
Just a quick update to John’s previous post… Lots of interest in the very first Ignite Web, which we’ll be hosting in Melbourne on April 1. Stephen, the person who’s actually doing all the hard work and organising the event, has just been in touch to say that all the presentation slots have been filled […]
We thought it was great when Andy Clarke said he’d be keen to head back down to Australia and be a part of our roadshow workshop series in April, but we’re even more thrilled about it now that he has given us all a sneak peak at his slides for the day. First and foremost, […]
Lots of activity over at the Web Directions forum. There’s a few discussions going on that it would be nice to get a bit more detailed input on – comments are where the real gems of information come out! What we’d really like some help on is the specifics of how we should cover a […]
Got ideas? Love hanging out with other people who have ideas? Got nothing to do on Saturday March 28? Then get yourself along to Trampoline – a brand new event in Melbourne, which is being organised by Pat Allen, Steve Hopkins and Melina Chan. Trampoline will be an informal day of sharing ideas… The goal […]
Web Directions South is the must-attend event of the year for anyone serious about web development
Phil Whitehouse General Manager, DT Sydney
