Nominations are now open for the McFarlane Prize for Excellence in Australian Web Design for 2008. Now in its third year, the prize recognizes and encourages excellence in web design by Australian web professionals. We’re really proud of having created and nurtured the prize – it’s been extremely rewarding over the years to hear feedback […]
Regular Web Directions attendee Priscilla Brice-Weller is the Online Campaigner for advocacy organisation, ANTaR (Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation). Priscilla also blogs about technology and activism at Solidariti. It being NAIDOC week, I thought this might be a good occasion to hear about the work Priscilla does at ANTaR, and how grassroots organisations the […]
Despite all the (justified) doom and gloom about data plans and pricing, one lucky person is still going to win an iPhone courtesy of Web Directions this Friday morning, even at the ridiculous gouge it will almost certainly be to get one without a plan from either Optus, Vodafone or Telstra. As we’ve always said […]
We’ve just added another session to the dev track at the conference this year. Additional to sessions on Ajax Security, Javascript Libraries, Web App Frameworks, Oauth and OpenID and Web Vector Graphics, we now have Mike Smith of the W3C HTML Working Group, who will be presenting A Jungle Cruise through the Wild Regions of […]
Aussie Web 2.0 startup 99designs.com is looking for a front end specialist – this is a great opportunity for someone who really knows their stuff to work in a fast paced, fun environment with a highly motivated, switched on team. 99designs.com is the latest project from the SitePoint guys – a group of people who […]
According to this Kevin Kelly article the number of hyperlinks on the web is fast approaching the number of synapses in a human brain. Lots of implications of this, but it’s comforting that he also points out Just as the One Machine’s hardware is assembled from our myriad devices, its software is written by our […]
This is the hard part right? All of us have got the social media bug and can think of dozens of great projects we could implement this afternoon, if only our boss, or client, would go for it. This really clear headed article over at Digital Web, Integrating Social Media into a Web Content Strategy, […]
First of all, check out Australia’s own Patrick Lee who very deftly writes about a few things that a UI developer working in JavaScript and interacting with the DOM can and should do to maintain UI responsiveness, all couched in terms of the three basic thresholds from Robert Miller’s classic1968 paper Response Time in Man-Computer […]
I know I shouldn’t distract all you hard working souls out there with such things, but, I just cried with laughter, and I know you wouldn’t want me to cry alone.
Yes, it’s that time of the year again. Time to take stock of your finances and ‘fess it all up to the good people at the ATO. Time to wipe the slate clean and start afresh. And time to get that Web Directions South 08 registration into the 2007/08 budget before the cutoff date. June […]
Christian Heilman has just announced this truly cool event. Scripting Enabled will be a two day conference and workshop held in London with the aim of making the web a more accessible place. Sound like the same-old-same-old? It’s not. The two days will be all about making those in the know about accessibility barriers meet […]
Adaptive Path have very generously made available some extensive video coverage of presentations at MX San Francisco in April. Check out Matt Jones of Dopplr – recent trends in social software, object-centered sociality, the beginnings of social infrastructure (opensocial, xfn, hcard, openID), personal informatics, and approaches for baking social ettiquette into the design Margaret Gould […]
We’re very pleased to announce the addition of local web analytics expert Hurol Inan to the line up for Web Directions South 2008. Web analytics have been used for valuable feedback about marketing campaigns as well as to see which products within your site are holding visitors’ attention best. Hurol is going to be speaking […]
Most of the slides and podcasts we gathered together after Web Directions Government back in May are now available at our site. Check them out below and pass them on to others who weren’t able to make it there on the day. José Manuel Alonso – Improving Government through better use of the Web Robert […]
This year as part of our workshop series run on the days before the conference, for the second year running, we will be hosting a W3C SIG day organised by the Australian office of the W3C. If you want to hear all about new and emerging standards, as well as see hands on demos of […]
Web Directions South is the must-attend event of the year for anyone serious about web development
Phil Whitehouse General Manager, DT Sydney
