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? […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
We know it can take forever to get those approvals to go through, but don’t forget that to take advantage of the early bird price of just $495 for Web Directions Government or Web Directions User Experience, you need to get that registration in by Friday April 11. It’s ok to make payment after that […]
Raising the bar for in house presentations on the benefits of web standards, the SEO Rapper really knows his stuff:
I read in smh this morning that The Powerhouse Museum is creating Australia’s first public email archive in an attempt to preserve a collection of present day communications for future generations. Anyone can contribute by going to the Email Australia site and submitting emails which are funny, sad, embarassing etc etc. Having just made the […]
Sometimes I find it hard to tell the difference between a good idea badly executed and a plain old bad idea. This is one of those times. Reputation HQ is a “socialprise web application that bridges the gap between Social Media and enterprise ORM”. Yes, I had to look up ORM as well – it […]
A presentation given at at Web Directions Government, Old Parliament House, Canberra, May 19 2008.
Web Usability is far more complex than user testing and interaction design alone. And while interface design is an important consideration, there’s more to a usable site than what’s on the surface.
We all know the importance of accessibility and web standards, so let’s take that knowledge one step further and into the realm of usability. In this session Lisa Herrod will redefine the common definition of usability by introducing a greater focus on accessibility and web standards. By taking a more holistic approach you will soon see why usability is more than skin deep.
I decided to go with the forms feature of Google Spreadsheets for our Have Your Say in the Web Directions South 2008 Program survey. Only 24 hours in I’m largely happy with the choice, apart from I’d love to be able to limit which cells of the spreadsheet I share (so as to not have […]
A presentation given at Web Directions Government, Old Parliament House, Canberra, May 19 2008.
Government has huge amounts of information but how can this be effectively managed and delivered through the web? This session will ‘lift the lid’ on web mapping technology and identify some of the key issues that must be addressed to achieve a successful outcome.
The NSW government SIX Viewer web mapping portal will be used as a case study to demonstrate how terabytes of data can be integrated and delivered via the Internet.
I liked this, which I saw the other day (Hat Tip: Virginia Murdoch). It’s a story in the “hard-boiled” genre, told in bite sized chunks with each chunk connected to its location on Google Maps. As I said, I liked it, but it didn’t really hold my attention I don’t think because I’m not familiar […]
Every year the Web Directions conference brings together a group of expert speakers who have been working on interesting projects and finding ingenious and practical solutions to those same challenges the attendees face in their own work. This year we’d love your help with finding out who those experts are. If you can spare 5 […]
John and I have been thinking about ways of drawing on the great ideas for speakers and topics from the people who come to the conference ever since the closing keynote of Web Directions South 2007. Who better to tell you about what content should be there than the people who are going to experience […]
Web Directions South is the must-attend event of the year for anyone serious about web development
Phil Whitehouse General Manager, DT Sydney
