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LINKS FOR LIGHT READING
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This weeks "links for light reading" are also available here:
<http://www.maxdesign.com.au/2007/06/26/some-links-130/>
Behind the Scenes: What is the CSS Working Group doing?
http://fantasai.inkedblade.net/weblog/2007/css-wg-q-and-a/
Business case for Web standards Wiki
http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200706/business_case_for_web_standards
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The State of Proxy Caching
http://www.mnot.net/blog/2007/06/20/proxy_caching
Shifting back
http://mezzoblue.com/archives/2007/06/18/shifting_bac/
Typography and Web Advertising: Making Every Opportunity Count
http://www.digital-web.com/articles/typography_and_web_advertising/
Testability Costs Too Much
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/testability
Human-to-Human Design
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/humantohuman
E-shop accessibility: from theory to reality
http://juicystudio.com/article/eshop-accessibility.php
Making the most of links
http://www.netmag.co.uk/zine/home/making-the-most-of-links/
JavaScript Progressive Enhancement in Practice
http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=762941
Common Pitfalls of Building Social Web Applications and How to Avoid Them,
Part 2
http://bokardo.com/archives/common-pitfalls-of-building-social-web-applicati
ons-and-how-to-avoid-them-part-2/
Yet another one more thing a new Web Inspector!
http://webkit.org/blog/108/yet-another-one-more-thing-a-new-web-inspector/
Test everything
http://tester.jonasjohn.de/
Pagination 101
http://kurafire.net/log/archive/2007/06/22/pagination-101
Requirements for website prototypes
http://meiert.com/en/blog/20070609/requirements-for-website-prototypes/
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WSG AND INDUSTRY EVENTS
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Vision Australia: Web Accessibility Workshops
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Date: 28-Jun-07
City: Brisbane Qld (Australia)
These full-day workshops run by Vision Australia, are targeted at
web-development team leaders, corporate communications professionals and
business managers, along with content authors, web programmers and designers
and web contract managers.
http://www.visionaustralia.org.au/info.aspx?page=965
Ausweb07
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Date: 28-Jun-07
City: Coffs Harbour, Qld (Australia)
The Thirteenth Australiasian World Wide Web Conference
http://ausweb.scu.edu.au/index.html
Vision Australia: Web Accessibility Workshops
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Date: 28-Jun-07
City: Brisbane Qld
Category: Accessibility
These full-day workshops run by Vision Australia, are targeted at
web-development team leaders, corporate communications professionals and
business managers, along with content authors, web programmers and designers
and web contract managers.
Perth BarCamp
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Date: 30-Jun-07
City: Perth WA
Category: BarCamp
Perth BarCamp is on! So get your laptops ready, because you will need to
being them down to Central TAFE, 140 Royal St, East Perth
http://barcamp.org/BarCampPerth
Bits & Pixels
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Date: 30-Jun-07
City: Newcastle NSW
Category: Social
A social get together for all web industry professionals and amateurs to
discuss all things web over a beer, gin, coffee or whatever you prefer. This
is the first Bits & Pixels meet up so the format is completely open and
free. Come along and spread the word.
http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/197097/
Where collaboration tools fit in
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Date: 03-Jul-07
City: Canberra ACT (Australia)
With the rapid spread of collaboration tools such as SharePoint, the
opportunity for new approaches to intranets and information management are
being explored. More immediately, organisations are confronted with the
fundamental question: where do collaboration tools fit in?
http://www.steptwo.com.au/seminars/070703/index.html
A practical introduction to website accessibility
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Date: 3-Jul-07
City: London (UK)
A practical fast track introduction to web accessibility the key issues
and legal and business cases.
http://www.abilitynet.org.uk/webintroaccessibility
Web Application Design
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Date: 16-Jul-07
City: Melbourne Vic
Category: Design
Processes and interface design fundamentals for designing usable.
http://www.peakusability.com.au/training/courses/web_application_design.htm
Interaction design
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Date: 17-Jul-07
City: Melbourne Vic
Category: Design
Human characteristics and theoretical principles for usable web
applications, intranet and internet sites.
http://www.peakusability.com.au/training/courses/interaction_design.htm
Rich media and latest trends in accessibility
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Date: 17-Jul-07
City: London (UK)
An introduction to the key concepts and solutions in making rich media
accessible. Special guest speaker Christian Heilmann will give an
introduction to AJAX.
http://www.abilitynet.org.uk/webrichmedia
Web Accessibility Workshop
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Date: 18-Jul-07
City: Canberra (Australia)
This full-day workshop run by Vision Australia is targeted at
web-development team leaders, corporate communications professionals and
business managers, along with content authors, web programmers and designers
and web contract managers.
http://www.visionaustralia.org.au/info.aspx?page=1653&event=63
Writing for the Web Workshop
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Date: 24-July-07
City: Adelaide (Australia)
Vision Australia is partnering with respected usability and accessibility
expert Dey Alexander to offer a unique Writing for the Web workshop. Dey is
co-convenor of the Web Accessibility Network of Australian Universities and
is a regular presenter on useable and accessible web writing to the
education, corporate and government sectors.
http://www.visionaustralia.org.au/info.aspx?page=1653&event=44
A very practical guide to testing against WCAG1.0 and 2.0
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Date: 24-Jul-07
City: London (UK)
A guide to an effective audit process, covering WCAG 1.0, 2.0 and other key
areas of accessibility.
http://www.abilitynet.org.uk/webpracticaltesting
Search Engine Bootcamp - Brisbane, July 26th, 2007
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Date: 26-Jul-07
City: Brisbane (Australia)
One day search marketing seminar designed to enhance the skill levels of
anyone already doing either SEO or PPC, 12 topics in total spread over four
sessions
http://www.searchenginebootcamp.com.au/index.php/2006/10/17/search-engine-bo
otcamp-melbourne/
Web usability
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Date: 25-Jul-07
City: Brisbane Qld
Category: usability
Introduction to User Centred Design tools and techniques
http://www.peakusability.com.au/training/courses/web_usability.htm
Usability evaluation and testing
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Date: 26-Jul-07
City: Brisbane Qld
Category: usability
Discount evaluation techniques and how to conduct usability tests
http://www.peakusability.com.au/training/courses/usability_evaluation.htm'
Web Application Design
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Date: 07-Aug-07
City: Brisbane Qld
Category: Design
Processes and interface design fundamentals for designing usable.
http://www.peakusability.com.au/training/courses/web_application_design.htm
Interaction design
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Date: 14-Aug-07
City: Brisbane Qld
Category: Undefined
Human characteristics and theoretical principles for usable web
applications, intranet and internet sites
http://www.peakusability.com.au/training/courses/interaction_design.htm
WA Web Awards
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Date: 17-Aug-07
City: Perth WA
Category: Awards
The WA Web Awards is an offical event organised by AWIA, the Australian Web
Industry Association (formerly Port80 Inc), as a showcase of the outstanding
work of West Australian web designers and developers. 2007 will be the third
year that the WA Web Awards programme has run.
http://www.wawebawards.com.au/
Web Application Design
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Date: 23-Aug-07
City: Sydney NSW
Category: Design
Processes and interface design fundamentals for designing usable.
http://www.peakusability.com.au/training/courses/web_application_design.htm
Interaction design
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Date: 24-Aug-07
City: Sydney NSW
Category: Design
Human characteristics and theoretical principles for usable web
applications, intranet and internet sites.
http://www.peakusability.com.au/training/courses/interaction_design.htm
Web Application Design
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Date: 28-Aug-07
City: Adelaide SA
Category: Design
Processes and interface design fundamentals for designing usable.
http://www.peakusability.com.au/training/courses/web_application_design.htm
Interaction design
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Date: 29-Aug-07
City: Adelaide SA
Category: Design
Human characteristics and theoretical principles for usable web
applications, intranet and internet sites.
http://www.peakusability.com.au/training/courses/interaction_design.htm
Vision Australia: Web Accessibility Workshops
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Date: 30-Aug-07
City: Perth WA (Australia)
These full-day workshops run by Vision Australia, are targeted at
web-development team leaders, corporate communications professionals and
business managers, along with content authors, web programmers and designers
and web contract managers.
http://www.visionaustralia.org.au/info.aspx?page=1042
Web Application Design
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Date: 25-Oct-07
City: Canberra ACT
Category: Design
Processes and interface design fundamentals for designing usable.
http://www.peakusability.com.au/training/courses/web_application_design.htm
Interaction design
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Date: 26-Oct-07
City: Canberra ACT
Category: Design
Human characteristics and theoretical principles for usable web
applications, intranet and internet sites.
http://www.peakusability.com.au/training/courses/interaction_design.htm
d.Construct2007
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Date: 7-Sep-07
City: Brighton (UK)
d.Construct is an affordable, one-day conference aimed at those designing
and building the latest generation of web-based applications.
http://2007.dconstruct.org/
Web Directions South 2007
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Date: 25-Sep-07 to 28-Sep-07
City: Sydney (Australia)
With more than 30 leading experts, including a dozen international stars of
the web industry, across three tracks, Web Directions South will focus on
the key technology and business issues of the web in 2007. This really is
Australia's premier event for the web industry. Speakers for 2007 include
* Andy Clarke - Transcendent CSS
* Aaron Gustafson - Javascript and Ajax
* Brian Fling - designing for the mobile web
* George Oates - user experience design for communities
* Bert Bos - co-creator of CSS on the future of Web Standards
* Rashmi Sinha - online communities
* Adrian Holovaty - making data smart
* Mark Pesce - commons based peer production
plus many more new and old faces to educate and inspire us all once again
this September.
http://www.webdirections.org/
Fundamentos Web 2007
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Date: 3-Oct-07 to 5-Oct-07
City: Asturias (Spain)
On the occasion of the tenth anniversary of CSS, A CONTEST has been called
to change the appearance of "Fundamentos Web 2007" site with novel CSS. The
winner and the two finalists will be chosen, out of the most voted designs,
by a committee made up of W3C Spain staff and chaired by the CSS
co-inventor, Bert Bos. The winner and the finalists can obtain an Apple's
MacBook, a Wii console, lodging for two people in Oviedo for the three days,
and attend the event for free. Designs can be sent until 13th May 2007.
http://www.fundamentosweb.org/2007
Making Links 2007
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Date: 30-Oct-07
City: Sydney NSW
Category: Not-for-profit
The 4th annual Making Links conference is one of Australia's leading forums
for workers in the not-for-profit and community sectors to showcase their
work and to explore current and emerging new media and information and
communications technology (ICT). This two-day conference has regularly
attracted delegates and presenters from many fields including health,
environment, education, business, government, philanthropy and human
services to discuss their experiences with ICT, multimedia and web
technology.
http://www.makinglinks.org.au/
OzeWAI 2007
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Date: 05-Dec-07
Category: Undefined
Web Adaptability for Inclusion Conference 2007:
Web 2.0 accessibility - is it going to be easier?
Worldwide, there have been significant steps towards a more inclusive online
environment. New applications for improving the accessibility of content and
services are adopting revised guidelines from W3C; new quality certification
standards have been developed, and interactive accessibility services are
emerging. The ISO committee has produced an inventory of needs, responses,
and requires input from users and developers. Learn more about Web 2.0 and
these developments at OZeWAI 2007.
http://www.ozewai.org/2007/index.html
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JOBS
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Job 1
Web Developer
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Melbourne IT are looking for a Web Developer to join their web team and
help develop their portfolio of websites. The ideal candidate will have
an excellent knowledge of developing scalable web applications with a
focus on delivering best practice user interfaces. They will have
experience analyzing business specifications, and transforming
requirements into online experiences that stand out from the crowd and
are supported by stable, scalable, maintainable code.
Skills:
* HTML, XHTML, CSS, Javascript
* XML, XSL
* PHP, ASP, Cold Fusion
* Web Services
* Experience with handling XML and processing XSL in Java;
* Experience working within an SDLC;
* Very strong verbal and written communication skills;
* Excellent customer skills;
* Good documentation skills.
With a fun and dynamic culture and committed staff, Melbourne IT is a
world leader in the supply of domain names and related Internet services
solutions. Listed on the Australian Stock Exchange, we have global
offices in Europe, USA and New Zealand. Melbourne IT has a well
established global reputation, and is known for its technical excellence
as well as service and support.
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