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If you have an event, resource or relevant job you'd like posted (from any
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LINKS FOR LIGHT READING
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This weeks "links for light reading" are also available here (for those who
click on the links below and find that they are broken):
<http://www.maxdesign.com.au/2008/02/26/some-links-164/>
CSS Type Test
http://www.csstypeset.com/
The 4 layers of a form
http://formulate.com.au/articles/layers-of-a-form/
Margins & padding pt1/an introduction
http://www.onderhond.com/blog/work/margins-paddings-introduction
Don't lose your head over accessibility
http://theletter.co.uk/index/3357/don_t_lose_your_head_over_accessibility/
Start Your Own Business
http://www.markboulton.co.uk/journal/comments/start_your_own_business/
How to Build a Green Business
http://www.digital-web.com/articles/how_to_build_a_green_business/
Five web 2.0 CSS menu tutorials
http://woork.blogspot.com/2008/02/five-web-20-css-menu-tutorials.html
Designing Your Information Architecture for Content Reuse: Five Best
Practices
http://www.thecontentwrangler.com/article/designing_your_information_archite
cture_for_content_reuse_five_best_practic/
Grid and Column Designs
http://www.webdesignerwall.com/trends/grid-and-column-designs/
Doctype switching for IE 8
http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200802/doctype_switching_for_ie_8/
On IE8 version targeting
http://www.brucelawson.co.uk/2008/on-ie8-version-targeting/
The road to finding is paved with data: Web analytics and user experience
http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/thinktank/rosenfeld.html
Top-10 Application-Design Mistakes
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/application-mistakes.html
The Last Days Of SEO
http://blogs.mediapost.com/search_insider/?p=728
Rethinking recommendation engines
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/rethinking_recommendation_engines.php
Gallery Of Date Stamps And Calendars
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/02/22/gallery-of-date-stamps-and-calend
ars/
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WSG AND INDUSTRY EVENTS
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Web Accessibility Training
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Date: 27-Feb-08
Location: London (UK)
One day hands-on classroom-based web accessibility training course. Find out
all about web accessibility from the industry-leading experts.
http://www.webcredible.co.uk/accesstraining
Rich media and latest trends in accessibility
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Date: 27-Feb-08
City: London (UK)
An introduction to the key concepts and solutions in making rich media
accessible, including Flash and captioning. A special guest speaker will
give an introduction to AJAX.
http://www.abilitynet.org.uk/webrichmedia
Hidden barriers to web accessibility workshop
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Date: 27-Feb-08
City: London, England
Description An eye-opening half-day course, to teach website designers,
developers and programmers how to identify and cure some of the most
serious, most common, but least obvious accessibility problems on their
web sites.
URL:
http://www.rnib.org.uk/xpedio/groups/public/documents/PublicWebsite/publ
ic_hiddenbarriersworkshop.hcsp
Melbourne Web Standards Group Meeting
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Date: 28- Feb-08
City: Melbourne (Australia)
Presentation: Paul Fenwick on "Starting An Open Source Business"
Wouldn't it be great if you could make money by working with the
software you love? Wouldn't it be fantastic to be your own boss, working
with open source tools on open source projects, and doing it all on a
schedule that you decide?
http://webstandardsgroup.org/meetings/index.cfm?event_id=149
Intermediate CSS Training
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Date: 28-Feb-08
Location: London (UK)
One day hands-on classroom-based intermediate CSS training course. Develop
your CSS skills and become a more confident web developer.
http://www.webcredible.co.uk/csstraining-inter
Advanced CSS Training
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Date: 29-Feb-08
Location: London (UK)
One day hands-on classroom-based advanced CSS training course. Discover how
to take CSS to the edge and create cross-browser table-less web pages.
http://www.webcredible.co.uk/csstraining
Transitioning from WCAG 1.0 to 2.0 workshop
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Date: 27-Feb-08
City: London, England
Description A half-day course, introducing the forthcoming guidelines
for web accessibility, the Web Accessibility Content Guidelines 2.0
(WCAG 2.0). It includes useful references to key parts of the WCAG 2.0
guideline documentation, explains how these relate to one another and
suggests a workable strategy for progressively incorporating the new
guidelines into your web sites.
URL:
http://www.rnib.org.uk/xpedio/groups/public/documents/PublicWebsite/publ
ic_transitioning.hcsp
A very practical guide to testing against WCAG1.0 and 2.0
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Date: 05-Mar-08
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
Intranet masterclass
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City: London
Date: 7-Mar-08
Managing the evolution of intranets, Intranet innovation -- critical success
factors, Establishing effective collaboration, Improving intranet search
http://www.steptwo.com.au/columntwo/archives/002711.html
South By South West
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Dates: 7-Mar-08 to 11-Mar-08
City: Austin, Texas (USA)
The SXSW Interactive Festival features five days of exciting panel content
and amazing parties. Attracting digital creatives as well as visionary
technology entrepreneurs, the event celebrates the best minds and the
brightest personalities of emerging technology.
http://2008.sxsw.com/interactive/
Rubinius Sprint in Sydney
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Date: 8-Mar-08 to 9-Mar-08
City: Sydney (Australia)
The Rubinius Sprint/Workshop is a weekend dedicated to learning and
developing Rubinius, the next generation Ruby virtual machine. The spring is
aimed at developers of all levels, the only requirement is that you have a
keen interest to be involved with Rubinius and want to learn more. No
particular experience with Rubinius is necessary however it would be
beneficial if you¹ve spent a bit of time prior to the sprint familiarizing
yourself with the basics of Rubinius itself.
http://redartisan.com/2008/1/31/rubinius-sprint
Carson Workshops: Professional JavaScript and Ajax by Thomas Fuchs
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Date: 26-March-08
City: London (UK)
A one-day practical workshop that will enable you to fully explore Ajax
and JavaScript and to realise the full potential of HTML/CSS-based web
user interfaces. Learn the secrets of giving your sites and web applications
the rich interactivity they deserve. This exclusive workshop by Thomas Fuchs
will provide real-world examples and practical knowledge to enable you to
make the jump to using Ajax and JavaScript.
http://www.carsonworkshops.com/dev/fuchs/26March2008.html
Website user experience & CSS workshop
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Date: 31-Mar-08 to 1-Apr-08
City: Canberra (Australia)
A hands-on workshop with user experience expert, Donna Maurer, and CSS
expert, Russ Weakley. Over two full days you will build detailed websites
layouts from the ground up - starting with page layout, navigation and form
design; and ending with clean markup and elegant styling using XHTML/CSS.
http://maxdesign.com.au/workshop2008/
Website user experience & CSS workshop
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Date: 3-Apr-08 to 4-Apr-08
City: Melbourne (Australia)
A hands-on workshop with user experience expert, Donna Maurer, and CSS
expert, Russ Weakley. Over two full days you will build detailed websites
layouts from the ground up - starting with page layout, navigation and form
design; and ending with clean markup and elegant styling using XHTML/CSS.
http://maxdesign.com.au/workshop2008/
Ausweb 08
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Dates: 5-Apr-08 to 9-Apr-08
City: Ballina (Australia)
In April 2008 (5th-9th) the 14th Australasian World Wide Web Conference,
AusWeb08, will again be held at the Ballina Beach Resort.
http://ausweb.scu.edu.au/
CHI 2008
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Date: 5-Apr-08 to 10-Apr-08
City: Florence (Italy)
CHI 2008 focuses on the balance between art and science, design and
research, practical motivation and the process that leads the way to
innovative excellence. It is about balance in our rapidly evolving field,
the balance between individuals and groups, collocated and remote,
stationary and mobile, in both our local and global communities.
http://www.chi2008.org/
Information Architecture Essentials
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Date: 9-Apr-08
City: Sydney (Australia)
In this one-day workshop, Patrick Kennedy will present the fundamentals of
information architecture (IA), the core methodology for organising and
designing websites and intranets. Key skills such as card sorting will be
taught, and this workshop is designed to build in-house information
architecture skills. A must for all web or intranet teams.
http://www.steptwo.com.au/seminars/080409/
IA Summit
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Date: 10-Apr-08 to 14-Apr-08
City: Miami, Florida (USA)
The Information Architecture Summit is the premier gathering place for those
interested in information architecture. The 2007 IA Summit attracted over
570 attendees, including beginners, experienced IAs, and people from a range
of related fields.
http://www.iasummit.org/2008/
Future of Web Design
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Date: 17-Apr-08
City: London (UK)
Putting the 'design' back into web design, FOWD brings you a packed day
of sessions on the entire design process - from inspiration to build,
project management and evolution. We also have a live Photoshop tennis
session, where top designers create from scratch on the stage.
http://www.futureofwebdesign.com
Website user experience & CSS workshop
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Date: 28-Apr-08 to 29-Apr-08
City: Sydney (Australia)
A hands-on workshop with user experience expert, Donna Maurer, and CSS
expert, Russ Weakley. Over two full days you will build detailed websites
layouts from the ground up - starting with page layout, navigation and form
design; and ending with clean markup and elegant styling using XHTML/CSS.
http://maxdesign.com.au/workshop2008/
Website user experience & CSS workshop
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Date: 1-May-08 to 2-May-08
City: Brisbane (Australia)
A hands-on workshop with user experience expert, Donna Maurer, and CSS
expert, Russ Weakley. Over two full days you will build detailed websites
layouts from the ground up - starting with page layout, navigation and form
design; and ending with clean markup and elegant styling using XHTML/CSS.
http://maxdesign.com.au/workshop2008/
Carson Workshops: Transcending CSS - Styling For A Beautiful Web by Andy
Clarke
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Date: 14-May-08
City: London (UK)
If you are a visual designer looking to advance your CSS skills with new
techniques and technologies, or a technically minded developer who wants
to understand more about working visually, this workshop will take your
knowledge of CSS to the limits of what is currently possible and beyond.
This workshop is not designed for beginners or newcomers to CSS. To get
the most of this workshop you will be an intermediate to advanced user
of CSS and be familiar with meaningful, accessible mark-up.
http://www.carsonworkshops.com/dev/fuchs/26March2008.html
@media 2008 "CSS Mastery" Workshop
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Date: 21-May-08
City: San Francisco (USA)
Bringing his popular course based on the best-selling book of the same
name to the USA for the first time, CSS expert Andy Budd delivers a
day-long workshop for those looking to push their CSS skills to the limit.
http://www.vivabit.com/atmedia2008/sanfrancisco/workshop/
@media 2008 (San Francisco)
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Date: 22-May-08 to 23-May-08
City: San Francisco (USA)
Returning to San Francisco after overwhelmingly positive feedback, the
@media 2008 web design and development conference will once again offer
up cutting-edge presentations from some of the industry's finest.
http://www.vivabit.com/atmedia2008/sanfrancisco/
@media 2008 (London)
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Date: 29-May-08 to 30-May-08
City: London (UK)
Returning for a fourth year, @media 2008 is the latest in a series of
widely renowned and consistently well received conferences for web
design and development professionals.
http://www.vivabit.com/atmedia2008/london/
webDU 2008
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Dates: 12-Jun-08 to 13-Jun-08
City: Sydney (Australia)
And so it begins -- the sixth Asia-Pacific web developers conference, web
DownUnder 2008!
http://www.webdu.com.au/go/call-for-papers
Information Architecture Essentials
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Date: 18-Jun-08
City: Brisbane (Australia)
In this one-day workshop, Patrick Kennedy will present the fundamentals of
information architecture (IA), the core methodology for organising and
designing websites and intranets. Key skills such as card sorting will be
taught, and this workshop is designed to build in-house information
architecture skills. A must for all web or intranet teams.
http://www.steptwo.com.au/seminars/080618/
Web Usability Training Workshop
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Date: 28 Feb 2008 Brisbane
Date: 6 May 2008 Melbourne
Date: 22 July 2008 Sydney
Description: Introduction to User Centred Design tools and techniques. As a
result of attending this one day course, participants will have a good
understanding of the value and importance of user centred design and have
the basic skills, knowledge and tools to apply the user centred design
approach to developing usable Internet sites, Intranet sites or web
applications within their own organisation.
URL: http://www.peakusability.com.au/training/web-usability.html
Usability Evaluation & Testing Training Workshop
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Date: 29 Feb 2008 Brisbane (Australia)
Date: 7 May 2008 Melbourne (Australia)
Date: 23 July 2008 Sydney (Australia)
Description: Discount evaluation techniques and how to conduct usability
tests. In this one day interactive workshop, learn valuable usability
evaluation and testing methods that you can use to evaluate your
organisation's Internet and Intranet site, web applications and software.
This course will explore the difference between expert reviews and usability
testing and which is better to use and when. We will cover when to usability
test, what to test and how to test.
URL: http://www.peakusability.com.au/training/evaluation-and-testing.html
AJAX and User Experience half day course
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Date: 1 May 2008 Sydney (Australia)
Date: 8 May 2008 Melbourne (Australia)
Date: 21 May 2008 Brisbane (Australia)
Description: Using AJAX to enhance your online user experience.
The workshop will explore the advantages and disadvantages of this
increasingly popular technology. We will explore usability and accessibility
issues and common user behaviours with AJAX applications. Finally we will
discuss interaction design guidelines and heuristics for developing user
friendly AJAX designs.
URL: http://www.peakusability.com.au/training/ajax-usability.html
Interaction Design Training Workshop
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Date: 30 April 2008 Sydney (Australia)
Date: 29 May 2008 Brisbane (Australia)
Date: 2 July 2008 Canberra (Australia)
Date: 10 Sept 2008 Melbourne (Australia)
Description: Human characteristics and theoretical principles for usable web
applications, intranet and internet sites. Ever wonder why users don't
behave how you expect? Ever done usability testing or found usability issues
but didn't know how to fix them? This course will provide an insight into
human characteristics and online behaviour based on latest research and
hundreds of usability tests with users, including video footage of usability
test sessions. We will also cover the theory and principles of interaction
design.
URL: http://www.peakusability.com.au/training/interaction-design.html
Web Application Design Training Workshop
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Date: 29 April 2008 Sydney (Australia)
Date: 28 May 2008 Brisbane (Australia)
Date: 1 July 2008 Canberra (Australia)
Date: 9 Sept 2008 Melbourne (Australia)
Processes and interface design fundamentals for designing usable web
applications. From internet banking, online learning, government
transactional sites to employee phonebooks, online projects increasingly
include elements of web application design. This course will explore the
value and limitations of building a web application and introduce a range of
tools, approaches and interface design principles to ensure that you
understand your audience and design intuitive and usable web applications.
URL: http://www.peakusability.com.au/training/web-applications.html
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JOBS
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Job 1
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Web Content Developer
Bible Society NSW has a vacancy for a web content developer. This is a part
time position for up to 20 hours per week. Duties will include updating and
developing a range of web sites operated by Bible Society NSW, including our
on-line bookshop. The position will also require some IT skills.
Duties will include:
* Updating Bible Society NSW web sites as directed
* Reporting on usage and web traffic
* Assisting Bible Society NSW staff to develop new content -
particularly in the social network area
You will need :
* Formal tertiary qualifications in either web design and content
development, or a related area
* At least 12 months experience in developing and maintaining web sites.
* A good working knowledge of IT
Applications by e-mail only to:
Martin Johnson
Communications Manager
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Applications close, March 7th, 2009
Job 2
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http://jobs.careerone.com.au/texis/jobsearch/details.html?id=47bcf86148d
a0&pp=25&qComp=ABC%20%28Australian%20Broadcasting%20Corporation%29&view=
1&page=1
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Thanks
Russ
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