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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/2008/03/25/some-links-168/>
Links with background images - three simple fixes for IE
http://adipalaz.awardspace.com/linksbg-en.html
Findability, Orphan of the Web Design Industry
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/findabilityorphan
Sign Up Forms Must Die
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/signupforms
Margins & paddings pt5/the final solution
http://www.onderhond.com/blog/work/margins-paddings-solution3
Microsoft Accessibility Labs
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/accessibility/cc188976.aspx
Making IE6-friendly¹ PNG8 Images
http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/03/20/making-ie6-friendly-png8-images/
We Tried To Warn You, Part 1
http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/we-tried-to-warn-you
Cues, The Golden Retriever
http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/cues-the-golden
Bridging the DesignerUser Gap
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/designer-user-differences.html
960 grid system
http://960.gs/
How to Completely Test Your Website
http://www.labnol.org/internet/design/completely-test-website-errors-html-st
andards/2673/
101 Five-Minute Fixes to Incrementally Improve Your Web Site
http://www.insidecrm.com/features/101-web-site-fixes-031808/
Extensible CSS Interface III: Adding Ajax Interactivity
http://cameronmoll.com/archives/2008/03/extensible_css_interface_adding_ajax
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Progressive CSS Enhancement
http://ejohn.org/blog/progressive-css-enhancement/
Martian Headsets
http://joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/03/17.html
10 Things You Need to Know About WordPress 2.5
http://technosailor.com/2008/03/18/10-things-you-need-to-know-about-wordpres
s-25/
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WSG AND INDUSTRY EVENTS
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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/
BarCampSydney3
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Date: 5-Apr-08 to 6-Apr-08
City: Sydney (Australia)
BarCamp is an intense community event with discussions, demos and
interaction from attendees. Anyone with something to contribute or with the
desire to learn is welcome and invited to participate. The BarCamp motto is:
No spectators, only participants!
http://www.barcampsydney.org/
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
BarCamp Canberra #1
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Date: 19-Apr-08
City: Canberra (Australia)
CSIT Building, North Road, Australian National University
A BarCamp in the capital? Capital! After a year of trying, we¹ve finally
scored a venue and BarCamp Canberra is happening! Here are the details:
* Who? Anyone who is interested in technology, the Internet and
related topics. We have room for 60ish people, so bring your colleagues.
* What? A good opportunity to share ideas and projects and to work
with like-minded individuals.
* When? 1000-1700 on Saturday 19 April 2008
* Where? BarCampCanberra will be held at the CSIT Building, North
Road, ANU.
* Website? The BarCampCanberra blog is located at
http://www.barcampcanberra.org/blog
Accessibility 2.0: a million flowers bloom
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Date: 25-Apr-08
City: London (UK)
A one day conference focussing on how developers can make Web 2.0
applications Accessible. Keynote speaker is Jeremy Keith, the day also
features slots by Steve Faulkner (developer of the AIS toolbar) and
Christian Heilmann.
http://www.abilitynet.org.uk/accessibility2
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
Web Directions User Experience: Melbourne
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When: May 15 and 16 2008
Where: Melbourne Town Hall
Web Directions User Experience is a one day two track conference, plus
optional extra day of workshops, focussing on the concepts, technologies and
techniques for building great user experiences on the web: interaction
design, usability and testing, user research and ethnography, Ajax and
Javascript, content, designing for email and mobile and more.
http://ux08.webdirections.org/
Web Directions Government: Canberra
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When: May 19 and 20 2008
Where: Old Parliament House, Canberra
Web Directions Government is a full day two track conference, plus an
optional extra day of workshops, focussing on the concepts, technologies and
techniques for meeting the challenges of eGovernment: interaction design and
user experience, web standards, usability and accessibility, Government 2.0,
Ajax and Javascript, knowledge management, social media and more.
http://gov08.webdirections.org/
@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)
The latest in web development, tools and techniques catch up, meet
up and get inspired!
http://www.webdu.com.au/
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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