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This email covers:
- Links for light reading
- WSG and Industry events
- Industry related jobs
If you have an event, resource or relevant job you'd like posted (from any
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GET CONNECTED - LINKED/FACEBOOKED?
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What to connect with other WSG members?
Linkedin WSG group:
http://www.linkedin.com/groupInvitation?groupID=54560&sharedKey=13D0DC45E3AF
Facebook WSG group:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2410228768
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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/2008/05/13/some-links-175/>
My site has been hacked - now what?
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/04/my-sites-been-hacked-now-
what.html
How do I request reconsideration of my site?
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35843
Community: From Little Things, Big Things Grow
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/fromlittlethings
Zebra Striping: Does it Really Help?
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/zebrastripingdoesithelp
Gin, Television, and Social Surplus
http://www.herecomeseverybody.org/2008/04/looking-for-the-mouse.html
PHP5 - Slow on the uptake?
http://www.nublue.co.uk/blog/php5-slow-on-the-uptake/
PC Text Editors Which team do you follow?
http://www.nublue.co.uk/blog/pc-text-editors-%e2%80%93-which-team-do-you-fol
low/
The Gen Y Guide to Web 2.0 Work
http://www.servantofchaos.com/2008/05/the-gen-y-guide.html
line-height: abnormal
http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2008/05/06/line-height-abnormal/
Override Inline Styles from the Stylesheet
http://www.standardsforlife.com/override-inline-styles-from-the-stylesheet/
Is Your JavaScript Library Standards Compliant?
http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/05/09/is-your-javascript-library-standar
ds-compliant/
Website Optimization Measures, Part IV
http://meiert.com/en/blog/20080505/optimization-measures-4/
Bootstrapping a Niche Social Network
http://bokardo.com/archives/bootstrapping-a-niche-social-network/
Twitter and the Architectural Challenges of Life Streaming Applications
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/making_twitter_scale.php
Making Twitter Tweet - Using the TPG Notifier
http://www.paciellogroup.com/blog/?p=65
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WSG AND INDUSTRY EVENTS
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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
Demystifying web accessibility workshop
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Date: 15-May-08
City: London, England
A full day course designed to introduce website owners, commissioners,
marketing or project managers and designers to the reasons for making
websites accessible, including the principles and practices that make
this possible.
URL:
http://www.rnib.org.uk/xpedio/groups/public/documents/PublicWebsite/publ
ic_introtrain.hcsp
Melbourne Web Standards Group (joint event with Web Directions)
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Date: 15-May-08
City: Melbourne, Australia
José Manuel Alonso (eGovernment lead for the W3C) and Richard Ishida
(internationalization lead for the W3C)
http://webstandardsgroup.org/meetings/index.cfm?event_id=154
Sydney Web Standards Group
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Date: 16-May-08
City: Sydney, Austraslia
José Manuel Alonso (eGovernment lead for the W3C) and Richard Ishida
(internationalization lead for the W3C)
http://webstandardsgroup.org/meetings/index.cfm?event_id=153
Web Directions User Experience: Melbourne
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When: 15-May-08 to 16-May-08
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: 19-May-08 to 20-May-08
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/
The Web and Beyond: Mobility, which is in Amsterdam on 22 May.
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Date: 22-May-08
City: Amsterdam
The Web and Beyond 2008: Mobility takes place on May 22, 2008 at the
historic Beurs van Berlage in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The Web and Beyond
is a bi-annual conference on human-computer interaction, powered by CHI
Netherlands.
http:// www.thewebandbeyond.nl
May Canberra WIPA/WSG meeting
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Date: 22-May-08
City: Canberra (Australia)
Dr Darrell Williamson, Deputy Director for the CSIRO ICT Centre - "Service
science technologies and architectures in the ICT Centre"
David Ratcliffe, CSIRO e-Services Integration group - "GRDDL - an
explanation and demonstration"
http://webstandardsgroup.org/meetings/index.cfm?event_id=152
WIPA usability and eyetracking seminar
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Date: 23-May-08
City: Canberra (Australia)
Eyetracking applications in digital and media - Peter Brawn
Challenges for usability in agile development - John Eklund
http://wipa.org.au/events
WSG London
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Date: 28-May-08
City: London (UK)
As part of London Web Week http://www.londonwebweek.co.uk/ the WSG London
is presenting three talks on the subject of Findability on 28th May at the
Westminster University New Cavendish Street Campus at 7pm.
For more details and to register please visit
http://muffinresearch.co.uk/wsg/
@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/
Mental Models workshop with Indi Young
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City: Brighton (UK)
Date: 2-Jun-08
In this full-day workshop, Indi Young, author of Mental Models:
Aligning Design Strategy with Human Behavior, will teach you how to
better understand the user experience through the use of mental
models before making design and strategic decisions. Mental models
provide design teams with a very clear picture of what their users
are trying to accomplish, so the product or design can be structured
accordingly.
http://clearleft.com/training/indiyoung/
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: 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: 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: 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: 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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Learnosity
Junior Programmer (Object Oriented)
Sydney
Looking for a Computer Science Graduate or similar with strong Object
Oriented programming skills and the ability to grasp cutting edge
technologies quickly. We are currently working on projects using
Actionscript/Flex, ColdFusion, PHP, and Javascript, and are leveraging
technologies such as VOIP, SMS, Instant Messenger (Jabber XMPP) to deliver
cutting edge solutions. Suitable applicants will have a Bachelors Degree in
Computer Science or Engineering, or similar tertiary qualification. This
role may be full time, part-time or on a contract basis depending on the
candidates skills and experience. You will be working in a casual workplace
with flexible hours in the centre of Sydney.
Contact: Mark Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Job 2
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Australian Museum
Web Application Maintenance Coordinator (Part time)
Sydney
Looking for a person to manage the application maintenance needs and log
analysis services for all Australian Museum Websites. Applicant should have
experience in ColdFusion, server maintenance, log file generation and
website statistics reporting. Demonstrated experience in database
administration. Demonstrated knowledge of Web Standards, SQL 2000 and SQL 7
databases; Microsoft Windows 2003 Servers; Microsoft Internet Information
Server 5.0; ColdFusion MX7 Programming Server; statistics analysis; data
security; e-commerce systems, including Secure Server certificates and
Gateways; Maintenance of Access, SQL and other databases used by the Museum.
Contact: Brooke Carson Ewart (02) 9320 6094 or email
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