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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/2008/10/14/some-links-197/>
XHTML — myths and reality
<http://www.dev-archive.net/articles/xhtml.html>
Adding HTML validity checking to your ASP.NET web site via unit tests
<http://damianedwards.wordpress.com/2008/10/06/adding-html-validity-checking
-to-your-aspnet-web-site-via-unit-tests/>
Pricing Tables: Examples And Best Practices
<http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/10/13/pricing-tables-showcase-examples
-and-best-practices/>
Zoom
<http://mezzoblue.com/archives/2008/10/07/zoom/>
For and against standardizing font embedding
<http://www.w3.org/Fonts/Misc/eot-report-2008>
Getting a Form's Structure Right: Designing Usable Online Email Applications
<http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/getting-a-forms98>
Design for iPhone: a device that thinks different
<http://evolt.org/design-for-iphone>
Easily Create Printable Pages with PrintWhatYouLike.com
<http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/10/14/easily-create-printable-pages-wit
h-printwhatyoulikecom/>
CSS Browser Hacks For Firefox, Opera, Safari & Internet Explorer
<http://www.nealgrosskopf.com/tech/thread.asp?pid=20>
Ontology of Folksonomy: A Mash-up of Apples and Oranges
<http://tomgruber.org/writing/ontology-of-folksonomy.htm>
The 3 Q's for Great Experience Design
<http://www.uie.com/articles/the3qs/>
Good times with inbound links
<http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/10/good-times-with-inbound-
links.html>
Using Javascript to Fix 12 Common Browser Headaches
<http://www.noupe.com/css/using-javascript-to-fix-12-common-browser-headache
s.html>
Single image tabs with three state rollover
<http://www.vision.to/single-image-tabs-with-three-state-rollover.php>
Cross-fading disjointed image rollover
<http://websemantics.co.uk/resources/cross-fading_disjointed_image_rollover/
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WSG AND INDUSTRY EVENTS
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Fundamentos Web 2008
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Date: 27-Oct-08 to 28-Oct-08
City: Gijón (Spain)
The Fundamentos' forth edition will have some novelties from past editions,
which are based on the community's suggestion, always reminding the main
topics focused on Web design and development with standards. This year, Web
business is included in the programme. This year, there are many
international experts on Web design and development with standards such as
Jesse James Garrett, or Peter-Paul Koch (PPK), besides the greatest CMS
specialists and people successful in their business careers.
<http://www.fundamentosweb.org/2008>
Edge of the Web
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Dates: 6-Nov-08 to 7-Nov-08
City: Perth (Australia)
Featuring exciting national and international speakers, Edge of the Web
brings a world-class web conference experience to Western Australia this
November 6 & 7. The Edge of the Web conference is a brought to you by the
Australian Web Industry Association and Red Horizon Events. Edge of the Web
2008 aims to set a benchmark in the West Australian web development
community as a hallmark event on the Perth calendar. The conference program
offers a diverse range of leading edge and highly topical content focusing
on key areas of current web development best practise, such as usability and
accessibility and current web trends such as social networking and open data
exchange.
<http://www.edgeoftheweb.org.au/>
World Usability day
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Dates: 13-Nov-08
City: Everywhere...
World Usability Day was founded in 2005 as an initiative of the Usability
Professionals' Association to ensure that services and products important to
human life are easier to access and simpler to use
<http://www.worldusabilityday.org/>
BarCampSydney
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Date: Saturday 15 November
City: Sydney (Australia)
More info to follow soon...
<http://www.barcampsydney.org/>
Office DevCon 2008
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Dates: 15th-16th November 2008
City: Sydney (Australia)
Office DevCon is an annual community-driven conference that allows Microsoft
Office developers and power users to come together in one location to hear
expert speakers present on a wide range of Office-related topics.
<http://www.officedevcon.com.au/>
Wordcamp Australia
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Dates: 29-Nov-08 to 30-Nov-08
Ciy: Lilyfield, Sydney (Australia)
"WordCamp Australia is being held on the 29th and 30th of November in
Sydney, Australia. WordCamp is a conference centred around the popular
wordpress platform. Matt Mullenweg, chief architect of WordPress, will be
keynoting the event alongside several other prominent members of the
wordpress community. Ticket prices are currently set at $60, and you can get
yours at http://wordcamp-australia-2008.eventbrite.com/.
<http://wordcamp.com.au/>
Ozchi 2008
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Date: 8-Dec-08 to 12-Dec-08
City: Cairns (Australia)
OZCHI is Australia and New Zealand's leading forum for work in all areas of
human-computer interaction. As the annual conference for the Computer-Human
Interaction Special Interest Group (CHISIG) of the Human Factors and
Ergonomics Society of Australia (HFESA), OZCHI attracts an international
community of researchers and practitioners with a wide range of interests,
including usability, information architecture, interaction design, human
factors and ergonomics, human-computer interaction, information systems,
software engineering, artificial intelligence, design, social sciences and
management. The long and short papers accepted in the conference will be
included in the proceedings of the ACM Digital Library.
<http://www.ozchi.org/mediawiki/index.php/OZCHI_2008>
Web-Blast
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Date: Friday 12 December
City: Sydney (Australia)
More details to follow soon
<http://webblast.org/>
Web Application Design Training Workshop
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Dates: 21st October City: Canberra (Australia)
Dates: 4th November City: Sydney (Australia)
Dates: 19th November City: Brisbane (Australia)
Processes and interface design fundamentals for designing usable web
applications - one day course. 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.
<http://www.peakusability.com.au/training/web-applications.html>
Interaction Design Training Workshop
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Dates: 22st October City: Canberra (Australia)
Dates: 5th November City: Sydney (Australia)
Dates: 20th November City: Brisbane (Australia)
Human characteristics and theoretical principles for usable web
applications, intranet and internet sites - one day course. 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.
<http://www.peakusability.com.au/training/interaction-design.html>
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JOBS
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Thanks
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