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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/2008/10/28/some-links-200/>
50 Beautiful Blog Designs
<http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/10/23/50-beautiful-blog-designs/>
JavaScript Will Save Us All
<http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2008/10/22/javascript-will-save-us-all/>
Multi-threading in JavaScript
<http://www.sitepoint.com/article/multi-threading-javascript/>
Typeface.js
<http://typeface.neocracy.org/>
Malware? We don't need no stinking malware!
<http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/10/malware-we-dont-need-no-
stinking.html>
A Scenario-based Approach to Evaluating Social Software
<http://www.cmswatch.com/Feature/187-Social-Software?source=RSS>
An Exercise for Emerging CSS Experts: Avoid IDs and Classes
<http://meiert.com/en/blog/20081021/exercise-for-emerging-css-experts/>
Everything You Know About CSS Is Wrong
<http://www.digital-web.com/articles/everything_you_know_about_CSS_Is_wrong/
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Quick and Dirty Usability Testing: Step Away from the Book
<http://www.uie.com/articles/usabilitytesting_dc/>
Web Accessibility Guidelines 2.0: Better Than a Poke in the Eye With a
Stick?
<http://www.NotesOnDesign.net/inspiration/design/web-accessibility-guideline
s-20-better-than-a-poke-in-the-eye-with-a-stick/>
Floatitis pt3/the margin/float combo
<http://www.onderhond.com/blog/work/floatitis-pt3-margin-float>
Web Design is 95% Typography
<http://informationarchitects.jp/the-web-is-all-about-typography-period/>
CSSHttpRequest
<http://nb.io/hacks/csshttprequest/>
YouTube Enables Deep Linking Within Videos
<http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/10/25/youtube-enables-deep-linking-within-vi
deos/>
How to: CSS Large Background
<http://www.webdesignerwall.com/tutorials/how-to-css-large-background/>
Twitter, Flickr, Facebook Make Blogs Look So 2004
<http://www.wired.com/entertainment/theweb/magazine/16-11/st_essay>
A CSS sticky footer
<http://ryanfait.com/sticky-footer/>
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WSG AND INDUSTRY EVENTS
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Interactive Advertising:
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Dates: 29-Oct-08
City: Melbourne (Australia)
Want to understand what is working in today¹s online advertising
environment? What clients are demanding from their agencies and in turn
what they expect website publishers to deliver by way of tracking and
results? Want to find out what website publishers are doing to address
their demands and what changes are on the cards in the next 12 months?
Register via RSVP email to Amy Purton-Long: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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/>
WIPA Web Accessibility 2.0 Seminar - Canberra
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Dates: 10-Nov-08
City: Canberra (Australia)
Version 2 of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.0) is about to
be released, introducing some changes in the recommendations for website
accessibility. WIPA is presenting this afternoon seminar to help the web
community understand WCAG 2.0 and prepare sites with improved accessibility.
<http://wipa.org.au/event/150>
WIPA Web Accessibility 2.0 Seminar - Sydney
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Dates: 12-Nov-08
City: Sydney (Australia)
Version 2 of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.0) is about to
be released, introducing some changes in the recommendations for website
accessibility. WIPA is presenting this afternoon seminar to help the web
community understand WCAG 2.0 and prepare sites with improved accessibility.
<http://wipa.org.au/event/151>
Wiki Wednesday
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Dates: 12-Nov-08
City: Sydney (Australia)
Every few months in Sydney, a group of developers, bloggers, entrepreneurs,
consultants, educationalists, accountants in practice, or anyone interested
in wikis, social software, and web 2.0 get together to share their
experiences. Everybody is welcome. Wiki Wednesday have been happening in
Sydney for a couple of years and are also held regularly all over the world.
<http://www.customware.net/repository/display/WikiWednesday/Wiki+Wednesday>
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/>
Web Application Design Training Workshop
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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: 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>
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/>
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resource or relevant job you'd like posted (from any country), please let me
know - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks
Russ
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