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If you have an event, resource or relevant job you'd like posted (from any country), please let me know - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------- LINKS FOR LIGHT READING ---------------------------------- 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/2008/02/12/some-links-162/> FancyZoom 1.1 http://www.cabel.name/2008/02/fancyzoom-10.html Keeping Your Elements¹ Kids in Line with Offspring http://www.alistapart.com/articles/keepelementskidsinlinewithoffspring The Rules of Digital Engagement http://www.alistapart.com/articles/rulesofdigitalengagement Detailed Look at Stacking in CSS http://www.timkadlec.com/post.asp?q=43 Social Software Building Blocks http://nform.ca/publications/social-software-building-block Come on my selector part 3 - bug me not http://www.onderhond.com/blog/onderhond/multiple-classes-ie6 The 7 CSS Hacks that we should use http://www.noupe.com/better-design/7-css-hacks-you-cannt-live-without.html CSS reset and quirky quotes http://www.paulchaplin.com/blog/css-reset-and-quirky-quotes Shopping Carts Gallery: Examples and Good Practices http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/02/07/shopping-carts-gallery-examples-a nd-good-practices/ Make sure your website works with or without www http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200802/make_sure_your_website_works_wi th_or_without_www/ Better Living Through Taxonomies http://www.digital-web.com/articles/better_living_through_taxonomies/ Clean or Custom: which CMS is Best? http://www.sitepoint.com/article/clean-or-custom-cms Why Social Ads Don¹t Work http://bokardo.com/archives/why-social-ads-dont-work/ Book-style Chapter Introductions Using Pure CSS http://www.cssnewbie.com/css-rules/book-style-chapter-intros/ Playful Data: 3 Inspiring Interactive Web Sites http://www.uie.com/articles/inspiring_applications/ Transitioning from Java Classes to JavaScript Prototypes http://peter.michaux.ca/article/5004 Facebookers net wi-fi http://www.smh.com.au/news/wireless--broadband/grassroots-wireless-networks- spring-up/2008/02/12/1202578703949.html ---------------------------------- WSG AND INDUSTRY EVENTS ---------------------------------- The Public Knowledge Project: Breaking Down the Barriers to Open Access --------------- Date: 15-Feb-08 City: Canberra (Australia) Time: 12.30 to 13.30 Venue: National Library of Australia Library Theatre This talk is free and open to everyone. Are you concerned about the spiraling costs of academic journals? Do you worry that access to critical research information is under threat? This presentation will describe the work of the Public Knowledge Project, and discuss some of the steps librarians and others in Canada, Australia, and other countries around the world are taking to confront the crisis in scholarly communication, and ensure that readers and authors remain connected. Bits & Pixels July '07 --------------- Dates: 16-Feb-08 City: Newcastle (Australia) A social get together for all web industry professionals and amateurs to discuss all things web over a beer, coffee or whatever you prefer. This is the second Bits & Pixels meet up for 2008, and the format is completely open and free. Come along and spread the word. http://www.facebook.com/n/?event.php&eid=8526943847 Perth Ruby on Rails Oceania Meetup --------------- Date: 20-February-08 City: Perth (Australia) Anyone interested in Ruby on Rails! You don't have to be using it full time, even if your getting started, come along, it's just a chance to have a bit of fun and share knowledge. http://forums.port80.asn.au/showthread.php?p=92188#post92188 A practical introduction to website accessibility --------------- Date: 20-Feb-08 City: London (UK) A practical fast track introduction to web accessibility the key issues and legal and business cases. http://www.abilitynet.org.uk/webintroaccessibility Sydney Web Standards Group meeting --------------- Date: 21-Feb-08 City: Sydney (AUS) Presentation 1: Damian Hickey - Online Video: A standard document format for business. Presentation 2: Ben Buchanan - W3C Standards Are Not Enough http://webstandardsgroup.org/meetings/index.cfm?event_id=147 Amazon Web Services. --------------- Dates: 25-Feb-08 City: Melbourne (Australia) Flat Rate Recruitment invites any Melbourne-based passionate technical people (and their friends) to come along and listen to Mike Culver, a Web Services Evangelist from Amazon U.S.A http:// evangelists.wetpaint.com/account/mculver Mike is visiting Australia to spread the word about Amazon Web Services. [EMAIL PROTECTED] HotMobile 2008 --------------- Dates: 25-Feb-08 to 26-Feb-08 City: Napa Valley (USA) The Ninth Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (HotMobile) continues the series of highly selective, interactive workshops focused on mobile applications, systems, and environments, as well as their underlying state-of-the-art technologies. HotMobile's small workshop format makes it ideal for presenting and discussing new directions or controversial approaches. http://prisms.cs.umass.edu/hotmobile2008/ Writing for the Web Training --------------- Date: 25-Feb-08 Location: London (UK) One day hands-on classroom-based usability testing training course. Learn how to plan, run and analyse your own usability testing sessions. http://www.webcredible.co.uk/writingtraining Web Usability Training --------------- Date: 26-Feb-08 Location: London (UK) One day hands-on classroom-based web usability training course. Learn all about web usability from the best in the business. http://www.webcredible.co.uk/usabilitytraining Web Accessibility Training --------------- 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 --------------- 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 --------------- 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 Intermediate CSS Training --------------- 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 --------------- 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 --------------- 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 --------------- 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 --------------- 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 --------------- 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 --------------- 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 Ausweb 08 --------------- 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 --------------- 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 --------------- 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 --------------- 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/ @media 2008 "CSS Mastery" Workshop --------------- 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) --------------- 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) --------------- 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 --------------- 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 --------------- 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 --------------- 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 --------------- 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 --------------- 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 --------------- 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 --------------- 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 ---------------------------------- JOBS ---------------------------------- Job 1 --------------- Online Coordinator, Australian Conservation Foundation Melbourne, Australia The Australian Conservation Foundation is seeking a passionate and tech-savvy Online Coordinator to play a lead role in taking ACF's online presence to a new level. With demonstrated success in developing and managing websites, you have the knowledge and skills to boost the online experience of users, consistent with ACF's strategic objectives. Your ability to keep abreast of emerging trends and to integrate online initiatives with other communications activities will be integral to this role. Applications close 9am, 3rd of March 2008 See http://www.acfonline.org.au/jobs Job 2 --------------- Green/Creative/Digital/Print Designer Required: Melbourne CBD (Remuneration negotiable) - Diverse and challenging role - Values driven team working to create a more sustainable society - CBD location. Growth trajectory for the business and the industry Do you want to bring your passion and interest in sustainability to work? The vision of the Sustainable Group of companies is ³to inspire and create global change in business thinking and practice for a sustainable future². The group includes a management consulting firm called Sustainable Business Practices¹ www.sbpractices.com and a recruitment and career coaching firm called Sustainability Jobs¹ www.sjobs.com.au We are a relaxed and professional team who have worked for well regarded global consulting firms or advertising agencies, but have chosen to work with The Sustainable Group due to the unique values, culture and the opportunity to deliver solutions that will create a more sustainable society. You will be working across a number of business divisions, supporting our internal marketing & communications team and servicing the needs of a range of clients. Working closely with Sustainability Consultants¹ and Communication Strategists¹, you will be responsible for concept development and implementation of design solutions across print, screen and other media. This will include designing reports and printed marketing materials using sustainable practices and designing and maintaining websites and digital presentations. There will be a key focus on performance, professionalism and results. You will be responsible for a broad range of deliverables across the following areas: Creative Direction * Concept development * Communication * Sustainability and eco-design Digital Consulting * Website strategy * Content management and software application * Search engine optimisation * Interface and usability design Digital Production * Front-end markup - Semantic XHTML, CSS * Basic Flash animation and interaction * CMS experience Print Production * Management of print projects * Application of sustainability principals * Graphic design, layout and illustration We are ideally looking for somebody with the following background: - A genuine passion and interest in the environment or sustainability is essential - Demonstrated experience (3+years) within a corporate design environment with a folio to reflect this - Creative and innovative conceptualiser and communicator - A genuine team player, flexible and able to work effectively in changing circumstances - An ability to self-manage and work autonomously - Deadline focused with a ¹can do¹ attitude - Strong verbal and written communication skills - An understanding of sustainable printing principles (or willingness to learn) - Experience of Brand development and application - Competent in Adobe suite, specifically InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator - A basic understanding of Flash - Competent in digital print production and PDF - Competent in CSS, HTML and CMS and search engine optimisation - Skills in Microsoft Office If you are seeking a professional design role that will allow you to work with some passionate people who are working on some exciting projects to create a more sustainable society, this role will interest you. Expressions of interest, including CV and folio web address or examples of work (max 1 Meg/6 images total) are requested to be forwarded by email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] quoting ³C/D/P Designer² in the subject line. Further information can be gained about our company values, the types of project work and the people who work here at www.sbpractices.com The Sustainable Group of companies is an equal opportunity employer. -------------------- Did I miss an event, resource or job in your city? If you have an event, resource or relevant job you'd like posted (from any country), please let me know - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks Russ ************************************************************** Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] **************************************************************