[WSG Announce] Some links for light reading (4/3/08)

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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):


Microsoft's Interoperability Principles and IE8
http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2008/03/03/microsoft-s-interoperability-pri
nciples-and-ie8.aspx

Meta-change
http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2008/03/03/meta-change/

Microsoft rethinks IE8¹s default behavior
http://www.webstandards.org/2008/03/03/microsoft-rethinks-ie8s-default-behav
ior/

Surprise of the year: IE8 will use Standards mode by default
http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200803/surprise_of_the_year_ie8_will_u
se_standards_mode_by_default/

Screen Readers lack emphasis
http://www.paciellogroup.com/blog/?p=41

On Creativity
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/oncreativity

Design is in the Details
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/designisinthedetails

Interview: Roger & Molly: Webstock New Zealand
http://www.molly.com/2008/02/27/interview-roger-molly-webstock-new-zealand/

WCAG Samurai
http://WCAGSamurai.org/

Things Every Designer Should Know
http://www.wpdfd.com/issues/85/things_every_designer_should_know/

Delivering code/how to avoid conflict
http://www.onderhond.com/blog/work/code-delivery

Advanced image management
http://xstandard.com/en/articles/advanced-image-management/

Twelve Things Most Sites Need, Part I and II:
http://www.wpdfd.com/issues/85/twelve_things_most_sites_need_1/

HTML, the Foundation of the Web:
http://www.wpdfd.com/issues/86/html_the_foundation_of_the_web/

Personas and the Role of Design Documentation
http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/personas-and-the

Table-Based Layout Is The Next Big Thing
http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/02/28/table-based-layout-is-the-next-big
-thing/

Turn Usable Content into Winning Content
http://www.uxmatters.com/MT/archives/000267.php

Measuring satisfaction: beyond the usability questionnaire
http://www.userfocus.co.uk/articles/satisfaction.html

48 Unique Ways To Use WordPress
http://performancing.com/blogging-tools/48-unique-ways-use-wordpress


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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
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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
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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


Carson Workshops: Professional JavaScript and Ajax by Thomas Fuchs
---
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
---
Date: 31-Mar-08 to 1-Apr-08
City: Canberra (Australia)
A hands-on workshop with user experience expert, Donna Maure

[WSG Announce] Some links for light reading (11/3/08)

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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):


Margins & paddings pt3/solution 1


8 Premium One Line CSS Tips


First impressions of Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1


IE8: The Bad
http://annevankesteren.nl/2008/03/ie8-bad>

10 complaints the customers have about the design of corporate web sites


Internet Explorer ID-Class bug
http://blog.solutionset.com/wpmu/2008/02/15/internet-explorer-id-class-bug/>

Microsoft & IE8: Let¹s Move On and Make It Great


Enhancing Dashboard Value and User Experience


Extensible CSS Interface II: CSS Selectors & jQuery


Some general questions (and answers) about site search analytics


3 Important Usability Challenges for Designing Web Apps


Health 2.0 - Apps & Trends to Watch


Fire the workaholics



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Unpacking Community Wellbeing
---
Date: 13-March-08
City: Sydney (Australia)
Unpacking Community Wellbeing is intended to provoke and stimulate
discussion around interpretations and implications of community wellbeing
drawing upon the perspectives of three innovative Australians:
- Shane Phillips, Chairman and CEO at The Tribal Warrior Association
- Noel Staunton, Executive Director at Sydney Dance Company
- Professor Larissa Behrendt, Aboriginal Australian academic and writer,
Director of the Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning at University of
Technology, Sydney.
The evening provides an excellent opportunity to build networks with other
innovative leaders.
Further info: Matt Jones - +61 (0)438 007 770


Carson Workshops: Professional JavaScript and Ajax by Thomas Fuchs
---
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
---
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
---
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
---
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 part

[WSG Announce] Some links for light reading (18/3/08)

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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):


Designing for the Mobile Web
http://www.sitepoint.com/article/designing-for-mobile-web

Great CSS Techniques and the Simple Truth Behind Them
http://meiert.com/en/blog/20080311/great-css-techniques/

Margins & paddings pt4/solution 2
http://www.onderhond.com/blog/onderhond/margins-paddings-solution2

Equidistant Objects with CSS
http://css-tricks.com/equidistant-objects-with-css/

Office Format Sucks on Purpose
http://annevankesteren.nl/2008/03/office-sucks

Contacts Data API
http://code.google.com/apis/contacts/

Extending The JavaScript Date Object with User Defined Methods
http://www.digital-web.com/articles/javascript_date_object_with_user_methods
/

A Command of Headings: Usage and Styling
http://accessites.org/site/2008/02/a-command-of-headings-usage-and-styling/

Perfect pagination style using CSS
http://woork.blogspot.com/2008/03/perfect-pagination-style-using-css.html

Google is good but it¹s not God
http://giraffeforum.com/wordpress/2008/03/16/google-is-good-but-its-not-god

Website Optimization Measures, Part III
http://meiert.com/en/blog/20080317/optimization-measures-3/

Portable contact lists and the case against XFN
http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2008/03/11/portable-contact-lists-and-the-case-ag
ainst-xfn/

3 Simple Steps in Coding a Rounded Corners Layout
http://www.cssglobe.com/post/1415/3-simple-steps-in-coding-a-rounded-corners
-layout 

Two More Usability Challenges for Designing Web Apps
http://www.uie.com/articles/web_app_challenges_2/

Programmer¹s Toolbox Part 3: Consistent Hashing
http://www.spiteful.com/2008/03/17/programmers-toolbox-part-3-consistent-has
hing/

Clickpass
http://www.clickpass.com/

Snippely
http://code.google.com/p/snippely/


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IA Peers Sydney
---
Date: 19-March-08
City: Sydney (Australia)
What:  good gossip, better beer, best company
When:  Wednesday, March 19th, 7pm-9pm
Where: Woolloomooloo Hotel, the courtyard
Who:   Anyone interested in Information Architecture
RSVP:  Eric Scheid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 0402 404 733


Carson Workshops: Professional JavaScript and Ajax by Thomas Fuchs
---
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
---
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
---
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
---
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
---
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

[WSG Announce] Some links for light reading (26/3/08)

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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):


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 ŒIE6-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
/

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
---
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
---
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
---
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
---
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
---
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

[WSG Announce] Some links for light reading (2/4/08)

[russ - maxdesign]

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   This is a one-way list for WSG Announcements
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- Links for light reading
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- Industry related jobs

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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):


CSS Compatibility and Internet Explorer
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc351024(VS.85).aspx

Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 for Developers ­ Standards Highlights Part 2
http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2008/03/26/internet-explorer-8-beta-1-for-d
evelopers-standards-highlights-part-2.aspx

Shorthand css/not only because it is shorter
http://www.onderhond.com/blog/work/css-shorthands

Internet Explorer 8 Doctype and HTTP Header Switching
http://dorward.me.uk/www/ie8/

CSS Properties Index
http://meiert.com/en/indices/css-properties/

Acid3: Opera hits 100/100, has visual perfection, lacks smoothness, and
releases a public build!
http://annevankesteren.nl/2008/03/acid3-opera-100

What does Acid3 mean to you and me?
http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200804/what_does_acid3_mean_to_you_and
_me/

Extreme User Research
http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/extreme-user

10 Tips For Your First Email Campaign
http://www.digital-web.com/articles/ten_tips_for_email_campaigns/

Captioning sucks!
http://captioningsucks.com/

10 Tips For Your First Email Campaign
http://meryl.net/2008/04/01/7-tips-to-a-good-twitter-experience/

The Frog (Image Resizing Demo)
http://www.designdetector.com/demos/frog1.html

Content Overlay with CSS
http://www.snook.ca/archives/html_and_css/content_overlay_css/

Ma.gnolia moves to OpenID-only sign ups
http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2008/03/30/magnolia-moves-to-openid-only-sign-ups
/

Blog Comments Still Matter
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/blog_comments_still_matter.php

Geoff Bowers on the FarCry Framework
http://www.sitepoint.com/article/geoff-bowers-farcry-framework


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WSG AND INDUSTRY EVENTS
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Website user experience & CSS workshop
---
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
---
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
---
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/


Future of Web Design
---
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

[WSG Announce] Some links for light reading (8/4/08)

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- Industry related jobs

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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):


Border model/the four dots issue
http://www.onderhond.com/blog/onderhond/border-model-inconsistencies

Definitive Guide to Maximise Benefits of Conference Attendance
http://www.bhatt.id.au/blog/definitive-guide-to-maximise-benefits-of-confere
nce-attendance

The John Slatin Fund Accessibility project
http://www.knowbility.org/business/john-slatin/

CSS Naked day
http://naked.dustindiaz.com/

Advanced JavaScript Debugging Techniques
http://www.sitepen.com/blog/2008/04/03/advanced-javascript-debugging-techniq
ues/

The Principles of Project Management
http://www.sitepoint.com/article/principles-project-management

10 trends that will define logo design in 2008
http://www.logoorange.com/logo-design-08.php

Extreme User Research
http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/extreme-user

We Tried To Warn You, Part 2
http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/we-tried-to-warn-you32

Implementing a syntax-highlighting JavaScript editor in JavaScript
http://marijn.haverbeke.nl/codemirror/story.html

Most Useful 50 CSS Tips And Tools For Webmasters
http://www.emmaalvarez.com/2008/04/most-useful-50-css-tips-and-tools-for.htm
l

The Highly Extensible CSS Interface
http://cameronmoll.com/articles/extensible-css/

Advisory Committee Presents Report on Updated 508 Standards
http://www.paciellogroup.com/blog/?p=58

Google App Engine: An Early Look
http://mashable.com/2008/04/08/google-app-engine/


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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/


UPA Sydney April event - Designing for the User Experience in Agile
Development
---
Date: 10-Apr-08
City: Sydney (Australia)
Our April meeting marks the first in our series on developing great user
experiences in the context of Agile development.  The evening will feature a
lively panel discussion with four panelists who vary in their experiences
and views, and will include ample time for audience participation.
Time:  Panel discussion:  6:30 - 7:30pm
Drinks starting at 6:00pm and drinks and nibbles also following the panel
Location:  University of Technology, Sydney (UTS), Browadway, Lecture
Theatre 2.4.10


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/


Open Source in the Enterprise
---
Date: 15-Apr-08
City: Melbourne (Australia)
Learn about the pros and cons of the latest open source software for
business and enterprise systems, including new opportunities, licensing and
how to save money. Kevin Littlejohn, Director, Obsidian Systems will
describe how his company has used open source in the development of their
Jet Billing Engine. Chris Fleischmann, Senior Solutions Architect, Sun
Microsystems and Luie Matthee Senior Solutions Architect, Redhat will
present on their respective company's open source strategies, recent
acquisitions and product development. They will also provide examples of
business usage of some of their open source offerings.
http://www.gener8.com.au/ej1504.asp


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

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By The Numbers 
http://nikitathespider.com/articles/ByTheNumbers/

5 Reasons Why Search Engine Optimisation is like Horse Racing
http://www.bhatt.id.au/blog/5-reasons-why-seo-is-like-horse-racing/

Accessible Data Visualization with Web Standards
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/accessibledatavisualization

Take Control of Your Maps
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/takecontrolofyourmaps

Footers In Modern Web Design: Creative Examples and Ideas
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/04/08/footers-in-modern-web-design-crea
tive-examples-and-ideas/

60 More AJAX- and Javascript Solutions For Professional Coding
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/04/15/60-more-ajax-and-javascript-solut
ions-for-professional-coding/

10 trends that will define logo design in 2008
http://www.logoorange.com/logo-design-08.php

The Importance of Being First
http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/2008/04/11/the-importance-of-being-first/

Tomorrow's CSS Today: 8 Techniques They Don't Want You To Know
http://www.sitepoint.com/article/tomorrows-css-today

eXtreme Type Terminology - part 3
http://ilovetypography.com/2008/04/11/extreme-type-terminology-part-3/

GridFox - The Grid Layout Firefox Extension
http://www.puidokas.com/portfolio/gridfox/

Introducing CSS Gradients
http://webkit.org/blog/175/introducing-css-gradients/

Is the Mobile Web Dead? Some Mobile Entrepreneurs Say Yes
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/is_the_mobile_web_dead.php

Better Email Links: Featuring CSS Attribute Selectors
http://css-tricks.com/better-email-links-featuring-css-attribute-selectors/

How to stay A-Float in CSS
http://wipeout44.com/brain_food/css_staying_afloat.asp

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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


FW: Semantic Technologies Workshop
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Date: 17-Apr-08
City: Melbourne (Australia)
Semantic technologies are emerging as the next phase in Web development and,
in particular, how people search for, construct and utilise documents within
organisations. Fuji Xerox Australia and RMIT are undertaking research into
these technologies through an Australian Research Council funded Linkage
grant and the research team, comprising researchers from both RMIT
University and Fuji Xerox Australia. The event will be held in Melbourne at
the RMIT University Research Lounge commencing at 8.30am and will conclude
by 1pm. If you would like to attend please RSVP to Rachael Dunstan:


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
---
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:/

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Creating More Using Less Effort with Ruby on Rails
http://alistapart.com/articles/creatingmoreusinglesseffortwithrubyonrails

Getting Started with Ruby on Rails
http://alistapart.com/articles/gettingstartedwithrubyonrails

Benefits of Plain English URLs
http://gadgetopia.com/post/6346

Is your (mobile) browser ready for the Web?
http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/04/is_your_mobile_browser_ready_f.html

Web Form Design: Modern Solutions and Creative Ideas
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/04/17/web-form-design-modern-solutions-
and-creative-ideas/

Ten typographic mistakes everyone makes
http://www.recedinghairline.co.uk/files/c1c3be2fda2b218e858029a4bde7e96c-397
.html

Autoscrolling the edit state
http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/988-designing-details-autoscrolling-the-e
dit-state

Introduction to Django: Helping Perfectionists With Deadlines
http://www.digital-web.com/articles/intro_to_django_helping_perfectionists_w
ith_deadlines/

Managing taxonomies
http://userpathways.com/2008/04/03/managing-taxonomies/

No CSS reset
http://www.snook.ca/archives/html_and_css/no_css_reset/

Why ³Reset² Style Sheets Are Bad
http://meiert.com/en/blog/20080419/reset-style-sheets-are-bad/

Bezos On Innovation
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_17/b4081064880218.htm

Hacking slideshare's embed adding a preview and be a lot shorter and
readable
http://www.wait-till-i.com/2008/04/17/hacking-slideshare-embed/

Usability critical for good mobile security
http://www.intergovworld.com/article/63288b960a01040801dd6a670b1d27dc/pg1.ht
m

Recycle These Pixels: Sustainability and the User Experience
http://www.uxmatters.com/MT/archives/000280.php

Cursed css/how well-behaved are you?
http://www.onderhond.com/blog/work/cursed-css

Web 3.0 through the ages
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/web_30_through_the_ages.php

Live Demos: The SitePoint CSS Reference Goes Interactive
http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/04/23/live-demos-the-sitepoint-css-refer
ence-goes-interactive/

Tomorrow's Web Design: Popular Design Software Challenge
http://www.wpdfd.com/issues/86/design_software_challenge/

And Simple CSS: Creating More Readable Text:
http://www.wpdfd.com/issues/86/simple_css_creating_more_readable_text/

Data tables follow-up study
http://formulate.com.au/research/data-tables-follow-up/

Inspire UX
http://www.inspireux.com/

CushyCMS
http://www.cushycms.com


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Accessibility 2.0: a million flowers bloom
---
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
---
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
---
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/


BarCamp Perth 2.0
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Date: 10-May-08
City: Perth (Australia)
Central TAFE, 140 Royal St, East Perth WA 6004
The Barcamp with MORE Web2.0
When: 900-1700 on Saturday 10 May 2008
More Details:  http://barcamp.port80.asn.au/Main/BarCamp2
Who should attend: Anyone interested in the web, technology and
related topics. 
Cost: FREE! 


Carson Workshops: Transcending CSS - Styling For A Beautiful Web by Andy
Clarke
---
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 tec

[WSG Announce] Some links for light reading (30/4/08)

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Developer Beware: Using Flash to Detect Screen Readers
http://www.paciellogroup.com/blog/?p=61

Right-Justified Navigation Menus Impede Scannability
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/navigation-menu-alignment.html

Presentation Layer Accessibility
http://www.welterlin.com/whitepapers/presentationLayerAccessibility.php

Info-Snacking With Twitter
http://republicofinternets.com/2007/12/12/info-snacking-with-twitter/

How We Use Twitter for Journalism
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/twitter_for_journalists.php

Twistori 
http://twistori.com/

Case Study: Using Social Media On A Small Scale To Raise Money For Charity
http://davefleet.com/2008/04/case-study-using-social-media-on-a-small-scale-
to-raise-money-for-charity/

A Standards Quality Case Study: W3C
http://lehors.wordpress.com/2008/04/25/a-standards-quality-case-study-w3c/

CSS generated content pt1/blending the boundaries
http://www.onderhond.com/blog/work/css-generated-content-1

The accessibility of the date-time pattern in Microformats
http://www.isolani.co.uk/blog/access/AccessibilityOfDateTimeMicroformat

hAccessibility, one year on
http://www.brucelawson.co.uk/2008/haccessibility-one-year-on/

Stop using Ajax!
http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/stop-using-ajax/

Oh look, using Ajax in a stupid way is not a good idea?
http://www.wait-till-i.com/2008/04/29/oh-look-using-ajax-in-a-stupid-way-is-
not-a-good-idea/

Don't Be Afraid of Serif Fonts:
http://www.wpdfd.com/issues/86/dont_be_afraid_of_serif_fonts/

User Interface Implementations of Faceted Browsing
http://www.digital-web.com/articles/user_interface_implementations_of_facete
d_browsing/

Circtangles: A JavaScript art installation
http://www.themaninblue.com/writing/perspective/2008/04/25/

Kotatsu - table generator
http://www.askthecssguy.com/kotatsu/index.html

This is how you get SIFR to work
http://designintellection.com/2008/this-is-how-you-get-sifr-to-work/

CSS Reflections
http://webkit.org/blog/182/css-reflections/


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BarCamp Perth 2.0
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Date: 10-May-08
City: Perth (Australia)
Central TAFE, 140 Royal St, East Perth WA 6004
The Barcamp with MORE Web2.0
When: 900-1700 on Saturday 10 May 2008
More Details:  http://barcamp.port80.asn.au/Main/BarCamp2
Who should attend: Anyone interested in the web, technology and
related topics. 
Cost: FREE! 


Carson Workshops: Transcending CSS - Styling For A Beautiful Web by Andy
Clarke
---
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
---
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


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/

[WSG Announce] FW: WCAG 2.0 Candidate Recommendation Ready to Test Drive

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Of Shawn Henry
Sent: Thursday, 1 May 2008 1:49 AM
To: WAI Interest Group
Subject: WCAG 2.0 Candidate Recommendation Ready to Test Drive


Dear WAI Interest Group Participants,

The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Working Group is excited to
announce the publication of WCAG 2.0 as a W3C Candidate Recommendation on 30
April. WCAG 2.0 explains how to make Web sites, applications, and other
content accessible to people with disabilities, and many elderly users.
 http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/CR-WCAG20-20080430/

Candidate Recommendation (CR) is a major step in the W3C standards
development process; it signals that there is broad consensus in the Working
Group and among public reviewers on the technical content of WCAG 2.0. The
W3C Process stages are described in:

 How WAI Develops Accessibility Guidelines through the W3C Process
 http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/w3c-process

The primary purpose of this CR stage is for developers and designers to
"test drive" WCAG 2.0 to demonstrate that WCAG 2.0 can be implemented in Web
sites. WAI encourages a broad range of Web sites and Web applications to use
WCAG 2.0 at this stage, and share implementation experience. For information
on submitting your implementations, see:
 WCAG 2.0 Candidate Recommendation Implementation Information
 http://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG20/CR/
If you plan to provide implementations, please let us know your intentions
by *23 May 2008*.
Actual implementations are due by *30 June 2008*.

It is important to note that some WCAG 2.0 requirements are at risk; that
is, they may not be included if there are not sufficient implementations.
Items at risk are listed under "Items at Risk" in:
 http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/CR-WCAG20-20080430/#status_risk

While the focus of this stage is to collect implementations, the comment
form and email address are still available from:
 Instructions for Commenting on WCAG 2.0 Documents
 http://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG20/comments/

The different WCAG 2.0 documents that the WCAG Working Group updated with
this publication are introduced in:
 Overview of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0
Documents
 http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/wcag20.php

A key tool for using WCAG 2.0 documents, which was previously called the
"Quick Reference", is:
 How to Meet WCAG 2.0: A customizable quick reference to WCAG 2.0
requirements...
 http://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG20/quickref/

For more information about the Candidate Recommendation status of WCAG 2.0
and the changes since the last publication, see:
 "Status of this Document" section of WCAG 2.0
 http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/CR-WCAG20-20080430/#status

WCAG 2.0 is part of a series of accessibility guidelines/standards developed
by WAI, which are listed in:
 WAI Guidelines and Techniques
 http://www.w3.org/WAI/guid-tech.html

Feel free to circulate this message to other lists; please avoid
cross-postings where possible.

Please let us know if you have any questions. Thank you in advance for your
help implementing WCAG 2.0.

Regards,
~Shawn Lawton Henry and Judy Brewer
On behalf of:
Loretta Guarino Reid, Co-chair of WCAG WG, and Computer Scientist, Google
Inc.
Gregg Vanderheiden, Co-chair of WCAG WG, and Director of Trace R&D Center,
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Michael Cooper, W3C Team Contact for WCAG WG


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@alt and the Flickr Defense
http://www.bestkungfu.com/archive/date/2008/05/alt-and-the-flickr-defense/

HTML5 and alt: The editors new clothes
http://www.paciellogroup.com/blog/?p=63

CSS Homer, animated
http://nedbatchelder.com/blog/200805/css_homer_animated.html

A webslice of IE 8
http://www.tamingthebeast.net/blog/web-development/webslice-ie8-0508.htm

CSS generated content pt2 - aftermath
http://www.onderhond.com/blog/work/css-generated-content-2

Making Money from Blogging: B5Media and Orble Professional Bloggers
Interviewed
http://www.bhatt.id.au/blog/making-money-from-blogging-b5media-and-orble-pro
fessional-bloggers-interviewed/

End Of Speculation: The Real Twitter Usage Numbers
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/29/end-of-speculation-the-real-twitter-usa
ge-numbers/

Improving Code Readability With CSS Styleguides
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/05/02/improving-code-readability-with-c
ss-styleguides/

JavaScript Color Fading Script
http://www.leigeber.com/2008/05/javascript-color-fading-script/

WCAG 2 Requirements at Risk
http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/05/04/wcag-2-requirements-at-risk/

Raising the standard of websites worldwide: BSI and Magus launch a new
specification
http://www.usabilitynews.com/news/article4704.asp

The Power of Niche Social Network Sites
http://bokardo.com/archives/the-power-of-niche-social-network-sites/

Consumption is also about choice
http://infovore.org/archives/2008/05/01/consumption-is-also-about-choice/

The Web Developer's SEO Cheat Sheet
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/the-web-developers-seo-cheat-sheet

Safari Gets Support for ARIA
http://juicystudio.com/article/safari-support-aria.php

YouTube PHP library
http://www.ytphplib.blogspot.com/


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BarCamp Perth 2.0
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Date: 10-May-08
City: Perth (Australia)
Central TAFE, 140 Royal St, East Perth WA 6004
The Barcamp with MORE Web2.0
When: 900-1700 on Saturday 10 May 2008
More Details:  http://barcamp.port80.asn.au/Main/BarCamp2
Who should attend: Anyone interested in the web, technology and
related topics. 
Cost: FREE! 


Carson Workshops: Transcending CSS - Styling For A Beautiful Web by Andy
Clarke
---
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
---
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


Web Directions User Experience: Melbourne
-
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
---
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.webd

[WSG Announce] Some links for light reading (13/5/08)

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Linkedin WSG group:
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Facebook WSG group:
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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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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
---
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
W

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Bite-Sized UX Research
http://www.uxmatters.com/MT/archives/000287.php

The Showcase Of BIG Typography - Second Edition
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/05/20/the-showcase-of-big-typography-se
cond-edition/

Build Beautiful Buttons in Photoshop, Part I
http://www.sitepoint.com/article/building-buttons-photoshop-1

Review of W3 
http://fadtastic.net/?p=518

Perfect pagination style using CSS
http://woork.blogspot.com/2008/03/perfect-pagination-style-using-css.html

Introduction to CSS3 - Part 5: Multiple Columns : 19th May 2008
http://www.designshack.co.uk/news/introduction-to-css3-part-5-multiple-colum
ns 

Domize - instant domain search
https://domize.com/

How Searchmonkey can lead to a cleaner, more data-rich web
http://www.wait-till-i.com/2008/05/16/how-searchmonkey-can-lead-to-a-cleaner
-more-data-rich-web/

Everything in Moderation: Using Content Units to Manage UX
http://www.uxmatters.com/MT/archives/000291.php

CSS: Simple Rules for Better Organization and More Efficiency
http://meiert.com/en/blog/20080515/css-organization-and-efficiency/

More on the Usage Lifecycle: Lifecycle Messaging
http://bokardo.com/archives/more-on-the-usage-lifecycle-lifecycle-messaging/

The OpenID mobile experience, part II
http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2008/05/17/the-openid-mobile-experience-part-ii/

Doing More with Less: 4 Design Lessons from the Flip
http://www.uie.com/articles/more_with_less/

How to Make Facebook Useful Again
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/how_to_make_facebook_useful_again.php

HTML 5 vs. XHTML 2: An Article Roundup and Poll
http://css-tricks.com/html-5-vs-xhtml-2-an-article-roundup-and-poll/

How To: Resizeable Background Image
http://css-tricks.com/how-to-resizeable-background-image/

30 Free Website Icons, Blog Icons, Symbol Icons
http://brainstormsandraves.com/archives/2008/04/10/blogicons/


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The Web and Beyond: Mobility, which is in Amsterdam on 22 May.
---
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
--
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
--
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
--
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)
---
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
---
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 pi

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OK­Cancel or Cancel­OK?
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/ok-cancel.html

Generated Content pt3/finishing up
http://www.onderhond.com/blog/work/css-generated-content-3

The Cure for Content-Delay Syndrome
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/thecureforcontent-delaysyndrome

Designing international Web pages - some practical tips
http://www.w3.org/2008/Talks/05-australia-ishida/slides.pdf

Why Did You Hire Me?
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/whydidyouhireme

Handoff
http://mezzoblue.com/archives/2008/05/21/handoff/

Design Decisions vs. Audience Considerations
http://www.digital-web.com/articles/design_decisions_vs_audience_considerati
ons/

Ajax Accessibility
http://ejohn.org/blog/ajax-accessibility/

Rails For Beginners: All You Need To Know!
http://www.sitepoint.com/article/rails-for-beginners

Where Does Facebook Grow From Here
http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2008/05/facebook-demographics-age-and.html

blogger tips for web developers
http://weblog.200ok.com.au/2008/05/blogger-tips-for-web-developers.html

Machine tagging relationships
http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2008/05/25/machine-tagging-relationships/

Review: e-Marketing & SEO Conference CeBIT Australia 2008
http://www.bhatt.id.au/blog/review-e-marketing-seo-conference-cebit-australi
a-2008/

Bible Markup Pattern: A Proposal
http://godbit.com/article/bible-markup-pattern


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WSG London
--
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)
---
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
---
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
---
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/


FUEL: Powering your business with the new web
---
Date: 13-Jun-08 
City: London (UK)

FUEL by Carsonified is a brand new one day conference aimed at small
businesses, marketers and those with an interest in using the new breed
of web tools to transform their business from routine to remarkable.
In one day we'll demystify "web 2.0" and provide you with a complete
online strategy, from building your reputation on the web to creating
passionate communities around your products and services. We will also
show you web design techniques that really work and offer you hints and
tips on how to streamline your productivity with the latest cool and
often free to use web apps. You will leave full of ideas, quick wins and
inspiration to take your projects and businesses to the next level. We've
gathered together industry pioneers who will explain exactly what you
need to be focusing on to achieve success and develop a truly remarkable and
standout business. Confirmed speakers include Ryan Carson (Carsonified),
Tara Hunt (Citizen Agency), Paul Boag (Headscape), Ted Hunt (Innocent
Smoothies), Alex Hunter (Virgin), Andrew Scott (Rummble)

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Writing an Interface Style Guide
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/writingainterfacestyleguide

Saving the Spark: Developing Creative Ideas
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/savingthespark

The Missing Link
http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2008/06/02/the-missing-link/

Applying Divine Proportion To Your Web Designs
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/05/29/applying-divine-proportion-to-web
-design/

Design Rants
http://mezzoblue.com/archives/2008/06/03/design_rants/

Why we skip Photoshop
http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/1061-why-we-skip-photoshop

Quick and Easy Flash Prototypes
http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/quick-and-easy-flash

Beyond CAPTCHA: No Bots Allowed!
http://www.sitepoint.com/article/captcha-problems-alternatives

How to Code HTML Email Newsletters
http://www.sitepoint.com/article/code-html-email-newsletters

IE Tester
http://www.my-debugbar.com/wiki/IETester/HomePage

Optional Tags in HTML 4
http://meiert.com/en/blog/20080601/optional-tags-in-html-4/

ARIA Slider, Part 1
http://www.paciellogroup.com/blog/?p=68

Announcing SquirrelFish
http://webkit.org/blog/189/announcing-squirrelfish/

Roundpic
http://www.roundpic.com/

Facebook Open Source Projects
http://developers.facebook.com/opensource.php/

New eGovernment Activity to Help Improve Government through Better Use of
the Web
http://www.w3.org/News/2008#item103

>From PSD to CSS/HTML in Easy Steps - Part 1
http://csshowto.com/layout/psd-to-csshtml-in-easy-steps-part-1/

AjaxDaddy
http://www.ajaxdaddy.com/

PNG masks/optimizing css control
http://www.onderhond.com/blog/work/image-masks-in-css

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webDU 2008
---
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/


FUEL: Powering your business with the new web
---
Date: 13-Jun-08 
City: London (UK)

FUEL by Carsonified is a brand new one day conference aimed at small
businesses, marketers and those with an interest in using the new breed
of web tools to transform their business from routine to remarkable.
In one day we'll demystify "web 2.0" and provide you with a complete
online strategy, from building your reputation on the web to creating
passionate communities around your products and services. Confirmed speakers
include Ryan Carson (Carsonified), Tara Hunt (Citizen Agency), Paul Boag
(Headscape), Ted Hunt (Innocent Smoothies), Alex Hunter (Virgin), Andrew
Scott (Rummble) and Richard Moross (moo.com).
URL: http://www.fuel-conference.com


Information Architecture Essentials
---
Date: 18-Jun-08
City: Brisbane (Australia)
In this one-day workshop, Step Two 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: 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: 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 Int

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Download day 2008
http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord/?from=sfx&uid=0&aid=

IE8 Beta 2 Coming in August
http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2008/06/03/ie8-beta-2-coming-in-august.aspx

The Wheres and Whens of Users' Expectations
http://www.uie.com/articles/user_expectations/

Clean and pure CSS FORM design
http://woork.blogspot.com/2008/06/clean-and-pure-css-form-design.html

International Address Fields in Web Forms
http://www.uxmatters.com/MT/archives/000295.php

Migrating from WCAG 1.0 to WCAG 2.0
http://wipa.org.au/papers/wcag-migration.htm

More css performance testing (pt 3)
http://jpsykes.com/153/more-css-performance-testing-pt-3

Choosing the right tool
http://www.stopdesign.com/log/2008/06/05/choosing-the-right-tool.html

Grandfather builds Web browser for autistic grandson
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/webguide/internetlife/2008-06-03-grandfather-za
c-browser_N.htm

Progressive enhancement of links using the CSS attribute selector
http://www.last-child.com/css-attribute-selector/

Developing your Descriptions - Part 1, The Problem
http://www.standardzilla.com/2008/06/10/developing-your-descriptions-part-1-
the-problem/

How the Web Was Won
http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2008/07/internet200807?currentPag
e=1

Easy Vertical Centering with CSS
http://www.search-this.com/2008/05/15/easy-vertical-centering-with-css/

Is It OK to Require JavaScript?
http://blog.stackoverflow.com/index.php/2008/06/is-it-ok-to-require-javascri
pt/

CSS file structuring/keeping it together
http://www.onderhond.com/blog/work/css-file-structuring

Shifting from Content Management to Content Delivery
http://www.cmsmyth.com/blogs/cms_myth/archive/2008/05/22/shifting-from-conte
nt-management-to-content-delivery.aspx

13+ Fantastic Tools For Knowing How They¹re Doing It
http://www.noupe.com/tools/13-fantastic-tools-for-knowing-how-they-are-doing
-it.html


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webDU 2008
---
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/


FUEL: Powering your business with the new web
---
Date: 13-Jun-08 
City: London (UK)
FUEL by Carsonified is a brand new one day conference aimed at small
businesses, marketers and those with an interest in using the new breed
of web tools to transform their business from routine to remarkable.
In one day we'll demystify "web 2.0" and provide you with a complete
online strategy, from building your reputation on the web to creating
passionate communities around your products and services. We will also
show you web design techniques that really work and offer you hints and
tips on how to streamline your productivity with the latest cool and
often free to use web apps. You will leave full of ideas, quick wins and
inspiration to take your projects and businesses to the next level. We've
gathered together industry pioneers who will explain exactly what you
need to be focusing on to achieve success and develop a truly remarkable and
standout business. Confirmed speakers include Ryan Carson (Carsonified),
Tara Hunt (Citizen Agency), Paul Boag (Headscape), Ted Hunt (Innocent
Smoothies), Alex Hunter (Virgin), Andrew Scott (Rummble) and Richard Moross
(moo.com).
URL: http://www.fuel-conference.com


Information Architecture Essentials
---
Date: 18-Jun-08
City: Brisbane (Australia)
In this one-day workshop, Step Two 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: 22 July 2008 Sydney
Description: Introduction to User Centred De

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Firefox 3 Release Candidate 3
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-rc.html

Firefox 3: What's New, What's Hot, and What's Not
http://www.sitepoint.com/article/firefox-3-whats-new-whats-hot

Opera Browser Version: 9.50
http://www.opera.com/products/desktop/

Australian Tech events
http://www.pollenizer.com/ozitcal/

Patrick Lauke on WCAG2
http://boagworld.com/podcast/120/

html vs css pt1/an introduction
http://www.onderhond.com/blog/work/html-vs-css-pt1

Sketching in Code: the Magic of Prototyping
http://alistapart.com/articles/sketchingincode

Faux Absolute Positioning
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/fauxabsolutepositioning

Block Quotes and Pull Quotes: Examples and Good Practices
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/06/12/block-quotes-and-pull-quotes-exam
ples-and-good-practices/

10 Examples of beautiful css typography and how they did it
http://www.3point7designs.com/blog/2008/06/02/10-examples-of-beautiful-css-t
ypography-and-how-they-did-it/

Why Do Web Startups Die? Lack of Alphalpha
http://www.digital-web.com/articles/why_do_web_startups_die/

When Validation Becomes Unimportant
http://meiert.com/en/blog/20080616/validation-unimportant/

Why You Shouldn¹t be Afraid of Customer Reviews
http://bokardo.com/archives/customer-reviews/

11 Search Trends That May Disrupt Google
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/11_search_trends.php

Hijax: Progressive Enhancement with Ajax
http://www.uie.com/articles/hijax/

ARIA Slider, Part 2
http://www.paciellogroup.com/blog/?p=69

Spicing Up Embedded JavaScript
http://ejohn.org/blog/spicing-up-embedded-javascript/

2008 Design Trends
http://www.webdesignerwall.com/trends/2008-design-trends/


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IAI-AUNZ list 
Date: anytime
City: Australia and New Zealand
Are you currently practicing or studying IA/UXD/UCD in Australia or New
Zealand? Are you interested in hearing about AU/NZ regional events? If so,
you are invited to join the IAI-AUNZ list. This will be an open list
sponsored by IA Institute for the purposes of promoting closer ties
between IAs in the Australia/New Zealand region. All are welcome.
http://lists.iainstitute.org/listinfo.cgi/iai-aunz-iainstitute.org";


Garr Reynold's Presentation Zen
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Date: 4 July 2008 
City: Sydney (Australia)
Presentation Zen (www.presentationzen.com) is the legendary blog
on creating and delivering remarkable presentations. Garr Reynold's
recent book of the same name is now a best-seller, and is being
translated into seven languages. When we found out he was coming to Sydney
for a holiday, we talked him into giving a public presentation. This will be
on 4th of July, and will be the only chance to see him in action in
Australia. Read about the event on Slideshare:
http://www.slideshare.net/jamesr/presentation-zen-comes-to-sydney


Web Usability Training Workshop
---
Date: 22 July 2008 
City: Sydney (Australia)
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: 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 

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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):


hAccessibility redux?
http://www.webstandards.org/2008/06/23/haccessibility-redux/

Removing Microformats from bbc.co.uk/programmes
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/radiolabs/2008/06/removing_microformats_from_bbc.
shtml

The Touch Barrier - Accessibility and usability issues around touch
technologies
http://lifekludger.net/2008/06/14/the-touch-barrier-accessibility-and-usabil
ity-issues-around-touch-technologies/

On A Scale of 1 to 5
http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/on-a-scale-of-1-to-5

CSS Editors Reviewed
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/06/19/css-editors-reviewed/

Breaking Out of the Box With CSS Layouts
http://www.sitepoint.com/article/breaking-out-of-the-box

Nifty Navigation Tricks Using CSS
http://www.sitepoint.com/article/navigation-using-css

The point of ³Open² in OpenID
http://simonwillison.net/2008/Jun/24/openid/

html vs css pt2/navigation lists
http://www.onderhond.com/blog/work/html-vs-css-pt2-navigation-lists

10 Measures for Continuous Website Maintenance
http://meiert.com/en/blog/20080624/continuous-website-maintenance/

Social Design Patterns for Reputation Systems: An Interview with Yahoo¹s
Bryce Glass (Part I)
http://bokardo.com/archives/social-design-patterns-for-reputation-systems-on
e/

A Semantic List-Based CSS Calendar
http://www.cssnewbie.com/list-based-css-calendar/

Interaction Design: It's All About the Subtleties
http://www.uie.com/articles/subtle_interaction_design/

We're all ops people now
http://times.usefulinc.com/2008/06/16-ops-now

Melpedia
http://www.melpedia.com.au/wiki/Main_Page


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Ruby Melbourne Meetup
---
Date: 26-Jun-08
City: Sydney (Australia)
Thoughtworks, Level 11, 155 Queen St, Melbourne 3000


Sydney PHP Group monthly meeting
---
Date: 03-Jul-08 
City: Sydney (Australia)
The Sydney PHP Group meets every first Thursday of the month, with the
exception of January (holidays).
sydphp.org


Garr Reynold's Presentation Zen
---
Date: 04-Jul-08 
City: Sydney (Australia)
Presentation Zen (www.presentationzen.com) is the legendary blog
on creating and delivering remarkable presentations. Garr Reynold's
recent book of the same name is now a best-seller, and is being
translated into seven languages. When we found out he was coming to Sydney
for a holiday, we talked him into giving a public presentation. This will be
on 4th of July, and will be the only chance to see him in action in
Australia. Read about the event on Slideshare:
http://www.slideshare.net/jamesr/presentation-zen-comes-to-sydney


Usability week 2008
---
Date: 21-Jul-08 to 26-Jul-08
City: Melbourne (Australia)
http://www.nngroup.com/events/melbourne/agenda.html


Web Usability Training Workshop
---
Date: 22-Jul-08 
City: Sydney (Australia)
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: 23-Jul-08 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
 

Interaction Design Training Wo

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click on the links below and find that they are broken):


Should Links Open In New Windows?
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/07/01/should-links-open-in-new-windows/

Collaborate and Connect with Subversion
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/collaboratewithsubversion

Getting Out of Binding Situations in JavaScript
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/getoutbindingsituations

Portable Social Networks, The Building Blocks Of A Social Web
http://www.digital-web.com/articles/portable_social_networks_building_blocks
_of_a_social_web/

Integrating Social Media into a Web Content Strategy
http://www.digital-web.com/articles/social_media_to_web_content_strategy/

Enterprise CMSes vs. Blog CMSes
http://www.mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2008/06/enterprise-cmses-vs.blog-
cmses

Make government data freely available
http://egovau.blogspot.com/2008/06/make-government-data-freely-available.htm
l

Reduce Bounce Rates: Fight for the Second Click
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/bounce-rates.html

CSS Positioning Properties At-A-Glance Guide
http://www.sitepoint.com/article/properties-glance-guide

FancyZoom 1.1
http://www.cabel.name/2008/02/fancyzoom-10.html

Spam vs. Accessibility
http://www.joedolson.com/articles/2008/06/spam-vs-accessibility/

html vs css pt3/heading headaches
http://www.onderhond.com/blog/onderhond/html-vs-css-pt3-headings

Is Email In Danger?
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/is_email_in_danger.php

CSS Nesting Specifics - When CSS Misbehaves
http://css.dzone.com/news/css-nesting-specifics-when-css

SWF searchability FAQ
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplayer/articles/swf_searchability.html?devc
on=f1

Improved Flash indexing
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/

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Sydney PHP Group monthly meeting
---
Date: 03-Jul-08 
City: Sydney (Australia)
The Sydney PHP Group meets every first Thursday of the month, with the
exception of January (holidays).
sydphp.org


Garr Reynold's Presentation Zen
---
Date: 04-Jul-08 
City: Sydney (Australia)
Presentation Zen (www.presentationzen.com) is the legendary blog
on creating and delivering remarkable presentations. Garr Reynold's
recent book of the same name is now a best-seller, and is being
translated into seven languages. When we found out he was coming to Sydney
for a holiday, we talked him into giving a public presentation. This will be
on 4th of July, and will be the only chance to see him in action in
Australia. Read about the event on Slideshare:
http://www.slideshare.net/jamesr/presentation-zen-comes-to-sydney


Usability week 2008
---
Date: 21-Jul-08 to 26-Jul-08
City: Melbourne (Australia)
http://www.nngroup.com/events/melbourne/agenda.html


Web Usability Training Workshop
---
Date: 22-Jul-08 
City: Sydney (Australia)
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: 23-Jul-08
City: 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
 

Web Application Design Training Workshop
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Web Form Design Patterns: Sign-Up Forms
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/07/04/web-form-design-patterns-sign-up-
forms/

Table of Contents: Creative and Beautiful Examples
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/07/07/table-of-contents-creative-and-be
autiful-examples/

IE6 Independence?
http://ma.tt/2008/07/ie6-independence/

Catering to the impatient/ready, set, go!
http://www.onderhond.com/blog/onderhond/speed-over-efficiency-html-and-css

Scripting Enabled
http://scriptingenabled.org/

Shortwave Search
http://www.atomicninjalabs.com/shortwave-search

Mark Boulton's Freelance Design Secrets
http://www.sitepoint.com/article/mark-boulton-freelance-design

Yes, You Can Use HTML 5
http://meiert.com/en/blog/20080708/you-can-use-html-5/

Co-evolving 
http://bokardo.com/archives/co-evolving/

ReadWriteWeb Predictions: Twitter vs FriendFeed
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/readwriteweb_predictions_friendfeed_twi
tter.php

Relationship between Mobile Web Best Practices (MWBP) and Web Content
Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
http://www.w3.org/TR/mwbp-wcag/

CSS-Styled Lists: 20+ Demos, Tutorials and Best Practices
http://www.noupe.com/css/css-styled-lists-20-demos-tutorials-and-best-of.htm
l

60 Not To Be Missed Web Development Articles
http://css.dzone.com/news/60-not-to-be-missed-web-develo

How to enable kerning in Firefox 3 ?
http://ubuntu-snippets.blogspot.com/2008/06/how-to-enable-kerning-in-firefox
-3.html

Showcase: superb examples of slick SIFR typography
http://alphablogdesigns.com/2008/03/26/examples-of-sifr-typography/

IE8 Letter Spacing Demo
http://www.designdetector.com/bugs/ie8-letter-spacing-demo.html

The ampersand
http://www.adobe.com/type/topics/theampersand.html


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Usability week 2008
---
Date: 21-Jul-08 to 26-Jul-08
City: Melbourne (Australia)
http://www.nngroup.com/events/melbourne/agenda.html


Web Usability Training Workshop
---
Date: 22-Jul-08 
City: Sydney (Australia)
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: 23-Jul-08
City: 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
 

Web Application Design Training Workshop
---
Date: 1-July-08 Canberra (Australia)
Date: 9-Sep-08 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


Interaction Design Training Workshop
---
Date: 2-July-08 Canberra (Australia)
Date: 10-Sep-08 Melbourne (Australia

[WSG Announce] A quick special announcement - Opera Web Standards Curriculum

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A quick special announcement - Opera Web Standards Curriculum -  launched
today - just missed out on links for light reading but definitely worth
knowing about before next week :)

http://www.opera.com/wsc/

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[WSG Announce] Some links for light reading (16/7/08)

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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):


Judging forms
http://formulate.com.au/articles/judging-forms/

Review of Web Form Design: Filling in the Blanks
http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/calling-in-the-big

Producing Great Search Results: Harder than It Looks, Part 1
http://www.uie.com/articles/search_results/

Walking the Line When You Work from Home
http://alistapart.com/articles/walkingthelinewhenyouworkfromhome

Portable Social Networks, The Building Blocks Of A Social Web
http://www.digital-web.com/articles/portable_social_networks_building_blocks
_of_a_social_web/

Cheat Sheets for Front-end Web Developers
http://sixrevisions.com/resources/cheat_sheets_web_developer/

The Cindy Li Interview
http://www.christopherschmitt.com/2008/07/15/the-cindy-li-interview/

'Not a Site, but a Concept': Tapping the Power of Social Networking
http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=2009

The Clangers Guide to Microformats
http://www.vimeo.com/1290997

html vs css pt4/div-wrapped
http://www.onderhond.com/blog/onderhond/html-vs-css-pt4-wrapper-div

Why Twitter survives
http://www.snook.ca/archives/opinion/twitter_survival/

100 Ways to Improve Usability in Your Library
http://www.bestcollegesonline.com/blog/2008/07/14/100-ways-to-improve-usabil
ity-in-your-library/


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Usability week 2008
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Date: 21-Jul-08 to 26-Jul-08
City: Melbourne (Australia)
http://www.nngroup.com/events/melbourne/agenda.html


Web Usability Training Workshop
---
Date: 22-Jul-08 
City: Sydney (Australia)
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


July Canberra WIPA/WSG meeting
Date: 23-Jul-08 
City: Canberra (Australia)
Jessica Enders (Formulate Information Design), the secrets of successful
online forms; plus Alexi Paschalidis (Oxide Interactive) and Tim Siers
(Royal Australian Navy), redevelopment of the Royal Australian Navy web site
http://webstandardsgroup.org/meetings/index.cfm?event_id=155


Usability Evaluation & Testing Training Workshop
---
Date: 23-Jul-08
City: 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
 

August web standards meeting (Sydney)
---
Date: 19-Aug-08
City: Sydney (Australia)
Presentation 1: "Findability: going beyond SEO"
Presentation 2: "One Web, No Go"
Presentation 3: "Building web apps for iPhones"
http://webstandardsgroup.org/meetings/index.cfm?event_id=156


Web on the Piste
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Date: 20-Aug-08 to 21-Aug-08
City: Queenstown (New Zealand)
The ultimate conference for rich internet technologies is on again this year
and if you haven't already heard about it, then check out
www.webonthepiste.com and get yourself a ticket ASAP! WOTP is a vendor
neutral conference held in Queenstown, NZ in August 20 - 21st - in the
height of the ski season. With a unique offering of Microsoft and Adobe
playing happily together and showcasing the latest & greatest in
technologies such as Silverlight / WPF, Flash, Flex / AIR, .NET, Coldfusion,
you'll get a big dose of the RIA market in one place. With

[WSG Announce] Some links for light reading (22/7/08)

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click on the links below and find that they are broken):


W3C recently posts updated docs on relationship between usability and
accessibility 
http://www.frozen-o.com/blog/2008/07/w3c-recently-posts-updated-docs-on.html

Aging and accessibility
http://www.bestkungfu.com/archive/date/2008/03/aging-and-accessibility/

Conditional Comments for HTML Email
http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/07/18/conditional-comments-for-html-emai
l/

Producing Great Search Results: Harder than It Looks, Part 2
http://www.uie.com/articles/search_results_part2/

Can Interfaces be Evil?
http://bokardo.com/archives/can-interfaces-be-evil/

HeatMapAPI
http://www.heatmapapi.com/

Fix Your CSS
http://www.search-this.com/2008/07/14/fix-your-css/

Smart CSS Ain¹t Always Sexy CSS
http://www.digital-web.com/articles/smart_CSS_aint_always_sexy_CSS/

What the Heck is the Open Web?
http://codinginparadise.org/weblog/2008/07/what-heck-is-open-web.html

Font Embedding on the Web
http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2008/07/21/font-embedding-on-the-web.aspx

The easy way and hard way to start blogging
http://www.meryl.net/2008/07/the-easy-and-hard-way-to-start-a-blog/

Web-Based Tools for Optimizing, Formatting and Checking CSS
http://sixrevisions.com/css/css_code_optimization_formatting_validation/

50 must-read resources for web design
http://elitebydesign.com/50-must-read-resources-for-incredible-web-design/

css type selectors/designing the semantic web
http://www.onderhond.com/blog/work/leaving-out-css-type-selectors

LowBrowse
http://www.lighthouse.org/aboutus/press/press-releases/lowbrowse/

Wordpress Fun: A Free Wordpress Theme
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/07/16/wordpress-fun-a-free-wordpress-th
eme/

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Usability week 2008
---
Date: 21-Jul-08 to 26-Jul-08
City: Melbourne (Australia)
http://www.nngroup.com/events/melbourne/agenda.html


Web Usability Training Workshop
---
Date: 22-Jul-08 
City: Sydney (Australia)
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


July Canberra WIPA/WSG meeting
---
Date: 23-Jul-08 
City: Canberra (Australia)
Jessica Enders (Formulate Information Design), the secrets of successful
online forms; plus Alexi Paschalidis (Oxide Interactive) and Tim Siers
(Royal Australian Navy), redevelopment of the Royal Australian Navy web site
http://webstandardsgroup.org/meetings/index.cfm?event_id=155


Usability Evaluation & Testing Training Workshop
---
Date: 23-Jul-08
City: 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
 

Demystifying web accessibility workshop
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Date: Thursday, August 14th, 2008
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. 
http://www.rnib.org.uk/xpedio/groups/public/documents/PublicWebsite/publ
ic_introtrain.hcsp


August web standards meeting (Sydney)
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Date: 19-Aug-08
City: Sydney (

[WSG Announce] Some links for light reading (29/7/08)

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The Survey, 2008
http://alistapart.com/articles/survey2008

Any-Element Linking Demo
http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2008/07/23/any-element-linking-demo/

Curriculum Survey Results
http://www.webstandards.org/2008/07/28/curriculum-survey-results/

A Small Design Study Of Big Blogs
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/07/24/a-small-study-of-big-blogs/

The future of web font embedding
http://clagnut.com/blog/2166/

Great conference? Now what?
http://www.meryl.net/2008/07/great-conference-now-what/

Designing Search Checklist
http://www.adaptivepath.com/blog/2008/07/14/designing-search-checklist/

Regex Matching Attribute Selector
http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/07/29/regex-matching-attribute-selectors
/

Unit PNG Fix
http://labs.unitinteractive.com/unitpngfix.php

The Long Wow
http://www.uie.com/articles/the_long_wow/

Emastic
http://code.google.com/p/emastic/

Silverback
http://silverbackapp.com/

Open Web Foundation
http://openwebfoundation.org/

Last Call: CSS Color Module Level 3
http://www.w3.org/News/2008#item125

The accessibility paradox/cheering for the little man
http://www.onderhond.com/blog/work/accessibility-paradox


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Sydney PHP users group
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Date: 7-Aug-08
City: Sydney (Australia)
Meetings are a great place to network with (bring your business cards) and
meet other developers in the Sydney region, possibly find development work
and generally discuss tips and tricks in PHP development face to face with
your peers. We currently have upwards of 30 attendees per meeting so please
make sure you RSVP prior to coming so that adequate food and drinks can be
provided. 
http://www.sydphp.org/2008/07/18/august-2008-group-meeting/


Demystifying web accessibility workshop
---
Date: Thursday, August 14th, 2008
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. 
http://www.rnib.org.uk/xpedio/groups/public/documents/PublicWebsite/publ
ic_introtrain.hcsp


August web standards meeting (Sydney)
---
Date: 19-Aug-08
City: Sydney (Australia)
Presentation 1: "Findability: going beyond SEO"
Presentation 2: "One Web, No Go"
Presentation 3: "Building web apps for iPhones"
http://webstandardsgroup.org/meetings/index.cfm?event_id=156


Web on the Piste
---
Date: 20-Aug-08 to 21-Aug-08
City: Queenstown (New Zealand)
The ultimate conference for rich internet technologies is on again this year
and if you haven't already heard about it, then check out
www.webonthepiste.com and get yourself a ticket ASAP! WOTP is a vendor
neutral conference held in Queenstown, NZ in August 20 - 21st - in the
height of the ski season. With a unique offering of Microsoft and Adobe
playing happily together and showcasing the latest & greatest in
technologies such as Silverlight / WPF, Flash, Flex / AIR, .NET, Coldfusion,
you'll get a big dose of the RIA market in one place. With a heap of
excellent speakers / sessions, a fantastic social agenda and with the
activities that Queenstown offers - your guaranteed to learn a lot and have
fun. 


Local Government Web Network Conference 2008: We Believe in Community
---
Date: 21-Aug-08 to 22-Aug-08
City: Sydney (Australia)
2 full days on web technologies, strategies, creativity, and standards. 12
sessions in 2 streams and 6 plenary sessions from some of the leading
experts in the field from Industry and Government. With an impressive
program of topics and a hot list of speakers including:
* Cameron Adams, Russ Weakly, Brian Hardy, Tim Lucas, Lachlan Hardy.
The conference is the first annual conference of the Local Government Web
Network in NSW, the theme and title of the conference is "We Believe in
Community" which is at the heart of what the network aims to achieve

[WSG Announce] Some links for light reading (6/8/08)

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What to connect with other WSG members?

Linkedin WSG group:
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Facebook WSG group:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2410228768

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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):


7 Essential Guidelines For Functional Design
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/08/05/7-essential-guidelines-for-functi
onal-design/

Linkification
http://cameronmoll.com/archives/2008/07/linkification/

Control-Tab: A New Feature for Firefox
http://jboriss.wordpress.com/2008/07/16/control-tab-a-new-feature-for-firefo
x/

Coping With Internet Explorer's Mishandling of Buttons
http://allinthehead.com/retro/330/coping-with-internet-explorers-mishandling
-of-buttons

Wanted: IE8 Beta Testers
http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2008/07/30/wanted-ie8-beta-testers.aspx

Mining the SitePoint CSS Reference
http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/08/05/mining-the-sitepoint-css-reference
/

Content Migrations: Options, Strategies and Faux Pas
http://www.cmswire.com/cms/web-publishing/content-migrations-options-strateg
ies-and-faux-pas-002941.php

Closed question response categories
http://formulate.com.au/articles/closed-question-response-categories/

12 Best Practices for UX in an Agile Environment - Part 1
http://www.uie.com/articles/best_practices/

12 Best Practices for UX in an Agile Environment - Part 2
http://www.uie.com/articles/best_practices_part2/

Essential WordPress plugins
http://www.sillybean.net/2008/07/essential-wordpress-plugins/

Using Social Media (Ning) to Manage a Social Project - KETC and the Mortgage
Crisis
http://www.fastforwardblog.com/2008/07/02/using-social-media-ning-to-manage-
a-social-project-ketc-and-the-mortgage-crisis/

Passionates
http://bokardo.com/archives/passionates/

PixelPerfect
http://www.pixelperfectplugin.com/

A Brave New alt in {HTML5}
http://www.paciellogroup.com/blog/?p=84

 Something New, Part 1
http://v2.easy-designs.net/articles/replaceSelect/

Build a Simple RSS reader for the iPhone
http://theappleblog.com/2008/08/04/tutorial-build-a-simple-rss-reader-for-ip
hone

ARIA in Gmail #1: Alerts
http://www.marcozehe.de/2008/08/04/aria-in-gmail-1-alerts/


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--

Sydney PHP users group
---
Date: 7-Aug-08
City: Sydney (Australia)
Meetings are a great place to network with (bring your business cards) and
meet other developers in the Sydney region, possibly find development work
and generally discuss tips and tricks in PHP development face to face with
your peers. We currently have upwards of 30 attendees per meeting so please
make sure you RSVP prior to coming so that adequate food and drinks can be
provided. 
http://www.sydphp.org/2008/07/18/august-2008-group-meeting/


Demystifying web accessibility workshop
---
Date: Thursday, August 14th, 2008
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. 
http://www.rnib.org.uk/xpedio/groups/public/documents/PublicWebsite/publ
ic_introtrain.hcsp


August web standards meeting (Sydney)
---
Date: 19-Aug-08
City: Sydney (Australia)
Presentation 1: "Findability: going beyond SEO"
Presentation 2: "One Web, No Go"
Presentation 3: "Building web apps for iPhones"
http://webstandardsgroup.org/meetings/index.cfm?event_id=156


Web on the Piste
---
Date: 20-Aug-08 to 21-Aug-08
City: Queenstown (New Zealand)
The ultimate conference for rich internet technologies is on again this year
and if you haven't already heard about it, then check out
www.webonthepiste.com and get yourself a ticket ASAP! WOTP is a vendor
neutral conference held in Queenstown, NZ in August 20 - 21st - in the
height of the ski season. With a unique offering of Microsoft and Adobe
playing happily together and showcasing the latest & greatest in
technologies such as Silverlight / WPF, Flash, Flex / AIR, .NET, Coldfusion,
you'll get a big dose of the RIA market in one place. With a heap of
excellent speakers / sessions, a fantastic social agenda and with the
activities tha

[WSG Announce] Some links for light reading (12/8/08)

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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):


Deafness and the User Experience
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/deafnessandtheuserexperience

Putting Our Hot Heads Together
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/puttingourhotheadstogether

PingMyMap
http://pingmymap.com/

Facelife v1.1
http://facelift.mawhorter.net/

Startup, Inc - What You Need to Know Before Starting a Company
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/startup_inc_starting_a_company.php

5 Useful Coding Solutions For Designers and Developers
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/08/11/5-useful-coding-solutions-for-des
igners-and-developers/

MapIconMaker
http://gmaps-utility-library.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/mapiconmaker/1.0/docs/
examples.html

Design for Emotion and Flow
http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/design-for-emotion

Designing the online newsroom
http://www.pebbleroad.com/article/designing_the_online_newsroom/

Galleries: The Hardest Working Pages on Your Site
http://www.uie.com/articles/galleries_reprint/

It's 404 week at Webmaster Central
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/08/its-404-week-at-webmaster
-central.html

Specifics on CSS Specificity
http://css-tricks.com/specifics-on-css-specificity/

Borderline semantics
http://www.onderhond.com/blog/work/borderline-semantics

End of Life for PHP 4
http://shiflett.org/blog/2008/aug/end-of-life-for-php-4

Htaccess SEO Trends by Google
http://www.askapache.com/htaccess/htaccess-seo-trends.html

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WSG AND INDUSTRY EVENTS
--

Demystifying web accessibility workshop
---
Date: Thursday, August 14th, 2008
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. 
http://www.rnib.org.uk/xpedio/groups/public/documents/PublicWebsite/publ
ic_introtrain.hcsp


August web standards meeting (Sydney)
---
Date: 19-Aug-08
City: Sydney (Australia)
Presentation 1: "Findability: going beyond SEO"
Presentation 2: "One Web, No Go"
Presentation 3: "Building web apps for iPhones"
http://webstandardsgroup.org/meetings/index.cfm?event_id=156


Web on the Piste
---
Date: 20-Aug-08 to 21-Aug-08
City: Queenstown (New Zealand)
The ultimate conference for rich internet technologies is on again this year
and if you haven't already heard about it, then check out
www.webonthepiste.com and get yourself a ticket ASAP! WOTP is a vendor
neutral conference held in Queenstown, NZ in August 20 - 21st - in the
height of the ski season. With a unique offering of Microsoft and Adobe
playing happily together and showcasing the latest & greatest in
technologies such as Silverlight / WPF, Flash, Flex / AIR, .NET, Coldfusion,
you'll get a big dose of the RIA market in one place. With a heap of
excellent speakers / sessions, a fantastic social agenda and with the
activities that Queenstown offers - your guaranteed to learn a lot and have
fun. 


Local Government Web Network Conference 2008: We Believe in Community
---
Date: 21-Aug-08 to 22-Aug-08
City: Sydney (Australia)
2 full days on web technologies, strategies, creativity, and standards. 12
sessions in 2 streams and 6 plenary sessions from some of the leading
experts in the field from Industry and Government. With an impressive
program of topics and a hot list of speakers including:
* Cameron Adams, Russ Weakly, Brian Hardy, Tim Lucas, Lachlan Hardy.
The conference is the first annual conference of the Local Government Web
Network in NSW, the theme and title of the conference is "We Believe in
Community" which is at the heart of what the network aims to achieve. This
conference is open to all tiers of government, the public sector, non-profit
and community groups. Don't miss out on this great opportunity to meet with
your peers and professionals, participate in discussion and debate, and come
away inspired feeling a part of this new web community.
Register for tickets before 1 August: $350.00
Late registrations til 8 August: $400.00
 To register your tickets and for more information go to:
http://www.lgwebnetwork.org/


dConstruct 2008 (Brighton, UK)
---
Date: 5-Sep-08
City: Brighton (UK)
The hottest ticket in the web design calendar 

[WSG Announce] Two industry related surveys...

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Hi all,

Two industry-related surveys you may be interested in participating in...

A List Apart's "The Survey, 2008" is closing soon:
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/survey2008

Information Architecture Survey - "IA for agencies":
http://www.gurtle.com/ppov/2008/08/09/survey-ia-for-agencies/

Thanks
Russ




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[WSG Announce] WSG hits 6000 members - time to give away a door prize!

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Hi all,

A few hours ago the WSG hit 6000 members.

SitePoint have kindly offered to send three books to our shiny new 6,000th
member - Stephen Cannings from Sydney. Congratulations, Stephen!

The books:
The Ultimate HTML Reference (http://www.sitepoint.com/books/htmlref1/)
The Ultimate CSS Reference (http://www.sitepoint.com/books/cssref1/)
Simply JavaScript (http://www.sitepoint.com/books/javascript1/)

If you missed out, you may have to wait till the 7,000 member comes up - or
go to the SitePoint library and jump the middle-man
(http://sitepoint.com/books/library/)

:)

Thanks
Russ




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[WSG Announce] Some links for light reading (19/8/08)

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Raphael JavaScript library
http://raphaeljs.com/

ECMAScript Harmony: New Life for JavaScrip
http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/08/19/ecmascript-harmony-new-life-for-ja
vascript

The SEO Guide to Information Architecture
http://www.audettemedia.com/blog/seo-guide-information-architecture

Designer of 2015 trends
http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/designer-of-2015-trends

The Site Map: An Information Architecture Cop-Out
http://www.uie.com/articles/Sitemap

People Finder: Searching Without Logic?
http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/people-finder

Best Practice for ID and Class Names
http://meiert.com/en/blog/20080812/best-practice-ids-and-classes/

Caption-detail/tables and borderline semantics
http://www.onderhond.com/blog/onderhond/caption-detail

CSS 3 image replacement on the ODiN blog
http://www.brucelawson.co.uk/2008/css-3-image-replacement-on-the-odin-blog/

A Few Words on HTML/CSS Frameworks
http://meiert.com/en/blog/20080805/html-css-frameworks/

Farewell to soft 404s
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/08/farewell-to-soft-404s.htm
l

More on 404
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/08/now-that-weve-bid-farewel
l-to-soft-404s.html

News you can Use
http://www.usabilitynews.com/news/article4923.asp

Form Elements: 40+ CSS/JS Styling and Functionality Techniques
http://www.noupe.com/css/form-elements-40-cssjs-styling-and-functionality-te
chniques.html

Nine Deadly Startup Diseases‹and How to Cure Them
http://www.sitepoint.com/article/nine-deadly-startup-diseases

Blockquote: Then and Now
http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/08/12/blockquote-then-and-now/


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WSG AND INDUSTRY EVENTS
--

Web on the Piste
---
Date: 21-Aug-08
City: Queenstown (New Zealand)
The ultimate conference for rich internet technologies is on again this year
and if you haven't already heard about it, then check out
www.webonthepiste.com and get yourself a ticket ASAP! WOTP is a vendor
neutral conference held in Queenstown, NZ in August 20 - 21st - in the
height of the ski season. With a unique offering of Microsoft and Adobe
playing happily together and showcasing the latest & greatest in
technologies such as Silverlight / WPF, Flash, Flex / AIR, .NET, Coldfusion,
you'll get a big dose of the RIA market in one place. With a heap of
excellent speakers / sessions, a fantastic social agenda and with the
activities that Queenstown offers - your guaranteed to learn a lot and have
fun. 


Local Government Web Network Conference 2008: We Believe in Community
---
Date: 21-Aug-08 to 22-Aug-08
City: Sydney (Australia)
2 full days on web technologies, strategies, creativity, and standards. 12
sessions in 2 streams and 6 plenary sessions from some of the leading
experts in the field from Industry and Government. With an impressive
program of topics and a hot list of speakers including:
* Cameron Adams, Russ Weakly, Brian Hardy, Tim Lucas, Lachlan Hardy.
The conference is the first annual conference of the Local Government Web
Network in NSW, the theme and title of the conference is "We Believe in
Community" which is at the heart of what the network aims to achieve. This
conference is open to all tiers of government, the public sector, non-profit
and community groups. Don't miss out on this great opportunity to meet with
your peers and professionals, participate in discussion and debate, and come
away inspired feeling a part of this new web community.
Register for tickets before 1 August: $350.00
Late registrations til 8 August: $400.00
 To register your tickets and for more information go to:
http://www.lgwebnetwork.org/


dConstruct 2008 (Brighton, UK)
---
Date: 5-Sep-08
City: Brighton (UK)
The hottest ticket in the web design calendar is back for it's fourth
instalment. This year dConstruct will see speakers such as Steven
Johnson, Daniel Burka, Joshua Porter and Jeremy Keith talk about
"Designing the Social Web." Tickets go on sale at 11am BST on the
24th June and usually sell out within a day, so stick a note in your
diary today.
http://2008.dconstruct.org/


Fronteers 2008 conference
---
Date: 11-Sep-08
City: Amsterdam
On September 11th and 12th, the Fronteers 2008 conference will take place in
Pakhuis De Zwijger in Amsterdam. This conf

[WSG Announce] Some links for light reading (26/8/08)

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click on the links below and find that they are broken):


Execution Is Everything
http://www.uxmatters.com/MT/archives/000314.php

CSS Sprites2 - It's JavaScript Time
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/sprites2

Mapping Memory: Web Designer as Information Cartographer
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/mappingmemory

Screencasting: How To Start, Tools and Guidelines
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/08/19/screencasting-how-to-start/

5 Effective Wiki Uses
http://www.websitemagazine.com/content/blogs/posts/archive/2008/08/01/Effect
ive-Wiki-Uses.aspx

People Finder: Searching Without Logic?
http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/people-finder

Debugging JavaScript: Throw Away Your Alerts!
http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/08/22/debugging-javascript-throw-away-yo
ur-alerts/

State of the eNation Reports
http://www.abilitynet.org.uk/enation99

Three tips for ³company blogging²
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/three-tips-for-startup-bloggers/

A lovely break with the CSS Working Group
http://www.brucelawson.co.uk/2008/lovely-break-css-working-group/

Planning and coordinating content migrations
http://www.pebbleroad.com/article/planning_coordinating_content_migrations/

Design Cop-out #2: Breadcrumbs
http://www.uie.com/articles/breadcrumbs/

Tabular forms/existing peacefully together
http://www.onderhond.com/blog/onderhond/tabular-forms

28 Coolest Firefox About:Config Tricks
http://maketecheasier.com/28-coolest-firefox-aboutconfig-tricks/2008/08/21

9 Top CSS Essential Skills That Every Web designer Should Learn
http://acomment.net/9-top-css-essential-skills-that-every-web-designer-shoul
d-learn/299

Most Desired WordPress Hacks: 11 Common Requests and Fixes
http://www.noupe.com/wordpress/most-desired-wordpress-hacks-11-common-reques
ts-and-fixes.html


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WSG AND INDUSTRY EVENTS
--

SilverStripe User Meet up
---
Date: 27-Aug-08
City: Auckland (New Zealand)
We're taking the opportunity to meet to share views, get insights, and
support the Auckland SilverStripe community. Businesses and organisations
interested in meeting people experienced with building websites in
SilverStripe are most welcome also.
http://www.silverstripe.com/auckland-meetup-on-27-aug-2008/


dConstruct 2008 (Brighton, UK)
---
Date: 5-Sep-08
City: Brighton (UK)
The hottest ticket in the web design calendar is back for it's fourth
instalment. This year dConstruct will see speakers such as Steven
Johnson, Daniel Burka, Joshua Porter and Jeremy Keith talk about
"Designing the Social Web." Tickets go on sale at 11am BST on the
24th June and usually sell out within a day, so stick a note in your
diary today.
http://2008.dconstruct.org/


Webstock mini
---
Date: 9-Sep-08
City: Wellington (New Zealand)
Tuesday, 9 September, at the Paramount theatre in Wellington is the
place to be! We¹ve got a great Webstock mini planned and will be
launching Webstock 09. Speakers are Jonathan Mosen (blind accessibility
advocate and much more), Jefferson Fletcher (Senior Product Manager
working on Internet Explorer) and Kris Sowersby (font geek). We¹ll also be
announcing the speakers for Webstock 09 and giving away a
free ticket to the conference. All this, plus food and drink for only
$50.
http://webstock.org.nz/upcoming/mini-9sept.php


Fronteers 2008 conference
---
Date: 11-Sep-08
City: Amsterdam
On September 11th and 12th, the Fronteers 2008 conference will take place in
Pakhuis De Zwijger in Amsterdam. This conference, organised for front-end
engineers by front-end engineers, will focus narrowly on CSS and JavaScript.
http://fronteers.nl/congres/2008/english


Oz-IA/2008
---
Date: 20-Sep-08 to 21-Sep-08
City: Sydney (Australia)
Oz-IA, Australia's Information Architecture Conference, will be on once
again this year. This is our third year, and it's going to be even bigger.
We will also have full and half day workshops on Thursday 18th and Friday
19th. http://www.oz-ia.org/2008/
We have an immediate call for participation - short or advanced conference
sessions, posters, panels, and workshop facilitators. Deadline: July 25th.
http://www.oz-ia.org/2008/presenters.shtml


Singularity Web Conference
---
Date:  24-Oct-08 to 26-Oct-08
City: everywhere
Singularity is the first large-scale online web conference in the wor

[WSG Announce] Some links for light reading (2/9/08)

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click on the links below and find that they are broken):


Google Chrome, Google¹s Browser Project


A fresh take on the browser


Google on Google Chrome - comic book


How Captcha was foiled: Are you a man or a mouse?


When To Use Magazine-Style Themes For Blogs?


Introducing Ubiquity


Regex Patterns for Single Line CSS


Tagging is Not Just for Content


Two cheers for the Target/NFB accessibility settlement


Well Designed E-Commerce Websites


Microsoft breaks IE8 interoperability promise


IE8 not defaulting to IE8 rendering after all


Site visit interviews: from good to great


Four Essential Skills for Information Architects: An Interview with Donna
(Maurer) Spencer


Open Flash Chart GWT Widget Library


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SydneyPHP Users Group September meeting
---
Date: 4-Sep-08
City: Sydney (Australia)
or this meeting, we¹ll kick off our series introducing the new features
available in the upcoming PHP 5.3 release. and take a look at PHP
integration with IIS7.



dConstruct 2008 (Brighton, UK)
---
Date: 5-Sep-08
City: Brighton (UK)
The hottest ticket in the web design calendar is back for it's fourth
instalment. This year dConstruct will see speakers such as Steven
Johnson, Daniel Burka, Joshua Porter and Jeremy Keith talk about
"Designing the Social Web." Tickets go on sale at 11am BST on the
24th June and usually sell out within a day, so stick a note in your
diary today.



Webstock mini
---
Date: 9-Sep-08
City: Wellington (New Zealand)
Tuesday, 9 September, at the Paramount theatre in Wellington is the
place to be! We¹ve got a great Webstock mini planned and will be
launching Webstock 09. Speakers are Jonathan Mosen (blind accessibility
advocate and much more), Jefferson Fletcher (Senior Product Manager
working on Internet Explorer) and Kris Sowersby (font geek). We¹ll also be
announcing the speakers for Webstock 09 and giving away a
free ticket to the conference. All this, plus food and drink for only
$50.



Fronteers 2008 conference
---
Date: 11-Sep-08
City: Amsterdam
On September 11th and 12th, the Fronteers 2008 conference will take place in
Pakhuis De Zwijger in Amsterdam. This conference, organised for front-end
engineers by front-end engineers, will focus narrowly on CSS and JavaScript.



Oz-IA/2008
---
Date: 20-Sep-08 to 21-Sep-08
City: Sydney (Australia)
Oz-IA, Australia's Information Architecture Conference, will be on once
again this year. This is our third year, and it's going to be even bigger.
We will also have full and half day workshops on Thursday 18th and Friday
19th. We have an immediate call for participation - short or advanced
conference sessions, posters, panels, and workshop facilitators. Deadline:
July 25th.



CHISIG: August de los Reyes
Emotional Design and a Vision for Microsoft Surface
---
Date: 23 September 2008
City: Melbourne (Australia)
Description: A new inflection point in human-computer interaction is
upon us. Along with other technologies

[WSG Announce] Edge of the Web - Perth - November 6/7

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Hi all,

For the last three "links for light reading" I have forgotten to include
AWIA's amazing "Edge of the Web" under upcoming events. So, with apologies
to all concerned, here is the info!


Edge of the Web

Dates: 6-Nov-08 to 7-Nov-08
City: Perth (Australia)
http://www.edgeoftheweb.org.au/

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.

Edge of the Web includes a one day, two track conference on Thursday 6th
November and a day of technical workshops on Friday 7th November. AWIA have
secured an outstanding line up of international and national speakers to
present at the conference and like the WA Web Awards, AWIA¹s Edge of the Web
Conference will establish itself as a Œmust attend¹ annual event.


PS: Are there other events I have forgotten about or events you'd like to
promote? 
Let me know
Thanks
Russ




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History of the browser user-agent string


Microsoft CSS Vendor Extensions


40 Creative Design Layouts: Getting Out Of The Box


The Death of Internet Explorer 6: Still Prematurely Called


The story behind Google Chrome


On Google Chrome


JavaScript in Chrome


Shiny chromey new things


Workin' it on all browsers


Easy Vector Graphics with the Raphaël JavaScript Library


To Refresh, or Not to Refresh


The Helen Project


The shelf life of a website


Fieldset/Legend in XHTML vs. HTML


20 Websites To Help You Learn and Master CSS



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SydneyPHP Users Group September meeting
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Date: 4-Sep-08
City: Sydney (Australia)
or this meeting, we¹ll kick off our series introducing the new features
available in the upcoming PHP 5.3 release. and take a look at PHP
integration with IIS7.



dConstruct 2008 (Brighton, UK)
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Date: 5-Sep-08
City: Brighton (UK)
The hottest ticket in the web design calendar is back for it's fourth
instalment. This year dConstruct will see speakers such as Steven
Johnson, Daniel Burka, Joshua Porter and Jeremy Keith talk about
"Designing the Social Web." Tickets go on sale at 11am BST on the
24th June and usually sell out within a day, so stick a note in your
diary today.



Webstock mini
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Date: 9-Sep-08
City: Wellington (New Zealand)
Tuesday, 9 September, at the Paramount theatre in Wellington is the
place to be! We¹ve got a great Webstock mini planned and will be
launching Webstock 09. Speakers are Jonathan Mosen (blind accessibility
advocate and much more), Jefferson Fletcher (Senior Product Manager
working on Internet Explorer) and Kris Sowersby (font geek). We¹ll also be
announcing the speakers for Webstock 09 and giving away a
free ticket to the conference. All this, plus food and drink for only
$50.



Fronteers 2008 conference
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Date: 11-Sep-08
City: Amsterdam
On September 11th and 12th, the Fronteers 2008 conference will take place in
Pakhuis De Zwijger in Amsterdam. This conference, organised for front-end
engineers by front-end engineers, will focus narrowly on CSS and JavaScript.



Oz-IA/2008
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Date: 20-Sep-08 to 21-Sep-08
City: Sydney (Australia)
Oz-IA, Australia's Information Architecture Conference, will be on once
again this year. This is our third year, and it's going to be even bigger.
We will also have full and half day workshops on Thursday 18th and Friday
19th. We have an immediate call for participation - short or advanced
conference sessions, posters, panels, and workshop facilitators. Deadline:
July 25th.



CHISIG: August de los Reyes
Emotional Design and a Vision for Microsoft Surface
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Date: 23 September 2008
City: Melbourne (Australia)
Description: A new inflection point in human-computer interaction is
upon us. Along with other technologies, Microsoft Surface marks a
departure from graphical user interface or GUI into the world of Natural
User Interface or NUI. This talk begins with discussion of emotional
design and its 

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Form context highlighting using CSS only


Welcome to the World Wide Web Foundation


Look at it Another Way


Zebra Striping: More Data for the Case


jQuery and JavaScript Coding: Examples and Best Practices


10 Smart Javascript Techniques to Improve Your UI


Antenna House Formatter V5.0


A Free JavaScript Speed Boost for Everyone!


The Joy of Sketch : explorations in hand-crafted visuals


Cognition Announces "World's Largest Semantic Map"


Contrast Analyser, Version 2.1


Basic PHP Hacks and How to Secure your App


20 Free Page Analysis Tools


jParallax


Test your color IQ


Built-in Accessibility in GWT 1.5 Applications


Demystifying the "duplicate content penalty"



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Oz-IA/2008
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Date: 20-Sep-08 to 21-Sep-08
City: Sydney (Australia)
Oz-IA, Australia's Information Architecture Conference, will be on once
again this year. This is our third year, and it's going to be even bigger.
We will also have full and half day workshops on Thursday 18th and Friday
19th. We have an immediate call for participation - short or advanced
conference sessions, posters, panels, and workshop facilitators. Deadline:
July 25th.



CHISIG: August de los Reyes
Emotional Design and a Vision for Microsoft Surface
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Date: 23 September 2008
City: Melbourne (Australia)
Description: A new inflection point in human-computer interaction is
upon us. Along with other technologies, Microsoft Surface marks a
departure from graphical user interface or GUI into the world of Natural
User Interface or NUI. This talk begins with discussion of emotional
design and its importance in the future of society. The lens shifts to
how one design team is thinking about designing for a new era in which
emotional intent and intuitive interaction are the imperative. Using
theoretical models drawn from a mix of history, science, philosophy, and
even video game design, this presentation reveals principles behind
experience design for Microsoft Surface and beyond.



Accessible design in the digital world
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Date: 22 ­ 24 September
City: York (UK)
Learn the latest about web accessibility at the Accessible Design in the
Digital World Conference in beautiful York, UK.  Monday 22nd will be a
workshop on how to assess the accessibility of websites, based on a popular
workshop at last year¹s WWW Conference.  This will include demonstrations
and discussions of a range of techniques.  Tuesday 23rd will be
presentations on the latest ideas in web accessibility, including one from
Mike Paciello, Chairman of the committee revising the Section 508 Guidelines
in the USA and one from a member of the committee developing the new Web
Content Accessibility Guidelines Version 2 (WCAG2). For further information
contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit:



Singularity Web Conference
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Date:  24-Oct-08 to 26-Oct-08
City: everywhere
Singularity is the first large-scale online web conference in the world.
On October 24-26, join 100 of the world¹s top web visionaries, developers,
designers, thoug

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Web Standards 2008: Three Circles of Hell


Test-Driven Progressive Enhancement


7 Open Source Version Control Systems Reviewed


Anchor Buttons 


Understanding Disabilities when Designing a Website


Quick Turnaround Usability Testing


A Minimal HTML Document


CleverCSS


A Qualitative Study of Five Authors of Five Blogs on Training and
Development


Google Phone Unveiled, Can it Beat the iPhone?


What Goes into a Well-Done Critique


Dynamic URLs vs. static URLs


The web's future is a 'village'


Fancy Navigation with MooTools Javascript


Accessibility experiment


Killing blog comments



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Singularity Web Conference
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Date:  24-Oct-08 to 26-Oct-08
City: everywhere
Singularity is the first large-scale online web conference in the world.
On October 24-26, join 100 of the world¹s top web visionaries, developers,
designers, thought leaders, and celebrities for three days of talks at this
seminal web event. Attend from home or from a real-world local conference
hub near you. Catch up with old friends (you can find them from your
existing social networks) and meet new ones. And you don¹t even have to take
time off work.



Web Directions South 2008
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Date: 25-Sep-08 to 26-Sep-08
City: Sydney (Australia)
This year in over 30 sessions across 3 tracks and 2 days, plus another 2
days of workshops, we cover off front and back end design and development,
mobile design and development, information architecture, user experience and
interaction design, social media and networks, accessibility, Ajax and
Javascript, semantic web, RIAs, web application security, marketing and
advertising online and so much more. With speakers including:
* Jeffrey Veen - renowned UX expert from Wired, Adaptive Path, Google
* Derek Featherstone - leading accessibility expert
* Daniel Burka - interaction designer for Digg
* Jina Bolton - The Art and Science of CSS
* Douglas Crockford - Ajax security expert at Yahoo!, and the world's
leading JavaScript authority
* Jeff Croft - web design and typography guru
* Lynne D Johnson - Senior Editor and Community Director at FastCompany



Intranets 2.0
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Date: 29-Oct-08
City: Sydney (Australia)
 With case studies and practical tips from Australia's leading organisations
(including Sunguard NZ, Sparke Helmore, TabCorp, AMP and more!), this
one-day conference will demonstrate how organisations are weaving social
media tools into their existing intranet framework to enhance functionality
and create two-way communication.



Taxonomies 2.0
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Date: 30-Oct-08
City: Sydney (Australia)
During the course of this intensive one day event, an expert line-up of
speakers (including University of Melbourne, Sensis, Blake Dawson Waldon,
Department of Water WA and more!) will talk you through the steps you need
to take in order to exploit the benefits of social media when related to
your organisational taxonomies. Taxonomies are a fundamental part of your
information architecture for the management and organisation of content.
With the introduction of 2.0 tools and applications, their importance h

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BigTarget.js


Multiple form labels and screen readers


Concept Design Tools


jParallax


Cascading


Quick Turnaround Usability Testing


Dmitry Baranovskiy Talks about Raphaël


Artur Ortega and Leonie Watson - Screenreaders and JavaScript


Using JQuery for background image animations


Web Inspector Redesign


Opera Web Standards Curriculum - updated


The Live Web


Swirrl: Newly Launched Semantic Web Wiki


Communicate Quick: First Impressions Through Visual Web Design


Advanced Website Diagnostics with Google Webmaster Tools


Battling site spam/just a minor issue


tweetersation


a3 - Ability, Adaptability, Accessibility Magazine - spreading awareness
about accessibility


Setting up a new Website



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Sydney WSG meeting

Dates: 7-Oct-08
City: Sydney (Australia)
Presentation 1 - Ambient Personalisation & Rich Interaction Mechanisms
Christopher Khalil, News Digital Media
Presentation 2 - New Stuff in Web Standards
Lachlan Hunt



Fundamentos Web 2008

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.



Edge of the Web

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.



BarCampSydney
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Date: Saturday 15 November
City: Sydney (Australia)
More info to follow soon...



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-20

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Understanding Progressive Enhancement


CSS Systems for writing maintainable CSS


Acid3 receptions and misconceptions and do we have a winner?


Get rid of those YouTube EMBED tags


Automatic numbering with CSS Counters


Public consultation on browser standards for public sector Web sites:
Opera's response


Douglas Crockford: JavaScript Doesn¹t Suck


Importance of link architecture


Wallswaps


Accessibility Heuristics


Legacy defeats consistency in IE 8¹s Web 2.0 accessibility effort


15 Useful Batch Image Processors


Better about pages


Updates for AJAX in IE8 Beta 2


Browser stats/why we love the numbers


Single image tabs with three state rollover


Aligning inline images with the vertical-align property



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Fundamentos Web 2008

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.



Edge of the Web

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.



BarCampSydney
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Date: Saturday 15 November
City: Sydney (Australia)
More info to follow soon...



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/.



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 conferenc

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XHTML — myths and reality


Adding HTML validity checking to your ASP.NET web site via unit tests


Pricing Tables: Examples And Best Practices


Zoom


For and against standardizing font embedding


Getting a Form's Structure Right: Designing Usable Online Email Applications


Design for iPhone: a device that thinks different


Easily Create Printable Pages with PrintWhatYouLike.com


CSS Browser Hacks For Firefox, Opera, Safari & Internet Explorer


Ontology of Folksonomy: A Mash-up of Apples and Oranges


The 3 Q's for Great Experience Design


Good times with inbound links


Using Javascript to Fix 12 Common Browser Headaches


Single image tabs with three state rollover


Cross-fading disjointed image rollover



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Fundamentos Web 2008

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.



Edge of the Web

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.



World Usability day

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



BarCampSydney
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Date: Saturday 15 November
City: Sydney (Australia)
More info to follow soon...



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.



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 

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MAMA - Metadata Analysis and Mining Application


Mozilla For Mobile: Fennec


Fennec Releases


Rotating 3D cube in JavaScript


Unicode Entity Codes for Math


Twitter as a Tool for Social Change


Choosy


PDAnet -  turning your iPhone into a true WiFi router


World Plone Day, November 7th 2008


Announcing the AEGIS project


Metadata fundamentals for intranets and websites


Web Standards at Google


Floatitis pt1/an introduction


Floatitis pt2/using css text-align


Video Tutorial: Google for Webmasters


Gravatars: Why Both Commenters and Publishers Should Use It



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Fundamentos Web 2008

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.



Interactive Advertising:

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

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.



WIPA Web Accessibility 2.0 Seminar - Canberra

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.



WIPA Web Accessibility 2.0 Seminar - Sydney

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 s

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50 Beautiful Blog Designs


JavaScript Will Save Us All


Multi-threading in JavaScript


Typeface.js


Malware? We don't need no stinking malware!


A Scenario-based Approach to Evaluating Social Software


An Exercise for Emerging CSS Experts: Avoid IDs and Classes


Everything You Know About CSS Is Wrong


Quick and Dirty Usability Testing: Step Away from the Book


Web Accessibility Guidelines 2.0: Better Than a Poke in the Eye With a
Stick?


Floatitis pt3/the margin/float combo


Web Design is 95% Typography


CSSHttpRequest


YouTube Enables Deep Linking Within Videos


How to: CSS Large Background


Twitter, Flickr, Facebook Make Blogs Look So 2004


A CSS sticky footer


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Interactive Advertising:

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

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.



WIPA Web Accessibility 2.0 Seminar - Canberra

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.



WIPA Web Accessibility 2.0 Seminar - Sydney

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.



Wiki Wednesday

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 softwa

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Third Chrome beta another notch faster


Free Site Validator


10 Extensions That Make FireFox A Killer App


Juice Makes You Smarter, Faster (If You're on Firefox 3)


Do collaborative online groups need to be successful?


Most Wanted Ajax Techniques: 50+ Examples and Tutorials


Failure Is Not an Option -- It's a Requirement


Superfish v1.4.8 ­ jQuery menu plugin by Joel Birch


Prototyping with XHTML


markItUp! Universal markup editor


@font-face in IE: Making Web Fonts Work


Cruz


Reading up on WAI-ARIA


Mobile Screens and Pixel Sizes


Acid3 receptions and misconceptions and do we have a winner?


Conditional classnames


CopyPasteCharacter


Menu Bar Magic: Automated CSS Menus


floatitis pt4/the pos:abs method



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Edge of the Web

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.



WIPA Web Accessibility 2.0 Seminar - Canberra

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.



WIPA Web Accessibility 2.0 Seminar - Sydney

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.



Wiki Wednesday

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.



World Usability day

Dates: 13-Nov-08
City: Everywhere...
World Usability Day was founded in 2005 as an initiative of the Usability
Professionals' Association to e

[WSG Announce] Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 is a Proposed Recommendation

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Hi WSG members,

For your info...


Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 is a Proposed Recommendation


The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Working Group has published
the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 as a Proposed Recommendation,
and published updated Working Drafts of Understanding WCAG 2.0, Techniques
for WCAG 2.0, and How to Meet WCAG 2.0. WCAG defines how to make Web sites,
Web applications, and other Web content accessible to people with
disabilities. Comments are welcome through 2 December 2008. Read the
announcement, Overview of WCAG 2.0 Documents, and about the Web
Accessibility Initiative. (Permalink)

Further reading...

W3C Announcement:
http://www.w3.org/News/2008#item182

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/PR-WCAG20-20081103/

How to Meet WCAG 2.0
http://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG20/quickref/

Migrating from WCAG 1.0 to WCAG 2.0
http://wipa.org.au/papers/wcag-migration.htm

Accessible Forms using WCAG 2.0
http://www.usability.com.au/resources/wcag2/

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Keyboard-accessible Google Maps


Making decisions about user research


CSS3 box-sizing attribute


jastASlide 


CSS Transforms


The Ethics of Quick Backlinking Strategy


Is your (website¹s) underwear showing?


Writing Content that Works for a Living


Progressive Enhancement with JavaScript


Clarifying a Web Standards Workflow


Floatitis pt5/the future of inline-block


Fake User Profiles: Free Speech or Defamation?


jQuery History plugin


Intersquash.com - iPhoneize your website


Review: Google phone


Optimizing by Color: How Color Can Affect Site Activity and Performance


Find nasty JavaScript with the Obtrusive JavaScript Checker



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WIPA Web Accessibility 2.0 Seminar - Sydney

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.



Wiki Wednesday

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.



World Usability day

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



The Making Links 2008

Dates: 14-Nov-08
City: Melbourne (Australia)
The Making Links 2008 conference is hosting an all-day web development event
for nonprofit organisations, on Friday November 14 in Melbourne. Topics will
include: managing your community website: working with a web developer,
choosing the right tools, and more.



BarCampSydney
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Date: Saturday 15 November
City: Sydney (Australia)
More info to follow soon...



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.



Web Application Design Training Workshop
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Dates: 19th November City: Brisbane (Australia)
Processes and interface design fundamentals for designing usable web
applications - one 

[WSG Announce] HTML: The Markup Language - W3C Editor¹s Draft 14 November 2008

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HTML: The Markup Language
W3C Editor¹s Draft 14 November 2008

This specification describes the fifth major version of the HTML vocabulary.
It provides the details necessary for producers of HTML to create conformant
HTML documents. By design, it does not describe related APIs nor attempt to
describe how consumers of HTML are meant to process HTML documents.

This document ‹ HTML 5: The Markup Language ‹ currently has no official
standing within the HTML Working Group nor within the W3C as a whole. It is
at this point only an Editor¹s Draft being made available for review, with
the understanding that it is at a very early stage of development and that
the group may choose to decide to not move forward with further development
on it at all.

http://www.w3.org/html/wg/markup-spec/

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Sample Size Oddities


floatitis pt6


The Best Cheat Sheets for Web Developers


50+ Gorgeous Navigation Menus


jQuery Corners


People Are From Earth, Machines Are From Outer Space


Designing Tables for Usability


JS-909: A drum machine in JavaScript


Are Accessibility Statements Useful?


Lessons Learned while Building an iPhone Site


15 Useful Project Management Tools


Download free ColdFusion code, examples, MS SQL code and examples, CFCs,
classes and more


jive - social networking for your gran


Mapanui - a pocket map for your browser


30 Beautiful Examples of Grunge in Web Design


PR 2.0: Introducing The Conversation Prism


conversationprism wiki


Lorem 2: An all-around better Lorem experience


Agile Development Projects and Usability



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Web Application Design Training Workshop
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Date: 19-Nov-08
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. 

 
 
Interaction Design Training Workshop
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Date: 20-Nov-08
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.



Mental Models: Aligning web design strategy with human behaviour
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Date: 19-Nov-08 and 20 Nov-08
City: Sydney (Australia)
Indi Young from the USA will give you a deep understanding of people's
motivations and thought-processes, along with the emotional and
philosophical landscape in which they are operating. You use mental models
to align your web design strategy with how people work. This intensive
two-day course will help product designers, web designers and business
strategists develop digital, physical, and environmental interactions that
help people accomplish their goals.



Wordcamp Australia
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Dates: 29-Nov-08 to 30-Nov-08
Ciy: 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 Mullenw

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W3C Markup Validation Service adds experimental HTML5 support


Foxmarks


Business case for deleting content: Gerry McGovern


Niceforms


Experience the angst, joy and insights of an interaction designer living on
the edge of virtual reality


5 Tips for Startups and Entrepreneurs


Terrific Tables with CSS


Oiko CSS editor


RESTful CSS


Dyslexia and accessibility


15 Helpful In-Browser Web Development Tools


A More Useful 404


This is How the Web Gets Regulated


Springpad Helps You Get Things Done


YSlow for Firebug


-itis abuse


Where is Your Username registered



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Managing Legal Risks in a Digital Environment
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Dates: 26-Nov-08
City: Melbourne (Australia)
The interactive media landscape is diverse and constantly evolving, so
it is easy for businesses and practitioners to be a little hazy on
legalities.  AIMIA Victoria proudly presents a free event on Wednesday
the 26th of November about how to manage the legal risks relating to
your digital media business practice.  The session will explore topics
such as managing human resources, user generated content, privacy law
changes, trade practices issues and the legal relationship with customers.
Speakers include:
* Charles Power (Employment Law Partner - Holding Redlich)
* Marilyn Awad (IT/IP/Media Senior Associate - Holding Redlich)
* Dan Pearce (Media/IT/IP Partner - Holding Redlich)
* Non-legal speaker to be announced
For more information and to RSVP go to



Wordcamp Australia
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Dates: 29-Nov-08 to 30-Nov-08
City: 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/.



Ruxcon 2008
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Dates: 29-Nov-08
Ciy: Sydney (Australia)
Ruxcon is Australia's premier technical computer security conference,
held annually at the University of Technology (UTS), Sydney. After a
break in 2007, Ruxcon is back and bigger than ever. Ruxcon brings together
the best and the brightest security talent in the Australia-Pacific region
through live presentations, activities, and demonstrations. Ruxcon 2008 will
be held on the weekend of the to the 30th of November at the University of
Technology, Sydney. Doors open at 8:30am and the first presentation
commences at 9:30am.



WIPA Web Accessibility 2.0 Seminar - Brisbane

Dates: 2-Dec-08
City: Brisbane (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.



Sydney PHP Group December 2008 Meeting

Dates: 4-Dec

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UXBookClub


IE 6 mobile standards compliance tests


Helvetireader


Genetic A/B Testing with JavaScript


Web content migration: disastrous strategy


pretending to be the blind guy


Processing 1.0


s3Slider jQuery plugin


Review: 16 User Interface Prototyping Tools


Creating standards-compliant web designs with Fireworks CS4


Hacking JavaScript for Fun and Profit: Part II


Why We Call Them Participants


IE8: What¹s After Beta 2


50 Beautiful And Creative Portfolio Designs


Rewriting Twitter for web best practices


Poll: Do you use access keys?


The Skinny on Doctypes


24 ways - web design and development articles and tutorials for advent


Abandoning elastic design


All new Campaign Monitor



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WIPA Web Accessibility 2.0 Seminar - Brisbane

Dates: 2-Dec-08
City: Brisbane (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.



Sydney PHP Group December 2008 Meeting

Dates: 4-Dec-08
City: Sydney (Australia)
We¹re very happy to be ending 2008 on a high note with Sebastian Bergmann,
long time PHP contributor, presenting PHPUnit. Additionally, we have a venue
change this month from CodeGear to Yahoo!7 offices. For more information
about this event, please check the meeting page at




Web-Blast Canberra
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Date: 5-Dec-08
City: Canberra (Australia)
We're planning to hold WebBlastCanberra08 as follows:
Place: SMS Management and Technology, 8 Brindabella Circuit, Brindabella
Park (Canberra Airport). Our sponsors so far:
SMS Management and Technology, MaadMob, AcidLabs, ParisFirst Partners,
Microsoft Expression Studio



Web-Blast Sydney
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Date: 5-Dec-08
City: Sydney (Australia)
Web-blast is a huge end-of-year party for Sydney's web community - bringing
together web designers, web project managers, interface designers,
information architects and other web professionals. Join a range of Sydney's
web communities and celebrate the end of year in style on Friday 5th
December, 2008. Still 20 tickets left!



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 i

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Choose your resolution


iPhone For The Blind


Ten Recipes for Persuasive Content


Web Standards: Where the ROI is


Magic/Replace - Data Cleanup for Everyone from Dabble DB


In the Woods - 15 CSS Tricks That Must be Learned


Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL 3.0)


Getting OpenID Into the Browser


Python 3.0 Release


20 signs you don¹t want that web design project


DD_roundies: Another (better?) round-corner HTML box concept


24 ways: User Styling


Designing The Holy Search Box: Examples And Best Practices


Multicolr Search Lab


CSS boundaries


Getting Real About Agile Design


Flexible Fuel: Educating the Client on IA


Ecommerce on the go - selling through the mobile


Handle.net - The Handle System


jQuery sIFR Plugin


BSI British Standards invites comments on new draft standard on accessible
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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.



Web Adaptability for Inclusion Conference 2009
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Date: 21-Jan-09 to 23-Jan-09
City: Bundoora (Australia)
Worldwide, there have been significant steps towards a more inclusive online
environment. New applications for improving the accessibility of content and
services are adopting revised guidelines from W3C; new quality certification
standards have been developed, and interactive accessibility services are
emerging. The ISO committee has produced an inventory of needs, responses,
and requires input from users and developers. Learn more about Web 2.0 and
these developments at OZeWAI 2009.



Webstock09
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Date: 16-Feb-09 to 20-Feb-09
City: Wellington (New Zealand)
5 full-on days. 9 hands-on workshops. 26 kick ass speakers. 26 must see
presentations. Truckloads of design, development, user experience, web
standards, content, community, innovation and inspiration.



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Interface Developer
1 - 2 Month contract
Lower North Shore - Sydney

We need a good standards aware interface developer to help us get
through a busy period.

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Hi all,

The W3C has released Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0:

Today W3C announced a new standard that will help Web designers and
developers create sites that better meet the needs of users with
disabilities and older users. Drawing on extensive experience and community
feedback, the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 improve upon
W3C's groundbreaking initial standard for accessible Web content, apply to
more advanced technologies, and are more precisely testable.

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0


Understanding WCAG 2.0


Techniques for WCAG 2.0


How to Meet WCAG 2.0


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WCAG 2.0 is official - but is that all you need to make a site accessible?


WCAG 2 Test Drive


Are You Delivering Accessible Web Content?


Highlighting thumbnails using transparency


CSS Selectors testsuite


Checking Out: Progress Meters


Extending CSS Spriting


CSS Stacked Bar Graphs


Corporate Blogging: You¹re Doing It Wrong


New Accessibility Features in IE8


Google releases Chrome 1.0


Top 10 Consumer Web Apps of 2008


Easier Page States for Wireframes


8 Design Mistakes to Avoid


Pepsi stirs controversy - but understands social media


jQuery.popeye - an inline lightbox alternative


Opera 10 alpha: Web Fonts, Acid 3 and more


4 Easy-to-Use Microformat Tools to Beef Up Your Site


CSS and XSL-FO


Six Questions: Eric Meyer on CSS3


JavaScript demo for Assembly'05


50 Extremely Useful And Powerful CSS Tools


Just Ask: Integrating Accessibility Throughout Design


Pegs (Demo of scroll distribution for a single page)


Nate Klaiber Book Reviews


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Web Adaptability for Inclusion Conference 2009
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Date: 21-Jan-09 to 23-Jan-09
City: Bundoora (Australia)
Worldwide, there have been significant steps towards a more inclusive online
environment. New applications for improving the accessibility of content and
services are adopting revised guidelines from W3C; new quality certification
standards have been developed, and interactive accessibility services are
emerging. The ISO committee has produced an inventory of needs, responses,
and requires input from users and developers. Learn more about Web 2.0 and
these developments at OZeWAI 2009.



SIIA Information Industry Summit 2009
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Date: 26-Jan-09
The premier executive forum for leaders of the digital information industry.
This annual Summit of industry leaders is one of the very few forums
providing strategic guidance to the information industry's senior business
leaders, bankers and technologists.



Interaction 2009 - Vancouver
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Date: 5-Feb-09 to 8-Feb-09
Join several hundred Interaction Designers from around the world as we
address the design of interactive systems of all types: applications (web
and desktop), mobile, consumer electronics, digitally enhanced environments,
and more. Start your year off with stimulating talk, fun parties, and smart
discussions about our growing field.



Web Directions North
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Date: 2-Feb-09

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sIFR lite


Continuity


New guidelines boost web access


24 Most Underrated Websites of 2008


Sitemap Submission Made Simple


DD_belatedPNG: better PNG background-image support in IE6


Opera 10¹s Y2K Bug: Browser Detection Goes Bad


Quick Turnaround Usability Testing, Part II


5 Tips To Deal with Right-to-Left Projects


HTML vs. XHTML: Why HTML Wins


Yahoo! Query Language - YDN


FireUnit: JavaScript Unit Testing Extension


The Discipline of Content Strategy


Content-tious Strategy


Changing html images on hover


Web freelancers - Freelance and permanent web jobs in Australia and New
Zealand


10 Useful Techniques To Improve Your User Interface Designs


Making Modular Layout Systems


Gridr buildrrr


WebAIM Screen Reader Survey


Flexible equal height columns


IEBlog: The CSS Corner: Alternate Style Sheets


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Web Adaptability for Inclusion Conference 2009
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Date: 21-Jan-09 to 23-Jan-09
City: Bundoora (Australia)
Worldwide, there have been significant steps towards a more inclusive online
environment. New applications for improving the accessibility of content and
services are adopting revised guidelines from W3C; new quality certification
standards have been developed, and interactive accessibility services are
emerging. The ISO committee has produced an inventory of needs, responses,
and requires input from users and developers. Learn more about Web 2.0 and
these developments at OZeWAI 2009.



Ignite Sydney
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Date: 22-Jan-09
City: Sydney (Australia)
The idea is simple - make the presenters stick to a rigid format of 20
slides, each of which changes automatically after 15 seconds, giving a
guaranteed 5 minute presentation.



SIIA Information Industry Summit 2009
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Date: 26-Jan-09
The premier executive forum for leaders of the digital information industry.
This annual Summit of industry leaders is one of the very few forums
providing strategic guidance to the information industry's senior business
leaders, bankers and technologists.



Interaction 2009 - Vancouver
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Date: 5-Feb-09 to 8-Feb-09
Join several hundred Interaction Designers from around the world as we
address the design of interactive systems of all types: applications (web
and desktop), mobile, consumer electronics, digitally enhanced environments,
and more. Start your year off with stimulating talk, fun parties, and smart
discussions about our growing field.



Web Directions North
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Date: 2-Feb-09 to 7-Feb-09
City: Denver (Canada)
The focus on Web Directions has been, and remains, professional development.
Featuring 8 half day workshops, the brand new full day Ed Directions North,
for those teaching web professionals, and of course a two track, two day
conference, featuring 24 sessions.

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OpenID Organizes the Organizers While Facebook and Google Start Letting
Users Login


Tweetree - Birds in a tree.


Top 10 Reputation Tracking Tools Worth Paying For


Typechart - Browse Web Type, Grab CSS


Eeking out performance in script loading


2009: Predictions Across the Web


15 Tools If You Are (Not) Colorblind


What's On Tap: Predictions for 2009


The Typographic Desk Reference (TDR)


When Wikis Go Bad


TwittEarth - Live Twitts all over the world


Recession Tips For Web Designers


Iterative design


Contract Killer


Web standards in China


11 Expert Tips For Enhancing The User Login Process


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WSG AND INDUSTRY EVENTS
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Web Adaptability for Inclusion Conference 2009
---
Date: 21-Jan-09 to 23-Jan-09
City: Bundoora (Australia)
Worldwide, there have been significant steps towards a more inclusive online
environment. New applications for improving the accessibility of content and
services are adopting revised guidelines from W3C; new quality certification
standards have been developed, and interactive accessibility services are
emerging. The ISO committee has produced an inventory of needs, responses,
and requires input from users and developers. Learn more about Web 2.0 and
these developments at OZeWAI 2009.



Ignite Sydney
---
Date: 22-Jan-09
City: Sydney (Australia)
The idea is simple - make the presenters stick to a rigid format of 20
slides, each of which changes automatically after 15 seconds, giving a
guaranteed 5 minute presentation.



SIIA Information Industry Summit 2009
---
Date: 26-Jan-09
The premier executive forum for leaders of the digital information industry.
This annual Summit of industry leaders is one of the very few forums
providing strategic guidance to the information industry's senior business
leaders, bankers and technologists.



Interaction 2009 - Vancouver
---
Date: 5-Feb-09 to 8-Feb-09
Join several hundred Interaction Designers from around the world as we
address the design of interactive systems of all types: applications (web
and desktop), mobile, consumer electronics, digitally enhanced environments,
and more. Start your year off with stimulating talk, fun parties, and smart
discussions about our growing field.



Web Directions North
---
Date: 2-Feb-09 to 7-Feb-09
City: Denver (Canada)
The focus on Web Directions has been, and remains, professional development.
Featuring 8 half day workshops, the brand new full day Ed Directions North,
for those teaching web professionals, and of course a two track, two day
conference, featuring 24 sessions.



SMX West
---
Date: 10-Feb-09 to 12-Feb-09
City: California (USA)
With over 50 sessions, SMX delivers all of the search engine marketing
topics and trends you need to know to stay ahead of the curve ‹ whether
you¹re just getting started or an an SEM expert.



Webstock09
---
Date: 16-Feb-09 to 20-Feb-09
City: Wellington (New Zealand)
5 full-on days. 9 hands-on workshops. 26 kick ass speakers. 26 must see
presentations. Truckloads of design, development, user experience, web
stand

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Alignment within forms


OAuth doesn't stop phishing


Ziipa - a visual search engine


HTML-Ipsum


Using SVG on the Web


Represent - Open Blog


A Web Developer's Responsibility


I won't support IE 6 in 2009


Firefox Tops 20% in November, IE Now Under 70%


An interview with Google's CEO Eric Schmidt


How to Design Websites for Mobile Phones


Predictions for the mobile web in 2009


Top 100 Blogs for Developers


Helpful Hyperlinks with JavaScript


Google tells users to drop IE6


An Event Apart and HTML 5



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Web Adaptability for Inclusion Conference 2009
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Date: 21-Jan-09 to 23-Jan-09
City: Bundoora (Australia)
Worldwide, there have been significant steps towards a more inclusive online
environment. New applications for improving the accessibility of content and
services are adopting revised guidelines from W3C; new quality certification
standards have been developed, and interactive accessibility services are
emerging. The ISO committee has produced an inventory of needs, responses,
and requires input from users and developers. Learn more about Web 2.0 and
these developments at OZeWAI 2009.



Ignite Sydney
---
Date: 22-Jan-09
City: Sydney (Australia)
The idea is simple - make the presenters stick to a rigid format of 20
slides, each of which changes automatically after 15 seconds, giving a
guaranteed 5 minute presentation.



SIIA Information Industry Summit 2009
---
Date: 26-Jan-09
The premier executive forum for leaders of the digital information industry.
This annual Summit of industry leaders is one of the very few forums
providing strategic guidance to the information industry's senior business
leaders, bankers and technologists.



Web Directions North
---
Date: 2-Feb-09 to 7-Feb-09
City: Denver (Canada)
The focus on Web Directions has been, and remains, professional development.
Featuring 8 half day workshops, the brand new full day Ed Directions North,
for those teaching web professionals, and of course a two track, two day
conference, featuring 24 sessions.



Interaction 2009 - Vancouver
---
Date: 5-Feb-09 to 8-Feb-09
Join several hundred Interaction Designers from around the world as we
address the design of interactive systems of all types: applications (web
and desktop), mobile, consumer electronics, digitally enhanced environments,
and more. Start your year off with stimulating talk, fun parties, and smart
discussions about our growing field.



Launch48 - 48 hours to launch a web app
---
Date: 6-Feb-09 to 8-Feb-09
City: London (UK)
Launch48 is an event for anyone wishing to get involved in a new business
and launch a web app.  The event last 48 hours and the participants are
encouraged to work together to find an idea, develop the solution, and
launch the product within 48 hours.  There will be a range of people
attending from developers and designers to venture capitalists and
entrepreneurs.  The event is open to everyone although positions are
limited.



S

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How to: Build a Social Media Cheat Sheet for Any Topic


Beautiful Code Documentation


HTML 5 canvas - the basics


Tidy up your stylesheets


Short URLs for Google


Luminosity Contrast Ratio Main Colour Contrast Analyser


HTML 5 elements test


Push Your Web Design Into The Future With CSS3


A definition of user experience


10 Most Common Misconceptions About User Experience Design


WAI-ARIA Best Practices


ARIA Video Project Home Page


Use of Web 2.0 Tools


Using Twitter as a data provider to automatically fill forms


Encouraged Commentary


User Interviews - Analysis Simplified


Interface Collection for Design Inspiration


Flipping typical


A Little-known Way to Replace Some Scripts with CSS Counters


It Died


Return of the Mobile Style Sheet


Semantics in HTML 5


Site stats for all to see


Retaggr - your online presence everywhere



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Web Adaptability for Inclusion Conference 2009
---
Date: 21-Jan-09 to 23-Jan-09
City: Bundoora (Australia)
Worldwide, there have been significant steps towards a more inclusive online
environment. New applications for improving the accessibility of content and
services are adopting revised guidelines from W3C; new quality certification
standards have been developed, and interactive accessibility services are
emerging. The ISO committee has produced an inventory of needs, responses,
and requires input from users and developers. Learn more about Web 2.0 and
these developments at OZeWAI 2009.



Ignite Sydney
---
Date: 22-Jan-09
City: Sydney (Australia)
The idea is simple - make the presenters stick to a rigid format of 20
slides, each of which changes automatically after 15 seconds, giving a
guaranteed 5 minute presentation.



SIIA Information Industry Summit 2009
---
Date: 26-Jan-09
The premier executive forum for leaders of the digital information industry.
This annual Summit of industry leaders is one of the very few forums
providing strategic guidance to the information industry's senior business
leaders, bankers and technologists.



Web Directions North
---
Date: 2-Feb-09 to 7-Feb-09
City: Denver (Canada)
The focus on Web Directions has been, and remains, professional development.
Featuring 8 half day workshops, the brand new full day Ed Directions North,
for those teaching web professionals, and of course a two track, two day
conference, featuring 24 sessions.



Interaction 2009 - Vancouver
---
Date: 5-Feb-09 to 8-Feb-09
Join several hundred Interaction Designers from around the world as we
address the design of interactive systems of all types: application

[WSG Announce] W3C seeks new Managing Director - are you interested?

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This job add is with it's own post as it will have a significant impact on
the web overall :)

The W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) is currently seeking a new Managing
Director. 

"Managing Director of the World Wide Consortium (W3C), to be responsible for
overall management of the W3C, with the goal of furthering its ability to
lead the Web to its full potential."

More details here: 
http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Recruitment/

Are you going to apply? Why not!
Thanks
Russ




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11 Useful Tools To Check, Clean & Optimize Your CSS File


Styling XFN and rel-license links - Opera Developer Community


10 Smart Javascript Techniques For Manipulating Content


Mike asks the CSS Guy about a scrolling trick with background images


Wiki Myths, Wiki Reality


12 resources for getting a jump on HTML 5


FoxTab


Redesigning with HTML 5 and WAI-ARIA


ActivityHorizon.com - what's doing?


Accessibility: Improved ARIA Support in the IE8 RC


Raphaël: a JavaScript API for SVG


TokBox - Live Video Calling


Using WAI ARIA Landmark Roles - The Paciello Group Blog


Whitelabel css


Web Design Trends For 2009


Cooliris - Discover More


User Experience Design doesn't need to be a big deal


Add Semantic Richness To Your Markup With (RDF) Ease


Web Development Project Estimator


Carry your life on a thumb drive (or iPod)


10 Ways to Improve Your Web Page Performance


Powering a Google search


Understanding the "Nofollow" Tag



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WSG AND INDUSTRY EVENTS
--

Ignite Sydney
---
Date: 22-Jan-09
City: Sydney (Australia)
The idea is simple - make the presenters stick to a rigid format of 20
slides, each of which changes automatically after 15 seconds, giving a
guaranteed 5 minute presentation.



SIIA Information Industry Summit 2009
---
Date: 26-Jan-09
The premier executive forum for leaders of the digital information industry.
This annual Summit of industry leaders is one of the very few forums
providing strategic guidance to the information industry's senior business
leaders, bankers and technologists.



Web Directions North
---
Date: 2-Feb-09 to 7-Feb-09
City: Denver (Canada)
The focus on Web Directions has been, and remains, professional development.
Featuring 8 half day workshops, the brand new full day Ed Directions North,
for those teaching web professionals, and of course a two track, two day
conference, featuring 24 sessions.



Interaction 2009 - Vancouver
---
Date: 5-Feb-09 to 8-Feb-09
Join several hundred Interaction Designers from around the world as we
address the design of interactive systems of all types: applications (web
and desktop), mobile, consumer electronics, digitally enhanced environments,
and more. Start your year off with stimulating talk, fun parties, and smart
discussions about our growing field.



Launch48 - 48 hours to launch a web app
---
Date: 6-Feb-09 to 8-Feb-09
City: London (UK)
Launch48 is an event for anyone wishing to get involved in a new business
and launch a web app.  The event last 48 hours and the participants are
encouraged to wo

[WSG Announce] Some links for light reading (27/1/09)

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click on the links below and find that they are broken):


List of 10+ usability-conscious link styles done in CSS


Communicating with code


Captcha cracking in JavaScript with Canvas and neural nets


How Can I Validate (X)HTML + ARIA?


New CSS Sticky Footer


Microformats, accessibility, HTML 5 (again)


Making the new Yahoo! Currency Converter accessible


10 Outstanding Metaphors in Icon Design - Turbomilk


compfight - a flickr search tool


12 Useful Techniques For Good User Interface Design


A List Apart: Articles: Brighter Horizons for Web Education


Using HTTP Headers to Serve Styles


Investigating the proposed alt attribute recommendations in HTML 5


Change Web Designers Can Believe In


AT/JAWS


Talklets makes the web talk


My DebugBar


Logo design for Giacom


Layers - Screen forensics


Is Ruby¹s Popularity Fading?


UI Scraps - user interface designs


My Happy Planet - learn languages with partners around the world


Blacklabel CSS



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Web Directions North
---
Date: 2-Feb-09 to 7-Feb-09
City: Denver (Canada)
The focus on Web Directions has been, and remains, professional development.
Featuring 8 half day workshops, the brand new full day Ed Directions North,
for those teaching web professionals, and of course a two track, two day
conference, featuring 24 sessions.



Interaction 2009 - Vancouver
---
Date: 5-Feb-09 to 8-Feb-09
Join several hundred Interaction Designers from around the world as we
address the design of interactive systems of all types: applications (web
and desktop), mobile, consumer electronics, digitally enhanced environments,
and more. Start your year off with stimulating talk, fun parties, and smart
discussions about our growing field.



Launch48 - 48 hours to launch a web app
---
Date: 6-Feb-09 to 8-Feb-09
City: London (UK)
Launch48 is an event for anyone wishing to get involved in a new business
and launch a web app.  The event last 48 hours and the participants are
encouraged to work together to find an idea, develop the solution, and
launch the product within 48 hours.  There will be a range of people
attending from developers and designers to venture capitalists and
entrepreneurs.  The event is open to everyone although positions are
limited.



SMX West
---
Date: 10-Feb-09 to 12-Feb-09
City: California (USA)
With over 50 sessions, SMX delivers all of the search engine marketing
topics and trends you need to know to stay ahead of the curve ‹ whether
you¹re just getting started or an an SEM expert.



Webstock09
---
Date: 16-Feb-09 to 20-Feb-09
City: Wellington (New Zealand)
5 full-on days. 9 hands-on workshops. 26 kick ass speakers. 26 must see
pr

[WSG Announce] Some links for light reading (03/02/09)

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click on the links below and find that they are broken):


Web Design+ ‹ Tips and advice on web standards development


Academic Earth - Video lectures from the world's top scholars


Introduction to AJAX Technologies


Open redirect URLs: Is your site being abused?


5 Popular CSS Frameworks + Tutorials & Tools for Getting Started


Exploring SEO - Part 2: Create something worth finding - zumio


Is mobile web development compatible with the One Web?


Colors In Corporate Branding And Design


Five Simple Steps


JavaScript Reference


Are Social Media Consultants Harming Social Media?


Screen Reader Survey Results


Previous and Next Actions in Web Forms


Pipl - People Search


5 Steps to Going Viral on Twitter


iPlotz: wireframing, mockups and prototyping for websites and applications


Improving the blacklabel CSS


Radar's Photo Sharing App Comes to the iPhone


User Experience Deliverables


Userfly - instant web usability testing


A Detailed Look at the 960 CSS Framework


Headings, heading hierarchy, and document outlines


Sprite Optimization


ARN - Microsoft delivers IE8 release candidate


CSSCRAP - naturally scary design


FireScope


Validator S.A.C. - Stand-Alone W3C HTML Validator Application for Mac OS X



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Web Directions North
---
Date: 2-Feb-09 to 7-Feb-09
City: Denver (Canada)
The focus on Web Directions has been, and remains, professional development.
Featuring 8 half day workshops, the brand new full day Ed Directions North,
for those teaching web professionals, and of course a two track, two day
conference, featuring 24 sessions.



WSG Canberra meeting
---
Date: 4-Feb-09
City: Canberra (Australia)
Presentation 1: Jessica Enders, Formulate Information Design - Zebra
striping: the mouse that roared. Presentation 2: Donna Spencer, Maadmob -
Involving Users: Why is it so hard to do the right thing?



Interaction 2009 - Vancouver
---
Date: 5-Feb-09 to 8-Feb-09
Join several hundred Interaction Designers from around the world as we
address the design of interactive systems of all types: applications (web
and desktop), mobile, consumer electronics, digitally enhanced environments,
and more. Start your year off with stimulating talk, fun parties, and smart
discussions about our growing field.



Launch48 - 48 hours to launch a web app
---
Date: 6-Feb-09 to 8-Feb-09
City: London (UK)
Launch48 is an event for anyone wishing to get involved in a new business
and launch a web app.  The event last 48 hours and the participants are
encouraged to work together to find an idea, develop the solution,

[WSG Announce] Some links for light reading (10/02/09)

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click on the links below and find that they are broken):


Accessible Twitter: web accessibility for Twitter


140 Characters -  How Twitter Was Born


Increase Productivity By Marking The End Of The Day


30+ Incredibly Useful Mac Apps for Web Design


Opera Fights Back: Announces Next Gen JavaScript Engine


Improvingcode - open source software for web developers


Recreating the button


50 Beautiful And User-Friendly Navigation Menus


30 Essential Controls


Headers, footers, columns, and templates


Web Anatomy: Introducing Interaction Design Frameworks


Headings in HTML 5 and accessibility


Design's elusive "final ten percent"


Use CSS Diagnostics with Stylish to find bad HTML


Why Your Avatar Matters


The Details That Matter


Advanced Debugging with JavaScript


Wireframes Magazine


Cornify - Unicorns and Rainbows On-Demand


Printable Checklist


Carakan - By Opera Core Concerns


Programming language design philosophy


Cannybill - Invoicing and billing software



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SMX West
---
Date: 10-Feb-09 to 12-Feb-09
City: California (USA)
With over 50 sessions, SMX delivers all of the search engine marketing
topics and trends you need to know to stay ahead of the curve ‹ whether
you¹re just getting started or an an SEM expert.



WSG February meeting (Melbourne)
---
Date: 16-Feb-09
City: Melbourne (Australia)
Kevin Yank, author of "Everything You Know About CSS Is Wrong" talks about
why the future of web page design is ... tables.



Webstock09
---
Date: 16-Feb-09 to 20-Feb-09
City: Wellington (New Zealand)
5 full-on days. 9 hands-on workshops. 26 kick ass speakers. 26 must see
presentations. Truckloads of design, development, user experience, web
standards, content, community, innovation and inspiration.



Demystifying Web Accessibility Training Course
--
Date: Monday 16th February 2009 (1 Day)
City: London, England
Description: This course is 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.



Web Accessibility - Transitioning from WCAG 1.0 to WCAG 2.0 Training
Course
--
Date: Tuesday 17th February 2009 (1/2 Day - AM)
City: London, England
Description: A practical course to introduce the newly released
guidelines for web accessibility, the Web Accessibility Content
Guidelines 2.0 (WCAG 2.0). It will enable and inform web managers,
designers and developers, who have been working with WCAG 1.0 to start
using WCAG 2.0.

[WSG Announce] CSS and Javascript workshop - foundations of the new web

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Hi all,

For those interested, Cameron Adams and I will be running a series of
workshops across Australia in May...

CSS and Javascript workshop - foundations of the new web
http://www.maxdesign.com.au/workshop-javascript2006/

If you're interested in building websites that will work now and into the
future, this two day workshop is for you. Ideal for designers and developers
with basic or intermediate knowledge of CSS and/or Javascript who want to
learn more.

Day 1 covers a range of aspects of CSS including:
- understanding CSS rule structure and selectors
- writing efficient CSS code
- building cross-browser stable CSS layouts
- creating layouts that are fully expandable
- dealing with browser bugs and layout variations

Day 2 covers beginners and intermediate aspects of Javascript including:
- constructing a Javascript dropdown menu
- producing a collapsible and expandable list
- validating a form using Javascript
- creating dynamic page layouts based on screen resolution
- developing inline editing with AJAX

Sydney: 8-9 May 2006
Melbourne: 11-12 May 2006
Canberra: 15-16 May 2006
Brisbane: 18-19 May 2006
Perth: 29-30 May 2006

More information:
http://www.maxdesign.com.au/workshop-javascript2006/

Thanks
Russ




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[WSG Announce] Melbourne WSG meeting - April - "Let's all jump on the AJAX bandwagon"

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It appears I sent out the wrong date for the upcoming Melbourne WSG meeting.
A more accurate update:

Melbourne WSG meeting - April
06 April 2006

Cameron Adams - "Let's all jump on the AJAX bandwagon"

AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) gives webpages the ability to act
as desktop applications using invisible data communication and seamless
refreshing of individual page elements. This has the potential to either
ruin the Web or propel it into a new era.

Cameron Adams will introduce the technology behind AJAX, explore its pros
and cons, and discuss current best practices for its development.

http://webstandardsgroup.org/meetings/index.cfm?event_id=54


Thanks
Russ
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[WSG Announce] Upcoming WSG events

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Hi all,

Below are some WSG events coming up. A few points to note:

1. Perth, Melbourne and Sydney have events happening within the next week or
so, so make sure you RSVP to the relevant email in each case!

2. Sydney has just added another two exciting events to pencil into your
diaries for June 8 and August 17 - see below.

3. people in other cities (or countries) who feel the urge to start up
meetings - let me know and I will do all I can to help!


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UPCOMING WSG EVENTS

Perth WSG meeting - March
30 March 2006
Alexandra Graham talks about doing accessible business online, and
Nick Cowie educates us about the oft-forgotten button element and its
role in styling forms.
>From 6pm, ECU Mt Lawley
http://webstandardsgroup.org/meetings/index.cfm?event_id=58


Melbourne WSG meeting - April
06 April 2006
http://webstandardsgroup.org/meetings/index.cfm?event_id=54
Cameron Adams - "Let's all jump on the AJAX bandwagon"
AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) gives webpages the ability to act
as desktop applications using invisible data communication and seamless
refreshing of individual page elements. This has the potential to either
ruin the Web or propel it into a new era.
http://webstandardsgroup.org/meetings/index.cfm?event_id=54


Sydney WSG meeting - April
Friday April 7
WCAG 2 and how it affects you!
Two of Australia's leading experts on WCAG 2, Bruce McGuire and gian
Sampson-Wild come together for one night only to answer all your questions.
http://webstandardsgroup.org/meetings/index.cfm?event_id=61


Ideas3
11 April 2006
Port80 brings together two world-class speakers: CSS guru John Allsopp
of WestCiv and Britpack blogger, noted designer and typographer Mark
Boulton.
>From 7pm, The Melbourne Hotel, Perth
Tickets from http://www.port80.asn.au/events/


Sydney WSG meeting - June
Javascript in action/ Searching Smarter
June 8 
Cameron Adams: Javascript and Ajax in action
David Hawkins: Practical methods to improve the search facilities of your
website. 
Proudly sponsored by Red Square
http://www.redsquare.com.au/
http://webstandardsgroup.org/meetings/index.cfm?event_id=62


Sydney WSG meeting - August
Web usability ­ tag clouds and Web 2.0 applications
August 17 
Roger Hudson: Exploring tag clouds ­ and how users interact with them.
Donna Maurer: Web 2.0 applications and some of the traps associated with
newer forms of interaction.
http://webstandardsgroup.org/meetings/index.cfm?event_id=63


Thanks
Russ




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[WSG Announce] CSS & Javascript workshops tickets on sale - win an iPod Nano!

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Tickets are now on sale for the "CSS & Javascript workshop - foundations of
the new web"
http://www.maxdesign.com.au/workshop-javascript2006/

Some incentive to book tickets early:

1. Buy your ticket before April 10 and be in the running to win a 1GB iPod
Nano valued at $219.

2. A signed copy of "The JavaScript Anthology" and "Teach yourself CSS in 10
Minutes" will be given to the first person who buys tickets at each venue.

No free set of steak knives unfortunately...
Thanks
Russ




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Re: [WSG] getting an "a"

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> The following rule has failed to reach the desired  in the following
> dl#contact dt#email dd a {border: 1px solid black}
> 

That is an incorrect path. The  does not sit inside the . Instead,
the  and the  are siblings that share the same parent - the 
(who I have heard is a very poor parent and doesn't look after his children
well at all!).

The correct path would be:
dl#contact dd a {border: 1px solid black}

Best to always draw a document tree if you get stuck, then it is easy to see
that these two elements sit side by side.

If you want to target the  element inside a specific , then you'd
have to add another class or id.

HTH

Russ
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Re: [WSG] getting an "a" - document trees

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An elegantly worded sentence on document trees:
http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/conform.html#doctree

Or, for those who struggled with the concept of document trees (or any plant
matter) there is a simpler explanation here:

http://css.maxdesign.com.au/selectutorial/document_tree.htm
http://css.maxdesign.com.au/selectutorial/document_ancestor.htm
http://css.maxdesign.com.au/selectutorial/document_descendant.htm
http://css.maxdesign.com.au/selectutorial/document_parent.htm
http://css.maxdesign.com.au/selectutorial/document_child.htm
http://css.maxdesign.com.au/selectutorial/document_sibling.htm
http://css.maxdesign.com.au/selectutorial/document_multiple.htm

> Bowing Humbly To The Master

Dunno who this was aimed at but I ain't no master.
No pebbles in this hand to snatch!
I can't even spell, it seems  :)
Russ


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Re: [WSG] Web Standards Speech

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> The last thing is that this is the first time I give a speech, so
> maybe someone with a little more experience in this matter could point
> me some subjects I should/should not talk about.

Not sure if this is heading way ff topic. If so, I'll write to myself
offlist and give myself a stern talking to...

I try to avoid any reference to:
1. The XHTML vs HTML debate (often ends up in fist fights)
2. Alien abductions (seems to reduce credibility to some degree)
3. American presidents past or present (or any President/Prime minister for
that matter)

A few tips I always try to keep in mind:
1. always wear cloths when public speaking
2. face the audience when talking to them (for some reason this can engage
them???)
3. if your audience falls asleep, throw things at them

The best pointers are probably Jeff Veens:
http://www.veen.com/jeff/archives/000483.html

And Dave Shea's
http://mezzoblue.com/archives/2006/02/27/speaking_ti/

A fantastic blog on presenting and presentations:
http://presentationzen.blogs.com/presentationzen/

Good luck with your talk!
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LINKS FOR LIGHT READING


Optimising firefox
http://www.download.com/Optimizing-Firefox/1200-20_4-5159142.html?tag=cnetfd
.sd

A Journey Through Accessibility
http://juicystudio.com/article/journey-through-accessibility.php

Lose a little at a time Jason 04 Apr 2006
http://37signals.com/svn/archives2/lose_a_little_at_a_time.php?43

Preparing for Widescreen
http://www.digital-web.com/articles/preparing_for_widescreen/

Accessible CSS Forms: Using CSS to Create a Two-Column Layout
http://www.websiteoptimization.com/speed/tweak/forms/

Write stylesheets simultaneously
http://www.snippit.net/css/write-stylesheets-for-all-major-platforms-simulta
neously.html

Layout Complete Announced at MIX06
http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2006/03/23/559409.aspx

Announcing Internet Explorer Feedback
http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2006/03/24/560095.aspx

Anonymity and Online Community: Identity Matters
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/identitymatters

Ajax and Your CMS
http://www.cmswatch.com/Feature/143-Direct-Web-Remoting?source=RSS

Spiffy markup?
http://www.webstandards.org/2006/04/05/am-i-spiffy-or-not/

Designing For Context and Convergence
http://www.7nights.com/asterisk/archives05/2006/03/designing-for-context-and
-convergence

Ajax loading gif generator
http://www.ajaxload.info/

Interesting facts about domain names
http://www.yafla.com/dforbes/2006/03/29.html#a302

Bunny hunt
http://www.themaninblue.com/writing/perspective/2006/04/03/




WEB-RELATED EVENTS


1. CSS and Javascript workshop - foundations of the new web
If you're interested in building websites that will work now and into the
future, this two day workshop is for you. Ideal for designers and developers
with basic or intermediate knowledge of CSS and/or Javascript who want to
learn more. 

Book before APRIL 10 and be in the running to win a free iPod Nano!
More information:
http://www.maxdesign.com.au/workshop-javascript2006/


2. Writing for the Web Workshop in Melbourne - 27 April 2006
This practical workshop run by Vision Australia focuses on enhancing the
usability and accessibility of your web content and will teach you how to
communicate effectively with your readers. Web Accessibility Workshops in
Adelaide, Sydney and Canberra - May 2006. Workshop dates are: 2 May -
Adelaide, 8 May - Sydney, 15 & 16 May Canberra

Details and registration:
http://www.visionaustralia.org.au/ais/webworkshops/


3. Ideas3
11 April 2006
Port80 brings together two world-class speakers: CSS guru John Allsopp
of WestCiv and Britpack blogger, noted designer and typographer Mark
Boulton. From 7pm, The Melbourne Hotel, Perth
Tickets from http://www.port80.asn.au/events/


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UPCOMING WSG EVENTS


Melbourne WSG meeting - April
06 April 2006
http://webstandardsgroup.org/meetings/index.cfm?event_id=54
Cameron Adams - "Let's all jump on the AJAX bandwagon"
AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) gives webpages the ability to act
as desktop applications using invisible data communication and seamless
refreshing of individual page elements. This has the potential to either
ruin the Web or propel it into a new era.
http://webstandardsgroup.org/meetings/index.cfm?event_id=54

Sydney WSG meeting - April
Friday April 7
WCAG 2 and how it affects you!
Two of Australia's leading experts on WCAG 2, Bruce McGuire and gian
Sampson-Wild come together for one night only to answer all your questions.
http://webstandardsgroup.org/meetings/index.cfm?event_id=61

Sydney WSG meeting - June
Javascript in action/ Searching Smarter
June 8 
Cameron Adams: Javascript and Ajax in action
David Hawkins: Practical methods to improve the search facilities of your
website. 
Proudly sponsored by Red Square
http://www.redsquare.com.au/
http://webstandardsgroup.org/meetings/index.cfm?event_id=62

Sydney WSG meeting - August
Web usability ­ tag clouds and Web 2.0 applications
August 17 
Roger Hudson: Exploring tag clouds ­ and how users interact with them.
Donna Maurer: Web 2.0 applications and some of the traps associated with
newer forms of interaction.
http://webstandardsgroup.org/meetings/index.cfm?event_id=63



WEB STANDARDS JOBS


Daemon   is looking for a Senior Web Designer.
You are...
* a skilled Photoshop (or similar) user who can create mockups that closely
indicate what a finished html'd design might look like. You will usually be
working with an Information Architect who will create wireframes for you to
base your design on. From those wireframes you will be able to come up with
an app

Re: [WSG] Letterspacing body content

[russ - maxdesign]

> Besides, I thought the body text of http://christianmontoya.com looks
> better with a 1px letter-spacing. Anyone with the web developer's
> extension can compare it to the default look.

Totally unrelated to your question but wouldn't it be better that your unit
of measurement for letter-spacing was able to scale with the users font
size? Maybe an em measurement would be better - like .1em or something.

Russ


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Re: [WSG] [OT] .com.au Domain Names and Host - THREAD CLOSED

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THREAD CLOSED

Please reply offlist to Ed.
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[WSG Announce] Some links for light reading (26/4/06)

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1. LINKS FOR LIGHT READING


Accessibility TF Manifesto
http://www.webstandards.org/2006/04/19/atf-manifesto/

A More Accessible Map
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/cssmaps

Community Creators, Secure Your Code!
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/secureyourcode

Vitamin - nourishment to help the web grow
http://www.thinkvitamin.com/

Projecting your CSS
http://www.mondaybynoon.com/2006/04/17/projecting-your-css/

Five Most Important Considerations
http://allinthehead.com/retro/283/five-most-important-considerations

A Journey Through Accessibility
http://juicystudio.com/article/journey-through-accessibility.php

Bite sized standards
http://bitesizestandards.com/

Print stylesheets
http://www.adactio.com/journal/1121/

Interesting site:
http://www.threepoles.com/



2. STANDARDS BASED JOBS


Job title: Web Standards Designer / Front End Developer
Company: WDG Alfresco
City: Brisbane

Brief description
WDG Alfresco is looking for an enthusiastic web professional to assist in
the growth of web standards, useability and accessibility within the
company. The former company, Alfresco Design has recently been sold to WDG ­
The largest web design company in Australia and as such we are looking at
expanding our team in the Brisbane office.

The applicant should have a particular interest in web standards /
useability / accessibility and enjoy finding innovative ways to implement
these in creative systems. The role would incorporate more interaction
design rather than interface design (directly) and focus on the management
of Presentation / Behaviour and developing best standards and re-usable
components for these.

You would need to know the usual array of programs
(Photoshop/Illustrator/Dreamweaver) and prefer hand-coding
xhtml/css/javascript. Additional knowledge and expertise in Flash would be a
huge bonus and there is a possibility if you do know flash that you would be
doing a fair workload of it.

Work type and pay will depend on your experience/skills but there is an
opportunity for both short term and long term development.

Contact person 
Send an email with your resume and examples of your work (and what in
particular what you were responsible for) to Nick Maller ­
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3. WEB RELATED EVENTS


Melbourne WSG meeting - May
May 4 - 2006
Andrew Edwards will be talking about approaches for making Flash sites
accessible and visible to search engines. John Allsopp will be talking about
Web Patterns.
http://webstandardsgroup.org/meetings/index.cfm?event_id=59

Webstock
May 23-26 - 2006
Webstock is a four-day web experience: two days of intensive workshops,
followed by a two-day conference. The aim: to improve how websites are built
through inspiration, education, insightful analysis and practical
application.
http://www.webstock.org.nz/

CSS and Javascript workshop - foundations of the new web
May - 2006
If you're interested in building websites that will work now and into the
future, this two day workshop is for you. Ideal for designers and developers
with basic or intermediate knowledge of CSS and/or Javascript who want to
learn more. 
http://www.maxdesign.com.au/workshop-javascript2006/

Sydney WSG meeting - June
Javascript in action/ Searching Smarter
June 8 - 2006
Cameron Adams: Javascript and Ajax in action
David Hawkins: Practical methods to improve the search facilities of your
website. 
Proudly sponsored by Red Square
http://www.redsquare.com.au/
http://webstandardsgroup.org/meetings/index.cfm?event_id=62

Sydney WSG meeting - August
Web usability ­ tag clouds and Web 2.0 applications
August 17 - 2006
Roger Hudson: Exploring tag clouds ­ and how users interact with them.
Donna Maurer: Web 2.0 applications and some of the traps associated with
newer forms of interaction.
http://webstandardsgroup.org/meetings/index.cfm?event_id=63

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Russ





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Re: [WSG] Pixel to Em conversion.

[russ - maxdesign]

>> Actually, you wouldn't. You'd have the *table* set to 100%,
>> and the left 
>> column to 220px.
>> 
> 
> Surely you'd just insert the concept design as one big  and ensure the
> alt was sufficiently descriptive...?
> 

Obviously you guys are not up on the latest... Spacer gifs. You can add them
into each table cell and force the cell to any width. I'm thinking of
writing a tutorial on it...

russ


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Re: [WSG] Pixel to Em conversion - understanding IRONY

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OK, I'm getting a little worried here. Some of the recent posts have used a
relatively new concept called "irony". For those who haven't heard of this,
here is a brief description:

"Irony is a form of speech in which the real meaning is concealed or
contradicted by the words used. Irony involves the perception that things
are not what they are said to be or what they seem."

So, when people are posting messages about using large images with alt
attributes, spacer gifs etc, you can rest assured that they are using this
new fangled "irony" thing.

Feel free to try it out on your friends... Lots of fun.
Russ


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[WSG] Last Call Working Draft of Web Content - Accessibility Guidelines 2.0

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A notice from WCAG Working Group - CALL FOR COMMENTS

A Last Call Working Draft of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0
(WCAG 2.0) as well as two supporting documents were published 27 April 2006.
W3C strongly encourages broad community review of this Last Call Working
Draft, and submission of comments on any issues which you feel could present
a significant barrier to future adoption and implementation of WCAG 2.0.
(Note that only the WCAG 2.0 is in Last Call and only the WCAG 2.0 will
become a Recommendation.  Understanding WCAG 2.0 and Techniques for WCAG 2.0
are being developed  to support WCAG 2.0, and will be released as Working
Group Notes when WCAG 2.0 becomes a Recommendation.)

In particular, we encourage you to comment on the conformance model and
success criteria. Reviewers are encouraged to provide suggestions for how to
address issues as well as positive feedback, and commitments to implement
the guidelines. This message contains information on the documents and  how
to comment.

Comments should be received on or before 31 May 2006.
Comments should be made in one of four formats:
* online form,
* downloadable excel form,
* downloadable html form, or
* downloadable text form.
Instructions and downloadable files for all are available at:


WCAG 2.0 addresses accessibility of Web content for people with
disabilities. It will apply to a wider range of Web technologies than WCAG
1.0, and is intended to be understandable to a wider audience.

Note:
Until WCAG 2.0 becomes a W3C Recommendation, WCAG 1.0 will continue to be
the current and stable document to use. Most Web sites that conform to WCAG
1.0 should not require significant changes in order to conform to WCAG 2.0,
and may not need any changes.


This 27 April 2006 release of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0
is a Last Call Working Draft by the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
Working Group (part of the Web Accessibility Initiative). Publication as a
Last Call Working Draft indicates that the WCAG WG believes it has addressed
all substantive issues and that the document is stable (see below for more
information on subsequent stages). The first public Working Draft of WCAG
2.0 was published 25 January 2001.  Since then, the WCAG WG has published
nine Working Drafts, addressed more than 1,000 issues, and developed a
variety of supporting resources for the guidelines.

A good place to start a review of WCAG 2.0 is with the
"Overview of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 Documents."
The Overview explains the relationships  between WCAG 2.0 and the supporting

documents, and links to the  current version of  each document.
The Overview is available at:


The documents published on 27 April 2006:
- Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0
  
- Understanding WCAG 2.0
  
- Techniques for WCAG 2.0
  

The WCAG WG believes that after Last Call, WCAG 2.0 will be ready to move on
to the remaining stages of the W3C Recommendation Track Process:
  * Candidate Recommendation - when the WCAG WG will collect implementation
experience on use of WCAG 2.0 to design and evaluate Web content for
accessibility;
  * Proposed Recommendation - when W3C will seek endorsement of the
specification from W3C Member organizations;
  * Recommendation - when WCAG 2.0 will be published by   W3C as a technical
report appropriate for widespread deployment and the promotion of W3C's
mission.

Note that the WCAG WG will start collecting implementation examples early in
the Last Call review period. Please visit the WAI home page for more
information. 

Additional information about the WCAG WG is available at:

A list of changes to WCAG 2.0 since the previous draft is available at:




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JOB
--
Vision Australia is seeking a full-time Web Accessibility Consultant based
at Kooyong, VIC.

Applications close: Friday 12 May 2006.

This position is being advertised on SEEK. A copy of the job advertisement
can also be viewed at:



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Writing for the Web Workshops
--
Workshop dates: 1 June - Sydney, 8 June - Canberra, 15 June - Brisbane, 27
July - Adelaide

These practical workshops run by Vision Australia focus on enhancing the
usability and accessibility of your web content and will teach you how to
communicate effectively with your readers.

Details and registration:
http://www.visionaustralia.org.au/info.aspx?page=685

Web Accessibility Workshop in Melbourne - 1 June 2006

This full-day workshop run by Vision Australia, is targeted at
web-development team leaders, corporate communications professionals and
business managers, along with content authors, web programmers and designers
and web contract managers.

The workshop provides a thorough overview of accessibility issues and how to
address them. It covers the World Wide Web Consortium's Content
Accessibility Guidelines and their implementation and a consideration of
assessment tools and techniques.

Details and registration:
http://www.visionaustralia.org.au/ais/webworkshops/

Tania Conlan
Vision Australia - Accessible Information Solutions
454 Glenferrie Road, Kooyong Vic 3144
Ph: (03) 9864 9249; Fax: (03) 9864 9370
http://www.visionaustralia.org.au/ais/
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Re: [WSG] cascading and bullets

[russ - maxdesign]

> Can anyone suggest how I can accomplish this? I'm afraid I still find the
> cascade rather confusingŠ

A basic article on lists and inheritance - may or may not be of use:
http://www.maxdesign.com.au/presentation/list_cascade/

Russ


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Links for light reading
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http://dig.csail.mit.edu/breadcrumbs/node/132
Neutrality of the Net

Using javascript instead of target to open new windows
http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200605/using_javascript_instead_of_tar
get_to_open_new_windows/

High DPI Web Sites
http://webkit.opendarwin.org/blog/?p=55

Skip Link Pros and Cons
http://accessites.org/gbcms_xml/news_page.php?id=13

Web Accessibility in UK Small Businesses
http://andyhiggs.co.uk/dissertation/index.htm

Build Half a Product: Is Ajax accessible? At all?²
http://joeclark.org/ice/

Learning XHTML
http://jessey.net/simon/xhtml_tutorial/

AJAX and Screenreaders: When Can it Work?
http://www.sitepoint.com/article/ajax-screenreaders-work

Ten Smart Moves to Improve your Business
http://www.boxofchocolates.ca/archives/2006/05/03/ten-smart-moves-to-improve
-your-business

Browsersize
http://www.browsersize.com/

Inline CSS Tabs with Rounded Corners
http://www.smileycat.com/miaow/archives/000243.html



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JOB 1 - ABC developer
--
Short term work available at the ABC on a fixed term contract.
ABC comment: this web producer position would suit a generalist, with good
production background. It is not purely a developer position. There is a mix
of technical development work and production work.  Additional experience in
radio or TV production, journalism, content research and writing, libraries
an advantage.

Expression of interest - Producer/Developer Radio National, 21 May, 2006 -
30 June 2006 (6 weeks)
Full Time: 4 or 5 days a week

Comments:
Radio National is looking for a person experienced in online production and
development
as an addition to its current small team who are responsible for the
maintenance and development of the Radio National website.

This is an opportunity to work on a large site during its changeover to XML
publishing and podcast rollout. Knowledge of Wallace CMS (in-house CMS) or
similar systems, XML and audio formats would be advantage. The position is
located in Sydney, reporting to the online co-ordinating producer.

Key Capabilities/Qualifications/Experience (Selection Criteria):
1. Demonstrated skill in the management of online content.
2. An understanding of both the technical and editorial aspects of
publishing online content

3. Knowledge of database-driven content management systems (eg Wallace, Site
Producer), and automated publishing tools (eg XML publishing, MediaOnDemand
systems, Podcasting Software, iNews(in-house ABC News CMS), or similar
systems) and experience in troubleshooting publishing faults and problem
solving.

4. Advanced web production experience and skills: including expertise in
HTML, CSS based layout, graphics and audio formatting.
5. Understanding of the key issues of web project design, information
architecture, graphic and design conventions, web usability, web
accessibility  and web standards.
6. Demonstrated ability to manage online special features and liaise
effectively with other production departments.

7. Knowledge of ABC and Radio National's online content and broadcast
audience.

8. Advanced writing and editorial skills. Knowledge of ABC editorial
policies.
9. Strong interpersonal skills and an ability to co-ordinate, train and
liaise with a diverse range of RN content providers.

10. Relevant tertiary qualifications desirable.

Contact: Janet Parker,  RN Online Unit,  Ph: 02 9333 1421
Applications close May 12th 2006.  (One week Close)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Commencement Date:  May

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JOB 2 - STANDARDS BASED INFORMATION SYSYEMS MANAGER
--
(Listed 4 May 2006)
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
Salary; $57,668 - $62,425 p.a. (pro-rata) (HEW Level 7) plus employer
superannuation contributions of 9 percent.
Full-time (Fixed Term to 31 December 2006)
Applications close: 16/5/2006

http://www.hr.unimelb.edu.au/pds/G0010563.pdf

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LINKS FOR LIGHT READING
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Grid CSS
>http://com1.devnet.scd.yahoo.com/yui/grids/

What's wrong with Flickr
>http://lloydi.com/blog/2006/05/17/whats-wrong-with-flickr/

JavaScript and selectors
>http://web-graphics.com/2006/05/12/javascript-and-selectors/

Bare naked app
>http://www.barenakedapp.com/

AJAX, JavaScript support and screen reader accessibility
>http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200605/ajax_javascript_support_and_screen
_reader_accessibility/

Web Standards Awards closes
>http://www.webstandardsawards.com/

Stylegala is for sale
>http://forum.stylegala.com/about3386.html

Build your own website the right way using HTML and CSS
>http://beginningwebdesign.com/

Build for the Future: Bend, Don¹t Break
> http://www.digital-web.com/articles/build_for_the_future_bend_dont_break/

Savouring our design mistakes
>http://www.uie.com/brainsparks/2006/05/09/savoring-our-design-mistakes/

AutoComplete, Windowing, Menu and More: A Second Beta Release for the YUI
Library
>http://www.uie.com/brainsparks/2006/05/09/savoring-our-design-mistakes/

The Guided Wireframe Narrative for Rich Internet Applications
>http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/the_guided_wire


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JOBS
-

1. INFORMATION SYSYEMS MANAGER
Melbourne

Department of History and Philosophy of Science
Salary; $57,668 - $62,425 p.a. (pro-rata) (HEW Level 7) plus employer
superannuation contributions of 9 percent. Full-time (Fixed Term to 31
December 2006). Applications close: 16/5/2006 (now extended)

http://www.hr.unimelb.edu.au/pds/G0010563.pdf


2. HTML/CSS DEVELOPER
Sydney

Gruden are looking for a new HTML/CSS developer to join our
continually growing team for short-term contract. The role will be full time
producing a large number of HTML/CSS templates based on an initial set we
have developed for a high profile client.

Requirements:
€Able to develop high quality CSS/HTML templates without supervision.
€Able to follow functional specification documentation
€Comprehensive understanding of Web Standards and Accessibility
€Extensive web application development experience
€Experience working in a structured software development environment

If you are interested in this role, please send your CV's with your
salary expectations to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the title of 'HTML/ CSS
Developer'.

3. EXPERIENCED ACCESSIBILITY TESTER
Sydney

Access Testing is looking to recruit experienced testers to conduct
accessibility compliance evaluations (WAI WCAG 1.0) on a casual basis. All
work will be conducted at Access' Sydney or Melbourne office (depending
on your location). Respondents must have commercial experience in
accessibility testing or strong skills in developing websites in accordance
with the WAI WCAG 1.0. Applications must also include a current résumé.

Please send all enquiries and responses to:
Bill Mc Pherson
Resources Manager
Access Testing
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:Casual accessibility tester
 


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EVENTS
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Thursday 25 May, 2006
May Meeting (Melbourne)
Gian Sampson-Wild on WCAG 2.0, and Kevin Yank on The History of Rounded
Corners
http://webstandardsgroup.org/meetings/index.cfm?event_id=65

Thursday 08 June, 2006
June meeting (Sydney)
Cameron Adams on "JavaScript and Ajax in action" and David Hawkins on
"Practical methods to improve the search facilities of your Website".
http://webstandardsgroup.org/meetings/index.cfm?event_id=62

Saturday 3rd June 2006
C3: Create Clarify Connect, 1st Annual Web Content Management Symposium
Program includes a keynote address by John Allsopp (Westciv) and a
range of papers from QUT students.
Cost: $30 for half day, $60 for full day
Venue: Owen J. Wordsworth Room, S Block, Gardens Point Campus,
Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane
Website including registration: http://www.c3.fit.qut.edu.au/

Thursday 15 June, 2006
June Meeting (Perth)
Kara O'Halloran presents The Joy and Terror of Implementing Web Standards,
and Vicki Berry previews excerpts from one of her TODCON presentations.
http://webstandardsgroup.org/meetings/index.cfm?event_id=64

Friday 14th July 
WSG London meeting!
Time: 1900-2100 exact time tbc.
Venue: City University Lecture Theatre nr Angel Station (tbc subject to site
recce) 
Speakers: Christian Heilmann and Andy Budd

Let me know if you have web standards related jobs or events you'd like to
promote.
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Re: [WSG] Deciding on header image replacement methods

[russ - maxdesign]

> I'm looking through image replacement  methods and I'm curious as to
> the ones others have been using and to what degree of success.
> Any thoughts/comments would be appreciated.

Assuming that HTML text is not an option, some people prefer the flash based
alternatives such as sIFR:
http://www.mikeindustries.com/sifr/

My personal preference is currently along the lines of the "Gilder/Levin
Method" with an absolutely positioned image on top of the text. The reason
is that HTML content is shown when images are turned off.
http://www.mezzoblue.com/tests/revised-image-replacement/#gilderlevin

However, like all these solutions, they have upsides and downsides. One
issue is that an image is not scaleable, so could alienate some users
anyway. Secondly, this method is not ideal for users with images off and a
huge default font size - as the overflow cuts off the HTML content. Thirdly,
it doesn't work for transparent images. And finally, it can sometimes show a
flash of html content before the image loads.

Like everything, it comes down to decisions based on the needs of the
particular site, the users and the clients. Nothing is black and white.

Russ


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[WSG Announce] Some links for light reading (13/6/06)

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This email covers:
- Links for light reading
- Events
- Jobs

--
LINKS FOR LIGHT READING
--

Site Check
> http://uitest.com/en/check/

Sizer,
> http://www.brianapps.net/sizer.html

What are you Scrutinizing for?
> http://www.scrutinizer.phileplanet.com/

Nifty CSS round 
>http://chronotron.wordpress.com/2006/05/14/nifty-css-rounded-corners-extensive-
list/

Making Ajax Work with Screen Readers
> http://juicystudio.com/article/making-ajax-work-with-screen-readers.php

Levels of HTML knowledge
> http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200605/levels_of_html_knowledge/

Your HTML level
> http://annevankesteren.nl/2006/06/html-level

Levels of Accessibility Knowledge - a send-up of "level of"
> http://blog.fawny.org/2006/06/02/niveaux/

CSS Mania World Awards
> http://awards.cssmania.com/2006/06/05/css-world-awards-nominations.php

Andy Budd - Accessibility interview
> http://www.andybudd.com/archives/2006/06/accessibility_interview/index.php

A tipping point for microformats
> http://www.adactio.com/journal/1141/

Internationalization Primer
> http://www.digital-web.com/articles/internationalization_primer/

Front-End Architecture: Browsers
> http://www.garrettdimon.com/archives/front-end-architecture-browsers

CSS Formatter and Optimiser
> http://www.cleancss.com/

Microformats search
> http://kitchen.technorati.com/search/


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EVENTS
--


Perth Web Standards Group June
--
Date: Thursday 15 June
Time: 6.30pm for 7.00pm
Cost: $4 
Presenters: Kara O'Halloran presents The Joy and Terror of Implementing Web
Standards, and Vicki Berry previews excerpts from one of her TODCON
presentations.
Where: Edith Cowan University Tavern (Building 12), Mt Lawley Campus.
Bradford St, Mt Lawley
RSVP: [EMAIL PROTECTED]


CSS - the next generation in web design
--
A free introductory information night on CSS
Date: Thursday July 4
Time: 6.00pm for 6.30pm start
Cost: Free
Presenter: Russ Weakley
Where: Billy Blue Training CenterLevel 8, 171 Pacific Hwy North Sydney
RSVP: [EMAIL PROTECTED]


AusWeb'06 W3C SIG Day
--
Date: Wednesday, 5 July 2006
Presenters: 
- Standards for Web services, WSDL 2.0 - Paul Brebner
- Semantic Interoperability - Anne Cregan
- What is OWL good for? - David Ratcliffe
- Semantic Web in Health Care - David Hansen
- Web Content & Accessibility 2.0 - Sofia Celic
- Web standards adoption in Government - Victor Pawley
- Mobile Web Initiative - Dean Jackson
- Next Generation Web Applications - Darren Sharp
Where: Australis Noosa Lakes Resort, Noosa, Queensland
More: http://ausweb.scu.edu.au/aw06/conf/sig.html


London Web Standards Group Meetup
--
Date: Friday 14 July
Time: 7.00pm
Cost: £4.50 each
Presenters: Christian Heilmann - Maintainable JavaScript and Andy Budd: Who
cares about standards?
Where: Northampton Square, Islington, Greater London, WC1
>http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=Northampton+Square,+Islington,+Greate
r+London,+WC1&om=1&ll=51.527237,-0.101935&spn=0.012896,0.043259
More: http://muffinresearch.co.uk/wsg/


Melbourne Web Standards Group August
--
Date: Thursday 29 June
Time: 6.30pm for 7.00pm
Cost: Free - sponsored by Sitepoint
Presenters: Paul Fenwick on Presentation Mind Control. Andrew Arch on
building accessible web
Where: Centre for Innovation & Technology Commercialisation
Level 1, 257 Collins Street
Melbourne VIC 3000
RSVP: [EMAIL PROTECTED]


Sydney Web Standards Group October
--
Date: Thursday October 19
Time: 6.30pm for 7.00pm
Cost: $7 
Presenters: James Robertson and Lisa Miller
Where: Australian Museum
RSVP: [EMAIL PROTECTED]


--
JOBS
--


Web Application developer, Melbourne
--
A fun, dynamic company based in Melbourne is searching for an experienced
developer to join its fast-growing team. The applicant must have a thorough
understanding of object-oriented methodologies, an awareness of industry
best practice and design patterns and a flare for dealing with clients.
Experience in PHP or Java and a good appreciation of web standards and
accessibility are a must. The successful applicant will work from our
Melbourne office in Collingwood and will be remunerated in the range
$40K - $70K commensurate with experience.
Please apply at http://www.sitepoint.com/launch/topjob12



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Russ








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Re: [WSG] IE6 "Skip to Content" workaround

[russ - maxdesign]

> However, Internet Explorer 6.0 moves the visual focus, but not the input
> focus. 
>  
> How do I get this to work in IE6?


This may answer your question:
http://juicystudio.com/article/ie-keyboard-navigation.php

Russ




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[WSG Announce] Some links for light reading (23/6/06)

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- Links for light reading
- Events
- Jobs

--
LINKS FOR LIGHT READING
--

Prettier Accessible Forms
>http://alistapart.com/articles/prettyaccessibleforms

Behavioral Separation
>http://alistapart.com/articles/behavioralseparation

How to Plan Manpower on a Web Team
>http://alistapart.com/articles/manpoweronawebteam

Online training library
>http://movielibrary.lynda.com/html/modPage.asp?ID=216

Welcome to Opera 9
>http://my.opera.com/welcome%20to%209/blog/show.dml/306342

Two revolutionary features in Opera 9
>http://simon.incutio.com/archive/2006/06/20/opera9

Transcripts from @media
>http://www.cindyli.com/index.php/site/archives/

Clean CSS
>http://www.cleancss.com/

LITbox
>http://www.ryanjlowe.com/?p=9

Taxonomies vs tagging
>http://www.greenchameleon.com/gc/blog_comments/high_context_low_context_taxonom
ies/

Ten Common CSS mistakes
>http://www.designdetector.com/link/to/ten-common-css-mistakes/

Inline CSS should not be allowed in strict doctypes
>http://friendlybit.com/html/inline-css-should-not-be-allowed-in-strict-doctypes
/

Mobilicious
>http://mobilicio.us/www/

How to redirect a web page, the smart way
>http://www.stevenhargrove.com/redirect-web-pages/

HTML emails
>http://www.thinkvitamin.com/features/design/html-emails

50 ways to become a better designer
>http://www.computerarts.co.uk/in_depth/features/50_ways_to_become_a_better_desi
gner


--
EVENTS
--

Melbourne Web Standards Group August
--
Date: Thursday 29 June
Time: 6.30pm for 7.00pm
Cost: Free - sponsored by Sitepoint
Presenters: Paul Fenwick on Presentation Mind Control. Andrew Arch on
building accessible web
Where: Centre for Innovation & Technology Commercialisation
Level 1, 257 Collins Street
Melbourne VIC 3000
RSVP: [EMAIL PROTECTED]


CSS info night
--
A free introductory information night on CSS
Date: Thursday July 4
Time: 6.00pm for 6.30pm start
Cost: Free
Presenter: Russ Weakley
Where: Billy Blue Training CenterLevel 8, 171 Pacific Hwy North Sydney
RSVP: [EMAIL PROTECTED]


AusWeb'06 W3C SIG Day
--
Date: Wednesday, 5 July 2006
Presenters: 
- Standards for Web services, WSDL 2.0 - Paul Brebner
- Semantic Interoperability - Anne Cregan
- What is OWL good for? - David Ratcliffe
- Semantic Web in Health Care - David Hansen
- Web Content & Accessibility 2.0 - Sofia Celic
- Web standards adoption in Government - Victor Pawley
- Mobile Web Initiative - Dean Jackson
- Next Generation Web Applications - Darren Sharp
Where: Australis Noosa Lakes Resort, Noosa, Queensland
More: http://ausweb.scu.edu.au/aw06/conf/sig.html


London Web Standards Group Meetup
--
Date: Friday 14 July
Time: 7.00pm
Cost: £4.50 each
Presenters: Christian Heilmann - Maintainable JavaScript and Andy Budd: Who
cares about standards?
Where: Northampton Square, Islington, Greater London, WC1
More: http://muffinresearch.co.uk/wsg/


Writing for the Web Workshop - 27 July 2006
--
This practical workshop run by Vision Australia focuses on enhancing the
usability and accessibility of your web content and will teach you how to
communicate effectively with your readers. Details and registration:
http://www.visionaustralia.org.au/info.aspx?page=685


D.Construct - September 8 - London!
--
d.Construct is an affordable, one-day conference aimed at those building the
latest generation of web-based applications. The event discusses how new
technology is transforming the web from a document delivery system into an
application platform.
Date: September 8
Where: London
Presenters: Jeffrey Veen, Jeremy Keith, Simon Willison, Paul Hammond, Derek
Featherstone, Thomas Vander Wal, Aral Balkan
http://2006.dconstruct.org/


CSS - the next generation in web design
Sydney workshops
--
Workshop 1: Monday 14 and Tuesday 15 August
Workshop 2: Thursday 17 and Friday 18 August
Two day CSS workshops - CSS basics to advanced CSS
http://www.maxdesign.com.au/workshop-css2006/


Sydney Web Standards Group October
--
Date: Thursday October 19
Time: 6.30pm for 7.00pm
Cost: $7 
Presenters: James Robertson and Lisa Miller
Where: Australian Museum
RSVP: [EMAIL PROTECTED]


---
JOBS
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Sydney - Experienced web designer - 1 month Contract

Institute of Interactive Media and Learning at UTS needs a web designer for
one month to work with our team on a range of web projects. You need to work
quickly and creatively to a brief within the university's corporate
branding. Required skills: Photoshop, CSS, XHTML, and excellent knowledge of
web s

Re: [WSG] email stripping out the css from tables? ADMIN

[russ - maxdesign]

ADMIN

This thread is only just on-topic. While we are talking about HTML email
styling and markup it is still of value.

However, we will NOT get into debates about the good and bad of HTML email
on the list. This is definitely off-topic and can quickly degenerate into
flame wars.

Please keep discussions focussed around Email styling and markup only!

Russ
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[WSG Announce] Ten Questions for Gian Sampson Wild

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Hi all,

Just starting another series of "Ten questions for..."

I'm very excited to have finally cornered Gian Sampson Wild for an
interview:
http://webstandardsgroup.org/features/gian-sampson-wild.cfm

Gian Sampson Wild talks about accessibility, WCAG 2.0, cognitive disability,
Baseline, valid code, AAA and opening shopping malls.

Thanks
Russ





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[WSG Announce] Some links for light reading (5/7/06)

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This email covers:
- Links for light reading
- Events
- Jobs

--
LINKS FOR LIGHT READING
--
CSS Reboot participants far from standards based


Rails Day 2006


Code Reviews: Write Better Code Overnight


User delight and the guy-from-the-train phenomenon


Web Professional¹s Code of Ethics
http://www.molly.com/2006/06/27/web-professionals-code-of-ethics/

Guiding Principles for Providing ³Remember Me² Personalization


Formal Objection to WCAG Claiming to Address Cognitive Limitations


Max-width in IE Using a CSS Expression


15 Things you can do with Yahoo! UI


Mobile browser tests
http://annevankesteren.nl/2006/06/mobile-test

Mobile browser test results
http://simon.html5.org/articles/mobile-results

AJAX feedback mechanism


A love song to CSS:


Top ten tips for preventing innovation



--
EVENTS
--

AusWeb'06 W3C SIG Day
--
Date: Wednesday, 5 July 2006
Presenters: 
- Standards for Web services, WSDL 2.0 - Paul Brebner
- Semantic Interoperability - Anne Cregan
- What is OWL good for? - David Ratcliffe
- Semantic Web in Health Care - David Hansen
- Web Content & Accessibility 2.0 - Sofia Celic
- Web standards adoption in Government - Victor Pawley
- Mobile Web Initiative - Dean Jackson
- Next Generation Web Applications - Darren Sharp
Where: Australis Noosa Lakes Resort, Noosa, Queensland
More: http://ausweb.scu.edu.au/aw06/conf/sig.html


London Web Standards Group Meetup
--
Date: Friday 14 July
Time: 7.00pm
Cost: £4.50 each
Presenters: Christian Heilmann - Maintainable JavaScript and Andy Budd: Who
cares about standards?
Where: Northampton Square, Islington, Greater London, WC1
More: http://muffinresearch.co.uk/wsg/


CSS info night
--
Date: Tuesday 18 July
Time: 6.30pm
Cost: Free
Presenters: Russ Weakley - a basic introdution to CSS as well as the
fundamentals of markup and separation.
Where: Billy Blue Training Center
http://www.maxdesign.com.au/workshop-css2006/


Webvisions 2006
--
Date: July 20­21, 2006
Where: Oregon Convention Center
Join the rockstars of design, user experience and business strategy: Jared
Spool, Hillman Curtis, Luke Williams, Kelly Goto and a cavalcade of their
fellow visionaries for two days of mind-melding on what's new in the digital
world. Get a glimpse into the future, along with practical information that
you can apply to your Web site, company and career.
http://www.webvisionsevent.com/


Writing for the Web Workshops
--
Date: 27 July 2006
This practical workshop run by Vision Australia focuses on enhancing the
usability and accessibility of your web content and will teach you how to
communicate effectively with your readers. Details and registration:
http://www.visionaustralia.org.au/info.aspx?page=685


Writing for the Web Workshops
--
Workshop dates: 9 August
Melbourne, 23 August - Canberra
These practical workshops run by Vision Australia focus on enhancing the
usability and accessibility of your web content and will teach you how to
communicate effectively with your readers.
Details and registration:
http://www.visionaustralia.org.au/info.aspx?page=685


Web Accessibility Workshops
--
Workshop dates: 8 & 9 August - Canberra, 23 August - Perth
These one-day workshops run by Vision Australia, are targeted at
web-development team leaders, corporate communications professionals and
business managers, along with content authors, web programmers and designers
and web contract managers.
Details and registration:
http://www.visionaustralia.org.au/ais/webworkshops/


Sydney Web Standards Group August
--
Date: Thursday August 17
Time: 6.30pm for 7.00pm
Cost: $7 
Roger Hudson: Exploring tag clouds - and how users interact with them.
Donna Mau

Re: [WSG] best cc styling !

[russ - maxdesign]

> Hi, can you tell me what is the best way to style a simple layout
> format for this?
> http://lotusseedsdesign.com/sample.jpg.
> 
> There are some 20 items in the page

Hey Tee,
Many ways to skin a cat, so this is just a suggestion using a definition
list: 

HTH
Russ




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Re: [WSG] List headings

[russ - maxdesign]

> The second way seems to suggest a relationship between the list and the
> heading that the first example doesn't?
> 

I'd have to agree with Patrick.

If you look at the document tree for the first example, you can see a
heading with list items as children. This implies the correct relationship.

The second example suggests a heading with some sibling list items - which
is not what you are after.

If you needed to mark the entire group up within a list, then it would be
better to place the heading as a list item and the children as a nested list
within. I'm not suggesting this as the ideal option, just that It more
accurately represents their relationship.

2c
Russ




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Re: [WSG] List headings

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>  
> Group title
> Group item
> Group item
> Group item
>  

Unfortunately, this is invalid. You can also use block level elements in the
definition description, such as the  and  elements. But you cannot
use block level elements inside a definition term.

More here:



Specifically:


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Russ





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Re: [WSG] Inline Lists

[russ - maxdesign]

> This is probably something really simple I am overlooking.  A demonstration
> of my problem is at http://www.pacetools.com/temptest.html
> 
> I just need to get rid of the extra padding on the left of the initial li.
> I've surrounded everything in borders for your convenience.  Any ideas?
> 

The incorrect spelling of padding within your  rule is your problem.
Remove a "d" and you are set.





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[WSG Announce] Ten questions for Laura Carlson

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For several years now I have been fascinated by the Web Design Reference - a
huge and well-maintained collection of web design links.

The site it run single-handedly by Laura Carlson - a perfect candidate for
ten questions. Laura is an information technology professional with
accomplishments in web standards design and development, CSS, (X)HTML,
accessibility, usability, information architecture, photography, and digital
imaging. Beyond these, she has expertise in higher education, management,
organizational leadership, strategic planning, distance learning, training,
learning technologies, instructional design, and technology documentation.
Her education includes a Bachelors and Masters degree.

Ten questions for Laura Carlson explores web standards, accessibility, the
Web Design Reference, training and knowledge exchange.



Thanks
Russ





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[WSG Announce] The first WSG Meeting in London - a huge success!

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This is a one-way list for WSG Announcements

The first London WSG meeting happened on Friday night with around 190 people
turning up, which has to be a record for any WSG event - let alone an
inaugural one.

A huge thanks to Stuart Colville for organising such a successful event!
Thanks also to the two speakers, Andy Budd and Christian Heilmann.

Heres to many more!

You can read more about it here:


If you'd like to know more about hosting an event in your city, please let
me know.

Thanks
Russ





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[WSG Announce] Some links for light reading (19/7/06)

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This is a one-way list for WSG Announcements

This email covers:
- Links for light reading
- New books
- Events
- Jobs

--
LINKS FOR LIGHT READING
--

Tutorial: CSS3 and International Text


Top 71 CSS Menus Navigation Tabs


Waferbaby CMS


XHTMLized


Building Accessible Widgets for the Web


Measuring the web


Do Links Need Underlines?


IE7 Beta 3 now available in multiple languages


Why CSS Bugs Me 


Some Print Stylesheet Tips


Using a Background Image Grid to Lay Out Your Web Site


How to set up a full bleed design in Photoshop


First London Web Standards Group Meeting


The top 10 unintentionally worst company URLs



--
NEW BOOKS
--

Build Your Own Web Site The Right Way Using HTML & CSS


Beginning CSS Web Development


Professional CSS for Web Development: From Novice to Professional
(Paperback) 


Teach Yourself CSS in 24 Hours



--
EVENTS
--

Webvisions 2006
--
Date: July 20­21, 2006
Where: Oregon Convention Center
Join the rockstars of design, user experience and business strategy: Jared
Spool, Hillman Curtis, Luke Williams, Kelly Goto and a cavalcade of their
fellow visionaries for two days of mind-melding on what's new in the digital
world. Get a glimpse into the future, along with practical information that
you can apply to your Web site, company and career.



W3C webinar
--
W3C offers a virtual (using the Web and a telephone bridge) seminar on Web
design for mobile devices, on Wednesday July 26, 10:00 UTC. Attendance is
free, but subject to selection.



Web Accessibility Workshops
--
Workshop dates: 8 & 9 August - Canberra, 23 August - Perth
These one-day workshops run by Vision Australia, are targeted at
web-development team leaders, corporate communications professionals and
business managers, along with content authors, web programmers and designers
and web contract managers.
Details and registration:



Sydney Web Standards Group August
--
Date: Thursday August 17
Time: 6.30pm for 7.00pm
Cost: $7 
Roger Hudson: Exploring tag clouds - and how users interact with them.
Donna Maurer: Web 2.0 applications and some of the traps associated with
newer forms of interaction.
Where: Australian Museum
RSVP: [EMAIL PROTECTED]


D.Construct - September 8 - London
--
Date: September 8
Where: London
d.Construct is an affordable, one-day conference aimed at those building the
latest generation of web-based applications. The event discusses how new
technology is transforming the web from a document delivery system into an
application platform.
Presenters: Jeffrey Veen, Jeremy Keith, Simon Willison, Paul Hammond, Derek
Featherstone, Thomas Vander Wal, Aral Balkan



--
JOBS
--

HTML/CSS Integrator
Los Angeles, California

Bold New World is seeking a front-end HTML/CSS Integrator on a full-time
employee basis. Duties include the conversion of client-approved Photoshop
design comps into high-quality semantic HTML and accompanying CSS and
images; merging HTML with CMS application output templates; installation and
configuration of client-side (DOM) programs. This position does not require
design or programming skills.

Desired Qualifications and Experience
- We require a demonstrated proficiency in hand-coding valid semantic HTML,
and modern CSS-based layout techniques
- Ability to troubleshoot same on many platforms is required
- Experience incorporating Javascript into templates is

[WSG Announce] A late breaking job ad...

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This job add fell off the back of the last announce email


Junior .NET developer with good knowledge of web standards (Adelaide)
  
Core Medical Solutions is a software development company specialising in
hospital and medical software. With clients across Australia, both large
hospitals and individual clinicians, we continue to strive towards our
company vision of delivering the total clinical solution -- a single
system providing all necessary functionality to clinicians. We are
looking for a developer to join our Adelaide team on a full-time basis,
to develop web interfaces that deliver a rich and responsive user
experience.

The successful candidate should possess the following skills:
- A genuine passion for software development
- Strong HTML/CSS/JavaScript skills
- Experience with Visual Studio 2003 (ASP.NET 1.1)
- Excellent user interface design skills
- Good knowledge of web accessibility and WCAG guidelines
- Good oral and written communication skills
- Ability to hit the ground running

It would be an advantage to have:
- Commercial web application development experience
- Experience with MS SQL
- A tertiary computer science qualification
- Experience with Visual Studio 2005 (ASP.NET 2.0)
- Experience with Visual Basic 6

If you are interested in using your skills to improve the practice of
medicine email your resume with a covering letter to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]


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[WSG Announce] More job ads - the last ones for the week!

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Apologies for these additional job posts - mainly my fault (I forgot to
include them with the main announce post). From now on, web related job ads
will only be included with main announce emails. Thanks for your
understanding  :)

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More jobs
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Technology/User interface designer
CLOSES TOMORROW!!!

DEWR is seeking enthusiastic people to be part of the team responsible
for technology /user interface design.

The positions operate within the Information Technology Applications
Branch, as part of the Project Office Interface Design Team. The
Interface Design Team leads the organisation in terms of User Interface
Design for business applications. Additionally the Team develops user
interface standards and supporting frameworks and assets. The team is
highly progressive in terms of approach to technology ergonomics, and is
establishing itself at the forefront of a new line of business for DEWR.

The successful applicants will have demonstrated capabilities in visual
and interactive standards development within a technical and business
environment, and excellent knowledge of industry best practice for User
Centred Design. 

The existing team is highly motivated towards delivery of excellent
customer service to the branch. Subsequently the successful applicants
will have demonstrated capacity to operate within a large development
branch, as well an understanding of their roles in delivering excellence
in customer service.

Remuneration:
Remuneration package: Successful applicants will be offered employment
on an Australian Workplace Agreement (AWA) with an attractive
remuneration package up to $67,660(APS Level 4), $73,640(APS Level 5)
and $85,840(APS Level 6), including superannuation and potential for a
performance bonus. 
Acceptance of an Australian Workplace Agreement (AWA) is a condition of
engagement for all successful DEWR applicants who are new to the
Australian Public Service (APS). AWAs will also be offered to those
successful applicants who are currently APS employees.

Name: Ben Winter-Giles
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Phone: 02 6121 8241


Junior Web Developer
---
Corporate Image are a fast growing group, working across all fields of
communication. We need a clever web coder - someone who gets the web and
knows how to write the code behind it. You'll be working with a small team
on a variety of projects, both on internal projects and with external
clients.
The role is Junior Web Developer, and you will be expected to:
- Develop back-end code to provide site functionality following
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- Design and implement databases
- Take graphic layouts and convert them into table-less web pages
Most of your work will involve writing back-end code and database
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Essential skills - you must be able to demonstrate your knowledge of these:

* Object Oriented PHP (version 5)
* Fundamental understanding of the MVC design paradigm
* Database Design with MySQL (or similar)
* Standards-compliant XHTML, CSS and JavaScript
Supporting skills - we'd also love you to have these skills:
* Understanding of web standards and browser compatibility issues
* Understanding of usability and accessibility requirements
* Demonstrable skills in working in a team environment
* Sufficient knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite tools to produce assets
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Bonus skills - having these will really score points with us:
* Any sort of exposure to Ruby on Rails
* Ability to use Linux/*BSD/UNIX for basic tasks
* Subversion / CVS
* Exposure to Java / J2EE
* Exposure to ASP
* Ability to plan, design and document systems using UML
* Understanding of AJAX techniques (including Prototype and Scriptaculous)
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[WSG Announce] Ten questions for David Storey

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David Storey is the Chief Web Opener at Opera Software, based in Oslo,
Norway. He leads a small global team, responsible for improving the
compatibility of the web, so that it can be accessed by all.

David talks about Web Openers, web standards, Opera9, Operas relevance in
todays marketplace, document.stylesheets and User Agent String spoofing.

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Re: [WSG] Dvorak talks when he doesn't know? (re: Why CSS Bugs Me)

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May not be answering your question, but relevant to the overall point...

There have been a number of responses to this "interesting" blog post by
Dvorak including:






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>> From Links for Light Reading, July 19:
> Why CSS Bugs Me
> 
> 
> I just realized that Dvorak's entire rant about CSS cascading rules
> might just be another example of a tech expert talking nonsense
> regarding an area he knows nothing about.
> 
> body>div { this does not cascade; }
> 
> Just another case of CSS getting the blame for something IE doesn't
> support, am I right?




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Re: [WSG] Inconsistent behaviour across various browsers

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> Can u tell me is it brawser depended or css does not get reflected in Mozilla
> or Mozilla Firefox ?
>  
> I m sending u my html file and css file.

Hi Nisha,
The issue is using pixels for font sizing. IE does not support text resizing
on pixel- based font sizes. Better to use percents or ems (as long as you
only use ems about 100% size).

A small note... Rather than sending attachments, please send a URL (or two -
to the html and css) to the group for checking.

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Re: [WSG] Form check

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> Dean, about FieldSet
> its going to become Deprecated:
> http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/interact/forms.html#h-17.10
>  

Shlomi,
The  and  elements are not deprecated. It is the ³align²
attribute associated with the  that is deprecated.
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[WSG Announce] Ten questions for Steve Faulkner

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Steve Faulkner has many years experience as a web developer and
accessibility consultant. As well as his ongoing consulting work, he
presents & runs workshops at conferences, and guest lectures at universities
on the practical implementation of web accessibility. He is also leading the
development of Web Accessibility testing software in collaboration with
organizations and individuals from around the world.

Steve talks about accessibility, the Web Accessibility toolbar, the Web
Accessibility Tools Consortium, title attributes, AJAX and WCAG2.

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[WSG Announce] Some links for light reading (28/7/06)

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This email covers:
- Links for light reading
- New books
- Events

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LINKS FOR LIGHT READING
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Microsoft to Push IE 7.0 via Automatic Updates


An angry fix


Leaving W3C


Misplaced Anger: A Rebuttal to Zeldman¹s Criticism of the W3C


Dvoraked


Dear John (Dvorak)


Folksonomies: A User-Driven Approach to Organizing Content


Advanced box model test


Veerle Pieters Interview


An Interview With Molly E. Holzschlag


Interview with Chris Wilson


JavaScript event tests part 1: onmouseover


How to Ruin a Web Design - The Design Curve


CRIR: Checkbox & Radio Input Replacement


Clickstream Study Reveals Dynamic Web



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NEW BOOKS
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Web Accessibility: Web Standards and Regulatory Compliance



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EVENTS
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Pub night (Melbourne)
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http://webstandardsgroup.org/meetings/index.cfm?event_id=69


Sydney Web Standards Group Meeting August
--
Date: Thursday August 17
Time: 6.30pm for 7.00pm
Cost: $7 
Roger Hudson: Exploring tag clouds - and how users interact with them.
Donna Maurer: Web 2.0 applications and some of the traps associated with
newer forms of interaction.
Where: Australian Museum
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http://webstandardsgroup.org/meetings/index.cfm?event_id=63


Brisbane Web Standards Group Meeting August
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Date: Thursday August 31
Time: 6.30pm for 7.00pm
Cost: $5
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Lyn Egas: A blind users experience of the web
Michael Rees: The Influence of Ajax on Web 2.0
http://webstandardsgroup.org/meetings/index.cfm?event_id=71


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Re: [WSG] Default browser stylesheet values

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Here is the one recommended by the W3C
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/sample.html

One clumsy way I have used in the past to test individual browsers it to put
two identical html files beside each other - one without any css and the
other with css in the head. Then you can zero all margins, padding size etc
for specific elements in this second html file and add your own css to try
and match the unstyled version. Not ideal but it works  :)
Russ




>  
> Hey all,
> 
> Just wondering if anyone is aware of any web resources that detail the
> default style values given to various elements by browsers (specifically
> IE6)?
> 
> For example, what are the default IE6 CSS values for body, h1-6, p, etc?
> 
> I've already tried Googling this myself, but didn't come up with
> anything.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> 
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