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If you have an event, resource or relevant job you'd like posted (from any country), please let me know - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------- GET CONNECTED - LINKED/FACEBOOKED? ---------------------------------- What to connect with other WSG members? Linkedin WSG group: http://www.linkedin.com/groupInvitation?groupID=54560&sharedKey=13D0DC45E3AF Facebook WSG group: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2410228768 ---------------------------------- LINKS FOR LIGHT READING ---------------------------------- This weeks "links for light reading" are also available here (for those who click on the links below and find that they are broken): <http://www.maxdesign.com.au/2008/05/13/some-links-175/> My site has been hacked - now what? http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/04/my-sites-been-hacked-now- what.html How do I request reconsideration of my site? http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35843 Community: From Little Things, Big Things Grow http://www.alistapart.com/articles/fromlittlethings Zebra Striping: Does it Really Help? http://www.alistapart.com/articles/zebrastripingdoesithelp Gin, Television, and Social Surplus http://www.herecomeseverybody.org/2008/04/looking-for-the-mouse.html PHP5 - Slow on the uptake? http://www.nublue.co.uk/blog/php5-slow-on-the-uptake/ PC Text Editors Which team do you follow? http://www.nublue.co.uk/blog/pc-text-editors-%e2%80%93-which-team-do-you-fol low/ The Gen Y Guide to Web 2.0 Work http://www.servantofchaos.com/2008/05/the-gen-y-guide.html line-height: abnormal http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2008/05/06/line-height-abnormal/ Override Inline Styles from the Stylesheet http://www.standardsforlife.com/override-inline-styles-from-the-stylesheet/ Is Your JavaScript Library Standards Compliant? http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/05/09/is-your-javascript-library-standar ds-compliant/ Website Optimization Measures, Part IV http://meiert.com/en/blog/20080505/optimization-measures-4/ Bootstrapping a Niche Social Network http://bokardo.com/archives/bootstrapping-a-niche-social-network/ Twitter and the Architectural Challenges of Life Streaming Applications http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/making_twitter_scale.php Making Twitter Tweet - Using the TPG Notifier http://www.paciellogroup.com/blog/?p=65 ---------------------------------- WSG AND INDUSTRY EVENTS ---------------------------------- 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 Melbourne Web Standards Group (joint event with Web Directions) --------------- 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 --------------- 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 ----------------------------------------- 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.webdirections.org/ 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 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/ Information Architecture Essentials --------------- Date: 18-Jun-08 City: Brisbane (Australia) In this one-day workshop, Patrick Kennedy will present the fundamentals of information architecture (IA), the core methodology for organising and designing websites and intranets. Key skills such as card sorting will be taught, and this workshop is designed to build in-house information architecture skills. A must for all web or intranet teams. http://www.steptwo.com.au/seminars/080618/ Web Usability Training Workshop --------------- Date: 6 May 2008 Melbourne Date: 22 July 2008 Sydney Description: Introduction to User Centred Design tools and techniques. As a result of attending this one day course, participants will have a good understanding of the value and importance of user centred design and have the basic skills, knowledge and tools to apply the user centred design approach to developing usable Internet sites, Intranet sites or web applications within their own organisation. URL: http://www.peakusability.com.au/training/web-usability.html Usability Evaluation & Testing Training Workshop --------------- Date: 7 May 2008 Melbourne (Australia) Date: 23 July 2008 Sydney (Australia) Description: Discount evaluation techniques and how to conduct usability tests. In this one day interactive workshop, learn valuable usability evaluation and testing methods that you can use to evaluate your organisation's Internet and Intranet site, web applications and software. This course will explore the difference between expert reviews and usability testing and which is better to use and when. We will cover when to usability test, what to test and how to test. URL: http://www.peakusability.com.au/training/evaluation-and-testing.html AJAX and User Experience half day course --------------- Date: 1 May 2008 Sydney (Australia) Date: 8 May 2008 Melbourne (Australia) Date: 21 May 2008 Brisbane (Australia) Description: Using AJAX to enhance your online user experience. The workshop will explore the advantages and disadvantages of this increasingly popular technology. We will explore usability and accessibility issues and common user behaviours with AJAX applications. Finally we will discuss interaction design guidelines and heuristics for developing user friendly AJAX designs. URL: http://www.peakusability.com.au/training/ajax-usability.html Interaction Design Training Workshop --------------- Date: 29 May 2008 Brisbane (Australia) Date: 2 July 2008 Canberra (Australia) Date: 10 Sept 2008 Melbourne (Australia) Description: Human characteristics and theoretical principles for usable web applications, intranet and internet sites. Ever wonder why users don't behave how you expect? Ever done usability testing or found usability issues but didn't know how to fix them? This course will provide an insight into human characteristics and online behaviour based on latest research and hundreds of usability tests with users, including video footage of usability test sessions. We will also cover the theory and principles of interaction design. URL: http://www.peakusability.com.au/training/interaction-design.html Web Application Design Training Workshop --------------- Date: 28 May 2008 Brisbane (Australia) Date: 1 July 2008 Canberra (Australia) Date: 9 Sept 2008 Melbourne (Australia) Processes and interface design fundamentals for designing usable web applications. From internet banking, online learning, government transactional sites to employee phonebooks, online projects increasingly include elements of web application design. This course will explore the value and limitations of building a web application and introduce a range of tools, approaches and interface design principles to ensure that you understand your audience and design intuitive and usable web applications. URL: http://www.peakusability.com.au/training/web-applications.html ---------------------------------- JOBS ---------------------------------- Job 1 --------------- Learnosity Junior Programmer (Object Oriented) Sydney Looking for a Computer Science Graduate or similar with strong Object Oriented programming skills and the ability to grasp cutting edge technologies quickly. We are currently working on projects using Actionscript/Flex, ColdFusion, PHP, and Javascript, and are leveraging technologies such as VOIP, SMS, Instant Messenger (Jabber XMPP) to deliver cutting edge solutions. Suitable applicants will have a Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or Engineering, or similar tertiary qualification. This role may be full time, part-time or on a contract basis depending on the candidates skills and experience. You will be working in a casual workplace with flexible hours in the centre of Sydney. Contact: Mark Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Job 2 --------------- Australian Museum Web Application Maintenance Coordinator (Part time) Sydney Looking for a person to manage the application maintenance needs and log analysis services for all Australian Museum Websites. Applicant should have experience in ColdFusion, server maintenance, log file generation and website statistics reporting. Demonstrated experience in database administration. Demonstrated knowledge of Web Standards, SQL 2000 and SQL 7 databases; Microsoft Windows 2003 Servers; Microsoft Internet Information Server 5.0; ColdFusion MX7 Programming Server; statistics analysis; data security; e-commerce systems, including Secure Server certificates and Gateways; Maintenance of Access, SQL and other databases used by the Museum. Contact: Brooke Carson Ewart (02) 9320 6094 or email [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------- Did I miss an event, resource or job in your city? 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