************************************************************** This is a one-way list for WSG Announcements ************************************************************** This email covers: - Links for light reading - WSG and Industry events - Web standards related jobs (2 jobs this week)
If you have an event, resource or relevant job you'd like posted (from any country), please let me know - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------- LINKS FOR LIGHT READING ---------------------------------- This weeks "links for light reading" are also available here: <http://www.maxdesign.com.au/2007/01/24/some-links-112/> Upcoming CSS3 support in Opera http://my.opera.com/dstorey/blog/show.dml/701902 Microsoft Breaks HTML Email Rendering in Outlook 2007 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2007/01/10/microsoft-breaks-html-email-render ing-in-outlook/ Whitespace http://www.alistapart.com/articles/whitespace Paper Prototyping http://www.alistapart.com/articles/paperprototyping Quick CSS Mockups with Photoshop http://www.alistapart.com/articles/quickcssmockupswithphotoshop Usability heuristics for web development teams http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2007/01/21/usability-heuristics-for-web-devel opent-teams/ Improving Ajax applications for JAWS users http://juicystudio.com/article/improving-ajax-applications-for-jaws-users.ph p Heuristics for Modern Web Application Development http://www.andybudd.com/archives/2007/01/heuristics_for_modern_web_applicati on_development/index.php Interview with Doug Bowman http://www.digital-web.com/articles/douglas_bowman2/ Event-Driven Web Application Design http://yuiblog.com/blog/2007/01/17/event-plan/ Practical, Entry-Level Web Accessibility http://accessites.org/gbcms_xml/news_page.php?id=32 Quick Guide To Creating RSS Feeds http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=674690&rl=1 Five CSS tricks that repeatedly saved my a**e, why need more? http://www.wait-till-i.com/index.php?p=385 ³nofollow² still considered harmful http://meiert.com/en/blog/20070106/nofollow-still-considered-harmful/ CSS Superdouche http://isnoop.net/tools/css.php CSS Printing Guide http://erraticwisdom.com/2007/01/22/css-printing-guide ---------------------------------- WSG AND INDUSTRY EVENTS ---------------------------------- Writing for the web (Canberra) - 30 January --------------- This 1-day course helps you discover the differences between writing for the Internet and writing for print. Through a series of practical exercises you can learn how to repurpose print documents for the web, and how to write effective web content from scratch. http://www.hiser.com.au/courses/writing_for_the_web.html Web Standards Group meeting - Melbourne - 1 Feb 1 --------------- James Edwards (Brothercake): "What has Ajax done for us anyway?": The best bits of Web 2.0 -- social networking, tagging, folksonomies -- are conceptual not technological, and we don't really need Ajax to implement them. We can build these next-generation apps without destroying accessibility or riding roughshod through user expectations. Food and soft drinks on the night are kindly provided by SitePoint. Details: http://webstandardsgroup.org/meetings/index.cfm?event_id=83 WebDD conference (Reading UK) - 3 February --------------- The mantra behind the conference is that currently there is no focus on standards, best practice and general patterns based approaches to web development and design being pushed particularly strongly in the UK. http://www.webdd.org.uk/ Introduction to web accessibility (London) 5 February --------------- Every web manager needs to have a good understanding of the key issues of web accessibility and the impact it has on their users. They also need to appreciate the pressing legal and overwhelming business cases. http://www.abilitynet.co.uk/webintroaccessibility Writing for the Web Workshop (Melbourne) - 6 February 2007 --------------- Vision Australia is partnering with respected usability and accessibility expert Dey Alexander to offer a unique Writing for the Web workshop in Melbourne on 6th February 2007. Focusing on excellent content writing, this practical workshop complements the Vision Australia Web Accessibility Workshops. http://www.visionaustralia.org.au/info.aspx?page=608 Web Accessibility Workshops (Melbourne) - 6 February 2007 --------------- Full-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. The workshops provide 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. http://www.visionaustralia.org.au/info.aspx?page=574 Web Directions North (Vancouver BC) - 6-10 February --------------- Hear Kelly Goto, Andy Clarke, Adrian Holovaty, Douglas Bowman, Dan Cederholm, Joe Clark, Molly Holzschlag, Derek Featherstone, Veerle Pieters, Jeremy Keith and al the other present and future web luminaries, covering Ajax and Javascript, CSS, Microformats, mashups, standards based web design and development, accessibility, web app development, XHTML and HTML and more. http://north.webdirections.org Hitwise Australia online performance awards (Sydney) - 8 February --------------- Join Hitwise in celebrating online excellence for 2006 at the Hitwise Australian Online Performance Awards. At this year's event, online marketing executives will enjoy a short awards presentation hosted by James O'Loghlin from the ABC's The New Inventors, followed by a networking cocktail party. This is not a night to be missed. http://www.internetawards.com.au/au_awards/about.php Geek Meet Gothenburg (Stockholm) - 8 February --------------- Geek Meet is a meet-up of web developers and other people interested in the web scene, and it¹s taking place in the wonderful city of Stockholm in Sweden. It is completely free to attend, and the idea is to get a blog type friendly ambience, but in real life. CSS Workshop with Russ Weakley (Singapore) - 8 February --------------- A one-day CSS workshop with Russ Weakly that will give you a solid understanding of the basics of CSS, how to create CSS page layouts, how to structure your CSS files so that they are more efficient, easier to modify and maintain. http://www.pebbleroad.com/events/view/css_workshop_with_russ_weakley/ Search Engine Strategies (London) - 13-15 February --------------- Description: Search Engine Strategies (SES) London is a 3 day, multi-track conference that specifically addresses search engine marketing and optimization. This event features presentations and panel discussions from highly acclaimed industry experts; interactive sessions; intensive workshops; and updates on the latest search trends and developments for 2007. This is our 8th annual conference and remains the only event with an in-depth look on the evolution of Web use. So join us at our most highly anticipated event for 2007. http://www.searchenginestrategies.com/sew/london07/index.html Designing with users (Canberra) 14-15 February --------------- This 2-day course lets you experience the success of collaborative design techniques. It explains how to manage the expectations of a variety of stakeholders, and how to balance business goals and user goals. http://www.hiser.com.au/courses/designing_with_users.html Rich media (London) - 19 February --------------- Technologies such as Flash, multimedia and AJAX present more complex and challenging accessibility issues than (X)HTML and CSS. http://www.abilitynet.co.uk/webrichmedia Web Accessibility Workshops (Brisbane) - 21 February 2007 --------------- Full-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. The workshops provide 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. http://www.visionaustralia.org.au/info.aspx?page=965 Usability evaluation (Canberra) - 27-28 February --------------- This 2-day course provides you with a range of evaluation techniques to suit every project. http://www.hiser.com.au/courses/usability_evaluation.html BarCamp (Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney) - 3-4 March --------------- A BarCamp is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos, and interaction from participants. If you want to attend, you are encouraged to give a presentation or a demo of some kind. http://barcamp.org/BarCampAdelaide http://barcamp.org/BarCampMelbourne http://barcamp.org/BarCampSydney Search Engine Summit (Sydney) - 6-7 March --------------- Coming to Sydney in March 2007, Search Summit is a search marketing conference focusing on both basic training as well as strategy and tactics for industry pros. Take advantage of this opportunity to do some business networking with other Search Industry professionals while picking up practical knowledge to increase your marketing skills. http://www.searchsummit.com.au/ Information architecture: designing intuitive menus (Canberra) - 13 March --------------- This 1-day course gives you a set of tools to design easy-to-use menus. Through a series of case studies and practical exercises you can learn to create and present high-level and lower-level content categories that help users to easily reach content on your site. http://www.hiser.com.au/courses/ia_-_designing_intuitive_menus.html Taming the content beast: Bob Boiko tour --------------- This two-day masterclass by Bob Boiko, author of the "Content Management Bible", will provide proven solutions to the hardest of content management challenges. Out from the US, this will be Bob's only visit to Australia in 2007, so don't miss out! Melbourne (Crowne Plaza): 15-16 March 2007 Canberra (Hyatt Hotel): 19-20 March 2007 Sydney (Mercure Hotel): 22-23 March 2007 Full workshop details: http://www.steptwo.com.au/seminars/bobboiko07/index.html Introduction to PAS78 (London) - 5 March --------------- An in-depth workshop on the PAS 78 Guide to Good Practice in Commissioning Accessible Websites. http://www.abilitynet.co.uk/webpas78 WebDU (Sydney) - 22-23 March --------------- webDU the premier Antipodean Web Technology Conference. Just when you thought we couldnt get any bigger, webDU will now to encompass a larger spectrum of web technologies and will bring you the best of web technologies, ideas and what the future holds. webDU has established itself as the must attend annual event for web developers, designers, managers and students. http://www.webdu.com.au/ Effective layout and design (Canberra) - 27 March --------------- This 1-day course shows you how to implement a range of techniques to ensure your site, web application or GUI application is based on solid design principles. With this approach you can create a design for your site or application that satisfies both business and user goals. http://www.hiser.com.au/courses/effective_layout_and_design.html Information Design Conference 2007 - Greenwich, London, UK - 29 & 30 March --------------- The Information Design Association in the UK is pleased to announce that IDC 2007 is now open for registration! The programme will offer a good mix of industry case-studies from design practitioners and their customers, and reports from researchers -- all selected for their relevance to the practical business of making information more usable and easy to understand. http://www.informationdesignassociation.org/idc2007/ ---------------------------------- JOBS ---------------------------------- 1. SilverStripe Support and Communication Role --------------- SilverStripe is an established web development company based in Wellington with a reputation for developing next-generation web applications. We have an exciting opportunity to work in the heart of our company in a support and communication role. You¹ll be responsible for ensuring that the more than one hundred websites we support are constantly running smoothly, and be the main point of contact for our clients in a support capacity. You¹ll need to be someone who can think on your feet, make decisions, and work out problems. The second component of this role will be actively working with our open source community, answering their questions via email and our support forum. We'll expect that you can fulfull most of our client requests, and delegate matters to a team of 14 when appropriate. Key skills you¹ll need to bring to the party are: - Solid understanding of web technology in general - Excellent communication skills - Able to prioritise, delegate, and manage lots of small tasks each day, ensuring quality and deadlines are met - Some knowledge from the following group of: HTML, CSS, Linux administration, PHP, MySQL We're hoping to find someone by mid February; the start date is flexible. If the above sounds exciting, we'd like to hear from you by contacting [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2. SilverStripe Core Development Team Member --------------- We¹re an established web development company based in Wellington, New Zealand with a reputation for developing next-generation web applications. We¹re looking for an experienced developer who is already pushing the boundaries of what¹s possible on the web to join going our growing team. In terms of your technical skills you¹ll have advanced knowledge of most of these things: JavaScript, PHP, mySQL, HTML, and CSS In a professional capacity, you¹ll need to have good communication and time management skills. If you have a demonstrated ability to lead team meetings and put together functional specifications and quotes, that would be great. If you have a strong desire to perform those things, and can explain why, that's cool too. Along with the above, you need to have demonstrated where you have gone the extra distance to really understand the client and deliver extraordinary service. We're looking for an eye for detail and passion to deliver the best! You¹ll be a key member of our core development team, and will have the opportunity to work on a large number of innovative projects, including our open source content management system. Drop us a line if the above rocks your world. If the above sounds exciting, we'd like to hear from you by contacting [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------- Did I miss an event or job in your city? If you have an event, resource or relevant job you'd like posted (from any country), please let me know - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks Russ ************************************************************** Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] **************************************************************