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If you have an event, resource or relevant job you'd like posted (from any country), please let me know - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------- LINKS FOR LIGHT READING ---------------------------------- This weeks "links for light reading" are also available here (for those who click on the links below and find that they are broken): <http://www.maxdesign.com.au/2008/10/28/some-links-200/> 50 Beautiful Blog Designs <http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/10/23/50-beautiful-blog-designs/> JavaScript Will Save Us All <http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2008/10/22/javascript-will-save-us-all/> Multi-threading in JavaScript <http://www.sitepoint.com/article/multi-threading-javascript/> Typeface.js <http://typeface.neocracy.org/> Malware? We don't need no stinking malware! <http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/10/malware-we-dont-need-no- stinking.html> A Scenario-based Approach to Evaluating Social Software <http://www.cmswatch.com/Feature/187-Social-Software?source=RSS> An Exercise for Emerging CSS Experts: Avoid IDs and Classes <http://meiert.com/en/blog/20081021/exercise-for-emerging-css-experts/> Everything You Know About CSS Is Wrong <http://www.digital-web.com/articles/everything_you_know_about_CSS_Is_wrong/ > Quick and Dirty Usability Testing: Step Away from the Book <http://www.uie.com/articles/usabilitytesting_dc/> Web Accessibility Guidelines 2.0: Better Than a Poke in the Eye With a Stick? <http://www.NotesOnDesign.net/inspiration/design/web-accessibility-guideline s-20-better-than-a-poke-in-the-eye-with-a-stick/> Floatitis pt3/the margin/float combo <http://www.onderhond.com/blog/work/floatitis-pt3-margin-float> Web Design is 95% Typography <http://informationarchitects.jp/the-web-is-all-about-typography-period/> CSSHttpRequest <http://nb.io/hacks/csshttprequest/> YouTube Enables Deep Linking Within Videos <http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/10/25/youtube-enables-deep-linking-within-vi deos/> How to: CSS Large Background <http://www.webdesignerwall.com/tutorials/how-to-css-large-background/> Twitter, Flickr, Facebook Make Blogs Look So 2004 <http://www.wired.com/entertainment/theweb/magazine/16-11/st_essay> A CSS sticky footer <http://ryanfait.com/sticky-footer/> ---------------------------------- WSG AND INDUSTRY EVENTS ---------------------------------- 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. <http://www.edgeoftheweb.org.au/> 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. <http://wipa.org.au/event/150> 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. <http://wipa.org.au/event/151> 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. <http://www.customware.net/repository/display/WikiWednesday/Wiki+Wednesday> 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 <http://www.worldusabilityday.org/> BarCampSydney ----------------------------------------------- Date: Saturday 15 November City: Sydney (Australia) More info to follow soon... <http://www.barcampsydney.org/> Office DevCon 2008 ----------------------------------------------- Dates: 15th-16th November 2008 City: Sydney (Australia) Office DevCon is an annual community-driven conference that allows Microsoft Office developers and power users to come together in one location to hear expert speakers present on a wide range of Office-related topics. <http://www.officedevcon.com.au/> Web Application Design Training Workshop --------------- Dates: 4th November City: Sydney (Australia) Dates: 19th November City: Brisbane (Australia) Processes and interface design fundamentals for designing usable web applications - one day course. From internet banking, online learning, government transactional sites to employee phonebooks, online projects increasingly include elements of web application design. This course will explore the value and limitations of building a web application and introduce a range of tools, approaches and interface design principles to ensure that you understand your audience and design intuitive and usable web applications. <http://www.peakusability.com.au/training/web-applications.html> Interaction Design Training Workshop --------------- Dates: 5th November City: Sydney (Australia) Dates: 20th November City: Brisbane (Australia) Human characteristics and theoretical principles for usable web applications, intranet and internet sites - one day course. Ever wonder why users don't behave how you expect? Ever done usability testing or found usability issues but didn't know how to fix them? This course will provide an insight into human characteristics and online behaviour based on latest research and hundreds of usability tests with users, including video footage of usability test sessions. We will also cover the theory and principles of interaction design. <http://www.peakusability.com.au/training/interaction-design.html> Wordcamp Australia --------------- Dates: 29-Nov-08 to 30-Nov-08 Ciy: Lilyfield, Sydney (Australia) "WordCamp Australia is being held on the 29th and 30th of November in Sydney, Australia. WordCamp is a conference centred around the popular wordpress platform. Matt Mullenweg, chief architect of WordPress, will be keynoting the event alongside several other prominent members of the wordpress community. Ticket prices are currently set at $60, and you can get yours at http://wordcamp-australia-2008.eventbrite.com/. <http://wordcamp.com.au/> Ozchi 2008 --------------- Date: 8-Dec-08 to 12-Dec-08 City: Cairns (Australia) OZCHI is Australia and New Zealand's leading forum for work in all areas of human-computer interaction. As the annual conference for the Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group (CHISIG) of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society of Australia (HFESA), OZCHI attracts an international community of researchers and practitioners with a wide range of interests, including usability, information architecture, interaction design, human factors and ergonomics, human-computer interaction, information systems, software engineering, artificial intelligence, design, social sciences and management. The long and short papers accepted in the conference will be included in the proceedings of the ACM Digital Library. <http://www.ozchi.org/mediawiki/index.php/OZCHI_2008> Web-Blast --------------- Date: Friday 12 December City: Sydney (Australia) More details to follow soon <http://webblast.org/> -------------------- Did I miss an event, resource or job in your city? If you have an event, resource or relevant job you'd like posted (from any country), please let me know - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks Russ ************************************************************** Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] **************************************************************