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This email covers:
- Links for light reading
- WSG and Industry events
- Industry related jobs
If you have an event, resource or relevant job you'd like posted
(from any country), please let me know - [email protected]
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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):
<http://www.maxdesign.com.au/2009/06/09/some-links-232/>
Opera10
<http://www.opera.com/browser/next/>
Jon Hicks discusses the new Opera skin
<http://my.opera.com/community/blog/2009/06/04/jon-hicks-discusses-
the-new-opera-skin>
Standards support in Opera Presto 2.2 and Opera 10 beta
<http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/standards-support-in-opera-10-beta/>
What is an Experience Strategy?
<http://johnnyholland.org/magazine/2009/06/what-is-an-experience-
strategy/>
Structural Tags in HTML5
<http://orderedlist.com/articles/structural-tags-in-html5>
Mozilla Labs Jetpack | Exploring new ways to extend and personalize
the Web
<http://jetpack.mozillalabs.com/>
Kindle formatting for web geeks
<http://johnaugust.com/archives/2009/kindle-formatting-for-web-geeks>
Fine Tuna - Fine tune a design or image by adding feedback & comments
<http://www.finetuna.com/>
Truetype, Font Variants and Antialiasing
<http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2009/06/08/truetype-font-variants-and-
antialiasing/>
55 Really Creative Logos
<http://www.webdesignerhelp.co.uk/index.php/2009/05/55-really-
creative-logos/>
FeedMingle
<http://feedmingle.com/>
8 Excellent Tools for Optimizing Your Images
<http://sixrevisions.com/tools/8-excellent-tools-for-optimizing-your-
images/>
More than 25 Excellent Tips to Improve jQuery
<http://maxblog.me/2009/04/20/more-than-25-excellent-tips-to-improve-
jquery/>
Sexy Drop Down Menu with jQuery and CSS
<http://www.noupe.com/tutorial/drop-down-menu-jquery-css.html>
Google Chrome 2.0 Accessibility Improvements?
<http://www.paciellogroup.com/blog/?p=104>
Joe Clark's Cranky About Copyright
<http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2009/06/04/joe-clarks-cranky-about-
copyright/>
Adobe BrowserLab
<http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/browserlab/>
CSS: The Maintenance Issue #1 and How You Can Avoid It
<http://meiert.com/en/blog/20090527/css-maintenance-issue-1/>
Usability to the UX
<http://www.redant.co.uk/community/blogs/usability-to-the-ux/>
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WSG AND INDUSTRY EVENTS
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Remix 09
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Date: 11-Jun-09
City: Sydney (Australia)
Catch the cream of the Australian Web industry for a huge knowledge
download. 20 Industry Leaders plus dozens of real life examples of
rich digital experiences make REMIX09 the must-attend event for
designers, developers and Web professionals.
<http://www.microsoft.com/australia/remix/>
June Web Standards Group Casual (Sydney)
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Date: 11-Jun-09
City: Sydney (Australia)
After the very successful WSGC IN April, the second Networking event
for anyone interested in "website creation the right way" is slated
for Thursday June 11, in central Sydney. No lectures, presentations
or PowerPoint slides, plenty of interesting people keen on discussing
how to keep standards-compliance at the forefront of current
projects, and interested in what you think about the web industry at
the moment.
<http://webstandardsgroup.org/event/172>
Max Design CSS and Accessibility workshop series - 2009
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Dates: 12-Jun-09
City: Sydney (Australia)
A hands-on workshop with accessibility expert, Roger Hudson, and CSS
expert,
Russ Weakley:
Day 2: Mastering CSS and XHTML - building elegant websites
<http://maxdesign.com.au/workshop2009/>
Brisbane Django - Python meet up
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Date: Tuesday 16-Jun-09
City: Brisbane (Australia)
Talk about Django, the topic for this meet up will be: "Application
side caching in Django, and development methods". And everything else
that people like to discuss.
<http://www.meetup.com/django-brisbane/>
UX London 2009
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Date: 15-Jun-09 to 17-Jun-09
City: London, England
UX London is Britain's first major user experience conference,
comprising two days of practical, hands-on workshops, and a day of
inspirational speakers. We have some of the industry's best people on
board, including Don Norman, Peter Merholz, Dan Saffer, LukeW and
Jared Spool, so it's abound to be an amazing event!
<http://uxlondon.com/>
Usability Fundamentals Training Course
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Date: 18-Jun-09 – 19-Jun-09
City: Sydney (Australia)
The training course uses interactive materials and examples to
introduce key concepts of usability. Insight is provided to help you
understand how to convert website visitors into paying customers,
maximising income streams, minimise the likes of Call Centre costs,
and help avoid common design mistakes.
<http://www.usabilityone.com/services/usability-training.php>
Running in-house usability tests (Workshop)
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Date: 19-Jun-09
City: Sydney (Australia)
Empowering you and your staff to run usability tests is a cost
effective approach at gathering valuable insights into your users’
behaviour. Usability Testing is a crucial activity to ensure you
develop successful and usable interfaces. In this workshop you will
learn what is involved to set up and run a usability testing project
from start to finish.
<http://www.usabilityone.com/services/usability-testing-workshop.php>
Carson Workshops
The Whuffie Factor - Using the Power of Social Networks to Build Your
Business - Tara Hunt
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Date: 22-June-09
City: London (UK)
Everyone knows about blogs and social networks such as Facebook and
Twitter. And they've heard about someone who has used them to grow a
huge customer base. Everyone wants to be hands-on, grass roots and
interactive. But what does this mean? And more to the point, how do
you do it?
<http://carsonworkshops.com/2009/tarahunt/index.html>
Webstock Master Class workshops - Presentation Zen with Garr Reynolds
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Date: 08-Jul-09 – 10-Jul-09
City: Wellington (New Zealand)
For anyone who has to give presentations with the aid of PowerPoint
or Keynote, these workshops will explore current popular presentation
approaches and highlight techniques from some of the world’s top
business leaders, turning conventional wisdom concerning PowerPoint
and presentations on its ear. Garr’s "Presentation Zen" approach
challenges the conventional wisdom of making slide presentations in
today’s world and encourages you to think differently and more
creatively about the preparation, design, and delivery of your
presentations.
<http://www.webstock.org.nz/upcoming/preszen.php>
Usability Fundamentals Training Course
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Date: 21-July-09 – 22-July-09
City: Melbourne (Australia)
The training course uses interactive materials and examples to
introduce key concepts of usability. Insight is provided to help you
understand how to convert website visitors into paying customers,
maximising income streams, minimise the likes of Call Centre costs,
and help avoid common design mistakes.
<http://www.usabilityone.com/services/usability-training.php>
Running in-house usability tests (Workshop)
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Date: 22-July-09
City: Melbourne (Australia)
Empowering you and your staff to run usability tests is a cost
effective approach at gathering valuable insights into your users’
behaviour. Usability Testing is a crucial activity to ensure you
develop successful and usable interfaces. In this workshop you will
learn what is involved to set up and run a usability testing project
from start to finish.
<http://www.usabilityone.com/services/usability-testing-workshop.php>
WE Believe In Community
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Date: 20-Aug-09 - 21-Aug-09
City: Sydney (Australia)
A web conference for people working in government and the public
sector. Brought to you by the Local Government Web Network. A full
day conference with a mix of split streams and some awesome plenary
sessions, and a second day of in-depth half day workshops - book
these dates in your diary now if you work on, with, or immerse
yourself in the web in the world of Government and the Public Sector.
Visit: http://conference09.lgwebnetwork.org
UX Australia 2009 - registration now open!
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Dates: 26-Aug-09 to 28-Aug-09
City: Canvberra (Australia)
UX Australia 2009 is Australia's premier user experience design
conference, with inspiring and practical presentations, covering a
range of topics about how to design great experiences for people.
<http://www.uxaustralia.com.au/conference-2009>
Carson Workshops
Design Secrets of digg.com's User Interface - Daniel Burka
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Date: 08-Sept-09
City: London (UK)
Web 2.0 is focused on user participation, so how can you promote
interaction on your site? As designers and product people, our focus
is on developing wonderful user experiences where people can come
together to participate in meaningful and useful ways. With social
sites, this is doubly critical as our sites are fundamentally powered
by users interacting with one another. This workshop will focus on
design strategies for lowering the barriers to participation,
adapting to user behavior, promoting positive behaviors, managing
scale, and creating intuitive user experiences.
<http://carsonworkshops.com/2009/danielburka/index.html>
Web Directions South 2009
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Dates: October 6-9
City: Sydney (Australia)
Two days of workshops plus a two day, three track conference -
Design, Development and Business - with leading international and
local experts in user experience, interface design, social media,
coding and development, SEO, accessibility, interaction design and
much more. A place for anyone who works on the web in any way at all
to learn, connect, share and experience ideas in 2009.
<http://south09.webdirections.org/>
Web Application Design Training Workshop
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Date & city:
18th August – Adelaide (Australia)
20th Oct – Canberra (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. Includes
usability of Rich Internet Applications and AJAX.
<http://www.peakusability.com.au/training/web-applications.html>
WCAG 2.0 Training New Zealand
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City: Wellington (New Zealand)
Dates:
Thursday 4th June - WCAG v2.0 Priority 1 Checkpoints (Level A)
Thursday 11th June - WCAG v2.0 Priority 2 Checkpoints (Level AA)
Thursday 18th June - WCAG v2.0 Priority 3 Checkpoints (Level AAA)
Version 2.0 of the New Zealand Government Web Standards was released
in March. A major change is adoption of the W3C's WCAG 2.0 standards.
Accessibility expert Bruce Aylward from W3A will run a series of
training courses for web professionals on complying with the WCAG 2.0
standards at a training lab in Wellington. Each course covers one of
the three WCAG 2.0 priority levels and are practical and hands-on. At
the end of each course participants should be able to design for and
determine compliance with the checkpoints of the relevant priority
level of the WCAG 2.0.
<http://www.w3a.co.nz/contact.htm>
Interaction Design Training Workshop
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Date & city:
19th August – Adelaide (Australia)
21st Oct – Canberra (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>
Web Usability Training Course
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Date & city:
16th June – Melbourne (Australia)
28th July – Adelaide (Australia)
1st Dec – Canberra (Australia)
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.
<http://www.peakusability.com.au/training/web-usability.html>
Usability Evaluation & Testing Training Workshop
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Date & city:
17th June – Melbourne (Australia)
29th July – Adelaide (Australia)
2nd Dec – Canberra (Australia)
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.
<http://www.peakusability.com.au/training/evaluation-and-testing.html>
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JOBS
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Job 1
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Senior Front-End Developer – TrueLocal.com.au (News Digital Media)
Overview:
- Manage the front end development of Truelocal.com.au and mobile sites
- Be part of Australia's largest digital media publishers
- CBD Location, work/life balance, fun and supportive culture
News Digital Media is one of Australia's largest digital media
publishers, leading the market in digital innovation. With 23 digital
properties, we deliver 360 degree coverage of the lifestyle, needs
and interests of aspiring Australians. We are the first choice for
news, the first choice for sport and the go-to resource for
entertainment and services. Truelocal.com.au is one of Australia's
fastest growing local business directories with an online audience
growth of over 60% in the last 12 months. Our team are passionate
about our business and the Truelocal.com.au team promote a vibrant,
friendly and supportive culture. We are currently looking for a
Senior Front-end Developer to develop and maintain presentation-tier
code true to design and branding across TrueLocal's web and mobile
sites with efficiency and up-to-date technology standards to ensure
the widest audience reach possible.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Coding to optimise screen layout, look and feel ensuring enhanced
usability
- Coding to optimize SEO
- Integration of code into jsp
- Working closely with the Designer to provide active feedback on
proposed designs
- Working with Marketing and internal partners to deliver adhoc
collateral for website
- Extrapolating existing designs across all sections of site with
consistency and elegance
- Maintain effective and constructive relationships with designers
across News Digital Media to share ideas and keep up with coding
standards
To be successful in this position, it is expected that you possess:
- High level of expertise in front-end production skills, hand coding
(x)HTML/CSS to current web and mobile standards and optimization
techniques
- Good understanding of DOM based JavaScript techniques and
experience using JavaScript frameworks
- Knowledge of AJAX and Flash
- Ability to work with a wide number of stakeholders both internally
and externally
- Good interpersonal and communication skills
- Must have the capability to think and act strategically as well as
deliver projects within tight timeframes
- Well organised with high attention to detail
What do we offer?
In return for your hard work and dedication, you will have the
opportunity to work in a fast paced, fast growing company with a
strong work/life culture and close knit, fun environment. The future
for News Digital Media is bright. As a fast paced, dynamic and
results driven business, our people are passionate about delivering
to our audience the best possible digital experience through highly
engaging, creative and informative digital platforms. If you share
the passion, enjoy being at the forefront of creativity and
innovation, strive for excellence and enjoy a fun and rewarding
environment, apply now to join us.
Contact: Karen Sturrock. Phone: 02 8114 6238
Job 2
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The ABC is currently recruiting for this position.
* Ultimo, Sydney
* Salary $63,591 + super
* Ongoing training and development
The ABC is Australia’s independent, national commercial-free
broadcaster. Through its television and radio networks and its online
sites, the ABC provides Australians with programs that inform,
educate and entertain. The Information Technology group supports the
capture, production and delivery of ABC content and services to
audiences across TV, Radio and Online.
Positioned within IT, this role provides technology support and
enhancement services for ABC business applications, with specific
focus on the ABC’s new Intranet portal, featuring latest web content
management technologies.
Initially, the role will work with the Intranet implementation
project team and vendor, undertaking training to gain familiarity
with the complete environment to be equipped to provide support
services following implementation. Ongoing, you will be working with
the Corporate Online Producer to ensure their requirements for ABC’s
Intranet services are met.
To succeed in the role, you will demonstrate a high level of
initiative, and ability to proactively investigate, analyse, diagnose
and solve complex technical problems. Additionally you will have the
ability to translate business requirements into technical
specifications.
Key to securing this role will be to demonstrate advanced skills in
analysis, design and programming, particularly in Windows
applications, with specific skills in .NET 3.5, C#, ASP .Net, MS SQL
Server, HTML and CSS. Knowledge of web content management systems and
search engine applications is desirable.
Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, are important
in the role, as is good understanding of project management and
quality principles, commitment to meeting deadlines, and ability to
work in a team environment.
For further information contact David Soutar on (02) 8333 3014.
Applicants must address the selection criteria. For information on
how to apply visit www.abc.net.au/jobs. Applications close 5th June
2009.
Job 3
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Online Project Manager / Producer (Sydney)
Gruden is looking for a talented and dynamic Project Manager /
Producer to join our continually growing team.
This is an excellent opportunity if you have outstanding PM skills, a
strong appreciation of design and a commitment to delivering
exceptional customer service and results.
As a skilled communicator and negotiator you will be highly
experienced in managing major international/national clients and
brands. You will have forged strategic internal and external
partnerships and worked closely with your clients to develop
innovative, creative and rich interactive web solutions to meet their
commercial objectives.
You will be an effective and motivating project leader directing the
conception, development and implementation of high quality web
solutions using the latest technologies in a team environment.
You will have excellent attention to detail and be able to respond
quickly to daily changing business needs and timelines with good
humour and professionalism.
Responsibilities
- Control and ensure that the work delivered is on time and of a high
quality
- Manage and liaise with internal production team for project delivery
- Maximise return and satisfaction for the client
- Maintain and enhance profitability for each project and client
- Deliver outstanding customer service
- Deliver to deadlines by managing multiple priorities in a dynamic
and demanding environment
- Manage and contribute to the preparation of project scope
requirements documents and business requirement specifications
- Tracking and reporting on website visitation and behaviour and
making recommendations
- Provide weekly updates to the Group Operations Manager on projects
and ensure that timely and accurate information is provided
- Manage and contribute to new business proposals
Essential skills
- Self-confident, energetic and enthusiastic
- Excellent problem solving skills and attention to detail
- Exceptional interpersonal & presentation skills with strong client
facing experience
- At least 3 years experience as a digital project manager/producer
with a strong portfolio
- Proven project management skills in planning, budgeting, change
requests, scheduling and documentation
- Excellent understanding of web-based technologies & tools and their
commercial application
- Knowledge of enterprise CMS systems & Flash/Flex implementations
- Experience in the preparation of wireframes, IA and other relevant
scoping documentation
Desirable skills
- Previous agency experience
- Relevant qualifications
- Knowledge of HTML, CSS, .NET, ColdFusion & how systems integrate
- Experience in running and contributing to workshops/focus groups etc
- Understanding of web standards
- Experience with SEO/SEM
To apply please email your CV to [email protected] with "Online
Project Manager / Producer (Sydney)" in the subject line.
Job 4
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Freelance -Contract-PHP Programmers -Parramatta - Must have
experience and have portfolio of recent high class work
work from home or our office- extra cash from your day job.
PHP Programmers in Parramatta-PHP website developers Share your
passion with like minded individuals in an energetic and inspiring
office located in Parramatta. see you working within a large team
environment working on large scale and smaller projects.
You will need skills in the following areas:
PHP Programmer required,Lots of work ongoing.
Good rate - parramatta area,No trainees-primadonnas- Must have more
than 2 years experience
- good knowledge of general php
- knowledge of php5 : oriented object
- knowledge of zend framework or other MVC framework
- good knowledge of Javascript
- knowledge of prototyping
- knowledge of scriptaculous
- knowledge of ajax
- HTML - DHTML
- database design
- MySQL
Please send your application to [email protected]
Location: Parramatta, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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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
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