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This is a one-way list for WSG Announcements
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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 - r...@maxdesign.com.au
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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/2009/04/21/some-links-225/>
rel=accessibility
<http://www.brucelawson.co.uk/2009/rel-accessibility/>
Typetester – Compare fonts for the screen
<http://www.typetester.org/>
Why Programmers Suck at CSS Design
<http://www.betaversion.org/~stefano/linotype/news/169/>
Fluid Images
<http://unstoppablerobotninja.com/entry/fluid-images/>
The Long Road from XHTML to HTML
<http://nimbupani.com/blog/the-long-road-from-xhtml-to-html.html>
The Road to HTML 5: Link Relations
<http://blog.whatwg.org/the-road-to-html-5-link-relations>
Objects in JavaScript (part I)
<http://dmitry-baranovskiy.tumblr.com/post/96721628/objects-in-
javascript-part-i>
Make your site faster and cheaper to operate in one easy step
<http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2009/04/make-your-site-faster-and-
cheaper-to.html>
20 Useful PHP + jQuery Components & Tuts for Everyday Project
<http://www.noupe.com/php/20-useful-php-jquery-tutorials.html>
One-line sitelinks
<http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/04/one-line-
sitelinks.html>
Putting Disorientation into the Design Process
<http://www.uie.com/articles/hunkering/>
Notes on Maintainability
<http://meiert.com/en/blog/20090414/notes-on-maintainability/>
Lobo - Java Web Browser
<http://lobobrowser.org/>
Do not create empty links
<http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200904/
do_not_create_empty_links/>
Gruden site now iPhone-friendly
<http://blog.gruden.com/2009/04/gruden-site-now-iphone-friendly/>
Social blindness
<http://www.onderhond.com/blog/onderhond/social-blindness>
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WSG AND INDUSTRY EVENTS
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Ideas 5
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Date: 22-Apr-09
City: Perth (Australia)
The Australian Web Industry Association, together with Web Industry
Professionals Association, present Ideas 5. Version 2 of the Web
Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.0) has recently been
released, introducing some changes in the recommendations for website
accessibility. Ideas5 is an evening seminar to help the web community
understand WCAG 2.0 and prepare websites with improved accessibility.
Come and join your industry peers as we hear from two experts, Roger
Hudson and Andrew Downie, about the impact of WCAG2, and hear more
about accessibility in PDF's, all whilst mingling with other industry
types and enjoy free canapés and partake in the cash bar.
<http://www.webindustry.asn.au/ideas5/>
Yahoo!7 Open Sessions present Christian Heilmann, International
Developer Evangelist, Yahoo!
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Date: 22-Apr-09
City: Sydney (Australia)
On Wednesday we launch Yahoo!7 Open Sessions, which will see Yahoo!7
be host to a range of international and local technology experts over
the coming months. First presentation is from Christian Heilmann,
currently sporting the job title "International Developer
Evangelist". Christian spends his time going from conference to
conference to speak and train people on systems provided by Yahoo!
and other web companies that want to make this web thing work well
for everybody. Christian will be speaking about the Yahoo! Developer
Network and how Australian developers can get more involved with
Yahoo! (Yahoo!7 offices, Level 2, Pier 8&9, 23 Hickson Road, Millers
Point)
<http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/2413704/>
Carson Workshops
How to design amazing web app user interfaces - Ryan Singer
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Date: 27-Apr-09
City: London (UK)
In this workshop you will gain insight into all aspects of web UI
design including: coding style, visual factors like color and weight,
movement between screens, and the role of copywriting in interface
design. It will also go outside of interface design to the broader
development process, from feature conception to sketches to
implementation.
<http://carsonworkshops.com/2009/ryansinger/index.html>
Secrets to marketing your business online effectively
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Date: 27-Apr-09
City: Sydney (Australia)
Time: 4.30 - 7.30pm
Price: $66 (incl GST)* - includes workbook with all Fred's powerpoint
slides.
Location: bioFirst Seminar Room - Ground Floor, National Innovation
Centre, Australian Technology Park, 4 Cornwallis St, Eveleigh
Want to learn how to market your business online like the
professionals? And unlock the potential of online marketing for your
business. Guru Young Direct Marketer & Young Entrepreneur, Fred
Schebesta is running his highly popular 11 Online Marketing Secrets
Seminar
<http://www.youngentrepreneurs.net.au/online-marketing-secrets.html>
Future of Web Design London 2009
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Date: 30-Apr-09 - 01-May-09
City: London (UK)
FOWD London is back for 2009! Join the industry's leading and most
talented designers, developers and artists for some inspiration and
practical advice. The goal of this show is to unite, inspire and
equip web designers around the world. We want you to walk away from
FOWD knowing that you're not alone in your battle to create
beautiful, usable and accessible websites and apps.
<http://events.carsonified.com/fowd/2009/london>
JAOO OZ - Sydney
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Date: 5-May-09 to 8-May-09
City: Sydney (Australia)
JAOO returns in May 2009 bringing some of the world's leading minds
in IT and software development, trendsetting authors and industry
researchers to Australia. JAOO is a premier international conference
series focused on engaging the hearts and minds of the software
development community. With over 13 years of experience, JAOO vision
has been steadfast in creating conferences for developers by
developers. As a result, our conferences are vendor neutral events
that focus on what inspires, drives and educates the international
development community.
<http://jaoo.com.au/sydney-2009>
JAOO OZ - Melbourne
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Date: 11-May-09 to 14-May-09
City: Melbourne (Australia)
JAOO returns in May 2009 bringing some of the world's leading minds
in IT and software development, trendsetting authors and industry
researchers to Australia. JAOO is a premier international conference
series focused on engaging the hearts and minds of the software
development community. With over 13 years of experience, JAOO vision
has been steadfast in creating conferences for developers by
developers. As a result, our conferences are vendor neutral events
that focus on what inspires, drives and educates the international
development community.
<http://jaoo.com.au/brisbane-2009>
Max Design CSS and Accessibility workshop series - 2009
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Dates: 18-May-09 and 19-May-09
City: Sydney (Australia)
A hands-on workshop with accessibility expert, Roger Hudson, and CSS
expert,
Russ Weakley:
Day 1: A practical guide to preparing WCAG 2 compliant websites
Day 2: Mastering CSS and XHTML - building elegant websites
<http://maxdesign.com.au/workshop2009/>
WebVisions
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Dates: 20-May-09 and 22-May-09
City: Portland (USA)
Explore the future of Web design, user experience and business
strategy at the Oregon Convention Center for three 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/>
Max Design CSS and Accessibility workshop series - 2009
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Dates: 21-May-09 and 22 May-09
City: Canberra (Australia)
A hands-on workshop with accessibility expert, Roger Hudson, and CSS
expert,
Russ Weakley:
Day 1: A practical guide to preparing WCAG 2 compliant websites
Day 2: Mastering CSS and XHTML - building elegant websites
<http://maxdesign.com.au/workshop2009/>
WebDU: Like a Rock Concert for Geeks
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Date: 21-May-09 to 22-May-09
City: Sydney, Australia
WebDU, is back for its 7th year with FIVE tracks including Team UX
and Web Sessions. Split into two tracks, Web Sessions covers the new
IE8, Javascript security, iPhone app development, Google Maps, Yahoo
Pipes, Prototyping, RIA integration and more. Team UX features topics
on design workflow, UI and form design, information architecture and
usability.
Discount code available for WSG members
Tickets are $950 or $795 with the code: WSG09
<www.webdu.com.au>
<http://twitter.com/webdu>
<http://tinyurl.com/rockyourinnergeek>
Max Design CSS and Accessibility workshop series - 2009
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Dates: 25-May-09 and 26 May-09
City: Melbourne (Australia)
A hands-on workshop with accessibility expert, Roger Hudson, and CSS
expert,
Russ Weakley:
Day 1: A practical guide to preparing WCAG 2 compliant websites
Day 2: Mastering CSS and XHTML - building elegant websites
<http://maxdesign.com.au/workshop2009/>
Max Design CSS and Accessibility workshop series - 2009
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Dates: 28-May-09 and 29 May-09
City: Brisbane (Australia)
A hands-on workshop with accessibility expert, Roger Hudson, and CSS
expert,
Russ Weakley:
Day 1: A practical guide to preparing WCAG 2 compliant websites
Day 2: Mastering CSS and XHTML - building elegant websites
<http://maxdesign.com.au/workshop2009/>
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/>
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>
WE Believe In Community
Sydney, 20 & 21 August 2009
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
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Dates: 25-Aug-09 to 27-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 Application Design Training Workshop
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Date & city:
24th March – Melbourne (Australia)
7th April – Sydney (Australia)
5th May – Brisbane (Australia)
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 7th May - WCAG v2.0 Priority 1 Checkpoints (Level A)
Thursday 14th May - WCAG v2.0 Priority 2 Checkpoints (Level AA)
Thursday 28th May - WCAG v2.0 Priority 3 Checkpoints (Level AAA)
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:
25th March – Melbourne (Australia)
8th April – Sydney (Australia)
6th May – Brisbane (Australia)
20th May – Perth (Australia)
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:
10th March –Sydney (Australia)
1st April – Brisbane (Australia)
19th May – Perth (Australia)
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:
11th March – Sydney (Australia)
2nd April – Brisbane (Australia)
21st May – Perth (Australia)
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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Volunteer Drupal specialist
ANTaR is a small non-profit organisation committed to working for
rights, justice and reconciliation for Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander peoples. We are currently seeking a volunteer Drupal
specialist who will be engaged to maintain the content management
system behind ANTaR’s website (Drupal). Secondary to this, the
volunteer will make periodical backups of the website. The volunteer
will have the choice to determine his or her own working hours,
although we would like the volunteer to be available for at least
three hours each month for a period of at least 6 months. ANTaR will
select a volunteer based on the following selection criteria:
- solid experience in using Drupal for website administration,
including updating versions and modules
- experience in backing up a database using MySQL / PHPMyAdmin
- a proactive approach to improving the ANTaR website (http://
antar.org.au)
- excellent attention to detail
- a strong commitment to Indigenous peoples' rights
For more information and details on how to apply, please see http://
antar.org.au/website_officer_drupal_specialist
Job 2
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PHP/mySQL developer needed for contract position. Must be Melbourne
based and have at least 3 years experience. The job is for a
government department and relates to building content management
components for an intranet. The candidate will be able to work on site
in Melbourne, be familiar with open source CMS products such as
WordPress and Drupal and be able to pass a low level security check.
Environment is Windows platform, with the applications using
PHP/mySQL.
Please contact David McDonald i...@davidmcdonald.org or 0403 332 140
with availability over the next month, rates, CV and any relavant
URLs.
Job 3
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Title: Project Manager
City: Sydney
Digital Eskimo is currently looking for a Project Manager, two
Producers and a Designer for an eight week contract, starting in
early April. The Project Manager should be an exceptional organiser
with close attention to detail with experience managing digital
projects. The Producer role requires an understanding of information
architecture and graphic user interfaces and experience in creating
functional specifications based on annotated wireframes. The Designer
should be mid to senior level digital designer familiar with the
design features of web applications. If you are interested in
applying for any of these roles or have any questions please contact
Duncan Underwood at d...@digitaleskimo.net or 02 9212 3366 with your
CV. More about us: www.digitaleskimo.net
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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 - r...@maxdesign.com.au
Thanks
Russ
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