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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/2009/08/18/some-links-242/>
Corporate Twitter Toolbox: Twitter Tools for the Enterprise
<http://mashable.com/2009/08/17/enterprise-twitter-tools/>
The Social Networking revolution is just getting started. There’s so
much more to come.
<http://thenextweb.com/2009/08/17/beginning-social-network-revolutio/>
punypng: crushing your images even more
<http://ajaxian.com/archives/punypng>
Microsoft to Support IE6 Until 2014
<http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2009/08/18/microsoft-support-ie6-2014/>
Specifying an image's license using RDFa
<http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/08/specifying-images-license-using-rdfa.html
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Testing in the Wild, Seizing Opportunity
<http://www.uie.com/articles/testing_in_wild/>
45 Creative Logo Designs For Inspiration
<http://www.problogdesign.com/inspiration/45-creative-logo-designs-for-inspiration/
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Taming Advanced CSS Selectors
<http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/08/17/taming-advanced-css-selectors/
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HTML 5 data- Attributes
<http://ejohn.org/blog/html-5-data-attributes/>
CSS transparency issues
<http://www.onderhond.com/blog/onderhond/css-transparency-issues>
How Twitter works in theory
<http://epeus.blogspot.com/2009/03/how-twitter-works-in-theory.html>
Understanding Web Safe Colors
<http://www.merttol.com/articles/web/understanding-web-safe-colors.html>
Diagnostic Styling Reloaded
<http://meiert.com/en/blog/20090801/diagnostic-styling-reloaded/>
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WSG AND INDUSTRY EVENTS
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Sydney August Web Standards Group meeting
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Date: 19-Aug-09
City: Sydney (Australia)
The Open Web - Presenter: Lachlan Hardy
CSS: Configuring Simple Solutions - Presenter: Craig Sharkie
Proudly sponsored by Atlassian
<http://webstandardsgroup.org/event/176>
Web Accessibility Benefits & Issues
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Date: 19-Aug-09
City: Melbourne (Australia)
This workshop explains what accessibility means and why it is
important. Find out about the important Australian and international
requirements, including WCAG 2.0, the latest Web Content Accessibility
Guidelines from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Covers types of
assistive technology; how people with a disability use the web; and
strategies for integrating accessibility into your next web project.
<http://www.visionaustralia.org.au/info.aspx?page=2086>
Web Accessibility Techniques Workshop
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Date: 20-Aug-09
City: Melbourne (Australia)
The workshops provides an introduction to web accessibility techniques
within Australian policy contexts and internationally recognised
requirements - including the World Wide Web Consortium's web
accessibility guidelines. Explains specific accessibility techniques
for links, forms, semantic markup, scripting, images, text, nagivation
and multimedia.
<http://www.visionaustralia.org.au/info.aspx?page=2085>
WE Believe In Community - Registrations open!
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Date: 20-Aug-09 to 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. We're proud
to present keynotes from Senator Kate Lundy and Mark Pesce, and a
plenary session from Jason Ryan. Our conference sessions will be
covering a range of topics relevant to the public sector, such as open
web, Government 2.0, mobile web, social media, and marketing. And
workshops on WCAG 2.0, IA, usability, Javascript, writing for the web,
and CSS. Registrations now open! Early bird available until 10 July.
<http://conference09.lgwebnetwork.org>
UX Australia 2009 - registration now open!
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Dates: 26-Aug-09 to 28-Aug-09
City: Canberra (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>
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: 6-Oct-09 to 9-Oct-09
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>
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>
Oz-IA/2009
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Dates: 2nd-3rd October, 2009
City: Sydney (Australia)
Australia's Information Architecture Conference - two stimulating days
of presentations, panels, and networking with information architects
from across Australia and beyond.
<http://www.oz-ia.org/2009/>
Edge of the web - Perth 2009
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Dates: 4-Nov-09 to 6-Nov-09
City: Perth (Australia)
Edge of the Web brings a world-class web conference experience to
Western Australia, featuring exciting national and international
speakers, in November 2009.
<http://www.edgeoftheweb.org.au/>
Usability Fundamentals Training Course
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Date: 24-Nov-09 - 25-Nov-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: 25-Nov-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>
Web Usability Training Course
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Date: 1-Dec-09
City: 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: 2-Dec-09
City: 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>
Usability Fundamentals Training Course
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Date: 7-Dec-09 - 8-Dec-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: 7-Dec-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>
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JOBS
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Job 1
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Mid-Senior Web Designer
Gruden is looking for a talented Mid-Senior Digital Designer to join our
team. You must have a real passion for interactive design, an eye for
detail
and ability to work on various tasks at any time.
See http://www.gruden.com/index.cfm/p/jobs for details
Job 2
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.NET Developer
Gruden is a leading web agency working with some of Australia's largest
companies. We're looking for a talented and enthusiastic .NET
Developer to
join our growing team.
See http://www.gruden.com/index.cfm/p/jobs for details
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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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