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If you have an event, resource or relevant job you'd like posted (from any country), please let me know - r...@maxdesign.com.au ---------------------------------- 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/2009/04/01/some-links-222/> Breaking: Internet Explorer 8.1 Eagle Eyes Leaked <http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/03/31/breaking-internet-explorer-81-ea gle-eyes-leaked/> Styleneat - CSS Organizer <http://www.styleneat.com/> 10 Creative & Rich UI & How to Create Them <http://www.noupe.com/design/10-creative-rich-ui-interfaces-how-to-create-th em.html> Retro Links Revives Old Google Feature <http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/retro-links/> 10 Writing Tips for Web Designers <http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/02/10-writing-tips-for-web-designers/> Special Events using JQuery <http://brandonaaron.net/blog/2009/03/26/special-events> Recent compatibility updates <http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2009/03/recent_compatib.html> Image-free CSS Tooltip Pointers - A Use for Polygonal CSS? <http://www.filamentgroup.com/lab/image_free_css_tooltip_pointers_a_use_for_ polygonal_css/> Introduction to hCard, Part two: Styling hCards <http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/introduction-to-hcard-part-two-styling/> 10 Challenging But Awesome CSS Techniques <http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/html-css-techniques/10-challenging-but-aw esome-css-techniques/> Setting Web type to a baseline grid - Opera Developer Community <http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/setting-web-type-to-a-baseline-grid/> Mega Menus: the Next Web Design Trend <http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2009/03/30/mega-drop-down-menus/> Download V5.0 Evaluation Version <http://www.antennahouse.com/product/ahf50/download.htm> Wikirank <http://wikirank.com/en> The Elegance of Imperfection <http://www.alistapart.com/articles/theeleganceofimperfection> Coaching a Community <http://www.alistapart.com/articles/coachingcommunity> How to make IE6 behave <http://www.onderhond.com/blog/work/ie6-core-bug-fixing> Microsoft Launches Free Web Software Eco-System <http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/23/1931213> Contributing WAI-ARIA landmark roles to open source CMS themes <http://www.standards-schmandards.com/2009/wai-aria-landmark-roles-in-cms-th emes/> ---------------------------------- WSG AND INDUSTRY EVENTS ---------------------------------- Internet User Experience 2009 --------------- Date: 30-Mar-09 - 03-Apr-09 City: Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA) The Internet User Experience conference is back for its fifth year! It features keynotes, technical presentations, and training tutorials designed for web professionals and stakeholders of all skill levels. Over 24 top speakers and trainers in web site design and strategy, usability, content development, search engine marketing, and social media will fill this program. Also included will be special demonstrations, exhibitors, and a bookseller. <http://www.iue2009.com/> SMX Search Analytics --------------- Date: 31-Mar-09 to 01-Apr-09 City: Toronto (Canada) Join us in Toronto for the first SMX Search Analytics conference! This event is for search engine marketers who want to dive deep on the techniques for improving ROI of both paid and organic search marketing campaigns. SMX Search Analytics focuses on the processes and tools that help you maximize campaign effectiveness. <http://searchmarketingexpo.com/analytics> Search Marketing Expo - Sydney --------------- Date: 02-Apr-09 to 03-Apr-09 City: Sydney (Australia) Search Marketing Expo returns to Sydney in April 2009 with an action packed two day event, SMX Sydney's 2009 programming will include sessions designed for all skill levels, from beginners all the way to advanced. <http://www.searchmarketingexpo.com.au/> SilverStripe Open Source CMS meet ups --------------- Date: 2-Apr-09 City: Vancouver Learn about and discuss this modern website development platform, and meet other local developers using the software. <http://silverstripe.org/meet-ups-in-melbourne-stockholm-vancouver-2009/> UIE Web App Summit 2009 --------------- Date: 19-Apr-09 to 22-Apr-09 City: Newport Beach, California (USA) At the UIE Web App Summit, you'll meet the innovators and world-class designers behind today's most successful web apps. We've carefully crafted this four-day Summit to include two days of intensive full-day workshops on form design, Ajax, RIAs, design deliverables, wireframes, accessibility, design patterns, and web standards. We round out the conference with two more days of featured presentations from world-renown experts, to give you fresh perspectives and new insights on today's web app design challenges. <http://www.uie.com/events/web_app_summit/2009/> Ideas 5 --------------- 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/> Carson Workshops How to design amazing web app user interfaces - Ryan Singer --------------- 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> Future of Web Design London 2009 --------------- 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 --------------- 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> Carson Workshops How to Build Great Web Sites in HTML5 and CSS3 - Eric Meyer --------------- Date: 09-Mar-09 City: London (UK) This a special one-day workshop where we'll take a quick look at how to set up your own full-featured web development environment for free. Then we'll delve into the nuances of selectors, with an eye toward advanced CSS selectors and how they can make your CSS leaner and meaner than ever. This will be a look not only at the present state of selector support, but also its future and how you can jump right into the future today! <http://carsonworkshops.com/2009/ericmeyer/index.html> JAOO OZ - Melbourne --------------- 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 ------------------------------- 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/> Max Design CSS and Accessibility workshop series - 2009 ------------------------------- 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 ----------------------------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------- 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 --------------- 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 --------------- 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> UX Australia 2009 --------------- 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 --------------- 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 --------------- 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> Interaction Design Training Workshop --------------- 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 --------------- 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 --------------- 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> ---------------------------------- JOBS ---------------------------------- Job 1 ----------------- Needed: Sydney based Freelance Adobe Developer (probably a months work) can be done evenings if it suits your schedule. To create a simple 3D application with collision detection and external hardware control for a driving school. Using Adobe Director They have an idea a bit like the car game where they build a virtual "driving lesson" using the peddles and a logitec device car travelling down the road 40kms hit the brakes etc Must have least 5 years of experience coding Lingo for Adobe Director. Must have solid experience with Shockwave 3D and the built-in physics engine as well as integrating simple external USBXtras in Windows. Must have 3D object design skills in order to create the 3D environment (extremely simple 3D world with very basic textures) Contact Michael on 0416131252 Job 2 ----------------- PHP Web Developer at Fatpublisher Fatpublisher is seeking an Experienced Web Developer for a full time position with a minimum of three years commercial web development experience. We're web geeks! And we are in love with the web! It's not just our business, it's a personal passion for all us at Fatpublisher. We love getting the full potential out of the internet, and using a mix of the design and development tools available to deliver the best possible solutions for our clients. Does this sound like you? The role You will play an important role in an enthusiastic web agency that produces extremely usable, visually inspiring websites and applications that incorporate the latest interface patterns and web technologies. The role is suited to someone who: * Highly experienced in programming CSS and (X)HTML in a semantic manner and meet W3C standards * Highly experience in OO PHP (version 5) framework based custom and open source content management systems * Understands the benefits of web standards, usability and accessibility * Takes a great deal of pride in the quality of their work, keeps up to date with web best practice and is aware of the latest in usability interface patterns i.e. form design, images, links, video and audio embedding * Has excellent communication skills and that demonstrates a willingness to cooperate and engage within a web agency environment * Is an excellent thinker Experience in each of the following is required * 3-5 years commercial experience in Server-side development in OO PHP (version 5 experience a must) * 3-5 years commercial experience in XHTML, CSS, JavaScript (libraries such as JQuery/MooTools) * MySQL and database design * Linux experience helpful * Version control * Have a working knowledge of design software (e.g. Photoshop) Remuneration $60,000 - $85,000 neg. Expressions of Interest To express your interest in this role, please send your resume, web addresses and/or examples of work to m...@fatpublisher.com.au Visit out website : http://fatpublisher.com.au -------------------- 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 ************************************************************** Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org **************************************************************