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Web Standards Group August meeting (Sydney)

By Diana Mounter : August 7, 2008 | In Events & meetups, Social computing | Comments Off

If you are in Sydney around 19th August make sure you go to the Web Standards Group meeting on Tuesday night. There’s a great list of presenters including Tim Lucas who is also presenting at our conference at the end of that week. WSG provides a great way to meet other web professionals, there’s forums and mailing lists that you can join so even if you can’t make the meetups you can participate in discussion.

Event Details

Date: Tuesday 19 August
Time: 6:30pm for 7:00pm start
Where: Australian Museum – 6 College Street Sydney
Cost: $10 per head (pay at the door)
RSVP: http://webstandardsgroup.org/meetings/index.cfm?event_id=156

Presentation 1: “Findability: going beyond SEO”

Presenter: Radica Raeves

Search engine optimisation is usually the first subject that comes to mind when thinking about ways to improve the visibility of your organisation online. But it’s only a piece of the puzzle. In order to help the intended audience find, use and reuse your information, we need to look beyond SEO. Findability could help complete the puzzle. It’s a much broader concept, touching on almost every aspect of the web design and development process, where specialist fields intersect and overlap. We need to try and identify these elements of findability and “plug” them into the user-centred design workflow. It’s a big challenge… Can we connect the dots and bridge the gaps?”

Presentation 2: “One Web, No Go”

Presenter: Oliver Weidlich

With the improvements in mobile browsers and in the overall mobile user experience, what do we expect will change for mobile web users? Will we see a ‘one web’ approach? Oliver will talk about why the mobile and PC web experiences will increase in similarity, but still remain very different.

Presentation 3: “Building web apps for iPhones”

Presenters: Tim Lucas & Pete Ottery

Where to start when making a website targetted at iPhone users, including “Should you be?”. Frameworks…Javascript…Dev environments… and more. Tim Lucas & Pete Ottery share some experiences about creating iphone.news.com.au.

RSVP for this event.