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Follow us at the conference

If you’re coming to the conference then there’s some great ways you can participate online, and if you’re are not lucky enough to be coming you can follow what’s happening on Twitter and Flickr.
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Web Standards Group August meeting (Sydney)

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. Continue reading Web Standards Group August meeting (Sydney)…

Registrations closing soon, don’t miss out!

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We Believe In Community: 21 - 22 August 2008

2 full days on web technologies, strategies, creativity, and standards. 12 sessions in 2 streams and 6 plenary sessions from some of the leading experts in the field from Industry and Government. Continue reading Registrations closing soon, don’t miss out!…

Links for Learning Web Standards

“Learning Web Standards just got easier” – You can now learn to build a better web with Opera’s new Web Standards Curriculum.

Providing a clear study path for learning web standards is something the industry has struggled with. The gap just got a bit smaller when Opera launched the site a couple of weeks ago. It already provides a good foundation with plans to expand on the currently 23 articles into other key areas, and being licensed under the Creative Commons license means it can be used in a range of ways.

It will be useful to people who are new to learning web standards, or who are wanting to improve their understanding, and to teachers and team leaders to help train staff.

The launch of this got me thinking about what resources I found most useful when learning web standards. So here’s a list Continue reading Links for Learning Web Standards…

McFarlane Prize for 2008

The McFarlane Prize recognizes excellence in Australian web design and development in the broadest sense, and is decided by a jury of experts in design, coding, accessibility and usability.

The prize, which was started in 2006 in memory of Australian web and open source pioneer Nigel McFarlane is open to any Australian web developers or development teams, for a site completed between August 1st 2007 and August 31st this year. Continue reading McFarlane Prize for 2008…