I’ve been looking through some of the photos* from last week’s Webstock conference in Wellington, and of all things a picture of this year’s Webstock computer carry bag, above, caught my eye (photo by Cle0patra).
This has to be the best one yet, I already have the 2008 and 2009 bags, so here’s hoping [...]

The long awaited new look Australian INfront arrived, as promised, on Sunday 10 January.
And in addition to a much needed visual overhaul, a number of other changes – which are detailed here – have also taken place:

The core, or admin, team (previously referred to as “founders”) now consists of just three people.
While the original founder [...]

Sometime this Sunday, 10 January, the new look and long awaited Australian INfront will see the light of day. It’s something I’ve been looking forward to, even though it has been awhile since I was actively associated with INfront.
Various posts on the (soon to be archived) forum and tweets have promised that the re-launch [...]

The animated GIF artworks of David Ope: before applications like Flash appeared, creating (quality) animations for the web was a painstaking process, very much like film animation, and involved making up many only slightly different slides that would be then fused together to form a motion image or banner.

Next Monday, 30 November, is International Blue Beanie Day, a day for web professionals to show their support for web standards.
If you’d rather not wear a blue beanie – and this isn’t exactly beanie weather we’re having here – you could always consider adding an illustrated blue beanie to your Facebook or Twitter [...]

A collection of title images from early editions of A List Apart.

From Jeffrey Zeldman. A desire to excel is more important than having the best possible tools to do the job:
I should point out that it’s in the last year or two that I’ve indulged a desire to buy new and high-end equipment. I did most of the important work in my career to date [...]

Typekit is a new subscription tool for web designers who are pedantic about typography, which allows them to serve up a selection of OpenType fonts to a website by way of javascript.
Add a line of code to your pages and choose from hundreds of fonts. Simple, bulletproof, standards compliant, accessible, and totally legal.

A sample of nine Geocities webpages which were among the one million archived before Yahoo closed down the old web communities.
Before iPods and Y2K, GeoCities was a quantum leap: The average person could create a web site for free, no questions asked. People took the opportunity and ran with it, building millions of pages [...]

I’m pleased to say none of these once all too familiar images (may take a minute or two to load) ever graced any of my websites back in the day.