Australian Webweek is a brand new event on the local web design/development circuit from the people behind Web Directions, and makes its debut this October in Sydney.
Australian Web Week celebrates the best of the Australian web industry – sites and applications, designers and designs, innovative Australians taking it to the world. Over ten days professionals [...]
Australian Webweek arrives this October
Posted by John Lampard on Tuesday, 25 August, 2009 to the events subset
Find full time & freelance design & development work
Posted by John Lampard on Tuesday, 3 March, 2009 to the comment subset
I’ve just become an Authentic Jobs affiliate and you may have noticed the Authentic Jobs banner in the right hand column.
Authentic Jobs is a global job board where employers or project managers can advertise for web and creative professionals, and designers and developers can search for full time or freelance work.
Browser compatibility tables for HTML 5 and beyond
Posted by John Lampard on Thursday, 19 February, 2009 to the technology subset
When can I use…: which of the contemporary browsers will support emerging web technologies such as HTML 5, CSS 3, and even SVG?
A handy resource for web professionals.
Screen Readers Users survey results
Posted by John Lampard on Thursday, 12 February, 2009 to the comment subset
The results of a survey conducted by WebAima into the preferences of people using screen-readers to access the web makes for interesting reading.
Essential information for all web professionals.
HTML 5: 12 information and learning resources
Posted by John Lampard on Thursday, 15 January, 2009 to the comment subset
Cameron Moll has put together a great list of HTML 5 guides, articles, and cheatsheets.
I’m pondering the question though. I use use XHTML to markup disassociated.com, and have for years. Should I “switch” to HTML 5? Maybe I’ll just think of another project where I can apply the new specification though.
HTML 5 will be web development’s flavour of 2009
Posted by John Lampard on Friday, 9 January, 2009 to the technology subset
John Allsopp discusses the restricted semantic capability of HTML and how the recent HTML 5 specification, and some of the new elements it introduces, will address these limitations.
I’m going to make a bold prediction. Long after you and I are gone, HTML will still be around. Not just in billions of archived pages from our [...]
The State of the Web as seen by web developers
Posted by John Lampard on Thursday, 8 January, 2009 to the comment subset
A summary of findings from the Web Directions’ State of the Web survey has been published, and among other things reveals that while Internet Explorer still holds the lion’s share of the browser market, web developers are increasingly making their work standards-compliant first, IE compliant second.
Despite the fact that versions of Internet Explorer still account [...]
The State of the Web 2008 survey
Posted by John Lampard on Thursday, 4 December, 2008 to the technology subset
Web Directions has launched The State of the Web 2008 survey, to gain a snap shot of design and development practices currently in use by web professionals.
At Web Directions and Westciv, we’ve been strongly focussed on the standards based web, and best practices in web design and development for well over ten years. Over that [...]
Some iPhone website development resources
Posted by John Lampard on Thursday, 6 November, 2008 to the technology subset
A small but useful round up of resources for anyone charged with the task of developing an iPhone optimised website, from Web Directions.
In the days when big web design was the big idea
Posted by John Lampard on Thursday, 9 October, 2008 to the comment subset
An article written by Australian journalist Paul Ham in 2002, and republished on the website of Melbourne digital creatives DTDigital, bought back plenty of memories. Some good, and some not so good… not good at all:
The big Web designers charged up to 200 per cent more than they should have, according to GartnerGroup. The little [...]
