Port 80, the Australian Web Industry Association started in Perth, is coming to Canberra! Anyone involved in the web or related industries is welcome to come along for an informal get-together, to chat about the web, bitch about clients, make … Continue reading
November 15, 2005
by Kay
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Being professional
Andy Clarke has come out and said what many of us wish we could, but don’t. Via Molly’s Web Standards and The New Professionalism Those people still delivering nested table layout, spacer gifs or ignoring accessibility can no longer call … Continue reading
Urchin, Google, and why I’m not thrilled
So Google bought Urchin, that’s old news. Before the acquistion, PerthWeb bought a licence of Urchin 5, the stand-alone edition, for our hosting service. It’s a nice product, I’ve sung it’s praises here before. We bought it at the end … Continue reading
Custom-coded vs. off-the-shelf
This is a question that comes up quite regularly for me – when do you code a custom application and when do you use an existing solution, be it an off-the-shelf product or code from an open source project? I’m … Continue reading
I love Fusedocs
It’s Festival time again… in two weeks, the 2006 Perth International Arts Festival web site will be launched. So right now we’re making (mostly minor) modifications to the system and finishing off the new functionality. And madly trying to finish … Continue reading
Tech Women and Macs
But not necessarily together, as you might assume from the title! An interesting observation from Rob Rohan on the Macromedia MAX conference held last week: There are women at the conference. Almost every developer conference I’ve ever been to has … Continue reading
October 18, 2005
by Kay
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Top Ten Blog Mistakes – Maybe?
I’m surprised that Jakob Nielsen’s Top Ten Design Mistakes for Web Logs hasn’t stirred much comment in blog circles I frequent. Maybe I frequent the wrong circles! Most of the mistakes are pretty obvious and not very contentious. Most of … Continue reading
October 13, 2005
by Kay
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Preaching to the choir
It struck me that having web standards group meetings is all very well, but really, you are preaching to the converted. Web standards group people are there because they believe in standards and want to learn as much as possible … Continue reading