Next presentation

I didn’t freeze or freak out when I gave my present­a­tion to the Perth Web Stand­ards Group, I actu­ally enjoyed it. So I jumped at invit­a­tion to do another present­a­tion in a few months time. The ques­tion, is what topic? The three that spring to mind are:

1. 50 things you should know about CSS
2. fixed, fluid or elastic layout?
3. access­ible forms

50 things you should know about CSS

Partly from want­ing to be able to do a present­a­tion that will be at least 45 minutes long, instead of 22 minutes like last time. But more from read­ing Andy Budd’s CSS Mas­tery and brows­ing Bite Size Stand­ards and real­ising that over the past eight years of using CSS, I have picked up whole heap of tips and tricks by wan­der­ing round the web, read­ing books, exper­i­ment­ing or just by plain trial and error, that could be passed on.

It would be rapid fire present­a­tion, one minute or so per tip. So the people who already know that tip will not get bored wait­ing for the next tip. It would most bene­fit the inex­per­i­enced designer/developer/student, how­ever, there should be a light­bulb moment or two for the more experienced.

The advant­ages, is there hope­fully will be some­thing for every­one who cre­ates CSS and prob­ably the easi­est for me to pre­pare for, cre­at­ing a tip a day over next two months.

fixed, fluid or elastic layout?

Look­ing at three dif­fer­ent meth­ods for lay­outs of web pages, the advant­ages and dis­ad­vant­ages of each method. It is the least tech­nical of the three pos­sible present­a­tions, con­cen­trat­ing on usab­il­ity and access­ib­il­ity, it would touch on tech­nical issues like px, em or % for units of meas­ure­ment and font sizes as well as using javas­cript to .

The main prob­lem for me, will be mak­ing a 45 minute present­a­tion from some­thing I could talk pas­sion­ately about for 15 or 20 minutes.

accessible forms

Heav­ily influ­enced by the present­a­tions of Derek Feath­er­stone and Roger Hud­son at Web Essen­tials 05. This present­a­tion would be the most tech­nical of the three, as well as being very heavy on access­ib­il­ity (why use field­set, legend, label, … etc) it would delve deeeply in to how to code forms for max­imum access­ib­il­ity, usab­il­ity and stun­ning looks.

what do you want?

I am open to sug­ges­tions, which of those three or is there another topic you like to hear me talk about? Even if you are not in Perth, you can have your say, because I will post the present­a­tion and there will be a pod­cast and prob­ably a tran­script as well.

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