Archive for May, 2008

I am look­ing for your views on an issue I am hav­ing with a design for a new web­site at work. I am a fan of elastic design (which you might of noticed if you are read­ing this via my blog). The ori­ginal inten­tion was to have a basic design for the smal­ler (< […]

The site of the West­ern Aus­tralian Premier is one of the alarm­ing num­ber of web­sites that are built just for broad­band users, while ignor­ing those on dia­lup or those on expens­ive mobile broad­band net­works. The home page in ques­tion weighs in at over hefty 750kb. Which is fine for busi­ness and home users with decent broad­band, but not every­body has access to fast and cheap broad­band in West­ern Australia.

I am not just talk­ing about out­back West­ern Australia …

Dir­ect from Bar­Camp Perth2.0, here are the slides, the present­a­tion plan and intro­duc­tion I used.

The W3C are run­ning a free online train­ing in Mobile Web Best Prac­tices, you can find out more on the course over­view page or you can head straight over to the regis­tra­tion page. You might need to rush see­ing the course is lim­ited to 100 participants.

Update 1720WST 5 May 2008 , just got informed by W3C the course is now full, the 100 places where filled quicker than they expected.

Hat tip to Scen­ario Girl. See you on the course Lisa.