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I really enjoyed devel­op­ing my present­a­tion for Edge of the Web. The research and exper­i­ment­a­tion was a lot of fun. Explore the demo using CSS Zen Garden HTML and ser­i­ously try it in IE6, the Web­Jam present­a­tion with some even more out­rageous trans­itions needs Safari4 or FF3.7 and a little explor­ing with a mouse.

What I learnt is enough from prob­ably a dozen blog posts, so hope­fully I will be writ­ing lot in the next few weeks.

Well I am speak­ing at the Edge of the Web Con­fer­ence in Perth in Novem­ber. The title Pro­gress­ive Enhance­ment with CSS: Or how I stopped wor­ry­ing about IE6 and start­ing lov­ing CSS3.

The aim is to show how you can use CSS2 and CSS3 to improve the exper­i­ence of vis­it­ors using mod­ern browsers, while not block­ing access to those people still using older browsers like IE6 …

My present­a­tion was done with little pre­par­a­tion and no slides, but I used a num­ber of sites as examples, so at Vel­vetSarah’s request, here are links to those sites.
State Premier’s

John Brumby
Mike Rann
Colin Barnett

Blogs

Trans­port Secur­ity Blog what a Gov­ern­ment blog should be

State Lib­rary of West­ern Aus­tralia blog

Face­book

School Leav­ers WA unfor­tu­nately their face­book page is not available now.

Twit­ter

West­ern Aus­tralia
TransPerth
Forrest […]

It is that time of the year again, I am off to four con­fer­ences, three in Sydney and a num­ber of social occa­sions in the next 11 weeks.

First up is …

Eric Scheid has con­firmed that OZIA 2008 is at the Stam­ford Plaza in Double Bay on 20 & 21 Septem­ber. So I have booked my flight for OZIA 2008 and WDS08 and my accom­mod­a­tion for both con­fer­ences, and I am not the only one.
So why I so excited about a con­fer­ence, 4000 kilo­metres away, when there […]

After the buzz of last year bar­camp in Perth and hear­ing so much about the recent Bar­camp Sydney 3 and the ini­tial Bar­camp Can­berra, I am so look­ing for­ward to another bar­camp in Perth.
Well my pray­ers have been answered. Bar­Camp Perth 2.0 is on May 10 at Cent­ral TAFE, 140 Royal St, East Perth. Over 50 […]

It would be remiss of me not to plug Ideas4, espe­cially see­ing I have bought my ticket, so I will not miss out. I sug­gest you buy your ticket now so you do not miss out, all the pre­vi­ous Ideas event have.

So what will you get …

You will see some advert­ising for Web Dir­ec­tions North around this blog, the reason is that one lucky per­son who pro­motes WDN08 on their site will win a free ticket to WDN08, accom­mod­a­tion and air­fares. See­ing I hope to go to SXSW this time, win­ning this is the only way I get to Van­couver next year.

OK I have done the com­mer­cial dis­clos­ure bit, so why am I inter­ested in going, well in addi­tion to the fun social­iz­ing bit, in the speaker lineup we have Jef­frey Zeld­man and Tara Hunt. I just want to see Zeld­man speak. Tara delivered a really inter­est­ing key­note presentation …

Stew­art Green­hill aka the Green­Guy has pos­ted the video of my ses­sion the social net­work in your pocket on viddler.

I came, I saw, I learnt, I presen­ted and throughly enjoyed myself, even if over too quickly.

The most sur­pris­ing thing, was that while the first Pod­Camp in Aus­tralia was sup­posed to of been organ­ized by Adam Pur­cell and Jared Mad­den. I met them early in the day, but they dis­ap­peared into the crowd and did not even present. The organ­iz­ing of Pod­Camp Perth 2007 seemed to be handled by Bron­wen (of Per­th­Norg fame) and Simone (of EnjoyPerth fame), with the help of a large num­ber of Perth people.