Web Essentials 05 - Sydney 29 to 30 September 2005

Web Essentials Web Apps workshops

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podCasts, flickr, blogging and more
26-September-2005
Can't make it to Sydney, or missed out on a seat. Never fear, we have podCasts, photos, blogging and more. It's not quite as good as being here, but maybe next year... And in the meantime

Jeffrey Veen workshop filling up
21-September-2005
Places are filling for Jeffrey Veen's workshop Designing the Next Generation of Web Apps. This is a very rare opportunity to see one of the world's foremost user design experts and educators speak in Sydney. If you work with web or intranet based applications, don't miss this opportunity. And if you or a colleague are coming to WE05, you'll get $100 off.

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WE05Program

Registration is open from 7.30am on Day 1. Both days start promptly at 9am and finish at 5.00pm.

WE04 was great, but this year we've gone a step further and introduced two streams. You'll always have something to keep your attention, but you won't miss anyone you want to see.

Day 1
Stream 1 (Guthrie) Stream 2 (McFarlane)
9.00am - 9.40am

Molly Holzschlag
Keynote: State of the Web, 2005
Audience: all
Geek-o-meter rating: 2

9.45am - 10.20am

Tantek Çelik
The Elements of Meaningful XHTML
Theme: Coding
Audience: All
Geek-o-meter rating: 3

10.30am - 10.50am Coffee break
11.00am - 11.35am

Jeffrey Veen
Beyond Usability: Designing the Complete User Experience
Theme: User Experience
Audience: All
Geek-o-meter rating: 2

11.45am - 12.20am

Eric Meyer
From Comp To Code: Pulling A List Apart Together
Theme: Design
Audience: All
Geek-o-meter rating: 3

12.30am - 1.20pm Lunch
1.30pm - 2.05pm

Brett Jackson, John Horner, David McDonald
Panel: Moving your organisation to standards
Theme: Strategy
Audience: Managers
Geek-o-meter rating: 2

Roger Hudson
Accessible forms
Theme: Accesibility
Audience: All
Geek-o-meter rating: 4-5

2.15pm - 2.50pm

Dean Jackson
SVG - the power and the passion
Theme: Coding
Audience: Coders, designers
Geek-o-meter rating: 5

Lisa Herrod, Peter Brawn
Eye tracking the user experience
Theme: User experience
Audience: Managers, designers
Geek-o-meter rating: 3

3.00pm - 3.20pm Coffee break
3.30pm - 4.05pm

Kelly Goto
Web Redesign: Workflow Redefined
Theme: Strategy
Audience: Managers
Geek-o-meter rating: 3

4.15pm - 4.50pm

Douglas Bowman
Zooming Out from the Trenches
Theme: Design
Audience: Designers, coders
Geek-o-meter rating: 4

5.00pm - 5.20pm Break
5.30pm - 11.59pm WE05 official party
Day 2
Stream 1 (Guthrie) Stream 2 (McFarlane)
7.30am - 8.50am

Breakfast with Tantek Çelik (Sold out)

9.00am - 9.35am

Molly Holzschlag
Web Standards Workflow
Theme: Design
Audience: all
Geek-o-meter rating: 2

9.45am - 10.20am

Eric Meyer
Rapid Design Prototyping With Standards
Theme: Design
Audience: All
Geek-o-meter rating: 2

10.30am - 10.50am Coffee break
11.00am - 11.35am

Derek Featherstone
Designing for Accessibility: Beyond the Basics
Theme: Accessiblity
Audience: Coders, designers
Geek-o-meter rating: 5

11.45am - 12.20pm

John Allsopp
Are we there yet? Best practices in web development in Australia - a survey
Theme: Strategy
Audience: Managers
Geek-o-meter rating: 3

Tim Lucas
AJAX
Theme: Code
Audience: Coders
Geek-o-meter rating: 5

12.30pm - 1.20pm Lunch
1.30pm - 2.05pm

James Robertson
Selecting a content management system
Theme: Content Management Systems
Audience: Managers
Geek-o-meter rating: 2

Steven Faulkner
The title atribute - What is it good for? Absolutely nothing!
Theme: Accessibility
Audience: Coders, designers
Geek-o-meter rating: 5

2.15pm - 2.50pm

Russ Weakley
Liquid layouts using CSS - the joy, the pain, the tears
Theme: Design
Audience: Designers, coders
Geek-o-meter rating: 3-4

Cameron Adams
Javascript and the DOM
Theme: Coding
Audience: Coders, designers
Geek-o-meter rating: 5

3.00pm - 3.20pm Coffee break
13.30pm - 4.05pm

Tantek Çelik
Microformats: Evolving the Web
Theme: Coders
Audience: All
Geek-o-meter rating: 3-4

4.15pm - 4.50pm

Jeffrey Veen
Designing the Next Generation of Web Apps
Theme: User Experience
Audience: All
Geek-o-meter rating: 3

5.00pm - 5.20pm Break
5.30pm - 11.59pm WE05 final party

The program content and/or presenters are subject to change without notice.