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Cleveland Web Standards Get a New Home

Phil — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 18:44:01 +0000

The Cleveland Web Standards Association has (appropriately enough) launched their own site, which you should feel beyond compelled to check out here.

The CWSA is a group of Web developers from around the Cleveland area that meet on a monthly basis to discuss goals and methods for establishing standards in site development, both present and future – or as their site succinctly states, “In short, we’re making Cleveland suck less, one website at a time�?. First Northeast Ohio, then the Midwest, then the whole damn country, baby. The Tim Conway of Web standards organizations, you might say. But you probably wouldn’t. I already can’t believe that I just did. I probably should have gone with Michael Stanley…

Anyway, if you are a Cleveland-area Web developer who would like to learn more about current standards and help set future ones in a less-than-formal atmosphere, check out their site and then get signed up here.

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The Web Standards Advent Calendar – 24 ways, 2006

james — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 13:58:10 +0000

Why have chocolates-based advent calendar again this year when you can suffice your daily craving with one that’s standards-based instead – yeh!

24 ways is brought to us by Drew McLellan – a web developer, author and no-good swindler from just outside London, England. At the Web Standards Project he works on press, strategy and tools. Drew keeps a personal weblog covering web development issues and themes.

Drew was nice enough to provide links to last year’s articles as well. These well-crafted articles are done by some of the most recognized in the industry.

On second thought, have fun with the examples while crushing a box of chocolates at the same time.

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Oh Yeah, I Forgot to Mention UIE 11

james — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 04:26:20 +0000

I can’t tell you how excited I am that we are only a week away from the start of the User Interface 11 Conference. There’ll be more than 400 attendees from all over the world. There are folks coming from Africa, Europe, Asia, and North America.

Strangely enough, I failed to mention this before now – maybe it’s because I don’t have enough work to do.

That aside, I thought I’d fill you in on where I’ll be when I get there.

Conference Session Choices: (Complete Adgenda)

Monday, October 9, Full-day Seminar:
How to Design a Task-Based Information Architecture
Gerry McGovern, Gerrymcgovern.com
Get a solid grounding in information architecture that will enable you to create designs that help users find what they want.
Tuesday, October 10, Featured Talks:
Attending
Wednesday, October 11, Full-day Seminar:
Bringing User-Centered Design Practices into Agile Development Projects
Jeff Patton, ThoughtWorksUtilize Agile Development processes to implement a shorter development lifecycle, improve quality, reduce feature creep, and encourage team collaboration.
Thursday, October 12, UIE Showcase Seminar:
Spool – New Perspectives in User Experience Design

One session I will sadly miss is:

Site Seeing: Communicating Successfully with Visual Design
Luke Wroblewski, Yahoo!

Get practical insights and strategies for boosting your site’s visual appeal and delighting your users.

I would love to go to this, but instead I’m planning on reading his book and have been keeping up on his usability blog – Functioning Form. Hopefully I’ll be fortunate enough to share a few ideas with him if I can catch him.

This will be the first time attending this conference and I have huge aspirations to network and absorb as much as possible during the short stay. Then the fun begins when I get to apply all the knowledge into development.

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