Web Essentials 2005 - The Program

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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.

WE05Program

You'll find links to the presenter's slides on this page. Don't forget to check out our podcasts as well.

Day 1
	Stream 1 (Guthrie)	Stream 2 (McFarlane)
9.00am - 9.40am	Molly Holzschlag Keynote: State of the Web, 2005 (1.6mb PDF) 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 (612kb PDF) 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 (20mb PDF) Theme: Strategy Audience: Managers Geek-o-meter rating: 3
4.15pm - 4.50pm	Douglas Bowman Zooming Out from the Trenches (33.6mb PDF) 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
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 (770kb PDF) Theme: Strategy Audience: Managers Geek-o-meter rating: 3	Tim Lucas Understanding 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