Archive: CSS3

We have some really amazing conferences coming up over the next two months, and I thought I’d take a few minutes out to let you know what they are …

Business of Web Design – August 17th 2010

Listen to Paul Boag, Simon Collison, Dan James and Eoghan McCabe talk through some great topics regarding the business side of web design, including …

1. Winning Business in Tough Times by Paul Boag
2. Project Management by Simon Collison
3. The Art and Science of a Great Team by Dan James.
4. Staying Creative by Eoghan McCabe.

See full details of each topic and book your tickets here!

Just two short weeks after this conference, we have a mammoth conference on HTML and CSS - this is one conference that EVERY designer should attend!

HTML and CSS – August 31st 2010

This conference is going to be a must attend for all designers and front-end devs, both new and experienced. We’ve opened the booking ultra early, because we fully expect it to sell like hot cakes!

We have some truly amazing speakers lined up, and we’ll share them with you real soon, but in the meantime, here are the topics we’ll be covering ..

• Highly Maintainable, Efficient and Optimised CSS
• PIMP Web Design: Progressively Impressive
• CSS Frameworks and Object Oriented CSS
• CSS Tools like Modernizr and eCSStender

You really don’t want to miss out on this one, so please put in your diary right away! Book your tickets here!

September kicks off in style with another online conference….

JavaScript – 13th September 2010

We’ve already got two big names confirmed as presenting at this conference – Christian Heilmann and Simon Willison, and we have a few more we’re just about to announce.

The sessions for the JavaScript conference cover …

• Rediscovering JavaScript: The Language Behind The Libraries
• Writing Understandable JavaScript
• Testing JavaScript & Preparing for Release
• A Practical Introduction to node.js

This will be a great conference no matter where your JavaScript knowledge is – from novice through to advanced, there will be something for you in here.

Then through the rest of September and October we have more conferences covering :

• iPhone App Dev
• CSS3
• Web Typography

We’ll let you know as soon as they’re available to book.

Remember, if you take a TVM subscription out, a Gold membership will give you access to 6 online conferences per year!

We’re very close to the launch of Think Vitamin Membership, so I wanted to give you a preview of the kind of video courses that will be available.

Here is a five minute video that will teach you some advanced CSS3 Box Shadow techniques. We will be adding 70+ videos like this per month to the Think Vitamin Membership Training Course Library.

As a little treat, the next 10 people to signup at membership.thinkvitamin.com will receive 50% off their first month. Yay!

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Next up in our series of web deisgn interviews is Steve Smith from Ordered List. Steve is a recognised authority on front-end development, interface design and is also the co-founder of Sidebar Creative. As an author, public speaker, and University of Notre Dame professor, he is passionate about sharing his knowledge with others.

Editor’s Note: Steve will be hosting a workshop on “How to build a HTML5/CSS3 Website Today” at The Future of Web Design New York on November 16-17 2009. You can buy your ticket online now.

What’s all the fuss about HTML5 and CSS3?

For me, the big deal is that the specifications are at least moving in the direction of how we have been using the web for the past five years or more, e.g. video, audio and user generated content. Developers have started to fall into habits (some good, some bad), and so the specs are trying to make those habits easier and more standardized. The structural tags, web forms, and advanced CSS are all letting us do the same things we’ve been doing for years, just in an easier, more standardized way.

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