I absolutely cannot believe how fast time is zipping by! I must have had my head everywhere but in iCal lately, because lo and behold I realize I’m just about a month away from visiting Sydney for Web Directions.

Visiting Sydney and making a slew of new friends at Web Essentials last year was a highlight of world travel, professional pride and personal fun for me. I’d never been that far South, and I think two things especially made me fall in love with Sydney: How unexpectedly colorful it is, and how warm the people I met while there were. In fact, I see a few of your names on the speaker roster this year! (Ben, Gian, Donna, Kevin, I’m lookin’ at you . . . )

Fantastic!

This year, I’m going back with Andy Clarke in tow, who has never crossed the international date line. Our dear Malarkey has apparently already started his ’round the world trip, fearing any time spent without his MacBookPro would cause the world to start unravelling at its seams. You can see here the beard he’s grown during his recent seafaring days.

On Tuesday, September 26, we’ll be in Sydney presenting Extreme Standards, a full day workshop that we’ve taken a new approach with we’re absolutely certain is going to be a heck of a lot of fun as well as profoundly informative.

Read the rest of this great story at Molly.com by clciking on the headline link.

Unfortunately, my finding on the first few pages of Google did not help too much in this area. It seems that a porn company called Vivid has done a press release about new porn downloads, and this incorporates some kind of content scrambling system (think scrambled pay channels on cable or the dish). So the search results are filled with things about that or some sites with css info that have been commented with porn. I did find a few interesting sites though.

Not really looking for porn, but for CSS layouts and tricks; that’s a good thing too, because the Google results didn’t bring up much porn, it seems that the Google page rank thing gives more weight to techies, nerds and national news sources, thinking that they are the authorities on what everyone is looking for. That’s great when I am looking for the slanted news edited and cranked out by the powers that be, or trying to find some long text filled tutorial, but I digress.

Very interesting notes about using images and css, but consider the accessibility and the possible flaws in using css backgrounds for important content – http://24ways.org/advent/naughty-or-nice-css-background-images

A web developer gets a job doing a gay porn site, and considers using xhtml, css and other accessibility options when creating it – interesting story -

http://www.littleyellowdifferent.com/?z=post&y=archives/001277

A wordpress weblog using a modified css to add images in the sidebars – I like the use of css here, I would use different pictures of course! – http://weblog.globaladultmedia.com

A css resource age that likens plain html to a naked site making it less classy than one wearing the “clothes” of css – http://www.aglasshalffull.org/css-resources/The-CSS-Resources-Intro-Page.htm

perhaps the most surprising, an article on blind accessible porn:

http://www.brucelawson.co.uk/index.php/2006/blind-accessible-porn/

By Ian Lloyd

This has an interesting list of ten things to do and a piece on trustworthy trustmarks make sure ot click thur and check out the web standards post on this great subject.

The winner for the Slahdot redesign contest says he sat down for 48 hours to create it, there are updates posted and several comments at Alex Bendikin’s blog post about it – check it out.

I think the new design is much better, and I like the cruvieness that eases away some of the geekiness.
Can’t wait to see how they did everything..

Kary