Greetings WOW Members and Web Professionals everywhere! Bill Cullifer here with the World Organization of Webmasters (WOW) and the WOW Technology Minute.
WOW participated as a Media Sponsor in the Voices That Matter Conference last week in Nashville, TN sponsored by the Pearson Education group. I had a great time at the three day event and Pearson promised some face to face time with some of the best known Web design authors around and they delivered.
In fact, for the remainder of the month of June, I?’ll be posting a few summaries of the goings on complete with interviews on a wide variety of Web design topics. For example, stay tuned for coverage on the following topics:
•Usability
•Concept Models: A new Design Tool
•Microformats
•Principles of Social Design
•Compliant CSS Layout from a PSD
•Color for the Global Web
•Style Sheet Strategies
•Designing CSS Layouts for the Flexible Web
•Findability: Deign Comp to Code;
•Adobe “Sneak Peeks”
•Web Design “Tips and Tricks”
•Designing for Today?’s Browsers
•Brand Relevance in a Web Made World
•Tagging
•Fresher Styles for Web Designers
•Beyond Web Standards
•The future of Web professional education for students, teachers and administrators
For today?’s podcast, I?’d like to share with you the events opening remarks from Nancy Aldrich Ruenzel, Vice President and Publisher at PeachPit Press. As I sat in the crowd and listened, a couple of things came to my mind. Nancy’s introduction validates what I?’ve been saying for years and that is as Web professionals, it?’s a struggle to simply keep up with the frantic pace of the Web. The second thought that I have is if Pearson Publishing is involved you can bet that theirs money in it. And that?’s a good thing!
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Transcript:
BILL CULLIFER: Greetings WOW Members and Web Professionals everywhere! Bill Cullifer here with the World Organization of Webmasters (WOW) and the WOW Technology Minute. WOW participated as a Media Sponsor in the Voices That Matter Conference last week in Nashville, Tennessee. And it was sponsored by the Pearson Education group. I had a terrific time at the three day event and Pearson promised some face to face time with some of the best known Web design authors. And they delivered. In fact, for the remainder of the month of June I?’ll be posting some of the summaries of the goings on, complete with interviews on a wide variety of Web design topics. For example, stay tuned for coverage on the following topics – Usability, Concept Models: A new Design Tool, Microformats, Principles of Social Design, Compliant CSS Layout from a PSD, Color for the Global Web, Style Sheet Strategies, Designing CSS Layouts for the Flexible Web, Findability: Design Comp to Code. And I?’ll also bringing you a couple of Adobe “Sneak Peeks”, Web Design Tips and Tricks, Designing for Today?’s Browsers, Brand Relevance in a Web Made World, Tagging, Fresher Styles for Web Designers, and Beyond Web Standards. In addition, I?’ll cover some of the best in education for students, teachers and administrators for Web professionals.
For today?’s podcast I?’d also like to share with you the opening remarks from Nancy Aldrich Ruenzel. She?’s the Vice President and Publisher at PeachPit Press. As I sat in the crowd and listened, a couple of things came to my mind. First, it validates what I?’ve been saying for years about the Web profession and our struggle to simply keep up with the frantic pace of the Web. Secondly, if Pearson Publishing is involved, you can bet there?’s money in it, and that?’s a great thing.
NANCY ALDRICH RUENZEL: So welcome everyone. Welcome [audience cheering]. I?’m so excited to be here in Nashville. This is terrific. So, whether you?’re a practicing Web designer or you?’re an educator or you?’re a student, or a publisher of technology like myself, you know that the pace of change in our industry is overwhelming. And some of us are in this business because of that, because we?’re energized by that, because we?’re excited by that. And then there are others, and depending on what kind of day I?’m having I might be in the other camp, where it can be really mind-boggling and you?’re always feeling like you?’re behind, always feeling like you?’re behind. As we talk right now, there are techniques and technologies and new tools that are being developed around the world, this very moment, that we don?’t even know about. So depending on what side of the fence you?’re on today, I think that we?’re all here today for the same reason. We?’re all here to learn from the most influential thinkers in our field.
BILL: You can say that again Nancy and I think you delivered. Thanks again for a great conference. Stay tuned Web professionals for more content on the Voices That Matter Conference throughout the month of June. Thanks for listening and thanks for watching today?’s WOW Technology Minute.