« Speaking & Training, cont’d.
Past sessions from 2001–2002 are listed below:
November 2002
Web Design World 2002
18–21 November, Boston, MA, USA
Preliminary lineup, subject to change:
- Accessibility and Section 508
- Few laws have caused as much confusion among web designers as Section 508, which requires many sites to accommodate people with disabilities and spells out what “accessible” means. Many designers and builders wrongly conclude that accessible design means unattractive, “low-end” design. But images, table layouts, style sheets, JavaScript, and other staples of contemporary web design are perfectly compatible with 508 compliance. In this session, Zeldman will examine what 508 compliance means to working designers and developers, and show how you can use online tools and a bit of judgement to make your sites comply beautifully.
- 18 November
- 10:15–11:15 am
- Designing & Building With Web Standards
- The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and other standards bodies have established technologies for web-based content. These “web standards” are designed to deliver the greatest benefits to the greatest number of web users while ensuring the long-term viability of web documents.
- Designing and building with web standards simplifies production and lowers its cost, while delivering sites that are accessible to more people and more types of Internet devices. Happy Cog founder Jeffrey Zeldman will discuss the current state of standards and share techniques that ensure your sites look and function as intended.
- 19 November
- 10:15–11:15 am
- From HTML to XHTML
- XHTML is the “XML for the rest of us” and the current standard for web page markup. Converting to XHTML is easy, and provides benefits including increased interoperability with XML in databases, improved accessibility, and cleaner, more logical markup. Learn the easy rules of XHTML, tools that can help, and problems that may crop up when you convert.
- 19 November
- 2–3 pm
- Deconstructing ... You!
- Panel with Kelly Goto and Jim Heid
- 21 November
- 4:30–5:30 pm
Meet the Makers
6 November, New York City, USA
- Featured Guest, with Eric Meyer
- The Millennium Broadway (off Times Square)
- Meet the Makers host Brian Alvey will interview featured guests Eric Meyer of Netscape and Jeffrey Zeldman of Happy Cog on the subject of web standards. Additional featured guests include Hillman Curtis and the architects behind Zagat.com and Excite.com. Attendance is free to web professionals who request VIP tickets (first come, first served). Zeldman sits on the Advisory Board of Meet the Makers and finds it quite comfortable.
September 2002
Georgia Web Developer Conference
17–18 September, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
- Designing & Building With Web Standards
- Design for Compliance: Understanding Section 508
- Cobb Galleria Centre, Atlanta, GA
- 18 September
- 9:30 am – noon
- Sponsored by Technology Association of Georgia
Builder Conference
8–12 September, Caesar’s Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
- Keynote: Forward Compatibility — Design for the Future With Standards Now
- 10 September, 9 am
- No more Netscape-only versions. No more IE-only versions. No more WAP versions. No more plain text or “printer-friendly” versions. The long-delayed promise of Web standards—“one document fits all”—is finally coming true. Jeffrey Zeldman of The Web Standards Project, zeldman.com, and A List Apart, will show you how to streamline web development and substantially lower its cost by seizing the power of cross-platform, cross-browser standards to create dynamic, accessible sites that reach more users than ever before.
- Accessibility for Designers
- 10 September, 10: 15 am
- See writeup below. This lecture replaces one that was previously scheduled. The Builder conference site may not yet reflect these changes.
- Advanced CSS: Designing With Style
- 10 September, 4 pm
- CSS is the web’s standard design and layout language. Attend this session for expert tips that will push you to do graphic menu bars (complete with rollovers) that contain no graphics and use no JavaScript. You’ll learn how to make text that’s easy to read and can be resized in any browser yet still drips with style, branding and aesthetics; and you’ll see how to make “printer-friendly” versions of your site that generate themselves on the fly, saving hours of tedious production work.
- Web Deconstruction: Learning From the Best and Worst of Attendees’ Own Sites
- 9 September, 8 pm
- Panelists rag on submitted sites to the merriment of all.
July 2002
Web Design World 2002
21–24 July, Seattle, Washington, USA
- Keynote: Designing & Building With Web Standards
- 22 July, 9 am
- The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and other standards bodies have established technologies for web-based content. These “web standards” are designed to deliver the greatest benefits to the greatest number of web users while ensuring the long-term viability of web documents.
- Designing and building with web standards simplifies production and lowers its cost, while delivering sites that are accessible to more people and more types of Internet devices. Happy Cog founder Jeffrey Zeldman will discuss the current state of standards and share techniques that ensure your sites look and function as intended.
- Understanding Section 508
- 23 July
- Few laws have caused as much confusion among web designers as Section 508, which requires many sites to accommodate people with disabilities and spells out what “accessible” means. Many designers and builders wrongly conclude that accessible design means unattractive, “low-end” design. But images, table layouts, style sheets, JavaScript, and other staples of contemporary web design are perfectly compatible with 508 compliance. In this session, Zeldman will examine what 508 compliance means to working designers and developers, and show how you can use online tools and a bit of judgement to make your sites comply beautifully.
April 2002
- Columbia University Libraries
- Best Practices in Web Writing and Architecture
- Thursday 4 April 2002
- Wednesday 10 April 2002
- New York City
- Over two sessions, Zeldman will present an overview of practices and techniques intended to increase clarity, usability, and emotional engagement in web projects.
March 2002
- Communication Arts
- 23–28 March 2002
- Menlo Park, California
- Judge, Interactive Design Competition
- Creatives from around the globe have submitted their best work to this respected annual competition. Zeldman and fellow judges have assessed hundreds of entries, and will meet in Menlo Park to continue the process until a few winners emerge. Winning sites will be announced in the September 2002 issue of Communication Arts Magazine.
- Public Library Association: PLA 2002
- 12 March 2002
- Phoenix, Arizona
- Writing for the Web
- Crafting your site to engage readership.
- Other featured speakers include Michael Miller of PC Magazine, Donna Reed of Multnomah County Library, and Carrie Bickner of The Branch Libraries of The New York Public Library.
- SXSW Interactive Festival
- 8–11 March 2002
- Austin, Texas
- Independents Day panels.
- Sunday 10 March
- 10:30 am – 12:00 noon
- 9A - Pine room [Floor plan PDF]
- What is Independent Content?
- Zeldman moderating panel with guests Derek M. Powazek, Gabe Kean, and Joshua Davis, as part of the first Independents Day live event.
- Fray Cafe 2
- The Hideout
- Austin, Texas
- Sunday 10 March
- 8 pm – midnight
- A live personal storytelling event in conjunction with SXSW 2002; arranged and conducted by Derek M. Powazek, featuring web artists and writers from all over.
February 2002
- Seybold 2002
- 21 February 2002
- 9:00 am – 10:30 am
- Javits Center, NYC
- Room 1E–11
- Putting the “Eye” in Interface:
Effective and Elegant Interface Design - Moderated by Lynda Weinman. With Matt Owens and Hillman Curtis.
- Interface design is finally getting its due in the graphics world. But why do so many people now talk about effective interface design without exploring the importance of visual elements? Components such as color, weighting, typography and technology play a huge part in highly effective interface and interaction design. This session looks closely at practical, useful rules of thumb for designing beautiful, elegant interfaces.
November 2001
- Web Builder | Web Design World
- 28–30 November
- New Orleans, LA
- Presented by Thunder Lizard
- Keynote Address: Building With Web Standards
- 29 November, 11:15am–12:15pm
- Advances in user knowledge and acceptance, together with emerging standards and technologies, are shaping the web into an increasingly sophisticated and profound medium—and making development far more complex. How can you best prepare to embrace the coming web?
- The How & Why of Web Standards
- 29 November, 1:15pm–2:15pm
- Panel discussion with Molly Holzchlag & Nick Finck
- Open Mike Night
- 29 November, 7:30pm–?
- Cheerful insanity with Molly Holzchlag
September 2001
- Web 2001 Conference & Exposition
- 4–8 September
- Moscone Center
- San Francisco
- See SCHEDULE for full write–ups.
- Speech: “Beyond Code & Graphics—Finding the Heart of the Site”
- Friday, 7 September, 3:30pm–5:00pm
- Panel: “The Future of Web Design” with Jeffrey Veen, Amit Asaravala , and Marc Rettig.
- Friday, 7 September, 1:30pm–3:00pm
- Panel: “Arbiters of Style” with Mark Newhouse, Eric Costello, and Eric Meyer
- Friday, 7 September, 10:30am–12:00pm
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