What a week, WDC2009
Many of you who’ve stumbled across my blog may not know about this little event I run called the Web Developers Conference which takes place now annually.
The third event took place last Wednesday (21st October) at the Watershed in Bristol. Some 70 odd people were able to attend the event which was a great turn out. They were lucky enough to enjoy talks from Jon Hicks, Sarah Parmenter, Elliot Jay Stocks and Dan Donald with 3 panels covering everything from working on the web industry, working in the south west and actually getting that job and what to expect from it.
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What’s in a good presentation?
So at some point sooner or later you may need to do a presentation, it could be to your class at University, it could be to a team you’re working in or maybe you’ll be speaking at a conference just like WDC.
But what makes your presentation good? What makes people remember it? and how do you make sure people go away learning something new?
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Web site reviews
An interesting topic if every there was one and that is reviewing at web site. Now you can go off looks or how well it functions for you as users but you can do a lot more than just first up your browser have a look at make a judgment.
So this weeks task was to find an application, web site or similar to help with web site evaluation and I picked up on WAVE. WAVE is a great site to check over any accessibility errors on your site.
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It’s all coming together now
Over the last couple of weeks my mind has been a blur of ideas all of which are great, well I think so at least. I guess one problem with this module is that it’s accompanied by a load of others which require attention too. Thankfully I’ve been able to sit down and turn my ideas on to paper to see how they pad out as well as discuss them and answer questions.
What has helped is that some class mates have been able to ask obvious questions I have missed providing answers too.
The problem I faced was turning 3 or 4 ideas in to 1 idea that I could turn in to something real. Thanks to some general rules set by the module leaders a simple CMS was out and my idea for a massive CMS was far to big to develop by March 2010 but will probably be together in the future which left one nice little idea…
