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stories: issue 1 – August 2009

Welcome to Issue Number 1 of our new magazine: stories. The internet can give you instant access to a plethora of information and tools. Working on the web is a fast-paced field of learning, and the resources available via the internet can be a web designer’s best friend. But perhaps the greatest way we can [...]
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Our future on the web

I was asked at a conference recently “is print dead?”. My answer was no, not yet. Ten years ago when I was working in the printing industry there was concern that print wouldn’t be around in five years time, that everything would be on the web.
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OpenAustralia

OpenAustralia – or, “how two people who don’t know anything about building websites or the Australian Government came to build a website giving the community Hansard and Australian Government data”.
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The State of JavaScript

The web is a rapidly changing thing. JavaScript is an important part of it, and has gone through many different stages: from a promising, but useless initiative from Netscape (we still remember how annoying jumping text and popups were), to the bread and butter of Web 2.0 (whatever that is!) Now is the time for the [...]
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Don’t forget the RSS

Amongst all the other concerns and constraints of running a Local Government Website, it’s easy for ‘Really Simple Syndication’ (RSS) feeds to be consigned to the too hard basket. But the big secret of RSS is that it can be very useful while requiring relatively little effort.
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