Russ Weakley
Web standards workaholic
On the web
- Website: Max Design
- Twitter: @russmaxdesign
Russ Weakley has worked as a web designer for the last 13 years. Russ has a detailed knowledge of web design and development. His expertise covers graphic design, interface design, site architecture and standards based development especially in the area of XHTML/CSS. Russ chairs the WebStandards Group which was set up to assist web developers learn about new technologies and accessibility issues. Russ has produced a series of widely acclaimed CSS-based tutorials as well as a book, "Teach Yourself CSS in TenMinutes".
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Open web, open data, open panic?
The Australian Museum is in the final stages of developing their new website - a website that will integrate comments, tags, user-generated content and much more.
This presentation explores some of the methods that can be used to change websites from one-way communication to richer, open communication. It also outlines some of the issues what were uncovered during the Museum website development - and methods that can be used to overcome these issues.