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Speaking, near and far

I have a few new speaking engagements to tell you about.

First, I’m participating in the “virtual” conference called The CSS Summit on July 18. Since this conference is entirely online, everyone from across the globe can attend. There are some great speakers lined up. I’ll be giving a very similar talk as the one I did at the most recent Voices That Matter: Web Design Conference, so if you’ve downloaded those slides and now want the notes and audio to go with them, this is your chance!

Registration for The CSS Summit is just 139 bucks for an individual and 439 for a meeting room. Use the code CSSZOEMG when registering to get $25 off. A percentage of the proceeds from every Summit will go to charity, and this time around the recipient will be the Children’s Organ Transplant Association.

Much closer to home, I’m speaking at the UNC Webmasters meeting on June 4 (tomorrow!) in Chapel Hill, NC. If you’re affiliated with UNC, please stop by and introduce yourself! Again, it’s a similar presentation to the one I did at Voices That Matter, but much more informal and Q&A oriented.

Finally, I’ll be speaking at a Carolina Adobe User Group meeting later this month. I’ll have more details about that soon.

Two usability tips: mean what you say, and use form labels

On Thursday, while I was entering the Babies R Us Mother’s Day Sweepstakes, I had to choose between two grand prize packages to win. There was a radio button for each package, as well as a link right below each radio button reading “See All Prizes.”

The "See All Prizes" links below each grand prize package radio button.

The "See All Prizes" links below each grand prize package radio button.

I was happy to see this “See All Prizes” link, since I didn’t know what the difference between the BOB Revolution Stroller and Maclaren Stroller was. So I clicked on the link and got a popup window listing the prizes in each package. But that was it. I didn’t actually get to see any of the prizes. Nor did I get a description of each item. Nor did I get links to the pages on the Babies R Us site where I could view each item and learn more about it.
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Voices That Matter: Web Design Conference 2009

I just gave my talk Designing CSS Layouts for the Flexible Web here in San Francisco for the Voices That Matter: Web Design Conference. I was asked to give the same presentation I gave last year, but of course I had to do a little bit of updating and improving. So, here are the new and improved slides for your downloading pleasure:

Designing CSS Layouts for the Flexible Web (PDF, 5 mb)

Yes, it’s a big file—there are a lot of graphics in the PowerPoint. But I didn’t want to compress it very much and have all those graphics look distorted, since examining the graphics is the main point of the presentation.

If you’re ready to get beyond the graphics and start working on the actual CSS techniques alluded to in the presentation, I’ve written up many of them on this blog:

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