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Yahoo and Google attempt to improve the browser

A year after Google launched its Gears project, Yahoo has decided to make your browser better, too. Read more »

Microsoft pauses work on Adobe rival

Microsoft has temporarily halted development work on some aspects of its upcoming professional graphics application as it tries to bring companion tools and its next-generation Windows Vista operating system to market. Read more »

Ballmer: Microsoft can never be a one-trick pony

While some critics may chide Microsoft for losing focus over its desire to play in many markets, from desktop software to game consoles to mobile devices, the company's top guy says it's a necessary move to stay relevant in the market. Read more »

Expression due in 2007

Microsoft's design and development tool suite should be with you under three months after Vista ships. Read more »

JobWatch: IT jobs buck Christmas trend

Demand for IT skills continued to grow throughout November, bucking a general softening in employment growth as interest rates, and uncertainty surrounding the change of government begins to bite. Read more »

Eclipse AJAX toolkit proposed

IBM is leading the charge for an open source AJAX development toolkit. Read more »

Microsoft offers early peek at designer tools

Microsoft on Tuesday released early versions of a new line of tools meant to lure illustrators and designers closer to Redmond's world. Read more »

Office 2007: FrontPage is out, blogging is in

Don't go looking for FrontPage in the just-released Beta 2 edition of Office 2007. Microsoft has axed its 10-year-old Web site authoring software. Read more »

Microsoft to push Silverlight 1.0 RC out the door

Microsoft's Adobe flash-killer Silverlight is entering its next phase with the software maker set to debut Silverlight 1.0 Release Candidate late this week. Read more »

MS, Adobe war in blogosphere

Arch-rivals Microsoft and Adobe's struggle over next-generation Web development technologies has spilled into the companies' official blogs, with mud being flung from both sides. Read more »

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Seven aspects of a great user experience

The spotlight at this year's Web Directions South UX conference in Melbourne was on user experience. Andy Budd, a designer and developer at Clearleft in the UK, contributed to the theme of the day with his presentation -- "Designing the User Experience Curve". Read more »

Develop slick Web interfaces with Ext JS

Ext JS provides the foundation for building Web applications with powerful user interfaces. Read more »

Interview: Is SEO evil?

Continuing our Web Directions South build-up, we present an interview with Scott Gledhill. Scott is presenting a talk at the conference next week entitled "Is SEO Evil?" We talked to Scott to find out. Read more »

Creating sites that meet users' expectations

While working on a client Web site, Michael Meadhra was reminded of how easy it is to lose sight of such usability basics. He shares his lessons relearned. Read more »

13 Design rules that every Web site designer should know about

If you regard yourself as a professional Web site designer, then you need to be aware of, and then follow, these 13 design rules for building effective Web sites. Read more »

Implementing taxonomy during development

Knowing that you need information taxonomy is one thing. Knowing how to build it is another. These tips will help you build a profitable Web site. Read more »

Get creative with Aviary tools

Aviary is generating quite a bit of buzz in the Web design community. Check out what these new types of Flex-based tools are all about. Read more »

Different types of Dreamweaver CS3 layouts

At this year's WebDU conference, Stephanie Sullivan, founder and principal of W3Conversions and Adobe community expert gave a thorough presentation named "CSS Layouts & Dreamweaver CS3". Read more »

Check out these Web development tools from Microsoft

Many are often overwhelmed by the number of development tools and options streaming out of Redmond. Here's a rundown of the current Microsoft products that are available for building Web-based applications. Read more »

Add meaning to Web pages with microformats

A technology that has gathered steam the past couple years is microformats. Microformats allow you to add context to existing information contained within a Web page. Read more »

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What's new in Dreamweaver CS4?

Lana Kovacevic [blogs:webanatomy] -- Let's look at some of the new features we can expect to see in Dreamweaver CS4. Read more »

MyPerfect.com.au has potential

[blogs:bootstrappr] -- Victorian Web start-up My Perfect has a strong story and rationale for why it will succeed. But it has to overcome some challenges and design flaws first. Read more »

The Adobe lab's abode

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- You may want to take a look inside some of the latest releases from the Adobe Lab. Read more »

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  • Staff Crying, mooning and leaving

    In this week's roundup we see that continuous whining can get results, Linux users get 64-bit Flash and Moonlight previews, the latest in the Yahoo/Microsoft relationship and Senator Conroy ducks and weave in Senate Question Time. Read more »

    -- posted by Staff

  • Brendon Chase Sun eye Web developers with Netbeans 6.5

    Despite the recent employment axe hitting Sun the company has pushed out a new release of its Netbeans open source IDE with an eye to appeal more to Web developers. Read more »

    -- posted by Brendon Chase

  • Renai LeMay BarCamp buzz: Let the hacking continue

    Attending last weekend's BarCamp in Sydney, it was hard to escape the conclusion that a certain "dot-com bust" flavour had seeped into the kool aid previously being drunk by Australia's web 2.0 and early stage start-up sector. Read more »

    -- posted by Renai LeMay

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