South African Online Industry Summit 2007
South African Online Industry Summit 2007:
Dont miss this opportunity to learn from the cream of the South African online industry.
Are you kidding me? No offence to those involved, but I didn't know Frontpage was still used to design web pages. What's the deal with that gigantic yellow button all over the place, that just reloads the page with an added anchor? And could they not source better photos of the speakers? Poor Joanne Scholtz, she looks like she was resized from a 10x10 px thumbnail. The sponsor logos aren't any better either. I also love how the only linked logo is TrafficSynergy's.
That aside, there are some experienced faces in the "Eminent Panel", so if you don't mind parting with R8310.60 (what a random figure) then go ahead and register. Just don't mistake that Reset button for Submit, I also didn't know those were still around these days. For that price, they couldn't afford to hire the services of a designer and actually give the impression that they at least know a thing about what their whole summit is about? I can't justify that price even before accounting a flight and accommodation. Bring on Bar Camp '07 and Tech4frica!
UPDATE [18/01]: For the record, this is what a conference website should look like: Future of Web Design 07 (London, UK). It makes magenta look like the new pink. Almost.
Check out the TrafficSynergy blog while you're at it. Look at the previous posts. Mmm - blog spam - just what the doctor ordered.
Anyway, I'd sooner party with R8310.60. So my resolution to attend more gigs has gotten off to a good start, I got into my car this afternoon to fetch tickets for The Parlotones tomorrow and found 7 stray shot glasses lying on my passenger seat. Nice, I think I need another resolution. Caught The Sleepers last night, they played with Velve (who lost the audience a bit, and didn't market themselves so I don't have a link). It was nice to see The Parlotones boys at the gig too. The Sleepers, via their MusoSpace page, sound like:
The wind blowing through your medial longitudinal fissure.
Sweet. Pick up a free glossy Playground guide next time you're out in Cape Town - "the pocket dynamo of the music & dance scene" - they're great!
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My eyes hurt.
OMG – those colours, feels like I’m on “e”.
The South African Online Industry Summit website… It’s ugly. Period. And it gives the SA web design industry a bad name. We can do better than that.
I agree with Luke – if you build an event up in saying it’s “industy leading” you better make sure your site matches up to that.
Hi Damien, just saw on mybloglog that you can say the alphabet backwards in 3 secs. I thought I was the only one!!! (I’ve never actually time how fast I can say it, I normally just type it backwards :)
Anyways, your website is slick but I REALLY struggle to read grey against a black background. Don’t know if it’s just my screen, but I’m getting rapid eyestrain. Please throw in some more contrast.
Hey Henk, cool thanks for the feedback. I thought I’d give MyBlogLog a go, so far so good.
Re: contrasts – yeah like seriously dude, get a new monitor! ;) Just kidding. Funnily enough this site was recently featured in 30 Dark Designs You Should’ve Seen (how Web 2.0 of me), and using that list as a general standard I don’t consider my contrast to be so low that your eyes should be overworked. But I do realise that I’ve sacrificed readibility for aesthetics and unfortunately I’m not about to change that anytime soon. Maybe it will help if you increase your browser text size?
Henk, Damien, I think it’s an LCD vs CRT thing…
I spend a lot of time tuning colour/contrast between the two (I run an external CRT as extended desktop to my laptop), and there are major differences in how colours are reproduced. Interestingly, grey on black is one of the areas where a CRT really suffers contrast-wise, compared to it’s LCD brother. Although CRT produces superior colour (generally), it’s not very good at keeping colours totally separate when two pixels are located right next to each other, hence the grey/black bluriness. On my LCD, the grey is really crisp and very legible, but it does suck a bit when I move it across to the LCD.
Henk, are you running on a CRT?
Very interesting what you say Martin. I use an LCD hooked up to my notebook and viewing now using a CRT I can notice quite a big difference.
That site is beyond butt ugly! I hope their webmaster has found this article and is planning to make some serious changes. Otherwise us South African web designer’s are going to lose a lot of credit!
Hi,
Yeah, I’m using 2 Samsung 17″ CRT monitors in a dual-monitor setup.
I know web designers LOVE their 30″ LCDs, but seriously, most of the world don’t have LCDs yet.
Please design for the rest of us! Especially with a blog, it’s about readability first. Aesthetics should be purely complementary to readability.
I get that weird carsick feeling from trying to read your posts, coda. :(
I designed this site on a 14″ notebook. ;)
I wasn’t intending for my blog to become a focal point of this site which is why I went with a dark background.
Check out the new @Media 2007 website. Very cool. Take note Traffic synergy
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13 January 2007
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