Stuff and Nonsense

Malarkey is Andy Clarke, a UK based designer, author and speaker who has a passion for design, CSS and web accessibility.

Andy has been working on the web for almost ten years. He is a visual web designer and author and he founded Stuff and Nonsense in 1998. Andy regularly writes about creating beautiful, accessible web sites and he speaks at events worldwide. Andy is the author of Transcending CSS: The Fine Art of Web Design, published by New Riders in 2006.

IceWeb 2006 presentations

My two IceWeb 2006 presentations are now available to download as interactive Quicktime movies. (Now with details on an event video of IceWeb).

I would like to thank everyone who organised and attended IceWeb 2006. It has been a privilege to have been asked to present my two sessions, How To Be A Web Design Superhero and Feeding your Creativity without Compromising User Needs.

Interactive Quicktime presentations

Speaking alongside Eric Meyer Kelly Goto, Dave Shea, Joe Clark and Shaun Inman was a real pleasure.

Live-blogging

Joe has been active live-blogging at IceWeb.

In the absence of podcasts, Joe's is the great commentary to accompany the visuals if you weren't able to be at IceWeb 2006.

And if you were there, Takk guys!

Replies

  1. #1 On April 28, 2006 04:22 PM Dave said:

    Sounds cool
    :)

  2. #2 On April 28, 2006 04:55 PM Laura Zucchetti said:

    Thanks for uploading them. I would have loved to be there. :)

  3. #3 On April 28, 2006 07:25 PM Sigurbjˆrn GujÛnsson said:

    Takk Andy for two inspiring presentations. I hope we can make this an annual conference here in Iceland.

    Best regards from ReykjavÌk.

  4. #4 On April 28, 2006 07:39 PM ¡g˙st Valgeirsson said:

    Had the good fortune to be able to attend ICEWeb2006 for the full 2 days, Andy was one of the highlights with his insight into the webdesign world. Thanks

  5. #5 On April 28, 2006 08:00 PM romeo said:

    I loved the effect you use while showing the different sites.
    I have been looking for some software to do that and I have never worked with QuickTime interactive movies....

    Does the effect has a name?
    Is it part of a software you used?
    Does anyone else know how to do that?

  6. #6 On April 28, 2006 08:20 PM Malarkey said:

    @Dave: Iceland is a very cool place, but infact the weather was quite mild. (Am I getting old, talking about the weather? ;) )

    @ Romeo: The slides were built using Apple's Keynote3, part of the iWork suite for Mac.

    @ Sigurbjˆrn and ¡g˙st: It was a great pleasure to visit Iceland and to meet such warm and friendly people. I hope to be invited back another time!

  7. #7 On April 28, 2006 10:26 PM Haukur H. Thorsson said:

    Thanks for an entertaining, humorous and insightful presentation today.

    I particularly liked the step-by-step transformation of the corpse bride website, from a crowded tag-soup to a beautiful, semantic document.

    I hope it helps people understand how to really do websites properly. Focus first and foremost on the content, and then apply the desired layout using CSS.

    Thanks again!

  8. #8 On April 28, 2006 10:34 PM Dave said:

    @Malarkey: Not at all - you can't not talk about the weather.

  9. #9 On April 29, 2006 05:03 AM Hugi said:

    Invited again? Who knows, who knows ;-).

  10. #10 On April 29, 2006 01:03 PM Egill said:

    Thanks for an inspiring presentation.

    Cheers!

  11. #11 On April 29, 2006 04:58 PM Egill #2 said:

    Thanks from me too, already working on my superhero costume ;)

    Hoping to bold... err... strongly go where no man has gone before after your presentation!

    Cheers!

  12. #12 On April 29, 2006 09:35 PM romeo said:

    got a demo version of keynote and i love it!

    got 2 more question though:

    1. what is the nameof the transition you used for the showcase of zen garden and other websites. it seems like is the cube effect but 2 different cubes

    2. what compression settings did you use for the quicktime you exported? i am habing trouble exporting mine because it loses quality

    any help, will be higly appreiated

    i am preparing a conference for design students and i want to make the final quicktime avaiable for the too

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