Get Ready for Webstock

Ready to be inspired? To open up your mind, unleash your creativity and reconnect with your community? Webstock is to tech heads today what Woodstock was to hippies and music fans back in the 60s… without the emphasis on free love and mind-altering substances.

And Webstock 2010 is set to offer one of the conference’s most exciting lineups yet, with industry experts, legends and up-and-coming movers and shakers aplenty offering the best presentations, workshops and insights into what’s new and exciting in the industry.

Webstock aims to have their attendees return to their places of work more energised, more knowledgable and more connected. These are some of the conference presentations we’re most excited about:

• Jeff Veen  :  How the Web Works

• Lisa Herrod  :  Designing for Diversity – Inclusive Design and the User Experience

• John Resig  :  Practical Mobile JavaScript Development

• Toby Segaran  :  Beautiful Data

• Ben Cerveny  :  Off the Grid: New Models for Designing Games, Products, and Places

• Jeff Atwood  :  Stack Overflow: Building Social Software for the Anti-Social

• Eric Ries  :  The Lean Startup

• Amy Hoy  :  Shift+Cmd+R: Hard Refresh Your Design

• Daniel Burka  :  Iterative Design Strategies

• Thomas Fuchas  :  I Can’t Believe It’s Not Flash!

Webstock is running February 15-19 in Wellington. NZS.com GM Gary Jensen will be attending, so if you see him on tha day be sure to stop and say hi. For more information, including 10 Reasons You Should Attend, check out the Webstock website.

WEBMASTER RESOURCES NOW LIVE ON NZS.com!

Have you been looking for a place to go to find tips for website owners all bundled together? NZS.com is your new source for Webmaster Resources!

We’re building a centre of information for Web-friendly site owners like you, aiming to help you improve your online presence.

After search engine optimisation tips? Check out the SEO resource section, where you can learn about keywords, linking, Pagerank and more to help improve your rankings within search engines in the World Wide Web.

Need some help with your website design? Learn what you can do (or ask your Web developer to do) to quickly and easier update the look and feel of your website.

Eager to understand your website’s visitors? Want to know why they behave they way they do, and how you can keep them on your site? Read up on usability – user behaviour tips and learn how to interpret user-related statistics and what you can do to entice your visitors and keep them coming back for more.

We’ll be adding new categories throughout the year and the entire NZS.com team will be continually adding to the resources available, to keep you covered when it comes to your New Zealand web presence…so keep posted! You can find the Webmaster Resource section in the left-hand navigation menu on the NZS.com homepage.

If you have any suggestions on how we can improve this new section, e-mail us on info@nzs.com and let us know!