Akatombo Web Log

Wednesday, August 13, 2003

Thanks to Presentation Attendees

We’d just like to thank everyone who showed up to listen to us talk about web standards at the Tokyo PC Users Group meeting last Thursday.  We hope that you were able to get some valuable information out of it, and if you have any questions, just let us know, and we’ll do our best to answer them.  We also plan to put up a fleshed out version of our presentation notes available on this site in the future.

In English we have the writings of Jeffrey Zeldman and Eric Meyer to guide us into the realm of standards compliant and accessible design, but we don’t know of a similar resource in Japanese.  We hope to fill part of that gap by writing about these topics in the Japanese section of our site, and by making presentations about web standards in Japanese when opportunities arise.

Any suggestions on how to improve our presentation would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks again for coming, we really appreciate the opportunity to discuss web standards with you, and hope that we’ll get a chance to work with you in the future.

Wednesday, August 06, 2003

Web Standards Presentation - Tokyo PC User’s Group

We are just putting the finishing touches on a presentation on Web Standards for the Tokyo PC Users Group today, and thought we had better add an entry here about the presentation.

We will strive to focus on topics of interest to the audience and stick to subjects that are relevant for the non-designer.  If we start to mention terms or concepts that you aren’t familiar with, please feel free to remind us to explain more or not go so deep into the nuts and bolts and things that don’t matter to people who aren’t doing the actual designing.

We plan to make the PowerPoint slides (oh how we hate to use PowerPoint) from the presentation available on the Tokyo PC users Group website, and to put up a fuller more detailed version of the presentation (hopefully in Japanese as well) up on this website in the future.

We hope that our presentation will help some of you to improve the way you communicate online, and if there is any way we can help you with that effort, please let us know.