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More than 2,400 drawings by late cartoonist Ben Wicks must be returned to his family after they were left in a sold home 15 years ago, an Ontario judge has ruled.

The final details are being put in place for Toronto's Luminato, a city-wide festival of the arts to start Friday.

You may be surprised, but I never ask design-related questions in design project discovery meetings. Some might wonder at this, as it may seem counterintuitive. The reason I don?t ask design questions of the client is the same reason an architect doesn?t ask the client what PSI the building’s load-bearing foundational structures will need to endure.

The Michael Lee-Chin Crystal, the controversial renovation of the venerable Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, is preparing to open its doors to the public.

A British performance artist and vegetarian has consumed the flesh of a corgi dog in protest of a fox hunt led by Prince Philip earlier this year.

Festival X, scheduled for Sept. 20-30, will be the first photography festival in Ottawa.

• Grade Your Website: 31 Free Online Tests
• Evangelizing Outside the Box: Web Standards and Large Companies
• How to Evaluate Your Website in 30 Seconds
• Who Needs Headlines?
• Web Design 101: Backgrounds
• Web developers have the power
• Creative Use of PNG Transparency in Web Design
• User Style Sheets Come of Age
• Hacking Firefox: The secrets of about:config
• Thumbstrips for Firefox
• 7 Ways to Send HUGE Files
• CODA - one window web development

Tags: links, light-reading

Our Canberra CSS & Accessibility workshop was wrapped up this week. Some feedback from participants:

Very comprehensive. Can’t wait to put it into practice

Tags: css, accessibility, workshop

• Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 - Working Draft 17 May 2007
• Overview of WCAG 2.0 Documents
• Instructions for Commenting on WCAG 2.0 Documents
• ESWAT web project framework
• Formal weirdness
• Activating the Right Layout Mode Using the Doctype Declaration
• Measuring the Success Of a Classification System
• How Visual Design Can Impact your Bottom Line
• Stand and Deliver
• Managing Style and State
• Live by the Digg, Die by the Digg

Tags: links, light-reading

Webstock and WIPA are extremely pleased to announce the launch of FullCodePress, a new and exciting series of web events.

The concept is simple: national teams compete against each other to build a website in 24 hrs, putting national pride and web prowess to the test. And the real winners of the competitions? The not-for-profit organisation who is presented with a stunning, fully functional website.

The first competition will take place in Sydney, Australia on 18 August - a trans-Tasman clash between the best of Australia and New Zealand. Following that, on the 9th February, and just prior to Webstock 08, teams from around the world will converge in Wellington New Zealand for a larger international competition. Think geek Olympics!

The competitions will be judged by a panel with a brief to look at such aspects as:

1. - meeting client needs
2. - web standards and accessibility best practice
3. - visual design
4. - innovative coding

Teams will consist of 7 members, covering all aspects of the web development process. For further information, check out the process, from start to finish

Those interested in being considered for the New Zealand or Australian teams are invited to register on the FullCodePress website.

1. Register for the Australian team
2. Register for the New Zealand team

We’re also looking for people to take on the role of country organiser for other countries around the world. You can register as a Country organiser.

Both Webstock and WIPA are passionate about promoting a web standards based approach to web design and development. They see FullCodePress as a way of further spreading this message, whilst at the same time strengthening ties and connections globally amongst the web industry. And being able to help out a worthy not-for-profit organisation is the icing on the cake.

If you are a small to medium sized non-profit organisation that would like a new website, you can register your non-profit organisation