Martin Hodgson
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Friday 21th August, 09:58am

Advanced CSS Styling with Andy Clarke

I have booked myself on to Andy Clarke's Advanced CSS Styling workshop up in Newcastle Upon Tyne at the Copthorne Hotel on October 30th 2009.

A packed schedule includes designing in the browser, @font-face font embedding and typography, working with Typekit, Javascript and progressive enrichment using Dean Edwards' IE8 scripts and Modernizr, advanced CSS techniques such as RGBa and Opacity, multiple backgrounds, text & box shadows, reflections, CSS transforms, transitions and animations.

If all that wasn't enough, all attendees also recieve a free Typekit Portfolio Account worth $50 a year. This will give you full library access, unlimited fonts to five domains and 20gb of monthly bandwidth.

The day is rounded off with a Mexican-themed after hours party at The Salsa Club from 6.30pm onwards. Places are running out very quickly so book your place sooner rather than later.

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Wednesday 12th August, 1:45pm

HTML5 Gallery features www.martinhodgson.co.uk

I'm happy to report that Richard Clark's HTML5 Gallery has showcased my website and it's great to be acknowledged after a recent overhaul to HTML5.

My Twitter does get most of my "posting to the web" attention but I do intend to keep my blog fresh. Hope you enjoy the new look here...

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Monday 25th June, 10:22am

An Event Apart Boston 2009

I'm home and back at work after an amazing trip over to Boston in the US for the 2-day An Event Apart web conference.

I had a full day in Boston before the conference and did a little sight seeing amongst drinking local ales whilst watching the Red Sox beat Atlanta in the baseball, visited Franklin Zoo, wandered down Newbury Street and registered early for AEA before a few drinks at the Cheers Bar.

After a good breakfast, Day one of AEA got underway with Jared Spool's impressive insight into Amazon, revealing hidden aspects of its business model. Fantastic presentations continued with Kristina Halvorson, Jason Santa Maria and Jeremy Keith.

Joshua Porter got into our minds with Designing With Psychology in Mind followed by DIY UX: Give Your Users an Upgrade (Without Calling In a Pro) by Whitney Hess. Dan Cederholm wrapped Day one up with an anspirating A-Z of Implementing Design.

The afterparty was great fun, Media Temple kindly put on a free bar and it was good to mingle with Jeffrey Zeldman, Andy Clarke and Jason Santa Maria - I even got some good pics, even Zeldman was kind enough to twitter one of them to the masses.

Brett Welch with Beyond Pixel Pushing got Day two up and running warming the stage up for Jeffrey Zeldman. A truly fantastic insight of Zeldman's redesign of www.zeldman.com - at times it was like a comedy show rather than a web conference... loved it. A really interesting presentation followed from Dan Mall on Flash & Web Standards and how Flash can play nicely with other technologies.

Derek Featherstone showed us some great techniques & ideas on making apps/websites more usable and accessible. Lots of interesting SEO goodness from Aarron Walter and his Findability Bliss Through Web Standards presentation. Fascinating talks continued with Scott Thomas and his process of the Obama '08 website build and Heather Champ's insight to the problems Flickr have overcome over the last few years.

Andy Clarke wrapped things up in typical fashion, completing an unmissable conference.

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Tuesday 3rd March, 3:30pm

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