Professional Development Tutorial: Current Best Practices in Web Development and Design

• David Leip, IBM, USA
• David Shrimpton, University of Kent, UK

Track: Developers

This tutorial provides a survey of contemporary design & development technologies and how they can serve you. It will cover the current thinking about contemporary Web development, including clarifying buzz terms such as AJAX and Web 2.0. It will help you to understand the benefits of web standards and best practices, and learn how technical and ROI performance improves with their implementation. Attendees will learn to author markup and style at an expert level, with an understanding of microformats, tagging and other emerging metadata extensions and how they can be used today to enhance search and findability. Take away new ideas to permit adoption of the best of industry solutions.

This tutorial is a full-day event sponsored by the World Organization of Webmasters (WOW). Delegates must register for this event oin the conference registration page. Attendees will have the option to sit for WOW's Certified Professional Webmaster (CPW) exam.