The Web Directions South conference is just three weeks away! For those of you who couldn't make Web Directions North last January, here is your second chance. Spring is just beginning to poke it's head out in Australia, so it should be a good time to share your growing vernal energy with web-minded folks.

Web Directions South 2008, in Sydney September 23-26

Over 30 sessions across 3 tracks and 2 days, plus another 2 days of workshops, covering off front and back end web design and development, mobile design and development, information architecture, user experience and interaction design, social media and networks, accessibility, Ajax and Javascript, semantic web, HTML 5, web application security, marketing and advertising online.

With speakers including Jeffrey Veen (Adaptive Path and Google), Derek Featherstone (accessibility), Daniel Burka (interaction design), Douglas Crockford (Ajax security), Jeff Croft (typography), Ruth Ellison (accessible design), Hurol Inan (web analytics) plus many others with more still to come.

WSG members can take $50 off the price with the discount code WDS08-WSG.