Last night I gave a talk to the largets crowd I have ever spoken in front of. There were over 100 people in the room and they were a great audience. I received lots of devoted attention and people were eager to participate. I was quite nervous in the beginning, but once I got into the material I think it came across very well.
I spoke about why to use CSS and what we can do to overcome some of the pitfalls. I also explained why we don’t want to be using tables for layout.
I moved from there to some javascript techniques and a little bit of ajax. From what I got from that portion, it could have probably warranted more time, but there was just so much to cover.
The files that I used during the demo are available for download here:
File Attachment: AdvancedCSSAndJavascript.zip (1140 KB)
I received a number of questions about the tools I was using during the demo. The text editor I was using was e. You can download it at www.e-texteditor.com. The application launcher that I use is launchy. It is available at www.launchy.net. Finally the Keyboard shortcut window, called Key Jedi is available here.
If you attended the presentation, I would love to hear your feedback in the comments. Thanks for coming!
Update: The links that I wanted to show (but couldn't) during the presentation are: