• If the 2010 Philippine Presidential Elections were a Website Contest, Who’d Win? by Regnard Raquedan
• VERSUS by Ia Lucero

You can also check out presentations from past FFC Minis here.

Our sponsors:

• Global Gateway Innovation Exchange for the pizza and venue
• Marie Casas for the game winners’ prizes
• Coca-Cola Philippines c/o Nomnom Club and Digital Manila for the drinks
• Mozilla Philippines for the freebies
• Alfredo Palconit for cash sponsorship

If you have photos, add them to our PWDO accounts on Flickr and Facebook. Don’t forget to follow this blog, Twitter, and Plurk for updates.

Thanks for supporting PWDO!

WHAT:
<form> function() & .class Mini Web Design (un)Conference
(It’s BarCamp style, meaning anybody who wants to talk can talk. And it’s really casual. For us, by us.)

WHEN:
Thursday, February 11, 2010, 6:00 PM

WHERE:
G2VC TechBar, Orient Square Bldg., Ortigas (View map)

HOW MUCH:
Free!

SPEAKERS/TOPICS:
It’s an un-conference — we can be informal, we can speak in English or Filipino, there’s no structure. Be heard. Ask questions. Make new friends. Share your experiences and opinions on web design principles and trends.
We’ll update this page as we get signups for speakers.

You should SIGN UP HERE

We’ve uploaded the slides for the talks at the last Form Function & Class Mini on November 14, 2009 at the De La Salle – College of St. Benilde:

• Burning Code in Web Development: CodeIgniter MVC by Rowen Iral
• Semantics and Maintenace by Mae Paulino
• VERSUS by Ia Lucero

Note: there was one more talk on Balsamiq Mockups by JP dela Torre, but unfortunately the slides for it were inadvertently deleted. But you can find out more about the wireframe software from its website.

You can also check out presentations from past FFC Minis here.

Submit Talk Proposal or Nominate a Speaker

PHILIPPINE WEB DESIGNERS ORGANIZATION (PWDO) is launching its call for speakers for the 2010 Form Function Class. With over 300 participants, Form Function Class is the premiere Web Designers Conference in the Philippines. The 2010 Conference will be held on July 10, 2010 in Metro Manila, Philippines.

We are looking for exemplary speakers, willing to share their experience, their skills, and adoption of best practices in the industry with web designers and managers (marketing and decision-makers). Below are some of the topics we hope to cover, but don’t let this list limit your imagination!

Areas of Interest (Form, Function & Class)

• Design inspiration
• Design frameworks
• HTML 5 and web standards
• Javascript programming and frameworks
• CSS programming
• Web Typography
• Interaction Design for global/Filipino users
• Creative Development, Branding
• Ajax, Flash, Flex, AIR, XUL, Silverlight
• Accessibility and usability
• Web Copywriting
• Case studies

Feel free to submit multiple presentations on different topics. You can also nominate speakers. Presenters can decide to present in English or in Filipino. PWDO will review talk proposals and be in touch once you’ve been selected.

Speaker Nominations and Proposals

Before submitting a talk, please try to include answers to the following questions:

• How will your talk excite people?
• Does your talk educate the audience?
• What will you bring up in your talk that hasn’t been discussed in other conferences?

Proposals will be considered for the following types of presentations:

• 25-minute mini-lecture
• 1-hour presentation/lecture, including Q&A
• 1.5-2-hour workshop or tutorial (these extended classes give participants hands-on, practical, in-depth guidance)

Presentations could be recorded for later broadcast in digital format. Presenters are required to submit the actual presentation file prior to the conference so we may distribute handouts as needed, for post-event distribution and/or publication, and to ensure we have a working copy for the conference.

Speakers’ Benefits

Speakers benefit from full access to all sessions and activities for the duration of the conference.

Speaker listing and company reference in the conference program and conference website and post-event distribution and/or publication.

Speakers are also invited to a private banquet with sponsors and with members of the organization committee.

I look forward to receiving your proposals on or before MARCH 12, 2010 at 11.59PM, Philippine time (GMT+8). Do try to send them in earlier though as we will continually fill in speakers’ slots.

Thank you.

Marie Casas
Form Function Class 2010 Conference Chair

Submit Talk Proposal or Nominate a Speaker

Thank you very much for supporting our event!

10:00 am

Rico Sta. Cruz – Breaking your Instincts: Common bad habits and how to fight them

Rico explains how convenience affects our work as web designers.

Screw lemonade.

We try to break from our instincts and come up with something better. Some things to avoid: a challenge! Live demonstration with a fictional local newspaper website.

• Three levels of categories? THINK. Going against our istincts, we don’t need to make our navigation mirror the sitemap structure, do we?

9:15 am

Nap Lara – Javascript 101: DOM, Events, and Objects

Nap Lara introducing Javascript and the frameworks you can use

• YUI – javascript framework from Yahoo!
• jQuery
• mooTools

How events work
Event bubbling
Sort of like the bubble loop that you dip in
How do I listen to events?

Objects
Defining a variable
JSON vs. XML
When it comes to AJAX, you have to limit your calls.
In a browser, you’re only allowed up to 2 simultaneous requests per domain — so keep it down to 2 requests per page load.
Define timeouts, e.g. 30 seconds — then hit refresh

Best practices
Compression/Obfuscation

9:00 am

Ia introducing the vision and mission of Philippine Web Designers Organization. The group is open to professionals, students, amateur web designers. PWDO has organized 3 mini-conferences in Ortigas and Quezon City in 2008.

To become a member of PWDO:
http://webdesigners.org.ph/join/

Membership Requirements:
P1000 (waived for FFC 2009 attendees)
organize a mini-conference (free, barcamp style) (waived for student volunteers)
submit URL of portfolio of web design work (min. 1 website)

9:00 am

Tag your tweets #ffc2009

• Payment – Early payment can be done at the AIM Marketing office (3rd floor). Look for Ms. Mel Solomon for the payment of cash or check (payable to the Philippine Web Designers Organization). Online and bankd deposit options are available. Please visit the confirmation site for more information on the payment schemes.
• Lunch – Many people have been asking, so here’s a clarification: lunch will be served at the event.
• Adobe CS4 Raffle – Only those who have registered at the Adobe User Group – Philippines Adobe Groups site and present at the event are the ones eligible. The cut-off for membership is at 12nn on July 10, 2009. The final list of entries will be based on the people who are physically present in the event.
• Google AdWords vouchers – Only the first 100 non-student registrants will get a Google AdWords voucher. We will have different registration tables for those who have reserved & paid/not paid and walk-ins. We have developed a system to give everyone a fair chance to get a Google AdWords voucher, regardless if you have paid or not.
• Additional Slots – We initially booked the event to have 400 slots, but dur to the demand, we have increased it by 50. Still, folks who would like to come must reserve a slot at the confirmation site.

• Bart Martin Ongtangco
• Marc Earl Nino Cometa
• Exc Esc
• Jerome Locson
• Renz Mendoza
• Exc Esc
• Vikki Pusong
• Israel Balaguer

Note: Exc Esc’s name was picked twice. Therefore he gets two tickets.

Procedure: We compiled all the submissions and gave each participant the corresponding number of raffle entries according to the submitted blog and microblog posts. Out of a total of 232 raffle entries, we picked eight using the randomizer program at Random.org. These were the numbers:

Each number correponds to the winners above. Congratulations to all the winners! We will be emailing you further instructions. For those who didn’t win, we’re also raffling off several other items during the conference, including an Adobe Creative Suite 4 (don’t forget to join the Adobe User Group – Philippines first).

See you on July 10!

Designing with Web Standards

June 03, 2009, Wednesday, 3:00 – 4:00pm
Philippine Trade Training Center (PTTC), Roxas Boulevard
Pasay City, Philippines
Speaker: Regnard Raquedan

Introducing web standards to graphic designers who wants to transition into web and for web designers who want to sharpen their skills. The presentation will cover best practices in building standards-compliant sites, the philosophy of web design applied in web standards, and the technologies behind it – CSS, XHTML, and accessibility methods. Considerations of web standards include the interoperability, accessibility and usability of web pages and web sites.

Web Designing Freelancing

June 04, 2009, Thursday, 2:00 – 3:00pm
Philippine Trade Training Center (PTTC), Roxas Boulevard
Pasay City, Philippines
Speaker: Regnard Raquedan

Freelance web designers often cannot avoid issues pertaining to their projects– from pricing to professionalism. This seminar is intended to give designers practical advice on the business side of freelancing. This includes marketing a designer’s services, working with clients, and pricing projects to ease the pain of working freelance.

Register and reserve your seminar seat NOW!

Who Should Attend: Graphic designers, digital artists, web masters, photographers, multimedia specialists, art directors, animators, publishers, creative directors, layout artists, corporate communicators, illustrators, educators, cartoonists, IT professionals, advertising and marketing executives.

This seminar is free-of charge but you have to register. To register, please contact:

Phone numbers: +632-896-0637, 899-2952, 896-0639, 899-6216, 890-2101
Fax numbers: +632-890-2101, 896-0637
Email: fiera@info.com.ph
Website: http://www.fmi.com.ph

Please pass this Invitation to interested friends and colleagues. Thank you.

1. Each online promotion corresponds to a number of raffle entries:
   • 1 blog post = 10 raffle entries
   • 1 microblog post = 1 raffle entry
2. Each person can only have a maximum of 2 blog entries and 20 microblog posts. That’s a total of 40 possible raffle entries.
3. A blog post is defined as a full-length article containing comprehensive information about the event, namely:
   • Event name: <form> function() & .class: the first Philippine web design conference
   • URL: http://formfunctionclass.com/
   • Date and time: July 10, 2009 from 8am to 5pm
   • Venue: Asian Institute of Management, Makati City
   • Schedule & speakers: (see website)
   • Sponsors: (see website)
   • Link to sponsorship packages
   • Event logo
   • Org logo
   • Link to mechanics of this raffle
4. A microblog post is defined as a short update typically sent to Twitter, Plurk, or Facebook containing a link to http://formfunctionclass.com/. If you can accommodate extra information about the web design conference, no plus points, but we appreciate it! :)
5. Compile all permalinks to your blog and microblog posts in a single email to info@webdesignph.org with the subject FFC2009 raffle. Entries without the subject line or sent multiple times will be disqualified.
   • Note: Please check if your microblog post has a permalink. For example, we strongly suggest you use the “Share Link” button in Facebook instead of the status update because it has a permalink we can verify. On Friendster status updates do not have permalinks so we cannot accept those because we cannot verify them.
   • Once we verify your entries, we will send a preliminary notice indicating how many valid raffle entries you have.
6. Deadline for submissions us on June 26. Winners will be announced on July 3.