In other news we’re welcoming back Dan Donald to speak at this years event. At WDC2008 he came down from Manchester to take part in a panel.

If you’ve been before you know what you’re letting yourself in for if not then you’ll need to know the following about you’re ticket:

• Ticket entitles the named person only entry to event
• Ticket will include finger buffet lunch and a coffee (once details have been confirmed!)
• Registration Opens at 10:00 with the event starting at 10:30
• Any questions? Contact Us
• We reserve the right to refuse entry and our decision is final

There are currently only 60 tickets on sale for this event, and as mentioned on the “Home” page you could win a free one!

Tickets will go on sale this week at some point so keep an eye out over here and on Twitter (@webdevconf) for when they go live. Unlike other events all the tickets will go on sale at once, no early birds and no limited releases over the coming months until the event once they’ve sold out that’s it. There will be some “competitions” for a free ticket or two.

More details will come when they go on sale this week!

As they are nicely on my (mt) space the move was nice and quick and hitting .co.uk should automatically redirect you to .com and report the correct HTTP header.

Be sure to remember (as you can see) the new style is under way and new content will be sorted out as I get it, first the general layout!

Emails are still .co.uk so don’t worry if I’m already in your address book. They will be set up to automatically forward to the .com version once I’ve finished setting it all up.

This is because work in well underway for the third Web Developers Conference, WDC2009. It is still 8 months away but it’s nice to be kept in the loop with things as they occur. Some of you may already know who’s speaking but this won’t go live until the rest of the site does.

The site is also a nice little testing ground for “new” stuff so as I dive deeper in to the world of Wordpress I uncover more and get the chance to show it off.

Don’t worry! If you’ve not seen the blip in look you’re not missing much, yet! Be sure to follow myself and/or @webdevconf on twitter to make sure you don’t miss anything.

For the chance to have an informal catch up before WDC2008 Dan Dixon got together with the guys behind Skillswap Bristol, myself, Patrick H Lauke and James Box to put on a Skillswap evening on the 11th, 1 day before WDC2008. Not only will you get a quick (12 minute) peak in to what those guys do but you’ll be in the mood for the following day where you can learn the rest.

What makes this even better is the news that we have sold out (yes it’s free, but still!) for this year. This means we’re expecting 120 people along to take in everything, everyone will be saying.

If you’ve missed out this time, don’t worry to much WDC2009 is already being planned!

The latest bit of news is from Team Rubber who will be joining Existem, Eduserv, UWE and others in WDC2008 Sponsorship.

They will be a present in Waterside 3 for the entire event. It’s there for students to learn about Microsoft products including Expression 2 and Silverlight 2. I’ve also been told there will be news on how to get free .NET hosting for yourself.

Due to this the schedule has been updated. This is to allower longer breaks during the event to allow attendees to get the most out of these stands.

Jon Gibbins is a web developer and accessibility geek from Devon, who’s been working with web technologies since 1997, professionally since 2003.

Both panels and all the speaker slots are full. We are currently working on the final schedule for the event which will be running between 10:30am and 5(ish)pm.

If you haven’t already done so please register!