You know the look... now know the laziness required be 'fresh'

This is a short, tongue-in-cheek 'dirty tricks' inkscape tutorial on how to make your UI designs shiny, reflective, rough, deep, layered, sparkling, glowing and generally awesome...

I'll cover all the quick and easy ways to 'bling up' your design with minimum forethought and effort. Everybody on a deadline loves a quick win technique and this is how the pros do it.

Die Flash Die: SVG for web designers with Inkscape!

Ding dong!, you know the rest... And what a great time to be working on the web!
Internet explorer is rapidly losing market share, modern browsers have outstandingly faster javascript engines and most importantly! all webkit, gecko and opera based browsers near fully support the scalable vector graphics format SVG booyah everybody!.

My tutorials in the past have focused publishing and desktop artwork but now it's time to take on the web!

I’m not sure what would best suit the attendees or what others are covering, so I’d be happy to cover one (or more if I can do a 40-min talk) of the following:

• icon design with a HowTo or demonstration of how to design and icon [1];
• website design — setting up a grid, laying down the various page elements for a graphical mockup of a website [2];
• web app mockups — designing web applications mockups [3];
• clip art — doing it, dissecting an existing clip art piece and submitting it to OpenClipArt.com [4].

Example pieces that might work for each presentation:

Based on an article in Linux Journal some years ago, I've been using XSL and PHP to transform Inkscape XML into PDFs using dynamic data generated on the fly on a webserver - this lightning talk explains the process.