Web Directions North

OK,

we’ve resolved out difficulties with a certain unnamed payment service provider, and while registrations have remained open over the weekend (thanks to those people who registered), full service has now been resumed.

Registrations are going very well, and do keep in mind, the super early bird runs out on Friday, so to save yourself an extra $100, sign up this week.

Thanks for your patience,

John, for the Web Directions team

After opening registration this morning, we’ve been thrilled with the response. Well, the response from all of you; not so much with that of our transaction provider (rhymes with “hay-gal”).

At the moment, our account is locked; we’ve apparently been flagged due to some “suspicious activity” which we’re told stems from the value of a single drop down menu (from legitimate orders, no less). Yeah, we don’t know either. Security thing, no doubt. The upshot of this is that we can’t receive any money at the moment. We hope to have this resolved within the next 12 to 24 hours, but for now, we’re on ice.

Please continue to register in the mean time, though! This only affects our ability to process actual credit card transactions; your registration details are stored in our own system, which is working just fine. We’ll send out a reminder email to everyone who registers between now and when the account is back up and running. Shouldn’t be long. Thanks for understanding!

Update: Weekends being what they are, we’ve finally gotten through and convinced the transaction provider in question to restore our account access. So now it’s just a matter of flipping a few switches over on our registration system. We’ll update again in once that has been done.

Update: We’re back! All’s back up and running finally. Thanks again for your patience and continuing to register in the meantime, feel free to complete your ticket orders now.

After months of feverish behind-the-scenes work, putting together a killer program, an amazing lineup of speakers, working on dates, venues, the site, a registration system and more, Web Directions North is now officially open for registrations.

After a fantastic conference in Sydney, we are really excited to be bringing Web Directions to Vancouver. So until November 3rd we are offering an extra special discounted price of just $CDN795, $200 off our standard price, for the first 100 people who sign up. We’ve already had quite a few early registrations, so don’t wait too long.

So take a look a our speaker lineup and program, check your diary, and register now.

We’ll see you in a bit over three months in Vancouver,

Dave, Derek, Maxine and John

If you’d like to support Web Directions North, and get a nice link back from us as thanks, then please take alook at our new Community Partners program.

We’ve got a range of Web Directions North badges, based on Dave Shea’s fantastic logo design. All you need to do is add a badge and a link, and send us a logo, a little text, and the page you’d like us to link to, and we’ll add you to our “Community Partners” page. I am sure we’ll find some other nice ways of saying thanks to our community partners too.

Our only restriction is the pages we link to must be relevant to our community of web designers and developers, so we do reserve the right to not add a link - but that won’t have any impact on any legitimate links.

Thanks

Dave, Derek, Maxine and John

We are just putting the finishing touches on our registration system (which will allow you to book hotel rooms at a significant discount, and with free wifi and long distance in North America for the first 50 people to book a room, as well as ski trip places if you are keen on a trip to Whistler after the conference).

When registrations open in the next couple of days, those who’ve subscribed to our mailing list (just email us at that address to be added) will get the first chance at our super discounted early bird tickets ($200 off the standard price of $CDN995).

In addition you’ll be able to book

• Full day, catered workshops at $395 for conference attendees ($495 for others)
• Hotel rooms at $CDN 139 ($20 or more off the standard rate, and a great price for downtown Vancouver, staying right at the conference venue. We’re even throwing in free Wifi and long distance in North America for the first 50 people to book a room, a saving of $16 a night)
• Ski trip places - $120 a day for luxury coach to and from Whistler, plus Blackcomb/Whistler lift tickets.

So, sign up to or list, and start planning now, and we’ll see you in February.

Dave, Derek, Maxine and John

Be part of what promises to be one of 2007’s best web designer and developer events, Web Directions North. Over 5 big days, a two day conference with an optional day of workshops, and two optional days of skiing and snowboarding at Blackcomb Whistler, Web Directions is not to be missed. So start planning now, and make sure to subscribe to our RSS feeds so you may keep up with all the latest updates.