Leading shared Web hosting provider BizLand announced that it will co-sponsor the “Best Practices of Web Design with Web 2.now” conference, which will take place at the Hilton Boston Back Bay Hotel, 40 Dalton Street, Boston, MA 02115 on October 18 and 19, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. The conference invites Web site designers and developers, as well as small business owners to learn the facts and real-world applications behind the latest in Web technologies including XForms, CSS 3.0 and Web 2.now.

The event is hosted by the non-profit World Organization of Webmasters (WOW) and promises to explain the relevance of the latest Web technologies and place them in the context of the industry’s best practices.

BizLand’s Eric Rayleonard and WOW executive director Bill Cullifer will be available to discuss the latest in Web design tools and strategies. The interactive conference is designed to provide attendees with tips and tricks for designing, building and monetizing Web sites for small business. It will also include workshops and presentations by David Leip, IBM’s Chief Innovation Officer for ibm.com, and David Shrimpton, PhD. Director of Learning and Teaching for the Computing Laboratory at the University of Kent in the U.K.

BizLand provides shared-hosting services and related products, including e-mail, domains and online stores to more than 600 resellers and 20,000 hosting customers worldwide. The company is based in Burlington, Mass.

The World Organization of Webmasters (WOW) is a non profit professional association dedicated to the support of individuals and organizations who create, manage or market Web sites on the Internet. WOW is based in Folsom, Calif.