======================================================= July 30,2002 Vol.1 #3 What's new at the Web Design Reference site? ============ New Links In These Categories ============ 1. ACCESSIBILITY 2. ARCHITECTURE 3. CASCADING STYLE SHEETS 4. COLOR 5. DREAMWEAVER 6. EVALUATION & TESTING 7. JAVASCRIPT 8. NAVIGATION 9. PHP 10. TYPOGRAPHY 11. USABILITY 12. XHTML ======================================================= 1. ACCESSIBILITY Understanding Web Accessibility This is the first chapter of the glasshaus book: "Constructing Accessible Web Sites" Chapter 1 is By Shawn Lawton Henry You can download the 650KB PDF file from this link: (Please note that it is an acrobat PDF file. If you do not have acrobat you can download the acrobat viewer from . This download is for people who do not have Acrobat installed on their computers. It allows you to open and view a PDF file. Additional Adobe free tools are available to assist visually impaired users at ) Introduction to the Screen Reader with Neal Ewers of the Trace Research Center "..a short video demonstrating how screen readers assist the blind to navigate the web..." Accessibility and Internationalization By Kynn Bartlett Chapter 21 (Hour 21) of Kynn's new book "Teach Yourself CSS in 24 Hours" ======================================================= 2. ARCHITECTURE Web Page Design: Implications of Memory, Structure and Scent for Information Retrieval By Kevin Larson and Mary Czerwinski Designing for Information Foragers: A Behavioral Model for Information Seeking on the World Wide Web By James Kalbach ======================================================= 3. CASCADING STYLE SHEETS A touch of class By Lachlan Cannon Guidelines for the use of By Keith Underdown Eric Meyer on CSS: Mastering the Language of Web Design This final WDVL excerpt of Eric's new book covers the second half of chapter 4. He explores altering main-text links, a press release, and cleanup. By Eric A. Meyer ======================================================= 4. COLOR Color Blindness By Andrew Oakley "One in twenty white men are colour blind. We don't buy things we can't use. We don't hit web pages we can't read." Color Vision By Cal Henderson "1 in 12 people have some sort of color deficiency. When you're designing for the web, this means that 1 in 12 people might not be able to see your site. That's alot of people. This tool helps you simulate the appearance of our site's colors for people with different color visions." ======================================================= 5. DREAMWEAVER Dreamweaver MX: The Hidden Tips By Troy Dreier ======================================================= 6. EVALUATION & TESTING Sample Chapter of: The InfoDesign Toolkit - Do-it-Yourself Usability Techniques By Gerry Gaffney You can download the free 163 KB PDF file from this link: (Please note that it is an acrobat PDF file. If you do not have acrobat you can download the acrobat viewer from . This download is for people who do not have Acrobat installed on their computers. It allows you to open and view a PDF file. Additional Adobe free tools are available to assist visually impaired users at ) Judging Web Sites: Usability or Criticism? By Mark Bernstein ======================================================= 7. JAVASCRIPT Defining arrays using literal notation From JavaScript Kit (Formerly Website Abstraction) ======================================================= 8. NAVIGATION Depth vs Breadth in the Arrangement of Web Links By Panayiotis Zaphiris and Lianaeli Mtei Look Before You Ask By David Wertheimer Website Structural Navigation By Noah Lazar & Michael Eisenbrey ======================================================= 9. PHP Create dynamic sites with PHP & MySQL By Md. Ashraful Anam Using PHP for Date Processing in Forms By Jackson Yee ======================================================= 10. TYPOGRAPHY On Scalable Text By Shawn Lawton Henry ======================================================= 11. USABILITY Thinking... A Customer Information System By Gerry Gaffney Is Branding Compatible with Web Usability? By Roger C. Parker ======================================================= 12. XHTML Why Web Builders Must Move to XHTML Molly Holzschlag Interview ======================================================= What Can You Find at the Web Design Reference Site? ======================================================= Accessibility Information Architecture Information Book Listings Cascading Style Sheets Information Color Information Dreamweaver Information Evaluation & Testing Information JavaScript Information Miscellaneous Web Information Navigation Information PHP Information Sites & Blogs Listing Tool Information Typography Information Usability Information XML Information ======================================================= WEB DESIGN UPDATE is sent via email to all users subscribed to the webdev email list. The goal of this is to distribute news and information about web design and development. For information on how to unsubscribe from the webdev listserv visit the following URL: ======================================================= Laura L. 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