======================================================= August 6, 2002 Vol.1 #4 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. MISC. 9. NAVIGATION 10. PHP 11. TYPOGRAPHY 12. USABILITY 13. XML ======================================================= 1. ACCESSIBILITY Technical Accessibility - a Means, not an End By Mark Newman Accessibility and frames - some notes By Jim Byrne Making Your Web Site Senior Friendly By the National Institute on Aging and the National Library of Medicine. Published as a "checklist," the research-based guidelines are designed to provide Web developers with design strategies and techniques that lead to Web site designs that are not a burden to seniors. (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 ) Linux Accessibility Resource Site (LARS) Edited by J.P. Schnapper-Casteras and hosted by the Trace Center ======================================================= 2. ARCHITECTURE Information Architecture for the World Wide Web By Louis Rosenfeld and Peter Morville. Five sample beta chapters from the new 2nd Edition of the Polar Bear Book. You can download the PDF files from this link: (Please note that these are acrobat PDF files. 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 ) Emergent Architecture By Eric Scheid ======================================================= 3. CASCADING STYLE SHEETS Real World Style By Mark Newhouse Mark's new site has CSS layouts, tips, tricks and techniques. CSS Mobile Profile 1.0 W3C Candidate Recommendation 25 July 2002 (Confused about the difference between W3C Notes, Working Drafts, Candidate Recommendations, Public Recommendations and normal Recommendations? If so check out: ======================================================= 4. COLOR Web Page Color Scheming using your photos By Suzanne Stephens ======================================================= 5. DREAMWEAVER Validating for Accessibility with Dreamweaver MX By Bob Regan (This is a QuickTime file. If you do not have QuickTime you can download the QuickTime viewer from apple. How to build Dynamic Breadcrumb Extension in Dreamweaver MX Using PHP By Francois Richardson ======================================================= 6. EVALUATION & TESTING What an IA Should Know About Prototypes for User Testing By Chris Farnum ======================================================= 7. JAVASCRIPT aqTree2 By Kryogenix A JavaScript library that can turn unordered lists into clickable tree structures in DOM-compliant browsers, which means Internet Explorer 5.5 or better, or Netscape 6 or better, or Mozilla. ======================================================= 8. MISC. Why Web Standards Matter By Carrie Bickner Mozilla Milestone 1.0: the Review By Kurt Mackey and Aeirould Not only a detailed review of Mozilla and it's support of Web standards, but also discusses an overview of XML, CSS, and other technologies as well. ======================================================= 9. NAVIGATION Searching vs. Linking at Websites By Sanjay J. Koyani and Robert W. Bailey (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 ) ======================================================= 10. PHP Previous and Next links demystified By Christian Heilmann The Birth of a Function By Jason Lotito PHP Application Development with ADODB (Part 2) By icarus (ADODB is a set of advanced PHP database wrapper classes.) Multicolumn Output from a Database with PHP By Matt Wade A HOWTO on Optimizing PHP By John Lim ======================================================= 11. TYPOGRAPHY Behind The Typeface: Cooper Black By Cheshire Dave A humorous biography of a font, its creator and its competitors. You'll need the Flash player for this, version 5 or later which can be downloaded from: Typefaces By Patrick J. Lynch and Sarah Horton ======================================================= 12. USABILITY (Over)simple Answers for Simple Minds By George Olsen The Backlash against Jakob Nielsen and What it Teaches Us By George Olsen Making the Physical Environment Interactive By Jakob Nielsen Is your help system usable? By Donna Timpone When Will We Finally Have Applications Ordinary People Can Use? Interview by Tim Haight User Interface, User Experience -- Where's It Going? By Dan Gillmor ======================================================= 13. XML XHTML 1.0 The Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (Second Edition) A Reformulation of HTML 4 in XML 1.0 W3C Recommendation Revised 1 August 2002 Revolution in Application Architecture: XML-based distributed applications are increasingly message based, asynchronous, and loosely coupled By Kurt Cagle ======================================================= 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. 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