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August 14, 2002 Vol.1 #5
What's new at the Web Design Reference site?
============ New Links In These Categories ============
1. ACCESSIBILITY
2. ARCHITECTURE
3. CASCADING STYLE SHEETS
4. DREAMWEAVER
5. EVALUATION & TESTING
6. JAVASCRIPT
7. MISC.
8. NAVIGATION
9. PHP
10. TYPOGRAPHY
11. USABILITY
12. XML
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1. ACCESSIBILITY
Watchfire Acquires Bobby
Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools Need People
By Shawn Lawton Henry
Accessible Scripting Articles
By Tom Gilder
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2. ARCHITECTURE
An information design timeline
By the Society for Technical Communication Information Design
UI Patterns and Techniques
By Jenifer Tidwell
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3. CASCADING STYLE SHEETS
Cascading Style Sheets, level 2 revision 1
CSS 2.1 Specification
W3C Working Draft 2 August 2002
This update fixes errors and omissions in the original,
and also has a tutorial on using CSS with HTML and XML.
Horizontal Menus
By Marek Prokop
Environmental Style
By Mark Newhouse
Article on structuring CSS files.
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4. DREAMWEAVER
Review: Macromedia Seminars (Studio MX)
By Judith Snyder
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5. EVALUATION & TESTING
User Interface Usability Design and Evaluation Methods
By Qian Wang
The Usability Testing Process for Pet Market
By Eric Pressman
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6. JAVASCRIPT
Your First JavaScript
By Robert Dominy
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7. MISC.
Web Standards for Hard Times
By Paul Boutin
Are 99 Percent of All Web Sites Obsolete?
Jeffrey Zeldman Interview
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8. NAVIGATION
Navigational Issues in the Design of On-Line
Self-Administered Questionnaires:
The Effect of Training and Familiarity
By Kent L. Norman, Timothy J. Pleskac, & Kirk Norman
Links and Power:
The Political Economy of Linking on the Web
By Jill Walker
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9. PHP
Avoid these common PHP gotchas
By James Cox
Manage Your Content With PHP
By Christopher Robins
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10. TYPOGRAPHY
A Short Story About Font-Sizing
By Joshua Kaufman
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11. USABILITY
The Tool Makes the (Wo)Man
By Erin Malone
IBM relates Perceived Usability to the Real Thing
By Ann Light
Improving Business Through User-Centered Design
Interview with Scott Isensee, Carol Righi and Karel Vredenburg
Clear Language and Effectiveness Tool (CLAD)
This readability tool asks a series of questions about
a portion of the text, then using client-side scripting,
calculates a reading level and gives some indication of
its readability.
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12. XML
Write Better Modules with Quality DTDs
by Vijay Gummadi and Shantanu Dhar
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What Can You Find at the Web Design Reference Site?
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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
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Laura L. Carlson
Information Technology Systems and Services
University of Minnesota Duluth
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