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August 20, 2002 Vol.1 #6
What's new at the Web Design Reference site?
============ New Links In These Categories ============
1. ACCESSIBILITY
2. CASCADING STYLE SHEETS
3. COLOR
4. DREAMWEAVER
5. EVALUATION & TESTING
6. INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE
7. JAVASCRIPT
8. NAVIGATION
9. PHP
10. STANDARDS, GUIDELINES & PATTERNS
11. TYPOGRAPHY
12. USABILITY
13. XML
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1. ACCESSIBILITY
Short notes on the accessibility of PDF documents
By Jim Byrne
Wanted: Web geeks for the disabled
By Rachel Konrad
Screenreader Simulation
By WebAIM
Two wrongs make a Nielsen
How to publish an accessibility report the inaccessible
Nielsen way
By Joe Clark
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2. CASCADING STYLE SHEETS
CSS-discuss archive
The new searchable CSS-discuss archive is ready for use
by the general public. The archive software is written
in PHP and uses MySQL for storage by Simon Willison.
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3. COLOR
Color Blindness
Web Design Tips
By Karen Jessett
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4. DREAMWEAVER
Dreamweaver MX Apprentice Series
By Project Seven
The Design of Dreamweaver MX
By Sho Kuwamoto
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5. EVALUATION & TESTING
A Usability Test of Web-based User Assistance
By Matthew Ellison
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6. INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE
Structure and Site Organization
By NASA
An interview with Jeffrey Veen and Jesse James Garrett
of Adaptive Path
By Meryl K. Evans
Doing a Content Inventory
(Or, A Mind-Numbingly Detailed Odyssey Through Your Web Site)
By Jeff Veen
Co-evolution of user and organizational interfaces:
A longitudinal case study of WWW dissemination of
national statistics
By Gary Marchionini
This is a case study that describes how user interfaces
for the Bureau of Labor Statistics website evolved over
a five year period.
(Please note that it is a 440K 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
)
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7. JAVASCRIPT
Scripts and Applets
By Jim Thatcher
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8. NAVIGATION
Map-Based Horizontal Navigation in Educational Hypertext
By Peter Brusilovsky and Riccardo Rizzo
Mind Your Phraseology!
By Christina Wodtke
Using controlled vocabularies to improve findability.
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9. PHP
Professional PHP4 XML
By Luis Argerich, et al.
This book excerpt (chapter 10) covers PHP4 transformation
techniques using XSLT or SAX.
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10. STANDARDS, GUIDELINES & PATTERNS
Buy standards compliant web sites
By Dominique Hazael-Massieux
Written as part of the W3C's relatively new Quality
Assurance Activity outreach, this draft article provides
several good points about web standards.
Website Patterns
By Information Architecture Wiki
"Patterns are a way of writing guidelines to solving
problems that express the circumstances of use,
recognises the forces involved, and describes the
resulting context. You find patterns by reading a
lot, and detecting patterns of problems and solutions
in what you've read. Hence the name."
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11. TYPOGRAPHY
Let Users Control Font Size
By Jakob Nielsen
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12. USABILITY
Making Mistakes Well
By Matthew Linderman
Article on contingency design.
Deliverables that Clarify, Focus, and Improve Design
By Richard Fulcher, Bryce Glass, Matt Leacock
Examples and resources from a talk given at the 2002 Annual
Conference of the Usability Professionals' Association
Usability Capability Models: Review and Analysis
By Timo Jokela
(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
)
Are usability analysts promising too much?
By Anthony Quinn
Affordance, conventions, and design
By Donald A. Norman
Classic.
(Please note that the link to this 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
)
UPA 2002 - Humanizing Design
By Lyle Kantrovich, Katie Ware and Debbie McConnell
Writing for the Web Workbook
By Thom Haller, et al.
10 Tips on Writing the Living Web
By Mark Bernstein
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13. XML
Data Types in XML Schema
By Michael Classen
XML is a good way to represent, store, and transmit data;
but knowing what type of data is stored in each element
can be problematic. This article examines the Datatype
specification for XML Schema and finds it long on verbiage
and short on usefulness.
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What Can You Find at the Web Design Reference Site?
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Evaluation & Testing Information
Event Information
Flash Information
Information Architecture Information
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Navigation Information
PHP Information
Sites & Blogs Listing
Standards, Guidelines & Pattern Information
Tool Information
Typography Information
Usability Information
XML Information
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