======================================================= 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 ======================================================= 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 ======================================================= 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. ======================================================= 3. COLOR Color Blindness Web Design Tips By Karen Jessett ======================================================= 4. DREAMWEAVER Dreamweaver MX Apprentice Series By Project Seven The Design of Dreamweaver MX By Sho Kuwamoto ======================================================= 5. EVALUATION & TESTING A Usability Test of Web-based User Assistance By Matthew Ellison ======================================================= 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 ) ======================================================= 7. JAVASCRIPT Scripts and Applets By Jim Thatcher ======================================================= 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. ======================================================= 9. PHP Professional PHP4 XML By Luis Argerich, et al. This book excerpt (chapter 10) covers PHP4 transformation techniques using XSLT or SAX. ======================================================= 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." ======================================================= 11. TYPOGRAPHY Let Users Control Font Size By Jakob Nielsen ======================================================= 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 ======================================================= 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. ======================================================= What Can You Find at the Web Design Reference Site? ======================================================= Accessibility Information Association Information Book Listings Cascading Style Sheets Information Color Information Dreamweaver Information Evaluation & Testing Information Event Information Flash Information Information Architecture Information JavaScript Information Miscellaneous Web Information Navigation Information PHP Information Sites & Blogs Listing Standards, Guidelines & Pattern Information 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. 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