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August 26, 2002                               Vol.1 #7
      What's new at the Web Design Reference site? 
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1.  ACCESSIBILITY
2.  CASCADING STYLE SHEETS
3.  EVALUATION & TESTING
4.  EVENTS
5.  FLASH
6.  INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE
7.  PHP
8.  STANDARDS, GUIDELINES & PATTERNS
9.  USABILITY
10. XML

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1. ACCESSIBILITY

Matisse Picasso i-Map Project 
The Tate Museum has created i-Map, part of an exhibit to 
make the works of Matisse and Picasso accessible to those 
with low or no vision. 
<http://www.tate.org.uk/imap/>

Describing Document Text for Accessibility
By Tim Roberts
<http://www.evolt.org/article/Describing_Document_Text_for_Accessibility/4090/36896/index.html>

Captioning Overview
By WebAim
<http://www.webaim.org/howto/captions/>
A set of instructions for captioning with SMIL and SAMI 
for Real Media, Quicktime and Windows Media Player 
using MAGpie.

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0
W3C Working Draft 22 August 2002
<http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-WCAG20-20020822/>

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2. CASCADING STYLE SHEETS

Styling Abbreviations and Acronyms
By Eric A. Meyer
<http://devedge.netscape.com/viewsource/2002/abbr-acronym/>

A revised method of defining link pseudo-classes
By Bill Mason
<http://evolt.org/article/A_revised_method_of_defining_link_pseudo_classes/17/35541/index.html>

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3. EVALUATION & TESTING

Recording Screen Activity During Usability Testing
by Karl Fast
<http://www.boxesandarrows.com/archives/002919.php>

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4. EVENTS

E-Learn 
<http://www.aace.org/conf/elearn/>
Montreal, Canada
October 15-19, 2002
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, 
Healthcare, and Higher Education (formerly WebNet).

Workshop on Usability and the Web
<http://zing.ncsl.nist.gov/uig_w3c/>
Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA
November 4-5, 2002
In collaboration with the World Wide Web Consortium W3C, 
The National Institute of Standards and Technology will 
host a workshop to develop a plan for developing web 
usability efforts.

HCI International 2003
<http://www.hcii2003.gr/>
Crete, Greece
June 22-27 2003
Call for Participation

HITS 2003
<http://id.iit.edu/events/hits.html>
Chicago, Illinois, USA
October 16-17, 2003
Humans, Interaction, Technology, Strategy (HITS) conference 
on interaction design and business strategy

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5. FLASH

Flash Strikes Back: 
Creating Powerful Web Applications
By Christine Perfetti
<http://www.uie.com/Articles/flash_strikes_back.htm>

Still 99% Bad... and proud of it
By Chris Bentley
<http://radio.weblogs.com/0106346/stories/99pcbad.html>

Macromedia Flash Malformed Header Vulnerability Issue
By Macromedia
<http://www.macromedia.com/v1/handlers/index.cfm?ID=23293>
An exploitable security hole in Macromedia's Flash player
has Windows and Unix users downloading the new version.

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6. INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE

The Age of Information Architecture
By Jeff Lash
<http://www.digital-web.com/columns/ianythinggoes/ianythinggoes_2002-08.shtml>

Beyond the IA Guy
Defining information architecture
By David Wertheimer
<http://www.digital-web.com/columns/wideopen/wideopen_2002-08.shtml>

We Put the "I" in "IT"
By Lou Rosenfeld
<http://louisrosenfeld.com/home/bloug_archive/000110.html>

"Lou discusses the relationship between information architecture and technology, which sparked the following brain dump on my part..."
By Thomas Vander Wal
<http://www.vanderwal.net/random/entrysel.php?blog=830>

Information Architects in the Sticks
Lou Rosenfeld
<http://louisrosenfeld.com/home/bloug_archive/000111.html>

Information Architecture in JASIST: Just Where Did We Come From?
By Andrew Dillon
<http://www.gslis.utexas.edu/~adillon/publications/ia10.htm>
Introduction to the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology Special Issue on Information Architecture. 

Information Architecture Syllabus
By Peter Morville
<http://semanticstudios.com/publications/iasyllabus.html>

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7. PHP

PHP Command Reference
<http://perl.about.com/library/phpCR/bl_index.htm>

Professional PHP4 XML
By Luis Argerich, et al.
<http://www.webreference.com/programming/php/php4xml/chap10/2/>
Part 2 of the excerpt describes how you can use DOM,
SAX, and XSLT based methods.

Handling files with PHP4 - Part 2
By Ian Gilfillan
<http://wdvl.internet.com/Authoring/Languages/PHP/Files/index2.html>

PHP References
By John Coggeshall
<http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/php/2002/08/15/php_foundations.html>

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8. STANDARDS, GUIDELINES & PATTERNS

Show, don't sell
By Jeffrey Zeldman
<http://www.zeldman.com/daily/0802c.html#evangeline>
This web log post responds to frequent questions Jeffrey
receives about how to sell web standards to a boss,
client, or co-workers.

Things can only get better
By Marko Karppinen
<http://www.markokarppinen.com/20020822.html>
4.6 out of 100 W3C Members Comply with Web Standards.

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9. USABILITY

Working through Task-Centered System Design
By Saul Greenberg
<http://www.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/grouplab/papers/2002/02-TaskAnalysis.Chapter/task-analysis.chapter.pdf>
A preview tutorial chapter from:
"The Handbook of Task Analysis for Human-Computer Interaction."
"This chapter presents a 'how-to' tutorial to a version 
of Lewis and Rieman's Task Centered System Design methodology. 
Using an example of an interface being developed for a 
catalogue store, we show in detail how a practitioner can 
identify key tasks, use those tasks to do a rudimentary 
requirements analysis, and how one can evaluate prototype 
designs through a task-centered walkthrough"
(Please note that it is an acrobat PDF file. If you do 
not have acrobat you can download the acrobat viewer from 
<http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/main.html>. 
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 
<http://access.adobe.com/>)

User-friendly Security Should be a Higher Priority
By Jim Rapoza
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,479258,00.asp>

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10. XML

XHTML 2.0 Drafted
By Michael Claben
<http://www.webreference.com/xml/column62/>

New XHTML carries a language barrier
By Paul Festa 
<http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-949492.html>

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