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August 26, 2002 Vol.1 #7
What's new at the Web Design Reference site?
============ New Links In These Categories ============
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.
Describing Document Text for Accessibility
By Tim Roberts
Captioning Overview
By WebAim
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
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2. CASCADING STYLE SHEETS
Styling Abbreviations and Acronyms
By Eric A. Meyer
A revised method of defining link pseudo-classes
By Bill Mason
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3. EVALUATION & TESTING
Recording Screen Activity During Usability Testing
by Karl Fast
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4. EVENTS
E-Learn
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
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
Crete, Greece
June 22-27 2003
Call for Participation
HITS 2003
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
Still 99% Bad... and proud of it
By Chris Bentley
Macromedia Flash Malformed Header Vulnerability Issue
By Macromedia
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
Beyond the IA Guy
Defining information architecture
By David Wertheimer
We Put the "I" in "IT"
By Lou Rosenfeld
"Lou discusses the relationship between information architecture and technology, which sparked the following brain dump on my part..."
By Thomas Vander Wal
Information Architects in the Sticks
Lou Rosenfeld
Information Architecture in JASIST: Just Where Did We Come From?
By Andrew Dillon
Introduction to the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology Special Issue on Information Architecture.
Information Architecture Syllabus
By Peter Morville
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7. PHP
PHP Command Reference
Professional PHP4 XML
By Luis Argerich, et al.
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
PHP References
By John Coggeshall
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8. STANDARDS, GUIDELINES & PATTERNS
Show, don't sell
By Jeffrey Zeldman
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
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
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
.
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
)
User-friendly Security Should be a Higher Priority
By Jim Rapoza
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10. XML
XHTML 2.0 Drafted
By Michael Claben
New XHTML carries a language barrier
By Paul Festa
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What Can You Find at the Web Design Reference Site?
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PHP Information
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Standards, Guidelines & Pattern Information
Tool Information
Typography Information
Usability Information
XML Information
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