======================================================= August 30, 2002 Vol.1 #8 What's new at the Web Design Reference site? ============ New Links In These Categories ============ 1. ACCESSIBILITY 2. CASCADING STYLE SHEETS 3. EVENTS 4. FLASH 5. INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE 6. MISC. 7. PHP 8. STANDARDS, GUIDELINES & PATTERNS 9. USABILITY 10. XML ======================================================= 1. ACCESSIBILITY Accessibility: the myth of ugly By Jeffrey Zeldman Keeping Web Accessibility in Mind By Web Aim Gain an understanding of why Web accessibility is so important in this video overview presented by WebAim. ======================================================= 2. CASCADING STYLE SHEETS Table Layouts, Revisited By Jeffrey Zeldman No to worry...a List Apart isn't reverting to a table-based layout. Talk of reformatting ALA in this post means finding a workaround for the float bug in IE6. Zeldman's point is that modern browsers do have some bugs that can mangle CSS layouts as badly as 4.0 browsers do, affecting branding and usability. Consistent List Indentation By Eric A. Meyer ======================================================= 3. EVENTS Web Builder Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.A. September 9-11, 2002 User Interface 7 East October 14-17, 2002 Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Web Design World November 18-21, 2002 Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A. I.A. Summit: Information Architecture "Making Connections" March 21-23 2003 Portland, Oregon, U.S.A. ======================================================= 4. FLASH Macromedia Flash MX Accessibility FAQ By Macromedia ======================================================= 5. INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE MSWeb: An Enterprise Intranet #1 By Louis Rosenfeld and Peter Morville "...the first of two excerpts from upcoming second edit on of "Information Architecture for the World Wide Web." The excerpts look at MSWeb, which the authors say provides a glimpse of what most intranets will be doing in three to five years." ======================================================= 6. MISC. The indie life: Talking with Louis Rosenfeld by Paul Nattress ======================================================= 7. PHP Professional PHP4 XML, Part 3 By Luis Argerich, et al. ======================================================= 8. STANDARDS, GUIDELINES & PATTERNS What is the W3C? By Jennifer Kyrnin An Explanation of the Standards of the Web and the Group Who Determines Them. My Web site is standard! And yours? By Karl Dubost Using Web Standards in Your Web Pages By Ian Oeschger and Jim Ley Covers the element, the DOM, style sheets, components and plug-ins, and more. No Standard for Migrating to Web Standards By Josh Porter ======================================================= 9. USABILITY What Is "Usable" e-Learning? By Michael Feldstein Choose Your Usability Approach Wisely By Lon Taylor, Nick Gould and Peter Hughes (Please note that 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 ) Keep it Simple By Peter-Paul Koch Luke Wroblewski On The Pursuit of Simplicity By Luke Wroblewski ======================================================= 10. XML XML 101 By Jeff Jones ======================================================= 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. For information on how to unsubscribe from the webdev listserv please visit: ======================================================= Laura L. Carlson Information Technology Systems and Services University of Minnesota Duluth Duluth, MN 55812-3009 mailto:lcarlson@d.umn.edu