======================================================= September 6, 2002 Vol.1 #9 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. EVENTS 6. FLASH 7. INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE 8. MISC. 9. NAVIGATION 10. PHP 11. STANDARDS, GUIDELINES & PATTERNS 12. USABILITY 13. XML ======================================================= 1. ACCESSIBILITY Guidelines on alt texts in img elements By Jukka Korpela Why "Click here" is bad linking practice By Jukka Korpela ======================================================= 2. CASCADING STYLE SHEETS CSS Positioning How the browsers cope By Joe Gillespie ======================================================= 3. COLOR Color, Contrast & Dimension in News Design Communication Arts Interactive Annual 8 "The concise text and interactive exercises provide an unparalleled online tutorial and the successful content management makes it beautifully usable." ======================================================= 4. DREAMWEAVER Dreamweaver MX vs.GoLive 6.0 By Joe Gillespie ======================================================= 5. EVENTS Even Excellent Sites Benefit from Expert Reviews Free Webcast September 12, 2002 3:30 to 4:30 pm, Eastern Daylight Time (U.S.) Web Design That Works For Everyone October 18-19, 2002 Rhode Island School of Design Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.A. Built Environments on the Web: Structure, Access, Wayfinding, and Delight October 30, 2002 Alumni Hall, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College Hanover, New Hampshire, U.S.A. ======================================================= 6. FLASH Flash, Usability, and Information Design By Edward Tufte Some newer posts are at the bottom of this page. Flash Design By Anthony T. Dunn A guide to usability and design issues. ======================================================= 7. INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE Information Architecture: Learning How To Classify By Gerry McGovern "If you are a knowledge worker, a key skill you require is how to classify content. Classification skills are needed in order to better organize content on your computer, for your emails, and for how you compose documents." ======================================================= 8. MISC Q&A with Don Norman By Lisa Neal ======================================================= 9. NAVIGATION Site Navigation: A Few Helpful Definitions By Indi Young ======================================================= 10. PHP Professional PHP4 XML, Part 4 By Luis Argerich, et al. ======================================================= 11. STANDARDS, GUIDELINES & PATTERNS 99.9% of Websites Are Obsolete By Jeffrey Zeldman An excerpt from the book he is writing. Forward Compatibility: Designing & Building With Standards Comments at 37signals: Standard Practice Weighing the Risks And Rewards of Standards By Aaron Walsh An interview with Steven Champeon and Shirley Kaiser of the Web Standards Project (WaSP) By Meryl K. Evans ======================================================= 12. USABILITY Designing for People's Lives By Panu Korhonen and Nathan Shedroff Want A Sticky Site That Sells? Forget Content! By Michel Fortin Interaction Design and Agile Methods by Jon Udell 10 Best Intranets of 2002 By Jakob Nielsen Examples and Statistics By Aaron Marcus "Usability increases customer satisfaction and productivity, leads to customer trust and loyalty, and inevitably results in cost savings and profitability." (Please note that this is an acrobat PDF file. If you do not have acrobat you can download the acrobat viewer from . 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