* WEB DESIGN UPDATE. An email newsletter to distribute news and information about web design and development. NOTE: As a navigation aid for screen readers, all headings begin with an asterisk and end with a full stop. All items are also numbered in the contents and throughout the issue, with numbers appearing immediately after the asterisks. Please let me know if there is anything else we can do to make navigation easier. [Issue starts.] * September 19, 2002. * Volume 1, Issue 11. * 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: INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE. 7: JAVASCRIPT. 8: NAVIGATION. 9: STANDARDS, GUIDELINES & PATTERNS. 10: TYPOGRAPHY. 11: USABILITY. 12: XML. SECTION ONE: New references. * 1: ACCESSIBILITY. ALPHABET SOUP: A web designer's journey to standards and accessibility By Randal Rust Guide to Web Accessibility and DesignÊforÊAll By The Information Society Technologies Programme (IST) 'Talking' Tax Forms For Blind Developed PDF-Reading Software Boosts Independence By Helen Rumbelow A blind computer user's thoughts on news Web sites By Adrian Holovaty Perkins School expands its Web site for blind By Christina Pazzanese The Perkins School for the Blind in Watertown, Massachusetts launched a new web site. It features configurable readability via CSS and cookies. Shows that you can design a good-looking site and still keep it fully accessible. * 2: CASCADING STYLE SHEETS. Neat H2 Trick By Scott Andrew * 3: COLOR. Color Glossary * 4: DREAMWEAVER. Organizing Your Kitchen: The Macromedia Workflow By Paul Newman Chapter 4 excerpt from his book: "The Joy of Dreamweaver MX" * 5: EVENTS. ED-MEDIA 2003 June 23-28, 2003 Honolulu, Hawaii U.S.A. World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE) * 6: INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE. Teaching Information Architecture to the Design Student By James Spahr Information Design Processes: Developing Accessible and Understandable Information By Karel van der Waarde * 7: JAVASCRIPT. Scripts and Applets By Jim Thatcher * 8: NAVIGATION. Into the Deep How deep linking can sink you By Bret A. Fausett * 9: STANDARDS, GUIDELINES & PATTERNS. Valid garbage in, valid garbage out By Ian Hickson Valid garbage in, valid garbage out: The Quiz By Ian Hickson * 10: TYPOGRAPHY. Fontscape "An independent directory of typefaces organized into categories." * 11: USABILITY. The Road to Usability By Tim Bray Babyface design for mobile devices and the Web By Aaron Marcus Inconspicuous Consumption: Lessons for Web Design from Mall and Retail Design By Saul Carliner Electronic publishing, usability, and a free lunch By Peter Seebach Contingency Design: Maximizing Online Profitability By Helping People When Things Go Wrong By 37signals (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 ) * 12: XML. Introduction to XML By J. David Eisenberg XML and PHP By Vikram Vaswani Part 1 Part 2 Vikram demonstrates how WDDX can be combined with PHP to encode and exchange data across different systems and platforms. Book excerpt from New Riders. What Are Topic Maps? By Lars Marius Garshol Why XSLT 2.0 Will Be Cool By Kurt Cagle Link recognition for the XHTML Family W3C Working Draft 13 September 2002 The HTML Working Group has published an initial offering an answer to looming questions about the role of linking in XHTML. [Section one ends.] * SECTION TWO: 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. [Section two ends.] * SUBSCRIPTION INFO. WEB DESIGN UPDATE is available by subscription only. For information on how to subscribe and unsubscribe please visit: * SIGNATURE. Laura L. Carlson Information Technology Systems and Services University of Minnesota Duluth Duluth, MN 55812-3009 mailto:lcarlson@d.umn.edu [Issue ends.]