* WEB DESIGN UPDATE.
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web design and development.
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* 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
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* 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.]
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Laura L. Carlson
Information Technology Systems and Services
University of Minnesota Duluth
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