* WEB DESIGN UPDATE.
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* September 24, 2002.
* Volume 1, Issue 12.

* What's new at the Web Design Reference site?
  <http://www.d.umn.edu/goto/webdesign/>
  New Links In These Categories:

1:  ACCESSIBILITY.
2:  CASCADING STYLE SHEETS.
3:  COLOR.
4:  DREAMWEAVER.
5:  EVALUATION & TESTING.
6:  EVENTS.
7:  INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE.
8:  JAVASCRIPT.
9:  MISCELLANEOUS.
10: PHP.
11: STANDARDS, GUIDELINES & PATTERNS.
12: TYPOGRAPHY.
13: USABILITY.
14: XML.


SECTION ONE: New references.

* 1: ACCESSIBILITY.

What is an accessible website? Attempting a definition.
By Jim Byrne and Pat Byrne
<http://www.mcu.org.uk/articles/whatisaw.html>

Primer on Accessibility
By Instructional Management Systems
<http://ncam.wgbh.org/salt/guidelines/sec2.html>

AccessibleWare
<http://www.accessibleware.com>

* 2: CASCADING STYLE SHEETS.

Planning and Structuring Content
By Christopher Schmitt 
<http://wdvl.internet.com/Authoring/Style/Sheets/DesCSSWeb/index.html>
Chapter One of Christopher Schmitt's new book "Designing CSS Web Pages."

* 3: COLOR.

Color Calculator
By Sessions.edu 
<http://www.sessions.edu/ilu/>
"Sessions.edu has launched a first-of-its-kind series of Flash tools called ILUs (Interactive Learning Unit). The ILUs are Interactive tools that help student and professionals in their design work. The Color Calculator is the first application in this series; it provides the user with the ability to identify color schemes or harmonies for any design project, by controlling a series of menus and tools."

* 4: DREAMWEAVER.

How to Make Accessible Web Content Using Dreamweaver 3.0 and 4.0
By WebAim
<http://www.webaim.org/howto/dreamweaver/>

PVII faQbase for Dreamweaver
By Al Sparber
<http://www.projectseven.com/faqbase/index.asp>

Site Maintenance with Dreamweaver MX Tutorial 
By Kevin Boyd
<http://med.stanford.edu/web/training/dreamweaver/>

* 5: EVALUATION & TESTING.

Using Usability Testing to Determine "Related Links" 
in An Online Brokerage Web Site 
By Ioannis Vasmatzidis, Eliot Jablonka and Hsin Eu
<http://www.upassoc.org/voice/vol4no3/related_links.htm>

* 6: EVENTS.

The Interaction Only Conference
November 1-3, 2002
Miami Beach, Florida U.S.A.
<http://www.ioconference.com/>

PHPCon 2002
October 24-25, 2002
Millbrae, California U.S.A.
<http://www.php-con.com/>

* 7: INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE.

Information architecture: using card sorting for web classification design
By Gerry McGovern
<http://www.gerrymcgovern.com/nt/2002/nt_2002_09_23_card_sorting.htm>


* 8: JAVASCRIPT.

Tackling JavaScript strict warnings
By Alex Vincent with contributions by Robert Ginda.
<http://www.javascriptkit.com/javatutors/serror.shtml>

JavaScript supports object-oriented development
By Pramod Jain
<http://builder.com.com/article.jhtml;jsessionid=1NMN4QH4UDKU5TQQABUCFFI?id=u00220020927PXJ01.htm&vf=crg&rcode=u001>


* 9: MISCELLANEOUS.

Progress Paralysis
Eight steps to get your Web site moving again
By Peter Merholz
<http://www.newarchitectmag.com/documents/s=2450/na1002b/index.html>

Scope Creep
By Hal Helms
<http://www.alistapart.com/stories/scopecreep/>

The History of Hypertext
By Shahrooz Feizabadi
<http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~wwwbtb/book/chap1/htx_hist.html>


* 10: PHP.

Side Navigation with PHP
By Patrick Delin
<http://www.zend.com/zend/tut/tutorial-delin3.php>

Intelligent CMS: Web Form Best Practices
By Jason Gilmore
<http://www.zend.com/zend/art/art-gilmore.php>


* 11: STANDARDS, GUIDELINES & PATTERNS.

Common Principles: A Usable Interface Design Primer
By Rick Oppedisano
<http://www.upassoc.org/voice/vol4no3/common_principles.htm>

IMS Guidelines for Developing
Accessible Learning Applications
By Instructional Management Systems
<http://ncam.wgbh.org/salt/guidelines/>

The Commonwealth of Kentucky Standards Compliant Templates.
<http://www.state.ky.us/kystandards/templates/>

* 12: TYPOGRAPHY.

Typeface Classification
<http://www.redsun.com/type/classification/>
"According to the well-known classification system (adapted from the Association Typographique Internationale (ATypI) following typefaces are distinguished..."

* 13: USABILITY.

Forms that Work
By Caroline Jarrett and Gerry Gaffney
<http://www.formsthatwork.com/>

Shopping Cart Abandonment: Why You Need More of It
By James Lewin
<http://www.itworld.com/nl/ebiz_ent/09032002/?idgnet>

Common Sense and Usability
By Adi B. Tedjasaputra 
<http://translate-easy.com/common_sense_usability.htm>

Usability Presentations
By Idea Mine
<http://www.quarry.com/idea_mine/presentations/>
Articles include:
"Designing for the Human in HCI", "To Build Or Not To Build: Considerations for Constructing a Usability Lab", "Beyond Usability" and "Effective Usability Techniques for Web-Based Design"

* 14: XML.

The Web's future: XHTML 2.0
A sneak peek at the changes
By Nicholas Chase
<http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/web/library/wa-xhtml/?t=gr,lnxw01=XHTML20>


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* SECTION TWO: What Can You Find at the 
Web Design Reference Site?

Accessibility Information.
<http://www.d.umn.edu/goto/accessibility>

Association Information.
<http://www.d.umn.edu/goto/associations>

Book Listings.
<http://www.d.umn.edu/goto/books>

Cascading Style Sheets Information.
<http://www.d.umn.edu/goto/css>

Color Information.
<http://www.d.umn.edu/goto/color>

Dreamweaver Information.
<http://www.d.umn.edu/goto/dreamweaver>

Evaluation & Testing Information.
<http://www.d.umn.edu/goto/testing>

Event Information.
<http://www.d.umn.edu/goto/events>

Flash Information.
<http://www.d.umn.edu/goto/flash>

Information Architecture Information.
<http://www.d.umn.edu/goto/architecture>

JavaScript Information.
<http://www.d.umn.edu/goto/javascript>

Miscellaneous Web Information.
<http://www.d.umn.edu/goto/misc>

Navigation Information.
<http://www.d.umn.edu/goto/navigation>

PHP Information.
<http://www.d.umn.edu/goto/php>

Sites & Blogs Listing.
<http://www.d.umn.edu/goto/sites>

Standards, Guidelines & Pattern Information.
<http://www.d.umn.edu/goto/standards>

Tool Information.
<http://www.d.umn.edu/goto/tools>

Typography Information.
<http://www.d.umn.edu/goto/type>

Usability Information.
<http://www.d.umn.edu/goto/usability>

XML Information.
<http://www.d.umn.edu/goto/xml>

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