* WEB DESIGN UPDATE.
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* September 27, 2002.
* Volume 1, Issue 13.
* What's new at the Web Design Reference site?
New Links In These Categories:
1: ACCESSIBILITY.
2: CASCADING STYLE SHEETS.
3: DREAMWEAVER.
4: EVENTS.
5: INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE.
6: JAVASCRIPT.
7: MISCELLANEOUS.
8: NAVIGATION.
9: PHP.
10: STANDARDS, GUIDELINES & PATTERNS.
11: TOOLS.
12: USABILITY.
SECTION ONE: New references.
* 1: ACCESSIBILITY.
Accessibility Breakthroughs Broaden Web Horizons
By Mike Martin
Designing Accessible Web Pages
By Joe Wheaton & Sean O'Briant
Designing Accessible Web Pages: Intermediate Level
By Joe Wheaton, Sean O'Briant & George Abraham
* 2: CASCADING STYLE SHEETS.
CSS Workshop
By Marek Prokop
* 3: DREAMWEAVER.
Accessibility Techniques for Dreamweaver MX
By Trainingcafe.com
Accessibility Techniques for Dreamweaver 4
By Trainingcafe.com
Build Dynamic Web Sites
Get a First Look at Dreamweaver MX
By Ken Cox
* 4: EVENTS.
Critical Challenges in Distance Education Series, A.D.A. Issues and Requirements
October 17, 2002
University of Minnesota Duluth
Duluth, Minnesota, U.S.A.
A live, interactive, satellite teleconference that will cover web accessibility and accessibility requirements for other distance education media.
Euroweb 2002 Conference
December 17-18, 2002
St. Anne's College Oxford, UK
International Conference for Universal Design
November 30-December 4, 2002
Yokohama, Japan
Web Based Surveys and Usability Testing
October 27-30, 2002
San Francisco, California U.S.A.
* 5: INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE.
Doing a Content Inventory
(Or, A Mind-Numbingly Detailed Odyssey Through Your Web Site)
By Jeff Veen
* 6: JAVASCRIPT.
Why Is JavaScript So Misunderstood?
By Douglas Crockford
* 7: MISCELLANEOUS.
The New Computing
Ben Shneiderman on how designers can help people succeed
Ubiquity Interview from the Association for Computing Machinery
* 8: NAVIGATION.
Design for rapid navigation and easy visual scanning
By Michael Hoffman
* 9: PHP.
Using a MySQL database with PHP
By Ian Gilfillan
How to Create thumbnails with PHP and gd
By Christian Heilmann
* 10: STANDARDS, GUIDELINES & PATTERNS.
Fluid Thinking
By Peter-Paul Koch
Standards for distributed information architecture
By Jeff Lash
* 11: TOOLS.
Browser Emulator
By dejavu.org
See what any web page would look like in a vintage browser like NCSA Mosaic and Mosaic Netscape 0.9
* 12: USABILITY.
A Quiz Designed to Give You Fitts
By Bruce (Tog) Tognazzini
"So you think you are an interaction designer? Not if you cannot answer all the following questions quickly and with authority."
From Satisfaction to Delight
By Parrish Hanna
Big Boxes and Shoppertainment:
More Lessons for Web Design from Mall and Retail Design
By Saul Carliner
Cultural Dimensions and Global Web User-Interface Design: What? So What? Now What?
By Aaron Marcus and Emilie W. Gould
Web site homepage usability deconstructed, Part 2
By Dana Greenlee
User-Centered URL Design
By Jesse James Garrett
[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
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University of Minnesota Duluth
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