* 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 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.] * 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.]