* 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.] * October 3, 2002. * Volume 1, Issue 14. * 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: EVALUATION & TESTING. 6: EVENTS. 7. FLASH 8: INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE. 9: JAVASCRIPT. 10: MISCELLANEOUS. 11: PHP. 12: SITES AND BLOGS. 13: STANDARDS, GUIDELINES & PATTERNS. 14: USABILITY. 15: XML. SECTION ONE: New references. * 1: ACCESSIBILITY. Building accessible tables By Tim Roberts Internet Industry has released Accessible Web plan By The Age The Internet Industry Association is Australia's national Internet industry organization. * 2: CASCADING STYLE SHEETS. CSS Design: Taming Lists By Mark Newhouse CSS signatures By Eric A. Meyer Thinking Inside the Box By Joe Gillespie * 3: COLOR. ColorMatch 5K "This utility will help you select a matching 6-color palette for your website. Define a single color that you like. Matching colors will be calculated. Click a color in the palette to promote it to the primary color." * 4: DREAMWEAVER. Macromedia Dreamweaver MX Accessibility Overview By Bob Regan Validating Websites for Accessibility with Macromedia Dreamweaver MX By Bob Regan Creating Accessible Forms Using Macromedia Dreamweaver MX By Bob Regan * 5: EVALUATION & TESTING. Damaged merchandise? A review of experiments that compare usability evaluation methods. By W. D. Gray and M. C. Salzman Usability Testing: Assess your Site's Navigation and Structure By Kelly Goto * 6: EVENTS. 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. * 7: FLASH. All-Flash A Fast Track to Failure By Nick Wilson * 8: INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE. Questions Information Architects Ask (Part I) By Louis Rosenfeld * 9: JAVASCRIPT. Creating two-dimensional Arrays By JavascriptKit * 10: MISCELLANEOUS. The Basis of Integrated Thinking on the Web: Chapter 2 of "Integrated Web Design: Building the New Breed of Designer & Developer" By Molly Holzschlag Steal Your Interface: A History By Leander Kahney * 11: PHP. A Simple Sessions Tutorial By enygma How to use switch statements in PHP By Emmie Lewis * 12: SITES AND BLOGS. Web-Based Training Information Center By Tim Kilby * 13: STANDARDS, GUIDELINES & PATTERNS. Party like it's 1997: Microsoft has redesigned. By Jeffrey Zeldman * 14: USABILITY. Education in HCI and HCI Curriculum Website of the IFIP Working Group 13.1 SMDF (Shared Meanings Design Framework) "Website for a novel HCI centred methodology which was initially conceived to support the development of E-commerce sites." Email Newsletters Pick Up Where Websites Leave Off By Jakob Nielsen * 15: XML. XHTML 2.0: The Latest Trick By Kendall Grant Clark XML Transformations with CSS and DOM By Scott Andrew [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.]