* WEB DESIGN UPDATE.
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* 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.]
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