* WEB DESIGN UPDATE.
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* October 16, 2002.
* Volume 1, Issue 16.
* What's new at the Web Design Reference site?
New Links In These Categories:
1: ACCESSIBILITY.
2: CASCADING STYLE SHEETS.
3: COLOR.
4: EVENTS.
5: EVALUATION AND TESTING
6: FLASH.
7: MISCELLANEOUS.
8: NAVIGATION.
9: PHP.
10: STANDARDS, GUIDELINES & PATTERNS.
11: TYPOGRAPHY.
12: USABILITY.
13: XML.
SECTION ONE: New references.
* 1: ACCESSIBILITY.
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Accessibility Guidelines: developing an approach
By Jim Byrne and Pat Byrne
Guide to creating an accessible Website
By David Little
Man Sues Airlines for Fare Access
By Kendra Mayfield
The making of the Tesco Access site
By Lois Wakeman
* 2: CASCADING STYLE SHEETS.
The css-discuss Wiki
It has finally gone live to the public.
Wired News: Look, Ma, No Tables!
An extensive thread on the CSS-discuss list about the Wired redesign.
* 3: COLOR.
Tutorial -- Color in Scientific Visualization
By G. Domik, C. J. C. Schauble, L. D. Fosdick and E. R. Jessup
* 4: EVENTS.
Second Annual State Information Technology Accessibility Initiatives Webcast
October 22, 2002
1:00 PM to 3:00 PM EST
Registration for the Webcast is free
Accessing Higher Ground:
Assistive Technology and Accessible Media in Higher Education
November 6-8, 2002
University of Colorado at Boulder
Boulder, Colorado U.S.A.
Intelligent User Interfaces
January 12-15, 2003
Miami, Florida U.S.A.
SEMI-PERMANENT Design Conference
April 11-12, 2003
Sydney, Australia
DUX 2003 Conference
Designing for User Experience
June 5-7 2003
San Francisco, California U.S.A.
UPA 2003 Conference
Usability Professionals' Association's
12th Annual Conference
June 23-27, 2003
Scottsdale, Arizona U.S.A.
SIGGRAPH 2003
The 30th International Conference on
Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques
San Diego, California U.S.A.
July 27-31, 2003
* 5: EVALUATION AND TESTING.
Consolidated Assessment
by Seth Gordon
* 6: FLASH.
Making Flash Usable for Users With Disabilities
By Jakob Nielsen
* 7: MISCELLANEOUS.
Hacker FAQ
By plethora.net
Manager FAQ
By plethora.net
Figuring Out Tribal Lessons
By Tom Duening and Jack Ivancevich
"Think your IT staff acts a little clannish? You're right and here's how to make the most of that behavior."
Managing Einsteins
By Tom Duening and Jack Ivancevich
* 8: NAVIGATION.
Searching and browsing preferences
By Jared M. Spool
"...From this, we believe that it isn't the user that decides whether they use Search or not -- it's the design. Further empirical evidence demonstrates that users only use Search when the design of the page has failed them."
* 9: PHP.
Build a PHP Switcher
By Chris Clark
Faking Dual Inheritance Classes in PHP
By Art Lathrop
* 10: STANDARDS, GUIDELINES & PATTERNS.
Is HTML on Its Way Out?
By Mike Martin
In-Valids
By Joe Clark
A Site for Your Eyes
By Jon Rochmis
As a rare exception to Joe Clark's "In-Valids" article above, Wired Site's redesign IS aiming at standards compliance. They have abandon tables in favour of all CSS-based layout.
An Interview With Douglas Bowman of Wired News
By Eric A. Meyer
The Secret Life of Markup
By Steve Champeon
* 11: TYPOGRAPHY.
On Using Points
By css-discuss Wiki
On Using Pixels
By css-discuss Wiki
TextArc, visualizing text
By Juan C. Dursteler
* 12: USABILITY.
Back to the User: Creating User-Focused Websites
By Tammy Sachs
Beauty is Only Screen Deep
by Sarah Horton
HCI Fun project
By David England and John Wai
School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences
Liverpool John Moores University
"The aim of this project is to describe to the public how science investigates making information technology more usable. It will also explain why technology is sometimes unusable and why this is not the user's fault."
Making Online Information Usable
By User Interface Engineering
Enemies of Usability
By Peter Morville
Making a Timeless User Experience
By David Wertheimer
* 13: XML.
XHTML Explained
By Ross Shannon
[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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