* 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 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.] * 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.]