* 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 31, 2002. * Volume 1, Issue 18. * 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: INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE. 6: JAVASCRIPT. 7: MISCELLANEOUS. 8: NAVIGATION. 9: PHP. 10: USABILITY. 11: XML. SECTION ONE: New references. * 1: ACCESSIBILITY. Ruling doesn't affect Section 508 Web requirements, board says By Dipka Bhambhani Alt and beyond: Making web graphics accessible By Tim Roberts Tech helps blind 'see' computer images By Scott R. Burnell Device helps blind computer users 'see' By William Matthews * 2: CASCADING STYLE SHEETS. Getting Started with Cascading Style Sheets By Miraz Jordan FORM(s) and Function By Mark Newhouse CSS Tableless Web Sites By meryl.net A collection of over 800 Table-free CSS designs. * 3: COLOR. Type and Colour By Joe Clark Chapter 9 of Joe's new book "Building Accessible Websites" (Please note that the link to is an acrobat PDF file. If you do not have acrobat you can download the acrobat viewer from . This download is for people who do not have Acrobat installed on their computers. It allows you to open and view a PDF file. Additional Adobe free tools are available to assist visually impaired users at ) * 4: EVENTS. Hypertext 03 August 26-30,2003 Nottingham, UK Good Experience Live (GEL) May 2, 2003 New York City, U.S.A. HITS 2003 (Humans Interactions Technology Strategy) October 16-17, 2003 Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. * 5: INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE. PhotoSemantic Information Architecture By Miguel Graca Information Architecture: Blueprints for the Web By Ryan Olshavsky Uncovering Solid Foundations for Persuasive Architecture By Bryan Eisenberg Metadata and Taxonomies for a More Flexible Information Architecture By Amy Warner * 6: JAVASCRIPT. Create your own collection objects in JavaScript By Edmond Woychowsky * 7: MISCELLANEOUS. Talking with Jesse James Garrett By Erin Malone * 8: NAVIGATION. Linguistics and Information Retrieval Foundations of Label and Index Term Creation By Amy Warner Design Effective Navigation in 10 Steps By Sam Hastings * 9: PHP. Watching The Web By The Disenchanted Developer PHP and Working with Databases By Justin Vincent Building a Simple Search Engine with PHP By Daniel Solin * 10: USABILITY. Ê Shneiderman demands Computing Renaissance By Ann Light Handbook of User-Centred Design By The European Journal of Engineering for Information Society Applications An Apology For Simple Software By Iesu II The Politics of User Experience By Steve Fleckenstein Celebrating Holidays and Special Occasions on Websites By Jakob Nielsen Password Usability & Typability By Chad Lundgren * 11: XML. Practical XML for the Web By Alex Shiell et al. Chapter 5 of this new book "introduces XSLT, going through the basics of using it to transform XML on the client-side, by way of easy-to-follow tutorial examples." The horror of XML By Larry Seltzer [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.]