* WEB DESIGN UPDATE.
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* November 13, 2002.
* Volume 1, Issue 20.
* What's new at the Web Design Reference site?
New Links In These Categories:
1: ACCESSIBILITY.
2: CASCADING STYLE SHEETS.
3: DREAMWEAVER.
4: EVALUATION & TESTING.
5: EVENTS.
6: FLASH.
7: INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE.
8: JAVASCRIPT
9: MISCELLANEOUS.
10: PHP.
11: SITES & BLOGS.
12: STANDARDS, GUIDELINES & PATTERNS.
13: TOOLS.
14: USABILITY.
15: XML.
SECTION ONE: New references.
* 1: ACCESSIBILITY.
Web Accessibility Glossary
By Laura Carlson
Should Web-only businesses be required to be disabled-accessible?
By Anita Ramasastry
Accessibility Laws In Canada
By Tara Clevland
Introduction to web accessibility
by Steve Vosloo
* 2: CASCADING STYLE SHEETS.
CSS shorthand properties
By Ove A. Klykken
CSS Hints for Internet Explorer 5
By Peter-Paul Koch
CSS3 development
CSS3 modules are being churned out.
* 3: DREAMWEAVER.
Dreamweaver lives up to MX-pectations
By John Wilker
Getting Started with Dreamweaver MX
By Macromedia
Video Tutorials.
* 4: EVALUATION & TESTING.
A Heuristic Evaluation of a World Wide Web Prototype
By Michael D. Levi and Frederick G. Conrad
Techniques for Managing a Usability Test
By Laurie Kantor
(Please note that it is an acrobat PDF file. If you do
not have acrobat you can download the acrobat viewer from
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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
)
Rigor in Usability Testing
By Mike Hughes
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to assist visually impaired users at
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* 5: EVENTS.
User Interface Engineering (UIE) Usability Training
January 6-9, 2003
Cambridge MA, U.S.A.
* 6: FLASH.
Flash Satay
By Drew McLellan
"This site uses Flash. This site validates as XHTML. They said it couldn't be done. Now it can be. Have your Flash and standards, too."
Interesting discussion of this article at:
Flash MX Accessibility Issues
By Jason M. Perry
"When usability expert Jacob Neilson proclaimed Flash was 99 percent bad, he was right on at least one account: accessibility."
* 7: INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE.
Toward a Unified Theory in User Experience Modeling
By Peter Merholz
Peter Merholz points out some interesting comparisons between Peter Morville's "Iceberg of IA" to JJG's "Elements of User Experience"
Further Extending the Elements
By Peter Merholz
It's Everywhere and Nowhere, Baby!
By Andrew Dillon
* 8: JAVASCRIPT
How To Create Unique Automatic JavaScript Objects
By Philip Chalmers
* 9: MISCELLANEOUS.
Interview - Jakob Nielsen, Ph.D.
By Kevin Yank
Jakob Nielsen on e-learning
By elearningpost
Interview with Hakon Lie: The Creation of CSS
By Eric Lerner
"Read how CSS inventor, Hakon Lie, made style sheets a web standard."
* 10: PHP.
PHP Tips and Tricks
By Rasmus Lerdorf (the creator of the PHP)
This file is Rasmus Lerdorf's presentation given at the recent PHPCon2002. Topics cover optimization, sessions, security, dynamic image/flash/PDF generation and using Squid and MySQL replication to increase the performance of a high traffic site.
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Beta Sample Chapter 8: Web Basics
By David Sklar
Excerpt from the new book "PHP Cookbook".
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Using Amazon Web Services With PHP And SOAP (part 1)
By icarus
Developer's Dilemma: Perl or PHP?
By Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier
eZ publish: PHP's Killer App
By Harry Fuecks
* 11: SITES & BLOGS.
usefo.com: Usable Information Design
* 12: STANDARDS, GUIDELINES & PATTERNS.
Guidelines for Developing Distance Education Web Sites
By Pennsylvania State University
Patterns for Personal Web Sites
By Mark L. Irons
* 13: TOOLS.
TopStyle (a CSS / XHTML / HTML Editor for Windows ) version 3.10 will include integration with W3C's HTML validator and Bobby. TopStyle also integrates with Dreamweaver MX.
GetContentSize
By Adrian Holovaty
"...an application that calculates the ratio of text content to total page size for a given Web page. It'll strip all the HTML, JavaScript and CSS, and determine how much of the document is actual text."
* 14: USABILITY.
Web Site Usability 101
By Laura Carlson
Web Site Usability Glossary
By Laura Carlson
Usability Engineering for the Web
By Keith Instone
Firms squelching pop-up ads
Online companies find ads can be counter-productive
By Verne Kopytoff
The iceberg analogy of usability
By Dick Berry
Why people can't use eLearning
By frontend.com
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The Search For Seducible Moments
By Jared M. Spool
Intranet Usability: The Trillion-Dollar Question
By Jakob Nielsen
Spanking Jakob Nielsen
By John S. Rhodes
QA and Usability - Position Paper for the Usability Workshop
By W3C
Experts Offer Tips On Usability
By Steve Outing
* 15: XML.
The Makeup of an XML Document- A Quick Primer
By Zaid Siddiqui
What Can You Do with XML Today?
By Jay ven Eman
How XML Accommodates Human-Authored Content
By Doug Domeny
Practical XML for the Web (part 2)
By Alex Shiell et al.
This excerpt from Chapter 8 of "Practical XML for the Web" sets the scene for server-side XML, and shows what you can do with it, by way of a parallel example done in ASP, PHP, and JSP. 11.11.02
[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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