* 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.] * 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 . 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 (Please note that it 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 ) * 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. (Please note that it 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 ) Beta Sample Chapter 8: Web Basics By David Sklar Excerpt from the new book "PHP Cookbook". (Please note that it 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 ) 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 (Please note that it 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 ) 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.] * 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.]