* 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 27, 2002. * Volume 1, Issue 22. * What's new at the Web Design Reference site? New Links In These Categories: 1: ACCESSIBILITY. 2: CASCADING STYLE SHEETS. 3: EVALUATION & TESTING. 4: EVENTS. 5: FLASH. 6: INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE. 7: JAVASCRIPT. 8: MISCELLANEOUS. 9: PHP. 10: TYPOGRAPHY. 11: USABILITY. 12: XML. SECTION ONE: New references. * 1: ACCESSIBILITY. Study shows website access for people with disabilities very limited By Eilis O'Brien and Sean Carberry Survey Results of Web Accessibility in Ireland. Screen readers By Joe Clark * 2: CASCADING STYLE SHEETS. Fancy Paragraphs With CSS By Nigel Peck Abandon tables, simplify design with CSS By Tony Patton The one bug the Omni Group must not fix How to hide CSS from OmniWeb By macedition.com Will the browser apply the rule(s)? By centricle.com Gecko's "Almost Standards" Mode By Eric Meyer * 3: EVALUATION & TESTING. High-Tech vs. High-Touch: Some Limits of Automation in Diagnostic Usability Testing By J. Whiteside, J.L. Bennett and K. Holtzblatt * 4: EVENTS. Forum PHP 2002 Paris, France December 9, 2002 IADIS International Conference e-Society 2003 Lisbon, Portugal June 3-6, 2003 "The IADIS e-Society 2003 conference aims to address the main issues of concern within the Information Society. This conference covers both the technical as well as the non-technical aspects of the Information Society. Broad areas of interest are E-Commerce, E-Learning and E-Government." * 5: FLASH. Flash and Web-Based Applications By Jakob Nielsen * 6: INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE. Information Architecture is not Usability By Jeff Lash The Importance of Information Architecture By James Melzer What Lies Beneath? By Adam Greenfield Rosenfeld Explains Enterprise Information Architecture By Ann Light Chapter 2: First Principles Some rules of thumb, and some thumbing of rules By Christina Wodtke Sample from Christina's new book. The Information Architect: A Missing Link? By Ricardo Baea-Yates and Miguel Nussbaum Three Lessons from Tufte: Special Deliverable#6 By Dan Brown * 7: JAVASCRIPT. Collapsible page elements with DOM By Chris Heilmann "This article shows you how to use DOM Javascript to create collapsible elements in an HTML document. It explains the basics how to do them and how to make them accessible for older browsers." * 8: MISCELLANEOUS. Steve Krug Interview By since1968.com Interview: Maryam Mohit, Amazon.com By Mark Hurst "Usability doesn't have to be expensive. You don't need a 50-person usability team. Just a small good team, and people throughout the company who get it." * 9: PHP. eZ publish: PHP's Killer App (Parts 1-3) By Harry Fuecks Replacing Perl Scripts with PHP Scripts By Jayesh Jain File Creation and Editing with Filesystem Functions By Justin A. Jenkins PhpBank - Scripts in PHP phpPatterns By Harry Fuecks zez.org: PHP * 10: TYPOGRAPHY. What is the optimal line length when reading prose text from a monitor? By Dr. Bob Bailey * 11: USABILITY. Intranet Usability: The Trillion-Dollar Question By Jakob Nielsen Developing a Method to Support Human Centered Designers in Forming Arguments: Intertwining Practice and Theory By Margaret Alrutz, Ben Singer and Trysh Wahlig The redesign of Economist.com By David Wertheimer Excerpts are from "Usability: The Site Speaks for Itself". * 12: XML. What are XForms? By Micah Dubinko XML for the Rest of Us By Jon Udell [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.]