* WEB DESIGN UPDATE.
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* 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.]
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University of Minnesota Duluth
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