* WEB DESIGN UPDATE.
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web design and development.
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[Issue starts.]
* December 4, 2002.
* Volume 1, Issue 23.
* What's new at the Web Design Reference site?
New Links In These Categories:
1: ACCESSIBILITY.
2: CASCADING STYLE SHEETS.
3: COLOR.
4: EVALUATION & TESTING.
5: EVENTS.
6: INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE.
7: JAVASCRIPT.
8: NAVIGATION.
9: PHP.
10: TYPOGRAPHY.
11: USABILITY.
SECTION ONE: New references.
* 1: ACCESSIBILITY.
An Introduction To Accessible Web Design
By Nigel Peck
Ask an Expert About Web Site Accessibility
Submit a question to Slashdot and Joe Clark will answer the ten highest-moderated questions. Joe is the author of the book "Building Accessible Websites".
* 2: CASCADING STYLE SHEETS.
Using Multiple CSS Classes on Elements
By Eddie Traversa
Fixing Table Inheritance in Quirks Mode
By Eric A. Meyer
Picking a Rendering Mode
By Eric A. Meyer
Doctypes, how to detect them, and how they can influence your layout
By Richard Bennett
* 3: COLOR.
Quick Color Class
By Adrian Roselli Ê
* 4: EVALUATION & TESTING.
(The following articles in this section are about testing software. They are a good articles, but have some flaws. Primarily, the web is not software and web development is different than software development.)
Testers and Developers Think Differently,
By Bret Pettichord
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What Every Developer Needs to Know about Testing
By James Bach
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Taking the Heat
By Bret Pettichord
* 5: EVENTS.
UIE Web Application Design Summit
January 27-28, 2003
Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
3rd International Workshop on Smart Appliances and Wearable Computing
IWSAWC 2003
May 19-22, 2003
Providence, Rhode, U.S.A.
* 6: INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE.
Simplicity vs. Innovation
By Peter-Paul Koch
Information Needs Analysis
By Louis Rosenfeld
* 7: JAVASCRIPT.
Calculating the difference between two dates
By javascriptkit.com
* 8: NAVIGATION.
Navigating Information Spaces
By David Benyon
Navigation Bars for Hierarchical Web Sites
By David Bowler
Extended Faceted Taxonomies for Web Catalogs
By Yannis Tzitzikas, Nicolas Spyratos, Panos Constantopoulos and Anastasia Analyti
* 9: PHP.
PHP Intro to Objects and Classes
By Tony Light
The Object Oriented Evolution of PHP
By Zeev Suraski
Combating Coding Errors
By Steve Adcock
Variable Scope in PHP
By Emmie Lewis
* 10: TYPOGRAPHY.
Understanding web typography - an introduction
By Jim Byrne
* 11: USABILITY.
The Effect of Screen Size on Readability
Using Three Different Different Portable Devices
By I-Hsin Chung, Erica Kolatch, Sofia Sculimbrene, Hui-Fang
5 Things To Know About Users
By Jared M. Spool
What is Liquid Design?
By Nick Wilson
[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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