* 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.] * 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 (Please note that the link to 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 ) What Every Developer Needs to Know about Testing By James Bach (Please note that the link to 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 ) 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.] * 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.]