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* January 3, 2003.
* Volume 1, Issue 27.

* What's new at the Web Design Reference site?
  <http://www.d.umn.edu/goto/webdesign/>
  New Links In These Categories:

1:  CASCADING STYLE SHEETS.
2:  DREAMWEAVER.
3:  EVENTS.
4:  INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE.
5:  JAVASCRIPT.
6:  MISCELLANEOUS.
7:  PHP.
8:  TYPOGRAPHY.
9:  USABILITY.
10: XML.


SECTION ONE: New references.


* 1: CASCADING STYLE SHEETS.

Correctly Using Titles With External Stylesheets
By Eric A. Meyer
<http://devedge.netscape.com/viewsource/2002/preferred-stylesheets/>

Text Sizing
By Owen Briggs
<http://www.thenoodleincident.com/tutorials/box_lesson/font/index.html>


* 2: DREAMWEAVER.

Dreamweaver 4.0 Tutorial
By Dynamic Zone 
<http://www.dzfx.com/workshops/list/2/Dreamweaver_4/>
A basic tutorial in Dreamweaver 4.0 focusing on the beginning user.

Beyond Dreamweaver
XML Transference from Data to Layout
By Joseph Lowery
<http://www.newriders.com/content/images/0735712778/samplechapter/0735712778c.pdf>
Chapter 4 of Joe's new book "Beyond Dreamweaver".
(Please note that it is an acrobat PDF file. If you do 
not have acrobat you can download the acrobat viewer from 
<http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/main.html>. 
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 
<http://access.adobe.com/>)


* 3: EVENTS.

Web Development Institute
Salisbury University 
Salisbury, Maryland U.S.A.
July 13-16, 2003
<http://www.esac.org/webinstitute03/>

MySQL Users Conference and Expo 2003 
April 10-12, 2003
San Jose, California U.S.A.
<http://www.mysql.com/events/uc2003/>

Handheld Usability Seminar
January 22-23, 2003
Menlo Park, California U.S.A.
<http://www.usableproducts.com/training>


* 4: INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE.

Educating Information Architects
By Earl Morrogh
<http://aifia.org/pg/morroghchapter21.pdf>
Chapter 21 of Earl Morrogh's new book.
(Please note that it is an acrobat PDF file. If you do 
not have acrobat you can download the acrobat viewer from 
<http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/main.html>. 
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 
<http://access.adobe.com/>)

Nathan Shedroff: the v-2 interview (part one of two)
By Adam Greenfield
<http://www.v-2.org/displayArticle.php?article_num=175>
"We've been wrestling with questions around Experience Design - what it means, what it implies, how it differs from good IA practice. Why not ask the one person most identified with the term for clarification?"

Nathan Shedroff: the v-2 interview (part two of two)
By Adam Greenfield
<http://www.v-2.org/displayArticle.php?article_num=208>
"More on Experience Design - how it operates, how it addresses user variability, and how (and whether) it accepts accountability for its decisions."

IA vs. ED
By Christina Wodtke
<http://www.eleganthack.com/archives/003145.html>


* 5: JAVASCRIPT.

Generating weighed random numbers in JavaScript
By javascriptkit
<http://javascriptkit.com/javatutors/weighrandom.shtml>
See the technique for adding weight to random numbers, so some show up more often than others.


* 6: NAVIGATION.

Browsers go back to the future
By John Whitfield
<http://www.nature.com/nsu/021230/021230-3.html>

Pushing back: evaluating a new behavior for the back and forward
buttons in web browsers
By Andy Cockburn
<http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~andy/papers/backEval.pdf>
(Please note that it is an acrobat PDF file. If you do 
not have acrobat you can download the acrobat viewer from 
<http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/main.html>. 
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 
<http://access.adobe.com/>)


* 7: PHP.

Googlifying Search Results 
By Darrell Brogdon
<http://www.zend.com/zend/tut/tutorial-brogdon2.php>
This tutorial demonstrates how to build two functions that help make search results from a database look more appealing to users. 

Usable Shopping Carts
By Jody Kerr, Jon Stephens and Clifton Evans
<http://www.webreference.com/programming/carts/chap7/2/>
Chapter seven: "Credit Card Validation and Verification" of the new glasshaus book.


* 8: TYPOGRAPHY.

Fonts: Web-Friendly and Free
By Timothy Luoma
<http://tntluoma.com/about/fonts/>


* 9: USABILITY.

Effective Skimming and Scanning 
By Bryan Eisenberg
<http://www.clickz.com/sales/traffic/article.php/1556331>

How important is the look 'n' feel of your website?
By Gerry McGovern
<http://www.gerrymcgovern.com/nt/2002/nt_2002_12_16_look.htm>


* 10: XML.

Learn about these four Apache XML tools
By Brian Schaffner
<http://builder.com.com/article.jhtml;jsessionid=NOJQSGZ4XRPVPTQQACQCFFI?id=u00220021223sch01.htm&vf=crg&rcode=u001>

Practical XML for the Web (Part 3)
Alex Shiell et al.
<http://wdvl.internet.com/Authoring/Languages/XML/PracticalXML/practica
lXML3_1.html>
"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."



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* SECTION TWO: What Can You Find at the 
Web Design Reference Site?

Accessibility Information.
<http://www.d.umn.edu/goto/accessibility>

Association Information.
<http://www.d.umn.edu/goto/associations>

Book Listings.
<http://www.d.umn.edu/goto/books>

Cascading Style Sheets Information.
<http://www.d.umn.edu/goto/css>

Color Information.
<http://www.d.umn.edu/goto/color>

Dreamweaver Information.
<http://www.d.umn.edu/goto/dreamweaver>

Evaluation & Testing Information.
<http://www.d.umn.edu/goto/testing>

Event Information.
<http://www.d.umn.edu/goto/events>

Flash Information.
<http://www.d.umn.edu/goto/flash>

Information Architecture Information.
<http://www.d.umn.edu/goto/architecture>

JavaScript Information.
<http://www.d.umn.edu/goto/javascript>

Miscellaneous Web Information.
<http://www.d.umn.edu/goto/misc>

Navigation Information.
<http://www.d.umn.edu/goto/navigation>

PHP Information.
<http://www.d.umn.edu/goto/php>

Sites & Blogs Listing.
<http://www.d.umn.edu/goto/sites>

Standards, Guidelines & Pattern Information.
<http://www.d.umn.edu/goto/standards>

Tool Information.
<http://www.d.umn.edu/goto/tools>

Typography Information.
<http://www.d.umn.edu/goto/type>

Usability Information.
<http://www.d.umn.edu/goto/usability>

XML Information.
<http://www.d.umn.edu/goto/xml>

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