* WEB DESIGN UPDATE.
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* January 8, 2003.
* Volume 1, Issue 28.
* What's new at the Web Design Reference site?
New Links In These Categories:
1: ACCESSIBILITY.
2: CASCADING STYLE SHEETS.
3: DREAMWEAVER.
4: EVALUATION & TESTING.
5: EVENTS.
6: INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE.
7: JAVASCRIPT.
8: NAVIGATION.
9: PHP.
10: STANDARDS, GUIDELINES & PATTERNS.
11: TOOLS.
12: TYPOGRAPHY.
13: USABILITY.
14: XML.
SECTION ONE: New references.
* 1: ACCESSIBILITY.
Accessible Web Pages: Advice for Educators
By Margaret M. Thombs
Build Accessible Online Forms
By Ian Lloyd
Relative Sizing and Images
By John Foliot
"Few people realize that with today's modern browsers, relative sizing can in fact be added to images as well as text elements on your web page."
Demonstration of the LONGDESC attribute and the "d" link
By John Foliot
* 2: CASCADING STYLE SHEETS.
Centering Tables
By Nicholas G. Theodorakis
Vertical Centering with CSS
By Joe Gillespie
"Vertical centring of elements with style sheets is not quite as easy as with table cells, but it can be done."
Safari information for web designers
By Mark Pilgrim
Mark's Safari Review
* 3: DREAMWEAVER.
Dreamweaver MX Dynamic FAQ
"This TechNote covers Frequently Asked Questions about server-side technologies and databases supported by Dreamweaver MX." So if you are unsure what Dreamweaver has to offer for server-side development, this is a great place to start. You may be surprised of it's capabilities.
Dreamweaver Primer
By Julie Stanford
* 4: EVALUATION & TESTING.
Usability Testing: Myths, Misconceptions and Misuses
By Richard F. Dillon, Carleton University
"In this article, I identify and try to straighten out some common misconceptions about usability testing."
* 5: EVENTS.
Second International Conference on Usage-Centered Design
October 19-22, 2003
Portsmouth, New Hampshire U.S.A.
Communications, Public Relations and Marketing on the Internet
A CASE conference
February 26-28, 2003
San Francisco, California U.S.A.
* 6: INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE.
Rapid Abstract Prototyping
By Larry L. Constantine
Mapping Web SitesĘ
By Paul Kahn
Chapter 4: Web Site Planning Diagrams
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Faceted Approach to Web Redesign
By Barbara Gulten & Jonathan Broad - IAWiki
HTML Wireframes and Prototypes: All Gain and No Pain
By Julie Stanford
Prognostication Digitalis
By Christina Wodtke
"2002 was the year the rubber hit the road."
* 7: JAVASCRIPT.
Scripting the Box
By Joe Gillespie
"We've explored some of the very powerful possibilities offered by
style sheets in the past few months. This time, adding a touch of
JavaScript to the mix to make a very potent brew indeed."
Testing Mouseover Attributes
Highlighting Asymmetrical Links
By John Foliot
* 8: NAVIGATION.
Insights on In-Site Searching
By Larry L. Constantine
* 9: PHP.
Simple Localization with PHP
By Emmanuel Decarie
* 10: STANDARDS, GUIDELINES & PATTERNS.
Wu
By Ian Graham et al.
"Wu is a pattern language for designing and building usable web sites."
* 11: TOOLS
Simply Web 2000
A Free Talking Web Browser: Simply Web 2000 is a speech friendly, speech enabled accessible (windows) web browser with advance features that allow easy navigation of complex pages by blind users. It uses Internet Explorer 4.01 or later as it's engine, however the authors recommend installing Explorer 5.0 for optimal performance and flexibility.
* 12: TYPOGRAPHY.
On Snots and Fonts
By Luc Devroye
Unicode and Multilingual Support in HTML, Fonts, Web Browsers and Other Applications
By Alan Wood
* 13: USABILITY.
Usability Requirements: How to Specify, Test and Report Usability
By The PRUE Project
"(...) a guide for how to specify, test and report usability requirements as part of a contractual relationship between a supplier and acquirer."
Business-centred design
Designing web sites that sell
The Fusion of Usability and Marketing
By Henrik Olsen
"In traditional user-centred design, focus is on users' needs and their use of the product, while marketing is left to the marketing department. On the web, usability and marketing go hand in hand."
Usage Scenarios to User Interface Elements in a Few Steps
By Hermann Kaindl and Rudolf Jezek.
* 14: XML.
Validate XML Against Multiple Schemas
By Dan Wahlin
[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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