* 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.] * 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 (Please note that it 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 ) 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.] * 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.]