* WEB DESIGN UPDATE.
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[Issue starts.]
* January 15, 2003.
* Volume 1, Issue 29.
* What's new at the Web Design Reference site?
New Links In These Categories:
1: ACCESSIBILITY.
2: CASCADING STYLE SHEETS.
3: COLOR.
4: DREAMWEAVER.
5: EVENTS.
6: INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE.
7: NAVIGATION.
8: TOOLS.
9: USABILITY.
10: XML.
SECTION ONE: New references.
* 1: ACCESSIBILITY.
Building Accessible Websites
By Joe Clark
You can read Joe Clark's book piece-by-piece online. Joe is posting the book online and has put out three chapters so far.
Checking your site for accessibility using Opera
By Ian Lloyd
Tips for managing Section 508 testing
By William T. Kelly
* 2: CASCADING STYLE SHEETS.
Page layout using CSS: a very simple example
By Jukka Korpela
Printing the Web
By James Kalbach
* 3: COLOR.
Seeing Color: Color Tests
By Arizona State University
* 4: DREAMWEAVER.
Dreamweaver MX: The Missing Manual
Chapter 18, Templates
* 5: EVENTS.
SITE 2003
Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education International Conference
March 24-29, 2003
Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.A.
* 6: INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE.
Questions Information Architects Ask
By Louis Rosenfeld
"These might be helpful if you're preparing an IA seminar yourself, or, if nothing else, they're an interesting snapshot of what folks were interested in during late 2002."
Information Architecture for the World Wide Web
By Louis Rosenfeld and Peter Morville
First edition (Feb. 1998) - full online version
* 7: NAVIGATION.
Users Decide First; Move Second
By Erik Ojakaar
Navigational pulldown menus in HTML
By Jukka Korpela
* 8: TOOLS.
Colorblind Web Page Filter
Type in your site's URL, select the filter you would like to use and click the Fetch and Filter button
Checky
The Checky is a Mozilla and Netscape plug-in. It is a simple Interface for web designers and developers to free and commercial online Validator and Checker services. You can run your page against the W3C's markup and CSS validators, the Web Design Group's HTML Validator, and Watchfire's Bobby with a single keystroke (F10). Now there is no excuse not to validate.
* 9: USABILITY.
Return on Investment for Usability
By Jakob Nielsen
Pervasive Usability - Planning For an Uncertain Future
By Suneet Kheterpal
New University website to debut late this month
By Alex Garinger
Usability of Open Source Software
By David M. Nichols & Michael B. Twidale
"In this paper we review the existing evidence of the usability of open source software and discuss how the characteristics of open source development influence usability."
* 10: XML.
Semantic obsolescence
By Mark Pilgrim
XHTML 2 and all that
By Jeffery Zeldman
XML for Data: Extend XSLT's functionality with EXSLT
By Kevin Williams
"A quick overview of the EXSLT standardized extensions to XSLT 1.0, identifying some of the more important functionality provided by these extensions, and including helpful guidelines for their use."
[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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Laura L. Carlson
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University of Minnesota Duluth
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