* 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 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.] * 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.]