* WEB DESIGN UPDATE.
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web design and development. 

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* January 21, 2003.
* Volume 1, Issue 30.

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

1:  ACCESSIBILITY.
2:  COLOR.
3:  EVALUATION & TESTING.
4:  INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE.
5:  NAVIGATION.
6:  PHP.
7:  STANDARDS, GUIDELINES & PATTERNS.
8:  USABILITY.


SECTION ONE: New references.

* 1: ACCESSIBILITY.

DO-IT Videotaped Presentations 
<http://www.washington.edu/doit/Video/>
The University of Washington has available on its site a selection of free videos, some of which cover the subject of accessibility. The videos come in several formats for download and cover various topics around the subject of disability and the use of information technology. "World Wide Access: Accessible Web Design", the last one on the list is a good one.


* 2: COLOR.

Has Your Web Designer Ever Heard of Contrast? 
By Aycan Gulez
<http://www.wowwebdesigns.com/power_guides/ever_heard_of_contrast/>

Experience of Color
By  Herman Miller
<http://www.hermanmiller.com/CDA/SSA/WhitePapers/0,1599,a4-c77-k5,00.html>
"Touching, tasting, smelling, hearing, and seeing--these are the ways we get our information about the world, about where we live and where we work. But the world of humans is primarily a world of sights, with 90 percent of what we know of the world coming to us through our vision."
(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/>)

Color schemes
By allmyfaqs.com
<http://www.allmyfaqs.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Color_schemes>


* 3: EVALUATION & TESTING.

Using Site Evaluations to Communicate with Clients
By Dorelle Rabinowitz
<http://www.boxesandarrows.com/archives/using_site_evaluations_to_communicate_with_clients.php>

Recruiting Test Participants for Usability Studies
By Jakob Nielsen
<http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20030120.html>


* 4: INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE.

Understanding Information Architecture
By Rusty Foster
<http://www.ojr.org/ojr/technology/1042357331.php>
Overview of Information Architecture. First on the list of articles is UnderstandingÊInformation Architecture.

Sitemaps, Storyboards, and Specifications: a Sketch of Web Site Design Practice
By Mark W. Newman & James A Landy
<http://guir.berkeley.edu/projects/denim/pubs/iwd-dis-2000.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/>)


* 5: NAVIGATION.

Model of Attraction 
By Thomas Vander Wal
<http://www.vanderwal.net/essays/moa1.html>


* 6: PHP.

PHP 4.3 and Mac OS X
By Adam Trachtenberg
<http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/php/2003/01/17/phpcookbook.html>


* 7: STANDARDS, GUIDELINES & PATTERNS.

Use h1 for title
By Conformance and Quality Assurance, W3C
<http://www.w3.org/2001/06tips/Use_h1_for_Title>


* 8: USABILITY.

Usability for Programmers 
By Chad Lundgren
<http://www.zenhaiku.com/archives/usability_for_programmers.html>


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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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Laura L. Carlson
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University of Minnesota Duluth
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