* WEB DESIGN UPDATE.
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* March 6, 2003.
* Volume 1, Issue 37.
* 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: FLASH.
7: JAVASCRIPT.
8: NAVIGATION.
9: PHP.
10: STANDARDS, GUIDELINES & PATTERNS.
11: TOOLS.
12: USABILITY.
13: XML.
SECTION ONE: New references.
* 1: ACCESSIBILITY.
The Structure of Accessible Pages
By Joe Clark
Chapter five of Joe's book is now on line.
Doing forms justice
By Dan Loda
An example of how labels, accesskeys, fieldsets and CSS can make a form that is usable, accessible and looks good.
Fully Accessible Natural Language Search Solution Targets Disabled Internet Users Searching Federal Web Sites
By Agassa Net Technologies, Inc. (Press Release)
Natural language search allows people to search by entering (in English) a normal question, like what you would ask a person. The natural language search returns results from five federally-funded accessibility sites. For more info and to try it out visit: the "About the ITTATC Accessible Technology Knowledgebase" page.
* 2: CASCADING STYLE SHEETS.
Rendering Mode
By css-discuss
Build Your Site Navigation With CSS
By Larisa Thomason
Rounded corners with CSS
By Dan Loda
* 3: DREAMWEAVER.
Hand-Coding PHP with Dreamweaver MX
By Gareth Downes-Powell et al.
An excerpt of "Dreamweaver MX: PHP Web Development"
Controlling Button States: Template Parameters and Expressions
By Murray Summers and Brad Halstead
Dreamweaver 4 accessibility modifications
By Ian Lloyd
* 4: EVALUATION & TESTING.
Experiences in remote usability testing, Part 2
By Velda Bartek and Deane Cheatham
Estimating of Testing the Plausible Way
By Caroline Jarrett
* 5: EVENTS.
WebAIM 2003 Online Web Accessibility Training Event
March 31-April 18, 2003
Make IT Easy 2003 Conference
Dates: Various-Spring 2003
Cities: Raleigh, North Carolina; Toronto, Canada; Austin, Texas and San Jose, California
Information Architecture "Making Connections"
March 21-23, 2003
Portland, Oregon, U.S.A.
Mentoring for Mainstream Usability
By HFI's Usability Broadcast Network
Susan Weinschenk
Free Webcast on Tuesday March 11, 2003
3:30 to 4:30 pm Ð U.S. Eastern Standard Time
* 6: FLASH.
Will Macromedia Soon Become Micromedia?
By Daniel Kastner
* 7: JAVASCRIPT.
JavaScript FAQ
By javascripter.net
JavaScripter.net a JavaScript FAQ collection, interactive quizzes, demos, online games, code examples, and more.
Programmer's Guide to Regular Expressions
By David Anderson
Create A Tabbed User Interface
By Tom Duffy
Image Rollovers Tutorial
By Till
* 8: NAVIGATION.
Keyboard Navigation
By HCIRN
"...one of the fundamental requirements of any application is that users should be able to interact with the application using only the keyboard."
* 9: PHP.
Develop rock-solid code in PHP: Part two
By Amol Hatwar
Developing Custom PHP Extensions
By devnewz.com
Building XML Trees With PHP
By icarus
* 10: STANDARDS, GUIDELINES & PATTERNS.
Are guidelines useless?
By Christina Wodtke
New-Window Links in a Standards-Compliant World
By Kevin Yank
* 11: TOOLS.
Color Harmonizer
By EasyRGB
This online tool does a good job of creating complements and harmonies for any RGB color that you specify.
* 12: USABILITY.
Persuasive Design: New Captology Book (Review)
By Jakob Nielsen
The Tease Effect of Slow Downloading: Arousal and Excitation Transfer in Online Communication
By Carson B. Wagner
What Is Usability And Why Is It Important?
By benefit-from-it.com
"Visitors will leave your web site if they find it difficult to use. The time and money you put into the site will be wasted."
Design Elements for Great Web Pages:
Readability, Browsability, Searchability Plus Assistance
By Eric Lease Morgan
* 13: XML.
Properly Using CSS and JavaScript in XHTML Documents
By Bob Clary
Is XML accessible?
By AccessIT
[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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