* 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.] * 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.] * 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.]