* 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 13, 2003. * Volume 1, Issue 38. * What's new at the Web Design Reference site? New Links In These Categories: 1: ACCESSIBILITY. 2: BOOKS. 3: CASCADING STYLE SHEETS. 4: COLOR. 5: DREAMWEAVER. 6: EVENTS. 7: INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE. 8: MISCELLANEOUS. 9: NAVIGATION. 10: PHP. 11: STANDARDS, GUIDELINES & PATTERNS. 12: USABILITY. SECTION ONE: New references. * 1: ACCESSIBILITY. Understanding Accessibility A Guide to Achieving Compliance on Web Sites and Intranets By Robert B. Yonaitis Accessible University Mock Site By AccessIT Does Mac OS X Meet Section 508's Requirements? By Kynn Bartlett High Design, High Accessibility SXSW presentation notes By Joe Clark * 2: BOOKS Cooper, Alan and Reimann, Robert M. About Face 2.0: The Essentials of Interaction Design John Wiley & Sons, 2003 * 3: CASCADING STYLE SHEETS. Why avoiding tables (for layout) is important By Dave Polaschek DevEdge Redesign FAQ By Eric A. Meyer Issues Arising From Arbitrary-Element Hover By Eric A. Meyer * 4: COLOR. Choosing colors By Cecilia Marra * 5: DREAMWEAVER. Setting Up PHP, MySQL, and Apache on Mac OS X Ê By Minh Huynh Top Tips for Dreamweaver MX By Matt Brown * 6: EVENTS. UIST 2003 16th annual User Interface Software & Technology Conference November 2-5, 2003 Vancouver, BC, Canada Open Source Content Management Conference May 28-30, 2003 Cambridge, Massachusetts U.S.A. (Harvard Law School) * 7: INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE. IA Library Quick Reference: Special Deliverable #7 By Dan Brown * 8: MISCELLANEOUS. An interview with Kelly Goto By Craig Saila * 9: NAVIGATION. IT & Society Issue 3, Vol. 1, Winter 2003 Introduction: Web Navigation - Special Editors: Ben Shneiderman, Jonathan Lazar, Melody Ivory What Are The Differences Between A Vocabulary, A Taxonomy, A Thesaurus, An Ontology, And A Meta-Model? By Metamodel "This excellent overview was contributed by Woody Pidcock of the Boeing company. Many organizations and companies are struggling with these terms and the ideas behind them; this set of definitions will help to clarify." * 10: PHP. PHP Coding Contest By Matt Wade Financial Carrot for PHP Developers By Ryan Naraine * 11: STANDARDS, GUIDELINES & PATTERNS. The Problem with Standards By Dave Polaschek Standing up for standards By Adrian Holovaty * 12: USABILITY. Expanding the Approaches to User Experience By George Olsen Reading Text Online By Susan Weinschenk "Don't be afraid of vertical scrolling, in fact it is better to put more text on a page and have users scroll than to break text up into a lot of pages with no scrolling. Balance is always preferred..." PR on Websites: Increasing Usability By Jakob Nielsen Usability Law By Richard Griffiths "There are a number of ways that the law impacts on the usability of software and its evaluation." [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.]