* WEB DESIGN UPDATE.
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[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.]
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Laura L. Carlson
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University of Minnesota Duluth
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