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* March 21, 2003.
* Volume 1, Issue 39.
* What's new at the Web Design Reference site?
New Links In These Categories:
1: ACCESSIBILITY.
2: CASCADING STYLE SHEETS.
3: COLOR.
4: EVALUATION & TESTING.
5: EVENTS.
6: INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE.
7: JAVASCRIPT.
8: MISCELLANEOUS.
9: NAVIGATION.
10: PHP.
11: STANDARDS, GUIDELINES & PATTERNS.
12: TOOLS.
13: TYPOGRAPHY.
14: USABILITY.
15: XML.
SECTION ONE: New references.
* 1: ACCESSIBILITY.
Beyond HTML: Web Accessibility For The 21st Century
By Kynn Bartlett
WCAG 2.0: New Challenges, New Technologies, New Concepts
By Wendy Chisholm & Ben Caldwell
Fast Track To Web Accessibility Using A Template-Based Design Strategy
By Paul Bohman
ICDRI Update On Global Accessible Web Policy And Law
By Cynthia D. Waddell
Web Site Accessibility: A Study of ADA Compliance
By Emily Jackson-Sandbor and Kerri Odess-Harnish
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The US Web Accessibility Jigsaw
By William Hudson
Add alt attributes to spacer images
By Jim Byrne
Equal access
ByÊAmanda Morgan
Tables and Accessibility
By Tim Roberts
A Dyslexic Perspective on e-Content Accessibility
By Peter Rainger
* 2: CASCADING STYLE SHEETS.
Incorporating CSS Ideally
By Christopher Schmitt
The Elusive CSS Footer
By Todd Dominey
CSS Media types and printer friendly pages
By javascriptkit
Centering Block Elements
By css-discuss
CSS: Between the Style Sheets
SXSW 2003 Presentation
By Celik Tantek
Got Doctype?
By Molly E. Holzschlag and Eric A. Meyer
* 3: COLOR.
Color and Technology
Using Color On and Off the Computer With Students with Disabilities
By Judith P. Sweeney
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Color on the Web
By Daniel Will-Harris
* 4: EVALUATION & TESTING.
Conducting International Usability
By Peter Merholz
"This essay draws from my experience leading an international user testing project, and I hope you can learn from my mistakes and successes..."
* 5: EVENTS.
WebDevShare Call for Participation
Workshop Proposal deadline: April 15, 2003
WebdevShare 2003
October 5 - 9, 2003
Indiana University Bloomington
Bloomington, Indiana
HCI Educators Workshop
March 31 - April 1, 2003
Edinburgh, Scotland
STC's 50th Annual Conference
Society for Technical Communication Conference
May 18-21, 2003
Dallas, Texas, U.S.A.
Don't Make Me Think: The Workshop
Steve Krug
May and June 2003
Washington DC, Los Angeles and Chicago
Information Design International Conference
September 8-11 2003
Recife, Brazil
* 6: INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE.
The Hippie Period of the Web is Over
By Gerry McGovern
"Information architecture is all about the definition and organization of content. The fact that there isn't a commonly agreed definition is because the discipline is immature. If information architecture is to solve problems cost-effectively, it will have to become rigorously defined. Just like most other professionals, information architects will require accreditation."
ia/recon
By Jesse James Garrett
"A six-part essay on the information architecture community, where we are, and where we're going."
* 7: JAVASCRIPT.
DOM Scripts
Five JavaScript patches designed to improve DOM support
By Chris Nott
Recursion tightens JavaScript code
By Edmond Woychowsky
* 8: MISCELLANEOUS.
Poor planning is project management mistake number one
By Tom Mochal
Designing in Public
By Douglas Bowman
Macromedia.com Progress Report
By Todd Dominey
Revamped Macromedia site irks customers
By David Becker
Macromedia lacks common sense
By Forrester Research
Macromedia.com Beta: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
By John Dowdell
* 9: NAVIGATION.
Why you need your very own taxonomy.
By Tom Smith
* 10: PHP.
Working with Dates and Times in PHP
By Hermawan Haryanto
Working with Forms in PHP, Part 1
By John Coggeshall
Write Secure Scripts with PHP 4.2!
By Kevin Yank
Verify a User's Email Address Using PHP
By Joe Marini
* 11: STANDARDS, GUIDELINES & PATTERNS.
HTML validation is a good tool, but just a tool
By Jukka Korpela
* 12: TOOLS.
Cynthia Says Portal
By HiSoftware, ICDRI and The Internet Society Disability Chapter
"Cynthia is a web content accessibility validation solution, it is
designed to identify errors in design related to Section 508 standards
and the W3C WCAG guidelines. It is also designed to educate web site
developers in the development of Web Based content so that is accessible
to all."
CardZort
By Jorge A. Toro
"CardZort is a computer application that runs card sorting exercises. Its main purpose is to offer a complete computer-aided system that allows the fast creation and execution of card sorting exercises, and the analysis of the resulting groups via cluster analysis." It is free for academic purposes but runs only on the Windows platform.
* 13: TYPOGRAPHY.
Accessible web text - sizing up the issues
By Jim Byrne
Part two of Jim Byrne's introduction to accessible web
typography. This article concentrates on the important topic of how
to set the size of text on your web pages.
The Best Faces for the Screen
By Daniel Will-Harris
Georgia & Verdana
Typefaces designed for the screen (finally)
By Daniel Will-Harris
* 14: USABILITY.
Blurbs: Writing Previews of Web Pages
By Dennis G. Jerz
Two Kinds of Titles for Web Pages
By Dennis G. Jerz
Do Productivity Increases Generate Economic Gains?
By Jakob Nielsen
"...usable design saves money and saves jobs."
Welcome to The HTML Hell Page
By Eric S. Raymond
* 15: XML.
XML Is Too Hard For Programmers
By Tim Bray
"XML is a bouncing thriving five-year-old now, and yet I've been feeling unsatisfied with it, particularly in recent times. In particular in my capacity as a programmer..."
[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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