* WEB DESIGN UPDATE.
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* March 27, 2003.
* Volume 1, Issue 40.
* What's new at the Web Design Reference site?
New Links In These Categories:
1: ACCESSIBILITY.
2: BOOKS.
3: CASCADING STYLE SHEETS.
4: DREAMWEAVER.
5: EVALUATION & TESTING.
6: EVENTS.
7: MISCELLANEOUS.
8: PHP.
9: STANDARDS, GUIDELINES & PATTERNS.
10: TOOLS.
11: USABILITY.
12: XML.
SECTION ONE: New references.
* 1: ACCESSIBILITY.
Designing websites for people with learning disabilities
By The Mental Health Foundation
Designing for users with Cognitive Disabilities
By Kanta Jiwnani
* 2: BOOKS.
Holzschlag, Molly. Cascading Style Sheets: The Designer's Edge, Sybex, 2003.
* 3: CASCADING STYLE SHEETS.
AAAAA! My Eyes!
By Eric A. Meyer
"People are already complaining that CSS is too difficult for them to grasp. What will happen when, in the name of giving designers the layout control they want, CSS becomes so complex that nobody can learn the whole thing? What good will it do to have a compact, human-readable styling language if nobody actually understands what it says?"
* 4: DREAMWEAVER.
Creating a New Template from Scratch
By Brad Halstead & Murray R. Summers
* 5: EVALUATION & TESTING.
The Tyranny of Evaluation
By Henry Lieberman
"I hate to break the news to some of you, but user interface design is, in no small part, art, as much as it is science or engineering. That's not a bad thing. It doesn't mean that we shouldn't ask scientific and engineering questions about our interfaces, just that they are not the whole story."
Web Site Effectiveness Study
By Lipman Hearne
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* 6: EVENTS.
Making the Web Easy to Use for People with Disabilities
May 5, 2003
New York, New York, U.S.A.
Good, Bad and Irrelevant:
The User and the Future of Information and Communication Technologies
April 10, 2003
Helsinki, Finland
* 7: MISCELLANEOUS.
An Interview with Julie Howell
By Anitra Pavka
An Interview With Mike Davidson of ESPN (Part 1)
By Eric A. Meyer
* 8: PHP.
Ten Security Checks for PHP, Part 1
By Clancy Malcolm
Introduction to PHP5
NYPHP Presentation
By Sterling Hughes
* 9: STANDARDS, GUIDELINES & PATTERNS.
Code to standards for cross platform compatibility
By Jim Byrne
"One of the most important steps you can take to ensure that your web pages will be accessible is to code them using standards based markup."
Choosing Standards Compliance Over Proprietary Practices
By Beth Epperson
The Business Benefits of Web Standards
By Tristan Nitot
We're all banking on a better trip
By macedition.com
Microsoft breaks with standards effort
By Martin LaMonica
Inclusive Web Design For The Future
By Steve Champeon & Nick Finck
SXSW presentation
* 10: TOOLS.
Web Page Analyzer
By Andrew B. King
Web Page Analyzer is a free online tool. It will tally the weight of your markup, images, CSS and JavaScript. Then it offer advice on how to improve download and display time.
* 11: USABILITY.
Usability Myths Need Reality Checks
By Will Schroeder
Debunking the myths of UI design
By Paul Smith
Top 7 Usability Blunders Of The Big Players
By PhilippeÊRandour
The Importance of Interface Text (part 1)
By Deepa L
The Importance of Interface Text (part 2)
By Deepa L
Writing for the Web: Structure Content
By Thom Haller
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* 12: XML.
Why XML Doesn't Suck
By Tim Bray
Tim Bray's followup to his "XML is too hard for programmers" article from last week.
XML for managers: When to innovate in application design
By Scott Robinson
The Road to XHTML 2.0: MIME Types
By Mark Pilgrim
[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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