* 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 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 (Please note that it is an acrobat PDF file. If you do not have acrobat you can download the acrobat viewer from . This download is for people who do not have Acrobat installed on their computers. It allows you to open and view a PDF file. Additional Adobe free tools are available to assist visually impaired users at ) * 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 (Please note that it is an acrobat PDF file. If you do not have acrobat you can download the acrobat viewer from . This download is for people who do not have Acrobat installed on their computers. It allows you to open and view a PDF file. Additional Adobe free tools are available to assist visually impaired users at ) * 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.] * 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.]