[webdev] Web Design Update: October 9, 2010

[Laura Carlson]

+++ WEB DESIGN UPDATE.
- Volume 9, Issue 15, October 9, 2010.

An email newsletter to distribute news and information about web
design and development.

++ISSUE 15 CONTENTS.

SECTION ONE: New references.
What's new at the Web Design Reference site?
http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/
New links in these categories:

01: ACCESSIBILITY.
02: CASCADING STYLE SHEETS.
03: COLOR.
04: DREAMWEAVER.
05: EVALUATION & TESTING.
06: EVENTS.
07: INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE.
08: JAVASCRIPT.
09: MISCELLANEOUS.
10: PHP.
11: STANDARDS, GUIDELINES & PATTERNS.
12: TOOLS.
13: TYPOGRAPHY.
14: USABILITY.

SECTION TWO:
15: What Can You Find at the Web Design Reference Site?

[Contents ends.]


++ SECTION ONE: New references.

+01: ACCESSIBILITY.

President Obama Signs Accessibility Act
By Andrew Kirkpatrick.
"Today I am thrilled to attend an event at the White House where
President Obama signs into law the 21st Century Communications and
Video Accessibility Act of 2010. This act includes a number of
provisions intended to increase access to video programming on
television and the internet..."
http://blogs.adobe.com/accessibility/2010/10/president-obama-signs-accessibility-act.html

Accessibility Video Tutorials
By Think Vitamin.
Think Vitamin's accessibility videos are now no cost to view.
http://membership.thinkvitamin.com/library/accessibility


+02: CASCADING STYLE SHEETS.

Vendor Prefix Lists
By Eric A. Meyer.
"At the prompting of an inquiry from a respected software vendor, I
asked The Twitters for pointers to 'canonical' lists of
vendor-prefixed properties, values, and selectors. Here's what the
crowd sourced at me..."
http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2010/10/08/vendor-prefix-lists/

Make a 'View Source' Button
By Chris Coyier.
"Remy Sharp's cool site for HTML5 demos has a 'View Source' button on
each of the individual demo pages. Click it, and you see the entire
source code for the page you are looking at. It's not a popup or a new
tab, it just shows the source right there on the page. I thought that
was cool so I set out to recreate it my own way."
http://css-tricks.com/make-a-view-source-button/


+03: COLOR.

How is Colour Contrast Determined?
By Glenda Watson Hyatt.
"Today on Blog Accessibility, I revealed my favourite tool in my
accessibility toolbox."
http://blogaccessibility.com/?p=54


+04: DREAMWEAVER.

Why Teaching Dreamweaver is Like Being President
By Virginia DeBolt.
"I mentioned a while back that I accepted a job teaching Dreamweaver
at UNM Continuing Ed. I just completed my first session – a 12 hour
class in beginning Dreamweaver. I've decided that teaching Dreamweaver
is a lot like being the President of the United States."
http://www.webteacher.ws/2010/10/05/why-teaching-dreamweaver-is-like-being-president/


+05: EVALUATION & TESTING.

Heretical Ideas - Abandon Focus Groups
By Gary Barber.
"Too often we see focus groups being used as the core evaluation and
research tool within a web design project. Why..."
http://manwithnoblog.com/2010/10/07/heretical-ideas-abandon-focus-groups


+06: EVENTS.