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August 6, 2002 Vol.1 #4
What's new at the Web Design Reference site?
============ New Links In These Categories ============
1. ACCESSIBILITY
2. ARCHITECTURE
3. CASCADING STYLE SHEETS
4. COLOR
5. DREAMWEAVER
6. EVALUATION & TESTING
7. JAVASCRIPT
8. MISC.
9. NAVIGATION
10. PHP
11. TYPOGRAPHY
12. USABILITY
13. XML
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1. ACCESSIBILITY
Technical Accessibility - a Means, not an End
By Mark Newman
Accessibility and frames - some notes
By Jim Byrne
Making Your Web Site Senior Friendly
By the National Institute on Aging
and the National Library of Medicine.
Published as a "checklist," the research-based guidelines
are designed to provide Web developers with design
strategies and techniques that lead to Web site designs
that are not a burden to seniors.
(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
)
Linux Accessibility Resource Site (LARS)
Edited by J.P. Schnapper-Casteras
and hosted by the Trace Center
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2. ARCHITECTURE
Information Architecture for the World Wide Web
By Louis Rosenfeld and Peter Morville.
Five sample beta chapters from the new 2nd Edition of the
Polar Bear Book.
You can download the PDF files from this link:
(Please note that these are acrobat PDF files. 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
)
Emergent Architecture
By Eric Scheid
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3. CASCADING STYLE SHEETS
Real World Style
By Mark Newhouse
Mark's new site has CSS layouts, tips, tricks and techniques.
CSS Mobile Profile 1.0
W3C Candidate Recommendation 25 July 2002
(Confused about the difference between W3C Notes,
Working Drafts, Candidate Recommendations, Public
Recommendations and normal Recommendations? If so check out:
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4. COLOR
Web Page Color Scheming using your photos
By Suzanne Stephens
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5. DREAMWEAVER
Validating for Accessibility with Dreamweaver MX
By Bob Regan
(This is a QuickTime file. If you do not have QuickTime
you can download the QuickTime viewer from apple.
How to build Dynamic Breadcrumb Extension in Dreamweaver MX Using PHP
By Francois Richardson
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6. EVALUATION & TESTING
What an IA Should Know About Prototypes for User Testing
By Chris Farnum
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7. JAVASCRIPT
aqTree2
By Kryogenix
A JavaScript library that can turn unordered lists into
clickable tree structures in DOM-compliant browsers,
which means Internet Explorer 5.5 or better, or Netscape
6 or better, or Mozilla.
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8. MISC.
Why Web Standards Matter
By Carrie Bickner
Mozilla Milestone 1.0: the Review
By Kurt Mackey and Aeirould
Not only a detailed review of Mozilla and it's support
of Web standards, but also discusses an overview of XML,
CSS, and other technologies as well.
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9. NAVIGATION
Searching vs. Linking at Websites
By Sanjay J. Koyani and Robert W. Bailey
(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
)
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10. PHP
Previous and Next links demystified
By Christian Heilmann
The Birth of a Function
By Jason Lotito
PHP Application Development with ADODB (Part 2)
By icarus
(ADODB is a set of advanced PHP database wrapper classes.)
Multicolumn Output from a Database with PHP
By Matt Wade
A HOWTO on Optimizing PHP
By John Lim
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11. TYPOGRAPHY
Behind The Typeface: Cooper Black
By Cheshire Dave
A humorous biography of a font, its creator and its
competitors. You'll need the Flash player for this,
version 5 or later which can be downloaded from:
Typefaces
By Patrick J. Lynch and Sarah Horton
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12. USABILITY
(Over)simple Answers for Simple Minds
By George Olsen
The Backlash against Jakob Nielsen and What it Teaches Us
By George Olsen
Making the Physical Environment Interactive
By Jakob Nielsen
Is your help system usable?
By Donna Timpone
When Will We Finally Have Applications Ordinary People Can Use?
Interview by Tim Haight
User Interface, User Experience -- Where's It Going?
By Dan Gillmor
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13. XML
XHTML 1.0 The Extensible Hypertext Markup Language
(Second Edition)
A Reformulation of HTML 4 in XML 1.0
W3C Recommendation Revised 1 August 2002
Revolution in Application Architecture:
XML-based distributed applications are increasingly
message based, asynchronous, and loosely coupled
By Kurt Cagle
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What Can You Find at the Web Design Reference Site?
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Accessibility Information
Architecture Information
Book Listings
Cascading Style Sheets Information
Color Information
Dreamweaver Information
Evaluation & Testing Information
JavaScript Information
Miscellaneous Web Information
Navigation Information
PHP Information
Sites & Blogs Listing
Tool Information
Typography Information
Usability Information
XML Information
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Laura L. Carlson
Information Technology Systems and Services
University of Minnesota Duluth
Duluth, MN 55812-3009
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