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August 14, 2002                               Vol.1  #5
      What's new at the Web Design Reference site? 
        <http://www.d.umn.edu/goto/webdesign/>   
     
============ New Links In These Categories ============

1.  ACCESSIBILITY
2.  ARCHITECTURE
3.  CASCADING STYLE SHEETS
4.  DREAMWEAVER
5.  EVALUATION & TESTING
6.  JAVASCRIPT
7.  MISC.
8.  NAVIGATION
9.  PHP
10. TYPOGRAPHY
11. USABILITY
12. XML

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1. ACCESSIBILITY

Watchfire Acquires Bobby
<http://bobby.watchfire.com/bobby/html/en/watchfire-bobby.jsp>

Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools Need People
By Shawn Lawton Henry
<http://www.uiaccess.com/evaltools.html>

Accessible Scripting Articles
By Tom Gilder
<http://tom.me.uk/scripting/>

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2. ARCHITECTURE

An information design timeline
By the Society for Technical Communication Information Design
<http://www.stcsig.org/id/timeline.html>

UI Patterns and Techniques
By Jenifer Tidwell
<http://time-tripper.com/uipatterns/>

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3. CASCADING STYLE SHEETS

Cascading Style Sheets, level 2 revision 1
CSS 2.1 Specification
W3C Working Draft 2 August 2002
<http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-CSS21-20020802/>
This update fixes errors and omissions in the original,
and also has a tutorial on using CSS with HTML and XML.

Horizontal Menus
By Marek Prokop
<http://www.sovavsiti.cz/css/horizontal_menu.html>

Environmental Style
By Mark Newhouse
Article on structuring CSS files.
<http://realworldstyle.com/environmental_style.html>

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4. DREAMWEAVER

Review: Macromedia Seminars (Studio MX)
By Judith Snyder
<http://www.cfugcny.org/news/?storyID=164>

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5. EVALUATION & TESTING

User Interface Usability Design and Evaluation Methods
By Qian Wang
<http://sern.ucalgary.ca/courses/seng/621/W97/qianw/hci-essay2.htm>

The Usability Testing Process for Pet Market
By Eric Pressman
<http://www.macromedia.com/desdev/mx/blueprint/articles/usabilitybp.htm
l>

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6. JAVASCRIPT

Your First JavaScript
By Robert Dominy
<http://javascript.about.com/library/weekly/aa021102a.htm>

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7. MISC.

Web Standards for Hard Times
By Paul Boutin
<http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/02/33/index1a.html>

Are 99 Percent of All Web Sites Obsolete?
Jeffrey Zeldman Interview
<http://www.webbuilderconference.com/interview_zeldman.asp>

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8. NAVIGATION

Navigational Issues in the Design of On-Line
Self-Administered Questionnaires:
The Effect of Training and Familiarity
By Kent L. Norman, Timothy J. Pleskac, & Kirk Norman
<ftp://ftp.cs.umd.edu/pub/hcil/Reports-Abstracts-Bibliography/2001-09ht
ml/2001-09.htm>

Links and Power:
The Political Economy of Linking on the Web
By Jill Walker
<http://cmc.uib.no/jill/txt/linksandpower.html>

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9. PHP

Avoid these common PHP gotchas
By James Cox
<http://builder.com.com/article.jhtml;jsessionid=OTV24ZHPU2JJXTQQAAZCFF
A?id=u00220020808gcn01.htm&vf=crg&rcode=u001>

Manage Your Content With PHP
By Christopher Robins
<http://www.alistapart.com/stories/phpcms/>

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10. TYPOGRAPHY

A Short Story About Font-Sizing
By Joshua Kaufman
<http://unraveled.com/joshua/archives/000326.shtml>

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11. USABILITY

The Tool Makes the (Wo)Man
By Erin Malone
<http://www.boxesandarrows.com/archives/002891.php>

IBM relates Perceived Usability to the Real Thing
By Ann Light
<http://www.usabilitynews.com/news/article611.asp>

Improving Business Through User-Centered Design
Interview with Scott Isensee, Carol Righi and Karel  Vredenburg
<http://webword.com/interviews/green2.html>

Clear Language and Effectiveness Tool (CLAD)
<http://www.eastendliteracy.on.ca/clearlanguageanddesign/readingeffecti
venesstool/>
This readability tool asks a series of questions about
a portion of the text, then using client-side scripting,
calculates a reading level and gives some indication of
its readability.

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12. XML

Write Better Modules with Quality DTDs
by Vijay Gummadi and Shantanu Dhar
<http://www.fawcette.com/xmlmag/2002_08/magazine/columns/practice/vgumm
andi/>

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