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* February 27, 2003.
* Volume 1, Issue 36.

* What's new at the Web Design Reference site?
  <http://www.d.umn.edu/goto/webdesign/>
  New Links In These Categories:

1:  ACCESSIBILITY.
2:  CASCADING STYLE SHEETS.
3:  COLOR.
4:  DREAMWEAVER.
5:  EVALUATION & TESTING.
6:  EVENTS.
7:  FLASH.
8:  INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE.
9:  JAVASCRIPT.
10: PHP.
11: STANDARDS, GUIDELINES & PATTERNS.
12: TOOLS.
13: TYPOGRAPHY.
14: USABILITY.


SECTION ONE: New references.

* 1: ACCESSIBILITY.

How to Create Accessible Graphics
By Paul Bohman
<http://www.webaim.org/howto/graphics/index>

Web Design for Dyslexic Users
By dyslexia.com
<http://www.dyslexia.com/qaweb.htm>

Creating Senior-Friendly Web Sites
By medicareed.org
<http://www.medicareed.org/pdfs/papers60.pdf>
(Please note that it is an acrobat PDF file. If you do 
not have acrobat you can download the acrobat viewer from 
<http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/main.html>. 
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 
<http://access.adobe.com/>)


* 2: CASCADING STYLE SHEETS.

Three Column Layouts 
By css-discuss Wiki
<http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=ThreeColumnLayouts>

Pros and Cons of Absolute vs Float Page Layout
By css-discuss Wiki
<http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=AbsoluteOrFloatLayout>

Introduction to positioning with CSS
By John Allsopp
<http://www.westciv.com/style_master/academy/css_tutorial/properties/page_layout.html>

A Quick Guide To Making Style Sheets Work
By Chris Casciano
<http://www.chunkysoup.net/basic/quickcss/>

Guide to CSS2 Support in PDA/Handheld Browsers
By MacEdition
<http://www.macedition.com/cb/resources/handheldbrowsercsssupport.html>


* 3: COLOR.

Colour transformations
By BTexact Technologies
<http://more.btexact.com/people/rigdence/colours/colours1.htm>
"This table holds the standard 216 colour web palette, with an approximation of the hues seen by colour deficient dichromats..." 

The Web-Safe Color Dilemma
By Lynda Weinman 
<http://www.lynda.com/hex.html>

Non-Dithering Colors by Hue
By Lynda Weinman 
<http://www.lynda.com/hexh.html>

Non-Dithering Colors by Value
By Lynda Weinman 
<http://www.lynda.com/hexv.html>


* 4: DREAMWEAVER.

Cascading style sheets in Dreamweaver
By George Jardine
<http://www.macromedia.com/desdev/tip/010.html>

Templates for Dreamweaver 
By George Jardine
<http://www.macromedia.com/desdev/tip/016.html>

Site definition in Dreamweaver MX
By George Jardine
<http://www.macromedia.com/desdev/tip/021.html>

Enhanced Code Editor for Dreamweaver MX
By George Jardine
<http://www.macromedia.com/desdev/tip/023.html>

Using Parameters & Expressions to make a Breadcrumb Trail within a Template Driven site
By Brad Halstead et al.
<http://www.dreamweavermx-templates.com/tutorials/tutcrumbtrail.cfm>

Using DWMX's Swap Image behavior
By Laurie Casolino
<http://www.CommunityMX.com/preview/preview3.cfm>


5: EVALUATION & TESTING.

Casting Your User Research
By Peter Merholz
<http://www.uiconf.com/7west/merholz_article.htm>


* 6: EVENTS.

UIE (User Interface Engineering) Roadshow: 
The Secret Design Strategies of Highly Effective Web Sites
Dates: Spring 2003
U.S. Cities: Arlington, Austin, Chicago, Minneapolis, 
New York, San Diego, Seattle and St. Louis.
<http://www.uie.com/events/roadshow/>

Hot Topics in Usability
April 28 - May 1, 2003
London, England
<http://www.effortmark.co.uk/hottopics/index.html>

International Conference on Computers in Education
(ICCE)
December 2-5, 2003
Hong Kong, China
<http://www.icce03.org>

Incorporating HCI into the Undergraduate CS Curriculum
May 26-31, 2003
Charleston, South Carolina U.S.A.
<http://www.cs.cofc.edu/hci/>

Enterprise IA Seminar
Dates: Spring 2003
U.S. Cities: WashingtonÊDC, LosÊAngeles and Chicago
<http://louisrosenfeld.com/presentations/seminars/eia/>

Call for Participation 
Workshop on Web and Aging 
June 25, 2003 
Crete, Greece
<http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~zaphiri/Workshop/>


* 7: FLASH.

Stephen Hawking and Me - Flash MX Accessibility
By dl byron
<http://evolt.org/article/Stephen_Hawking_and_Me_Flash_MX_Accessibility/4090/57431/index.html>


* 8: INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE.

Beyond Cardsorting: Free-Listing Methods to Explore User Categorizations
By Rashmi Sinha
<http://www.boxesandarrows.com/archives/beyond_cardsorting_freelisting_methods_to_explore_user_categorizations.php>
"Free-listing is a technique that can help you determine the scope of the domain while providing some insight into how the domain is structured." 

A User-Centered Approach to Selling Information Architecture
By Jeff Lash
<http://www.digital-web.com/columns/ianythinggoes/ianythinggoes_2003-02.shtml>

Designing Information Architecture
By Rashi Sinha
<http://www.rashmisinha.com/infoarch.html>
The Flamenco Project, Methods for Information Architecture, and Human Cognition and Information Architecture.


* 9: JAVASCRIPT.

3 Steps To Writing JavaScript
By Chris Casciano
<http://www.chunkysoup.net/basic/js3step/>

JavaScript Error Handling
By Chris Casciano
<http://www.chunkysoup.net/basic/breakingjs/>

Intro to Object Oriented JavaScript
By Chris Casciano
<http://www.chunkysoup.net/advanced/oojavascript1/>

JavaScript in Mac Browsers
By AppleDev
<http://developer.apple.com/internet/javascript/jstests.html>
"The article reports on how a number of Mac browsers respond to a series of test scripts."


* 10: PHP.

Working with Permissions in PHP, Part 2
By John Coggeshall 
<http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/php/2003/02/20/php_foundations.html>


* 11: STANDARDS, GUIDELINES & PATTERNS.

Steady as she goes
By Marko Karppinen
<http://www.markokarppinen.com/20030224.html>
"The bi-annual W3C standards compliancy check-up is here again. For those of you only now joining the broadcast, the idea is to check how many of the W3C members' web sites are compliant with the web standards the body is developing and advocating. And it's not only a tongue-in-cheek way of checking whether the organization is eating its own dog food either."

ESPN redesigns with web standards
By Jeffery Zeldman
<http://www.zeldman.com/daily/0203b.shtml#espn>

ESPN Moves Forward with Standards
By Todd Dominey
<http://whatdoiknow.org/archives/000794.php>

Teaching Usability Design Through Pattern Language 
By Griffiths and Pemberton
<http://www.it.bton.ac.uk/staff/lp22/CHIpaper.html>

The Interaction Design Patterns Page
By Tom Erickson
<http://www.pliant.org/personal/Tom_Erickson/InteractionPatterns.html>


* 12: TOOLS.

mod_accessibility
By Nick Kew 
<http://www.webthing.com/software/mod_accessibility/>
"mod_accessibility is a fully automatic aid to making websites more accessible. It serves to improve Websites and Intranets for everyone...It can be used with any Apache 2.0 server, and works as an output filter, transforming documents as they leave the server."


* 13: TYPOGRAPHY.

Working with Fonts
By AppleDev
<http://developer.apple.com/internet/fonts/>

Default Web Browser Text Size
By Felix Miata
<http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/auth/defaultsize.html>


* 14: USABILITY.

Employee Directory Search: Resolving Conflicting Usability Guidelines
By Jakob Nielsen
<http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20030224.html>

All Those Opposed: Making The Case for User Experience in a Budget-Conscious Climate
By Jesse James Garrett
<http://www.newarchitectmag.com/documents/s=2452/na0303c/index.html>
"Using a Web site for the first time is an awful lot like going on a first date. It's a one-on-one interaction, and it doesn't always go as planned."

Starting a Career in User Experience
By Marcus Haid
<http://www.adaptivepath.com/publications/essays/>

Usability - Damaged Merchandise
By Wayne D. Gray
<http://www.rpi.edu/~grayw/grayres/usabilitity.html>

The GNOME Usability Project
<http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/>



[Section one ends.]


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

Accessibility Information.
<http://www.d.umn.edu/goto/accessibility>

Association Information.
<http://www.d.umn.edu/goto/associations>

Book Listings.
<http://www.d.umn.edu/goto/books>

Cascading Style Sheets Information.
<http://www.d.umn.edu/goto/css>

Color Information.
<http://www.d.umn.edu/goto/color>

Dreamweaver Information.
<http://www.d.umn.edu/goto/dreamweaver>

Evaluation & Testing Information.
<http://www.d.umn.edu/goto/testing>

Event Information.
<http://www.d.umn.edu/goto/events>

Flash Information.
<http://www.d.umn.edu/goto/flash>

Information Architecture Information.
<http://www.d.umn.edu/goto/architecture>

JavaScript Information.
<http://www.d.umn.edu/goto/javascript>

Miscellaneous Web Information.
<http://www.d.umn.edu/goto/misc>

Navigation Information.
<http://www.d.umn.edu/goto/navigation>

PHP Information.
<http://www.d.umn.edu/goto/php>

Sites & Blogs Listing.
<http://www.d.umn.edu/goto/sites>

Standards, Guidelines & Pattern Information.
<http://www.d.umn.edu/goto/standards>

Tool Information.
<http://www.d.umn.edu/goto/tools>

Typography Information.
<http://www.d.umn.edu/goto/type>

Usability Information.
<http://www.d.umn.edu/goto/usability>

XML Information.
<http://www.d.umn.edu/goto/xml>

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