Web Design References
Web design and development news and information. Advocate of accessibility, usability, web standards and many related topics. Until next time - Laura Carlson
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Miscellaneous
One new link: "The Web Shatters Focus, Rewires Brains".
Navigation
Four new links: "Experiments in Delinkification", "Browse Versus Search - Stumbling into the Unknown Unknown", "A Sitemap Makes Your Website More Google Friendly", and "Cognitive Load in Hypertext Reading - A Review".
Standards, Guidelines and Patterns
Three new links: "Future of Web Design: HTML5 Coding Demo",, "Linked Data: It's is Not Like that; It's Like a Bag of Potato Chips", and "The Mission of W3C".
Usability
Eight new links: "The Role of Accessibility in the Usability Profession Today - and Tomorrow", "The Discipline of Content Strategy", "Language and the Role of the Web Writer", "Don't Use 'Humpty Dumpty' Words - Speak Your Customer's Language", "Web Content and the Burden of Time", "Writing for Dollars, Writing to Please ", "Gestural Interfaces: A Step Backwards In Usability", and "Perception and the Design of Forms - Part 1 Shape".
Accessibility
Seven new links: "WCAG Rethink", "Checklists Are Useless. Really", "Why Should My Website Be Accessible", "Learning Not to See", "The Evolution towards a Personalised Web and the Impact on Education", "Do Your Flashing Ads Cause Seizures", and Access Keys.
Cascading Style Sheets
Five new links: "Responsive Web Design", "Basic Web Page Background Techniques with CSS", "Everything Old Is New Again", "The CSS3 Experience", and "Efficiently Rendering CSS".
Color
One new link: "".
Dreamweaver
One new link: "Creating Your First Website - Part 3 Adding Content To Pages".
Evaluation and Testing
Four new links: "Rocket Surgery Made Easy by Steve Krug: Usability Demo", "Encouraging Negative Feedback During User Testin", "Involving Stakeholders in User Testing", and "Quick and Dirty Remote User Testing".
Events
One new link: "The InterACT Summit - Virtual Book Launch and Conference".
Flash
Four new links: "", "", "", and "".
Information Architecture
One new link: "".
Javascript
Four new links: "", "", "", and "".
Miscellaneous
Two new links: "The Digital Divide of Disability - Sharron Rush and Desiree Sturdevant Interview" and "HTML5 and John Foliot".
Navigation
Six new links: "Imposing Order Versus Observing Order", "Topic-Based, Hierarchical Navigation", "Faceted Classification, Faceted Search", "Implementing Faceted Classification - Search with a Help Authoring Tool", "Second-Level Faceted Navigation", and "Understanding the Cost of We Can't Find Anything".
PHP
Four new links: "", "", "", and "".
Standards, Guidelines and Patterns
Five new links: "HTML5 Video: Not Quite There Yet", "When Can You Use HTML5 and CSS3", "Chasing the Shiny - HTML5, CSS3, Trransitions - Oh My", "The Web Stack", and "Google Announces New WebM Video Standard, Open-Sources VP8".
Tools
One new link: "CSS Generator".
Usability
Four new links: "The Need for Speed on the Web", "Usability Ain't Everything - A Response to Jakob Nielsen's iPad Usability Study", "4 Easy Steps to Make Your Site More Usable to Older People", and "Too Much Stress Results In Poor Performance".
Typography
Two new links: "" and "".

