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1. ICFJ Launches First Global Business Journalism School in China
From: Dawn
2. [webdev] Web Design Update: February 9, 2007
From: David P. Dillard
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1. ICFJ Launches First Global Business Journalism School in China
Posted by: "Dawn" [EMAIL PROTECTED] dawnlisette
Date: Wed Feb 14, 2007 8:18 pm ((PST))
To read this release online, visit www.icfj.org/press/release02132007.html
PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 13, 2007
Contacts: Dawn Arteaga at ICFJ, 202.349.7624 or [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Rob Stewart at Merrill Lynch, Pacific Rim, 852.2536.3323 or
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Larry Meyer at the Knight Foundation, 305.908.2610 or [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Judy Czelusniak at Bloomberg, 212.617.1212 or [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The International Center for Journalists Launches Groundbreaking
Global Business Journalism Program in China
With support from Merrill Lynch, the John S. and James L. Knight
Foundation and Bloomberg News, the International Center for
Journalists and Tsinghua University will establish a unique master's
degree and professional training program
(Washington, D.C.) The International Center for Journalists and
Tsinghua University in Beijing will launch China's first Global
Business Journalism Program in September 2007. The initiative includes
a two-year master's degree program and workshops for professional
journalists from around the country.
The program will train students how to cover the fast-changing world
of global business, economics and finance at one of the country's most
prestigious universities. The goal is to create a cadre of top-notch
business reporters and editors, who can produce clear, balanced and
insightful coverage of Chinese and global companies. This will help
make China's markets more transparent and foster greater understanding
between China and the international business community.
"China's importance in the global economy is growing exponentially,
and journalists must gain the skills they need to cover the
increasingly complex business landscape," said International Center
for Journalists President Joyce Barnathan, who previously reported
from China and supervised Asia coverage for BusinessWeek magazine.
"This program will bring together the journalism training expertise of
our organization, the prestige of Tsinghua University, and the
commitment to the highest ideals of business and journalism embodied
by the program's funders."
The international founding sponsors of this groundbreaking project are
Merrill Lynch, the Knight Foundation and Bloomberg News.
Tsinghua University is one of the most important universities in
China. The master's degree program, taught in English, will target 25
to 30 students each year from China and other Asian countries. The two
top students will receive internships in the United States. In
addition, workshops will be conducted at Tsinghua University for
dozens of professional Chinese journalists and media managers.
"This program will move business journalism in China to a new level,"
said Li Xiguang, executive dean of the Tsinghua School of Journalism
and Communication. "The courses offered respond to a growing public
interest in business and economic news and to an increasing demand for
trained editors and reporters to cover the field."
The initiative will target emerging leaders in China and the Pacific
Rim region eager to gain expertise in international business
journalism. A special emphasis will be placed on comparative studies
of Chinese and Western companies and financial markets. Courses will
include analyzing case studies of China's corporations, using the
Internet to develop stories, and learning the techniques of
investigative reporting.
Professional business reporting taught in this program will foster
greater investor confidence and help integrate China more seamlessly
into the global financial infrastructure. "Merrill Lynch has long
recognized that efficient business growth cannot happen without
responsible journalism that explains complicated economic trends,
corporate practices and government policy to both the business
community and to the public at large," said Jason Wright, head of
communications and public affairs at the company. "This program will
accomplish these goals."
Adds Senior Vice President and Chairman, Asia Pacific Region, Raymundo
Yu: "Merrill Lynch is constantly striving to push the boundaries of
excellence and innovation. The China story is amazing, and by teaming
up to develop these courses with Tsinghua, the leading Chinese
university, Merrill Lynch believes the next generation of journalists
in China will be better equipped to tell the story."
This initiative was developed with the assistance of Knight
International Journalism Fellow Nailene Chou Wiest, a long-time
Reuters business correspondent, who has spent part of her year-long
fellowship at Tsinghua University. Knight Foundation, which funds
these fellowships run by the International Center for Journalists,
looks for opportunities to raise journalism standards around the world.
"Business is an important story anywhere but nowhere more important
than China," said Knight Foundation President Alberto Ibargüen. "There
is a need for reliable information that markets can depend on. That
won't happen without journalists and editors trained to deliver top
quality journalism of the kind we believe Tsinghua University and the
International Center for Journalists are uniquely qualified to provide."
"We are delighted to be able to provide students in this new program
with access to real-time information and data on all aspects of the
business world," says Matt Winkler, editor-in-chief of Bloomberg News,
which contributed 10 Bloomberg terminals for the program's business
media lab. "It's important to raise business journalism standards in a
country so vital to global prosperity."
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The International Center for Journalists, a non-profit, professional
organization, promotes quality journalism worldwide in the belief that
independent, vigorous media are crucial in improving the human
condition. In the past 22 years, the International Center for
Journalists has worked directly with more than 20,000 journalists and
media managers from 176 countries through hands-on training workshops,
seminars, fellowships, international exchanges and other media
development programs. For further information, visit www.icfj.org.
Tsinghua University is one of China's premier research and teaching
institutions, with established schools of government, law, business
and journalism that represent a leading academic force and advocate
for political and press reform. As a center of top-quality education,
Tsinghua attracts China's brightest students, providing cutting-edge
research and career development opportunities. Faculty are frequently
called upon to provide expertise to public policy makers and national
leaders, giving the University unequalled access to decision makers.
Tsinghua alumni hold key positions in China's establishment, and play
important roles in the country's social and scientific progress. Over
80 percent of Chinese leading nuclear scientists and space scientists
are Tsinghua graduates.
Merrill Lynch is one of the world's leading wealth management, capital
markets and advisory companies with offices in 37 countries and
territories and total client assets of approximately $1.6 trillion. As
an investment bank, it is a leading global trader and underwriter of
securities and derivatives across a broad range of asset classes and
serves as a strategic advisor to corporations, governments,
institutions and individuals worldwide. Merrill Lynch owns
approximately half of BlackRock, one of the world's largest publicly
traded investment management companies with more than $1 trillion in
assets under management. For more information on Merrill Lynch, please
visit www.ml.com.
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation promotes journalism
excellence worldwide and invests in the vitality of the U.S.
communities where the Knight brothers owned newspapers. Since 1950 the
foundation has granted nearly $300 million to advance journalism
quality and the freedom of expression. For more, visit www.knightfdn.org.
Bloomberg is the leading global provider of data, news and analytics.
The BLOOMBERG TERMINAL and Bloomberg's media services provide
real-time and archived financial and market data, pricing, trading,
news and communications tools in a single, integrated package to
corporations, news organizations, financial and legal professionals
and individuals around the world.
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2. [webdev] Web Design Update: February 9, 2007
Posted by: "David P. Dillard" [EMAIL PROTECTED] jwneastro
Date: Thu Feb 15, 2007 5:47 am ((PST))
Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2007 06:29:33 -0600
From: Laura Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [webdev] Web Design Update: February 9, 2007
+++ WEB DESIGN UPDATE.
- Volume 5, Issue 34, February 9, 2007.
An email newsletter to distribute news and information about web design
and development.
++ISSUE 34 CONTENTS.
SECTION ONE: New references.
What's new at the Web Design Reference site?
http://www.d.umn.edu/goto/webdesign/
New links in these categories:
01: ACCESSIBILITY.
02: CASCADING STYLE SHEETS.
03: COLOR.
04: DREAMWEAVER.
05: EVALUATION & TESTING.
06: EVENTS.
07: FLASH.
08: INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE.
09: JAVASCRIPT.
10: MISCELLANEOUS.
11: NAVIGATION.
12: PHP.
13: STANDARDS, GUIDELINES & PATTERNS.
14: TOOLS.
15: TYPOGRAPHY.
16: USABILITY.
17: XML.
SECTION TWO:
18: What Can You Find at the Web Design Reference Site?
[Contents ends.]
++ SECTION ONE: New references.
+01: ACCESSIBILITY.
Letter to Tim Berners-Lee: Time to Cancel WCAG 2
By Joe Clark.
"The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 (WCAG 2) have attracted
little or no support from standards-compliant Web developers,
grassroots people with disabilities, or really anyone other than the
multinational corporations that stack the WCAG Working Group...It is so
faulty in its existing form that it is essentially unfixable...The
Working Group, and its domination by big business, are the cause of
great suspicion and concern...It is time for the W3C to accept reality
and cancel the entire project."
http://joeclark.org/access/webaccess/WCAG/TBL/
Writing Alternate Text for Images
By Sarah Horton.
"...In this article, I explore the editorial aspects of writing
alternate text for both functional and content images by working
through a series of images in different contexts. But let's lay the
groundwork by first discussing the purpose of alternate text and its
role in universal design...."
http://www.informit.com/guides/content.asp?g=webdesign&seqNum=307&rl=1
Accessibility as a Platform to Build Upon
By Emil Stenstrom.
"...Don't believe those who say accessibility rules out everything
else. Use accessibility as a platform to build other apps on top of.
Only require more for extras, not the basics."
http://friendlybit.com/html/accessibility-as-a-platform-to-build-upon/
The Trouble with Accesskey
By Karl Dawson.
"Last night I delivered a short presentation on the use of access keys
to Refresh Cambridge...You can view my presentation online and if you
do wish to print it (or view source), you'll find some extra links too."
http://thatstandardsguy.co.uk/presentations/accesskey/
Oracle Sued by Blind Workers in Texas
By Dan Goodin.
"Oracle is being taken to task in a lawsuit that complains software it
sold to the state of Texas is unusable by blind employees."
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/02/05/oracle_sued/
+02: CASCADING STYLE SHEETS.
CSS Techniques I Use All the Time
By Christian Montoya.
"I'm always learning new things with CSS. It's interesting because I've
thought of myself as a CSS expert for a while now (I'll challenge
anyone to a competition, seriously) but I still keep learning and
improving. I've come across some techniques lately that are extremely
valuable and worth sharing. Have a look..."
http://tinyurl.com/22j7d5
Why 'Conditional Comments' are Bad, Repeat: Bad
By Jens Meiert.
"Conditional Comments (CC) are an unadvisable thing to use. In fact,
they contradict the goal to separate structure from presentation, and
they will outrun you one day. But first things first. For those (in
this case yet happy) developers who don't know what 'Conditional
Comments/ are, please consider Microsoft's 'specification' or embrace
the following..."
http://tinyurl.com/28butw
Why I Avoid Using Conditional Comments
By Christian Montoya.
"I'm not making this post as an argument against conditional comments,
but this is my personal reason for avoiding them. To be honest, I'm
afraid of the possibility that someday, the <head> section will be
filled with this..."
http://tinyurl.com/2y9tzl
Multi-Column Layouts Climb Out of the Box
By Alan Pearce.
"'Holy Grail', 'One True Layout', pain in the @$$'... Alan Pearce
presents a cleaner approach to designing multi-column layouts."
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/multicolumnlayouts
New CSS Properties in Safari
By Roger Johansson.
"It seems like the Safari team has been pretty busy implementing new
CSS properties lately. First out is text-stroke, a new (and
non-standard, so not for real-world use) CSS property that can be used
to control the fill and stroke colours as well as the stroke width of
text. A description and a couple of examples are available in
Introducing Text-Stroke..."
http://tinyurl.com/2dzhnv
eduStyle
By Stewart Foss.
"eduStyle is a design gallery to showcase excellent College or
University web sites. It was inspired by sites like Stylegala or CSS
Vault. I used them often to try and get design inspiration, but often
had a hard time finding examples that would be workable on a higher-ed
websites. So after many evenings and weekends eduStyle was born."
http://www.edustyle.net/
CSS3 info
By Joost de Valk.
"CSS3 is the new kid in the stylesheet family. It offers exciting new
possibilities to create an impact with your designs, allows you to use
more diverse style sheets for a variety of occasions and lots more. We
created this site because we want to share our experiences of CSS3 with
you, and want nothing more than to simply be the biggest online
resource covering CSS3. (Hey, we're ambitious!)..."
http://www.css3.info/
+03: COLOR.
Ensuring Accessibility for People With Color-Deficient Vision
By Pabini Gabriel-Petit.
"This article is Part IV of my series 'Color Theory for Digital
Displays.' It describes how you can use color in applications and on
Web pages to ensure that they are accessible to people who have
color-deficient vision. If you do not consider the needs of people with
color-deficient vision when choosing color schemes for applications and
Web pages, those you create may be difficult to use or even
indecipherable for about one in twelve users."
http://www.uxmatters.com/MT/archives/000164.php
+04: DREAMWEAVER.
The Dreamweaver Web Standards Lesson Plan Series - Part One
By Sheri German.
"There is a concern among educators that web design is often being
taught poorly - even at the college level - and without regard for
standards. In some cases it is because the instructor has not updated
her skills since the turn of the century. In other cases it is because
there is a perception that it is too hard to teach and learn CSS. Yes,
it is true that one must go slowly, start simple, and build skills in a
systematic way. Still, after some experimentation and a few of my own
lessons learned the hard way, I came up with some beginning exercises
that seem to instill the essential concepts without overwhelming the
students. In this series I would like to share some of these lesson
plans with my fellow educators who, like me, would like to start their
students out with 'best practices'. Each lesson plan includes
step-by-step exercises along with the starter and completed example
files for each. In this first tutorial in the series, the students will
construct a simple page, learn to wrap text around an image, and learn
how to divide the page into a series of divs that will later provide
the hooks for positioning page areas with CSS. "
http://www.communitymx.com/content/article.cfm?cid=3D074
+05: EVALUATION & TESTING.
Low-Fi Usability Testing
By Jeff Atwood.
"Pop quiz, hotshot. How do you know if your application works? Sure,
maybe your app compiles. Maybe it passes all the unit tests. Maybe it
ran the QA gauntlet successfully. Maybe it was successfully deployed to
the production server, or packaged into an installer. Maybe your beta
testers even signed off on it. But that doesn't mean it works..."
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000779.html
Hallway Testing
"Forums for Quick, Free Usability Feedback..."
http://www.hallwaytesting.com/
+06: EVENTS.
IDC 2007
Information Design Conference 2007
March 29-30, 2007.
London, United Kingdom
http://www.informationdesignassociation.org/idc2007/
Highland Fling
April 5, 2007.
Edinburgh, Scotland.
http://thehighlandfling.com/2007/
SOUPS 2007
Symposium On Usable Privacy and Security
July 18-20, 2007.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
http://cups.cs.cmu.edu/soups/2007/
Jazzing IT up with MERLOT
August 7-10, 2007.
New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A.
http://conference.merlot.org/2007/
Hypertext 2007
September 10-12, 2007.
Eighteenth ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia
Manchester, United Kingdom
http://www.sigweb.org/ht07/
RailsConf Europe 2007
September 17-19, 2007.
Berlin, Germany
http://conferences.oreillynet.com/railseurope/
HighEdWebDev 2007
October 14-17, 2007.
Rochester, New York, U.S.A.
http://www.highedweb.org/
+07: FLASH.
How to Write Valid HTML/XHTML Code to Include Flash
By Robert Nyman.
"Hopefully, you're someone who cares about web standards and wants to
have valid code for the sake of web browsers' rendering and for you as
a web developer, to more easily spot errors right away. Then, when
including Flash content in your web page, the default code output from
various tools and web sites out there is invalid (at least when it
comes to using them with a strict DOCTYPE, which I'd really recommend
you to go with). So, what should a poor caring web developer do?..."
http://tinyurl.com/yqdmoq
Flash Embedding Cage Match
By Bobby van der Sluis.
"Ever had to embed Flash into a web page and just been plain confounded
about the best way to do it? Be confused no more! Bobby van der Sluis
cuts through the arguments and opinions about the many techniques
available..."
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/flashembedcagematch
+08: INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE.
Information Architecture, Meet the Enterprise Web
By Peter Morville and Lou Rosenfeld.
Chapter 19 of the new 3rd edition of the Polar Bear Book, 'Information
Architecture for the World Wide Web'.
http://www.cmswatch.com/Feature/158-Enterprise-IA
The Holy Grail of Information Architecture
By Christopher Fahey.
"...I call this the 'Holy Grail of Information Architecture'. It's a
mythical, versatile, and powerful document format that almost every IA
has fantasized about. Depending on who you talk to, embodies most or
all of the following qualities..."
http://tinyurl.com/35gqm8
+09: JAVASCRIPT.
What Has AJAX Ajax Done For Us Anyway?
James Edwards.
"The slides for my talk at last night's WSG (Web Standards Group
Meeting) meet in Melbourne are now online..."
http://www.brothercake.com/presentations/what_has_ajax_done/
Using Variables and Built-in Functions to Update Your Web Pages
Automatically
By Thau!.
"With JavaScript you can update the content on your pages automatically
- every day, every hour, or every second. Here, you'll learn about a
simple script that automatically changes the date on your web page."
http://www.webreference.com/programming/javascript/the_book/index.html
Graceful Degradation and Progressive Enhancement
By Tommy Olsson.
Graceful degradation and progressive enhancement are two sides of the
same coin. Both are -- in this context -- applied to make a web site
accessible to any user agent, while providing improved aesthetics
and/or usability for more capable browsers. The difference between the
two is where you begin your approach..."
http://tinyurl.com/2xtugr
XMLHttpRequest Functions
By Peter-Paul Koch.
"This is the XMLHttpRequest function I always use; see quirksmode.js,
the script file that's used in every page on this site. It is presented
very shortly; section 10A of the book treats these functions in detail."
http://www.quirksmode.org/js/xmlhttp.html
+10: MISCELLANEOUS.
Eric Meyer - A Candid Chat 'bout CSS and Stuff (Interview)
By Amy Armitage.
"What's so great about this CSS Guru? What makes so many people attend
his conferences, visit and comment his blog daily, or buy his published
books?"
http://blog.lunarpages.com/2007/01/31/eric-meyer-interview-css/
Interview with Aaron Wall
By Mihaela Lica.
"Why an interview with Aaron Wall? To put it simple, because he is the
author of the Web's most popular 'SEO Book' and one of the first 100
Google qualified professionals in the world..."
http://www.ewriting.pamil-visions.com/2007/02/05/
Chat with Molly for BBC Backstage
By Ian Forrester.
"Ian Forrester from BBC Backstage interviews me about W3C, WaSP,
Microsoft, developer education, communities and other issues of
interest to the community."
http://blip.tv/file/140923
Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us
By Michel Michael Wesch.
"Web 2.0 in just under 5 minutes."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE
+11: NAVIGATION.
Wikiasari: The Convergence of Usability and SEO?
By Lisa Halabi.
"...Ultimately, usability is key to ensuring a good ranking.
Concentrate on delivering good usability, employ some basic SEO tactics
(such as placing keywords in the page title, headings and links) and
the rest will follow naturally. Usability and SEO go hand in hand."
http://tinyurl.com/29moov
+12: PHP.
PHP and XML Sitting in a Tree
By Kerri Hicks.
"Developers and designers will both benefit from reading this week's
article. XML is becoming an increasingly attractive data format, whose
potential we're still in the infant stages of grasping, and PHP5
introduces a nifty, time-saving, ingenious way to use PHP to harness
XML: SimpleXML. Not into the alphabet soup world of programming? Never
fear, this article was written specifically so that designers and
project managers can follow along and be able to converse intelligently
with the geekier members of their teams."
http://www.digital-web.com/articles/php_and_xml_sitting_in_a_tree/
Processing Forms with PHP, a Beginner's Guide
By Joe Dolson.
"The beginning stages of a web-based form are very simple: you read the
HTML guide, learn about select menus, options, form labels, radio
inputs and all the myriad ways you can inveigle information from your
visitors. You also learn about the action and method attributes. Great.
So all of this HTML you've learned is wonderful - but won't actually do
anything. You need to provide some kind of back-end rules to actually
make any use of this information..."
http://www.joedolson.com/articles/2007/02/processing-forms-with-php/
Decision Making Using PHP Switch Statement
By Haroon Ahmad.
"Today I am going to discuss Switch Statement. The basic concept of
Switch is similar to the IF-ELSE statement; it helps you to write
decision making code just like IF-ELSE but it is a little more
organized, elegant and handy when dealing with complex logics as
compare to IF-ELSE."
http://tinyurl.com/2hevnh
PHP Security From The Inside
By Federico Biancuzzi.
"Stefan Esser is the founder of both the Hardened-PHP Project and the
PHP Security Response Team (which he recently left). Federico Biancuzzi
discussed with him how the PHP Security Response Team works, why he
resigned from it, what features he plans to add to his own hardening
patch, the interaction between Apache and PHP, the upcoming "Month of
PHP bugs" initiative, and common mistakes in the design of well-known
applications such as WordPress."
http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/432/1
+13: STANDARDS, GUIDELINES & PATTERNS.
International Liaison Group
By Web Standards Project.
Molly Holzschlag announces a new working group dedicated to sharing
resources globally.
http://www.webstandards.org/action/ilg/
The Time to Abandon Backwards Compatibility is Now, Microsoft
By David Andersson (Liorean)
"If you've followed the discussion about the W3C HTML WG, you've no
doubt read Chris Wilson's comments on it. I'd like to bring one thing
up in particular..."
http://tinyurl.com/yvtgcn
Talking with Microsoft about IE.next
By Aaron Gustafson.
"You may recall that the DOM Scripting and Microsoft task forces, in
collaboration with JS Ninjas, had been compiling a list of issues,
needs, and wants for IE.next over the last few months (a list many of
you contributed to as well, via your feedback). The list was to focus
on what we wanted to see happen in terms of JavaScript support (as IE7
didn't get much of an update in that area), but when it came down to
it, there were other areas we really felt needed some love..."
http://tinyurl.com/28zs5j
+14: TOOLS.
Poodle Predictor
By GRI Technologies.
"Enter your URL above to see what your site will look like in
search-engine results...See how search-engine friendly your site is,
can the spider crawl it easily? Will it get good rankings?"
http://www.gritechnologies.com/tools/spider.go
+15: TYPOGRAPHY.
At Hyphenated Line-Ends, Leave at Least Two Characters Behind and Take
at Least Three Forward
By Richard Rutter.
"Fi-nally is a conventionally acceptable line-end hyphenation, but
final-ly is not, because it takes too little of the word ahead to the
next line."
http://tinyurl.com/yqerxc
Centering Text on the Longest Line
By Richard Rutter.
"Centering a block is reasonably simple if you know how wide it
is...But if you don't know how wide your block - perhaps you're drawing
text from a CMS - then things get tricky..."
http://www.clagnut.com/blog/1887/
Using Kerning for Better Headlines
By Kim Dudley.
"The success of a promotional piece is often dependent upon the setup
of the text. If the spacing between the lines in a paragraph is too
tight, causing the text to be hard to read, it is likely a potential
client will skip over much of the content. On the other hand, if the
text is set up well it not only effectively delivers the information
but it can also portray a specific image or style for the company. The
choice of fonts and the spacing of that font's characters goes a long
way in the legibility of the text. In this article we will look at how
different applications work with a font's kerning information and how
you can manually kern your titles and headlines for a more professional
look."
http://www.communitymx.com/content/article.cfm?cid=63B17
+16: USABILITY.
PDFs are Evil, Lazy, Slothful and Sinful
By Gerry McGovern.
"PowerPoints are the curse of the intranet, and PDFs the curse of the
Web. PDFs reflect print thinking. On the Web, we need web
thinking...Every time I see a website full of PDFs I have this
overwhelming desire to hit the Back button, because these websites
scream, 'We don't care about your time. We took this print stuff and
put it on our site because it saves time for us.' The Web is not print.
What may work exceptionally well in print may fail miserably on the
Web. Print marketing material is designed to get attention. It is
written with the intention that the customer will read it in some
external environment. Therefore, it often contains contextual and
background information on the organization...Time is everything today.
If I have to print out pages before I can complete a task, that's a
major inconvenience and a waste of time. Unless you have solid data
that says your customers want to print, then don't force them to
print..."
http://www.gerrymcgovern.com/nt/2007/nt-2007-02-05-pdf.htm
Usability Makes Business Sense
By Isabelle Chan.
"Good usability transcends age, geography and culture, says usability
expert Jakob Nielsen. It doesn't matter if a Web site targets an
Internet surfer who is 20 and not 50 years old, or is Asian and not
American. The site will succeed in attracting visitors if it is
designed according to how humans think and behave."
http://www.zdnetindia.com/news/communication/stories/170118.html
Broadband Black Holes Persist
By Andrew B. King.
"Despite President Bush's promise of universal access to broadband
by 2007 there are still areas within the US that have little or no
coverage. In the UK, broadband has become cheaper than dial-up
access. Meanwhile in the US broadband grew to 78.5% in December
among active Internet users."
http://www.websiteoptimization.com/bw/0701/
+17: XML.
W3C Publishes New Web Standards for XML
By Patrick Hoffman.
"The new Web standards are designed to help businesses request
information from a database, transform and access XML data and do bond
databases with the Web..."
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2087576,00.asp
X/HTML 5 Versus XHTML 2
By xhtml.com.
The competition to become the next markup language for the Web is
heating up. This article takes a look at what's cool and what's uncool
about the competing technologies."
http://xhtml.com/en/future/x-html-5-versus-xhtml-2/
[Section one ends.]
++ SECTION TWO:
+18: 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.
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