Subject: usability resources for WebWord.com
To: john@WebWord.com
From: "Jeffrey I Condon" <xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@us.ibm.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 11:18:16 -0700


Dear John,
The following are some of the most popular web usability articles and
tutorials from IBM developerWorks.  If you feel these resources would be
interesting to your webword.com audience, please feel free to post them.

Thanks
Jeff

These are some of the articles from IBM's Web Architecture and Usability
zones
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/web?open&l=942,t=grwa,p=wahp
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/usability?open&l=942,t=grwa,p=uhp

Rapid Web development: CSS and XHTML
This article shows you how to create sites quickly and flexibly using Web
standards like cascading style sheets (CSS), structural HTML, and
server-side includes. It contains examples that demonstrate how rapid Web
development not only streamlines the process, but also makes updating
easier.
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/web/library/wa-rapid?open&l=942,t=grwa,p=css

Building accessible Web sites
These course describes the features, functions, and controls that you must
design into Web pages to make them accessible to people with disabilities.
The steps and guidelines contained in the course explain how to make Web
sites comply with IBM's Web accessibility checklist, which is based upon
the W3C accessibility guidelines.
http://www-105.ibm.com/developerworks/education.nsf/dw/usability-onlinecourse-bynewest?OpenDocument&Count=500,t=gru

Intro tutorial on cascading style sheets
Cascading style sheets allow you to separate Web content from its
presentation -- and create sites that are flexible and attractive. Here,
author Dave Taylor introduces the CSS language and focuses on type and text
styles.
http://www-105.ibm.com/developerworks/education.nsf/web-onlinecourse-bytitle/36D72A7C55006B2786256ABF006A55B9?open&l=942,t=grwa,p=csst

Designing a Palm user interface, Part 1
Lessons learned in porting an object-oriented, modal Windows user interface
to the Palm OS.
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/usability/library/us-shrunk?open&l=942,t=grwa,p=dplm

The cranky user : What's with the attitude?
When users complain about sites, webmasters frequently respond with
hostility, derision, condescension, or just plain silence. No wonder users
rarely bother to complain. Bad attitudes stand between the site you created
and the site your users want to use.
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/usability/library/us-cranky11.html?open&l=942,t=grwa,p=cra

Microbrowser architectures
Web architecture is evolving in new directions now that wireless devices
have become a part of the Internet's information infrastructure. In this
article, Anne describes various architectures used to support the
microbrowsers that connect wireless devices to the Web.
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/web/library/wa-browse.html?open&l=942,t=grwa,p=mcr

Using PHP with Web databases
This tutorial covers the fundamentals of programming for Web databases
using the PHP scripting language. PHP is a server-side scripting language
that embeds its syntax directly within HTML documents and is supported by
most popular Web servers.
http://www-105.ibm.com/developerworks/education.nsf/web-onlinecourse-bytitle/B363B3AB5700BDE486256AAF003AA401?open&l=942,t=grwa,p=php

Crafting a wizard
Fifteen dos and don'ts for designing wizards that make complex tasks easier
for your users
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/usability/library/us-wizard?open&l=942,t=gru,p=wiz