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1. PRODUCTION GRAPHICS: Photoshop 6 Review 2. REVIEW: ImageReady 3 3. DHTML LAB: Hierarchical Menus FAQ Update 4. NEW LINKS: HTML Tutorials, Usability Links 5. OTHER VOICES: * Style Sheets: Give Me Pixels or Give Me Death * Advanced DHTML 101 Series * Setting Up a Basic Online Store * XHTML: The "M" Word 6. NET NEWS: * Olympic Web Site Ordered to be Accessible to Blind * Vendors Target Email Overload * A Place Wireless Startups May Call Home * AMD Jacks Up Athlon Processor to 1.1 GHz * Back-to-School Season for Linux Programmers
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 1. PRODUCTION GRAPHICS: Photoshop 6 Review
Our own "Queen Practical" shows what newly released Photoshop 6 means for your Web work. If you care about how fast you can get your work done, you'll love Photoshop 6. By Wendy Peck.
http://webreference.com/graphics/column33/
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 2. REVIEW: ImageReady 3
Adobe's announcing Photoshop 6 today, and we got a sneak peek at ImageReady 3, bundled with Photoshop 6. ImageReady 3's unique new "weighted optimization" feature allows regional compression of your images using alpha channels for superior compression. By Andy King.
http://www.webreference.com/dev/gifanim/
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 3. DHTML LAB: Hierarchical Menus FAQ Update
Peter answers your burning menu questions, including speeding up IE, platform-specific parameters, and the effect of the DOCTYPE tag. By Peter Belesis.
http://webreference.com/dhtml/hiermenus/faq/
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>HTML Tutorials
Every journey starts with a single step, and every Web page starts with a single tag. If you're ready to start making your own Web pages, our list of HTML tutorials will guide the way.
http://webreference.com/authoring/languages/html/tutorials.html
>Usability Links
If your users can't use your site, they'll be happy to use someone else's. Keeping your usability up is professional, polite and makes good business sense to boot. Maximize your site's potential with our list of resources.
http://www.webreference.com/authoring/design/usability.html
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 5. OTHER VOICES: Style Sheets: Give Me Pixels or Give Me Death, Advanced DHTML 101 Series, Setting Up a Basic Online Store, XHTML: The "M" Word
>Style Sheets: Give Me Pixels or Give Me Death
If you wish to control your web typography, CSS provides many options. Unfortunately, most don't work. In the fourth outing of the Fear of Style Sheets series, Zeldman shows you the only things that work in every "CSS-capable" browser... and explains why the alternatives (including scripting) fail. http://www.alistapart.com/stories/fear4/index.html AListApart.com, 000825
>Advanced DHTML 101 Series
Welcome to the first of a four part series of articles which discusses several of the more complex features IE4+ DHTML has to offer. These features can greatly improve the design and feel of your Web pages, and skilled use of them can be very rewarding. http://www.webtools.com/story/dhtml/TLS20000824S0001 WebTools.com, 000824
>Setting Up a Basic Online Store
The first thing you probably think when someone mentions the words "internet application" is "online store." Although there are many other kinds of applications, this is the most common. Using ASP as an integrating technology is easy and even fun when building interactive Web sites such as an online store. http://www.asptoday.com/articles/20000828.htm ASPToday.com, 000828
>XHTML: The "M" Word
With all the change surrounding the transition from HTML 4.01 to XHTML 1.0, you'd think that the World Wide Web Consortium would be content to rest on its laurels for a while. Guess again! The only constant on the Web is change, and the XHTML standard is no exception. http://www.webreview.com/pub/2000/08/25/tag/index.html WebReview.com, 000825
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***********************************************************adv.*** ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 6. NET NEWS: Olympic Web Site Ordered to be Accessible to Blind, Vendors Target Email Overload, A Place Wireless Startups May Call Home, AMD Jacks Up Athlon Processor to 1.1 GHz, Back-to-School Season for Linux Programmers
>Olympic Web Site Ordered to be Accessible to Blind
Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunities Commission has ordered the Sydney 2000 Olympics organizers (SOCOG) to use ALT tags on all images and image map links on its Web site. SOCOG says it'll take a year and over $2 million to make the changes. http://www.theage.com.au/frontpage/20000828/A32287-2000Aug28.html TheAge.com, 000828
>Vendors Target Email Overload
Tired of slogging through hundreds of e-mail messages each day? An emerging technology called Sieve touts a simple, universal way to create filters for sorting, deleting and forwarding e-mail messages before they enter your inbox. http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2000/0828sieve.html?nf NetworkWorld.com, 000828
>A Place Wireless Startups May Call Home
Sprint and eCompanies have teamed up with hope to jumpstart the wireless web with a new incubator designed to help startups. Sky Dayton, co-founder of eCompanies said his firm decided to create a safe harbor for wireless startups to accommodate what he predicts will be a "brand new market ecosystem." http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article/0,2171,3_446891,00.html InternetNews.com, 000828
>AMD Jacks Up Athlon Processor to 1.1 GHz
Advanced Micro Devices has cranked up the speed of its Athlon processors again. Computers with the 1.1-GHz Athlon will begin shipping today. Compaq Computer, Fujitsu Siemens, Gateway, Hewlett-Packard and IBM are among the computer makers expected to adopt the chip. http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-200-2631022.html CNet.com, 000828
>Back-to-School Season for Linux Programmers
To stay on top in the programming world, it's essential to stay up- to-date, especially in the fast changing world of open source. Linux powerhouse Red Hat Inc. is aiming to help busy programmers do just that with Monday's roll-out of a suite of eLearning courses. http://www.internetnews.com/wd-news/article/0,2171,10_447131,00.html InternetNews.com, 000828
That's it for this week, see you next time.
Andrew King Managing Editor, WebReference.com update@webreference.com
Eric Cook Assistant Editor, WebReference.com ecook@internet.com
Catherine Levy Assistant Editor, WebReference.com clevy@internet.com
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