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This week we review Peter Kentie's new book, "Web Design Tools and Techniques." The book is beautifully done. But does it try to cover too much? Read on to find out. Also, now that WaSP has tamed the browser vendors, they move on to urge the Dreamweavers of the world to support standards "out of the box." The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the inability to type is not a disability, under the Americans with Disabilities Act. Eeek.
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 1. BOOK REVIEW: Web Design Tools and Techniques, 2nd Ed.
This design book is beautifully illustrated. It covers the entire spectrum of Web design techniques, from HTML and graphics, through JavaScript to Quicktime VR, XML, and database-based publishing. The problem is, it tries to cover too many topics with not enough depth. Web design is becoming so multifaceted that books that attempt to be comprehensive are either thick Bible-like tomes or cram too much into too little space.
Peter Kentie, who wrote the acclaimed "Web Graphics Tools and Techniques," takes a graphic designer's slant in this book on the art and science of Web design. Photoshop is emphasized throughout for graphics. Tools like GoLive and Filemaker are favored over hand coding. Mainly Kentie's advice is excellent but unfortunately he recommends fixed font and table sizes, which don't translate well into the ever-variable Web. Using variable sizes like EM and percentage widths are more user friendly.
Web Design Tools and Techniques By Peter Kentie Peachpit Press, $39.99 ISBN: 0-201-71712-3
http://www.kentie.com/ http://www.peachpit.com/
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 2. OTHER VOICES: Jobber: P2P Blogging, Web Design Guidelines, Expectations and Misunderstandings: WaSP
>Jobber: P2P Blogging
Intended to demonstrate how Jabber can be used as a platform for application communication, Jobber developers are working to bring it up to par with other blogging services by developing jogger into a service that the Jabber community will be able to use easily and reliably.
http://jogger.jabber.org/ Jabber.org, Aug. 2001
>Web Design Guidelines
A list of design do's and don'ts from About.com's Jean Kaiser.
http://webdesign.about.com/library/weekly/aa010500a.htm About.com, Aug. 16, 2001
>Expectations and Misunderstandings: WaSP
Now that the browser makers have listened, WaSP has begun encouraging the tool makers to also allow designers and developers to create standards-compliant pages.
http://www.webstandards.org/wfw0801.html The Web Standards Project, Aug. 11, 2001
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 3. NET NEWS: Performance Anxiety Hits Online Ads, Content-delivery sector thrives amid tech downturn, Inability to Type Not a Disability, 9th Circuit Rules, HAL 9000 Is Ready to Take Your Order
>Performance Anxiety Hits Online Ads
Advertisers want clickthroughs while nervous publishers extol branding. Which side is right? The signs point to a combination of the two.
http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/aug2001/nf20010815_806.htm Business Week, August 15, 2001
>Content-delivery sector thrives amid tech downturn
Most of the tech world is looking pretty dead, but there's at least one sector where companies are sprouting and hype is spreading like it's still 1999: content delivery.
http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/opinion/termsheet/mm081601.htm SV.com, Aug. 15, 2001
>Inability to Type Not a Disability, 9th Circuit Rules
A newspaper reporter whose repetitive stress injuries have left her unable to use a computer keyboard isn't "substantially limited" in major life activities under the Americans With Disabilities Act, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday.
http://biz.yahoo.com/law/010815/30247-4.html Yahoo.com, Aug. 15, 2001
>HAL 9000 Is Ready to Take Your Order
Speech recognition software is now sophisticated enough to replace human operators for many customer service calls.
http://www.business2.com/articles/web/0,1653,16831,FF.html Business 2.0, Aug. 16, 2001
That's it for this week, see you next time.
Andrew King Newsletter Editor, WebReference.com aking@internet.com
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