October 20, 2003
ALA 3.0 kicks off with three articles by three of our best writers. Details on our front- and backend redesign will be posted in an upcoming issue.
Random Image Rotation
by Dan Benjamin
Readers return to sites that appear fresh and new on each visit. On a news site, magazine, or blog, stories or headlines will be updated frequently. But how can static sites keep that fresh feeling? Dan Benjamin’s free image randomizer may do the trick, and you needn’t be a programmer to install it.
Sliding Doors of CSS
by Douglas Bowman
![[Stylized tabs using rounded corners and subtle three-dimensional shading.]](/d/slidingdoors/tabex2.gif){kind=small}
Image-driven, visually compelling user interfaces. Text-based, semantic markup. Now you can have both! Douglas Bowman’s sliding doors method of CSS design offers sophisticated graphics that squash and stretch while delivering meaningful XHTML text. Have your cake and eat it, too!
Facts and Opinion About Fahrner Image Replacement
by Joe Clark
Fahrner Image Replacement and its analogues aim to combine the benefits of high design with the requirements of accessibility. But how well do these methods really work? Accessibility expert Joe Clark digs up much-needed empirical data on how FIR works (and doesn’t) in leading screen readers.
About the art
New York cityscapes by Fred Gates. Used by permission of the artist.
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