Web Design
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Web Based Style/Design Guides
The Yale Style Guide is extensive; interface design, site/page design, graphics, multimedia.
Usability.Gov is preparing 'evidence-based' guidelines for web design and usability.
Principia Hypertextica is a basic view of design; speed, accessibility, validity, navigability, links.
IBM's Web Design Guidelines is a thorough treatment of the entire web design process.
Art and the Zen of web sites rambles but offers insight; sections on intranets and repeat visits.
Web Design Tips/Tutorials/Resources
Web Page Design for Designers; great design links; Smartwebby's Design Guide; tutorials, tips.
A great set of links to web design references.
IBM's design center is a fine resource; see especially web guidelines and design concepts.
CNet and the Sevloid Guide have great tips; GoodDocuments covers writing for the web.
The Usable Web; user interface/usability issues; their guides to usable design cover specific issues.
SURL; on usability design; articles on frames, older adults, children; will analyze your site.
Philosophe; website quality assurance; design, audience, testing, ecommerce, search, etc.
Microsoft has a good usability site; see especially their accessibility resources and tips.
An esoteric and useful collection on Information Architecture and a tutorial from Hotwired.
About.Com's HTML and Web Design sections, have many tips and Design References.
All Things Web discusses how principles of usability engineering can enhance web design.
General and/or Specific Design Issues
The HyperTerrorist and Nielsen w/design errors, Web management errors and good deeds.
Liquid design is the current vogue; read views from Evolt, Sitepoint, DigitalWeb,
Color Use; learn about Color Theory and
browser safe colors; see colormix to extend options.
Designing page width. How to embed fonts in your HTML.
Where users expect web objects to be; Nielsen on location - expected and appropriate.
The Accessible Site Design Guide; also see the HWG resource page and the DOJ Checklist.
Jakob Nielsen's
Writing for the Web 'doubles site usability'; other writings on usability.
UseIt is devoted to web usability; the alertbox with his articles and his papers and essays.
More Usability articles from Human Factors International.
Web Development Resource Sites
Yahoo - Web Page Design and Layout and Writing for the Web.
The Hotwired Webmonkey covers web design, html, graphics, browsers, more.
Webreference is an on-line magazine and the Web Developer's Virtual Library is loaded.
Web Design Books -
see others at Amazon
"Web Style Guide: Basic Design Principles for Creating Web Sites", 2nd ed, Lynch, Horton; (Yale Guide)
"Graphics and Web Page Design", Laura Lemay
"Web Accessibility for People With Disabilities", Michael G. Paciello
"HotWired Style; Principles for Building Smart Web Sites", Jeffrey Veen
"Deconstructing Web Graphics", Lynda Weinman (see her other books)
"The Non Designers Web Book", Robin Williams and John Tollett
"Creating Killer Web Sites", David Siegel
Create your own style; here is the Process
BCR used; articles with
Issues and Procedures; GE has
a great approach; style from Murdoch
Univ, the Bibliographical Center for
Research, the New York
Public Library.
