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.
Art and the Zen of
web sites is a bit dated and rambles but offers insight into the
process.
Web Design Tips/Tutorials/Resources
Web Page Design for Designers;
great design links; Smartwebby's Design
Guide w/tips.
Basic Web
Design Guidelines and Resources from WIX..
A great set of links to web design references.
The Usable Web; user interface/usability
issues; guides
to usable design covers issues.
SURL; on usability
design;
articles on older
adults, children;
will analyze your site.
About.Com's HTML and Web
Design section, has many tips and Design
References.
All Things Web on
how principles of usability engineering can enhance web design.
General and/or Specific Design Issues
Nielsen w/design
errors, Web management
errors and good
deeds.
Liquid design is the current vogue; read views from Evolt, Sitepoint, DigitalWeb,
Color Use; about Color
Theory and
browser safe colors; see colormix to
extend options.
The Accessible
Site Design Guide; also the HWG
resource page & 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.
Webreference is an on-line magazine and the Web Developer's Virtual Library is loaded.
Elated has free 'page kits'.
Web Design Books -
seeothers at Amazon
"Web
Style Guide: Basic Design Principles for Creating Web Sites", 3rd
ed, Lynch, Horton
"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 New
York Public Library approach.
For prospective web designers here are educational
resources at the collegiate
level.
