Web Design Resources
| Planning to Build The Site | |
| Creating a Successful Web Site | A quick overview. |
| How to Make a Web Site - a commercial site. | Gives categories of types of Sites, and divides each into "Basic," "Database Driven," and "Multimedia Enhanced." |
| The Elements of Creating a Web Page - from Harvard University. | While some of the information relates only to Harvard (e.g. Promotion), the concepts are good and helpful. |
| Editors and HTML | |
| Barbara's Page for Web Site Developers | This covers many technical and several features for development, software tools, and maintenance. |
| BigNoseBird.Com | Many tools, tips, freebies and news links. |
| EditPlus is a shareware product. | You can download this. |
| TheSpot- for Web Site Builders from i-Depth (a commercial site) | This covers technical and many other features for development and maintenance. |
| Accessibility | |
| Designing More Usable Web Sites | A downloadable tool is Accessibility-Prompt Toolkit, to "assist Web authors in improving the accessibility and usability of HTML documents." |
| The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) | "The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) develops interoperable technologies (specifications, guidelines, software, and tools) to lead the Web to its full potential as a forum for information, commerce, communication, and collective understanding." |
| Usability | |
Designing Web Site Usability by Jakob Nielsen. |
Nielsen is the leader in this field. |
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This site suggests that if you know what is bad you will not do it! It also links to Fixing Your® Web Site Topics & links to help you out. |
| Writing | |
| Writing for the Web from useit.com: Jakob Nielsen's Website | This is THE Site to really look at. It includes a link to the Sun Microsystems Writing for the Web. This should be required reading for Web developers. |
| Citation | |
| You can try it out, too. | |
| Web Extension to American Psychological Association Style (WEAPAS) | Proposed standard for referencing online documents in scientific publications. |
| Marketing | |
| Basic strategies. | |
