Design Resources and Articles
As you embark on the long and often frustrating journey into the world of webdesign you will often come to a stumbling halt as when a carefully planned design collapses in front of your very eyes.
You could of course contact me for help but should you wish to try and fix it yourself, here are some resources that might help.
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Usability and Accessibility
Jacob Nielson’s usability guides: useit.com.
US Usability website: usability.gov
A hitchhikers guide to the obvious: squiz.co.uk
Web usability articles & resources: webcredible.co.uk
Accessibility advice from the WWW consortium: w3.org
UK accessibility guidelines: acc.nics.gov.uk
Amazing accessibility guide: diveintoaccessibility.org
Design Advice
The only design forum you’ll ever need: cre8teasiteforums.com.
Comprehensive design guidance: webstyleguide.com.
Making your Links Work: seoresearchlabs.com.
Writing Content for the Web: useit.com.
How to use Metatags: searchenginewatch.com.
Positioning Primary Navigation topic at cre8asiteforums.com
Make your own Favicon: ekstreme.com.
HTML Help
A range of easy to use tutorials from htmldog.com
Using lists and floats: maxdesign.com.au
Get to grips with the tags and atributes: w3schools.com
Cascading Style Sheets
CSS Tutorials: w3schools.com | maxdesign.com.au | htmldog.com.
CSS Experiments: csszengarden.com.
Expert CSS help: mayerweb.com.
Cutting edge CSS design: meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge.
CSS Creator Forum: csscreator.com.
CSS guidance: thenoodleincident.com.
Styling for Print: alistapart.com.
Rounded CSS Borders: rounded-borders.
Colours
Websafe Colours: mandarindesign.com. and web-source.net.
Color Names: w3schools.com.
Colour Theory: colorsontheweb.com.
Link Colours: marketingexperimentsblog.com.
Webpage filter for colourblindness: colorfilter.wickline.org
Color deficient vision resources: visibone.com/colorblind/
Colour palettes: colourlovers.com and colorschemedesigner.com
Fonts and Typography
Typography tutorial: webmonkey.com
Text sizing: thenoodleincident.com
Free fonts: webpagepublicity.com
Browser Issues
Browser bugs: positioniseverything.net.
Browser compatibility: anybrowser.com or browsercam.com
Search Engine Optimization Guides
Webmaster guidance: Yahoo Guidelines | Google Fact and fiction | Google Guidelines | Microsoft Guidelines | Ask Webmaster Information
SEO Quick Start Guide: cre8asiteforums.com
101 SEO Tips for 2006: seobook.com
Beginner’s Guide to SEO: seomoz.org
The famous SEO glossary: seobook.com/glossary
Search Engine Information
Industry monitors: SearchEngineWatch | Pandia | SearchEngineGuide.
Page rank explained: webworkshop.net.
Search Engine Spider simulator: www.searchwho.com
Backlink checker: searchenginegenie.com | iwebtool.com
The google cheat sheets: google.com/help and feedsforme.com/google
Tools
Testing download speeds: websiteoptimization.com.
Page Validator: validator.w3.org.
Google site map builder: gsitecrawler.com
General Articles
What We Saw Through Their Eyes: poynterextra.org.
Blink then Think: strategicmarketingmontreal.ca.
How to get it wrong: webdevelopersjournal.com.
Corporate stupidity here: webpagesthatsuck.com.
Interviewing Web Developers: seomoz.org.
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