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Web Design
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useit.com: Jakob Nielsen's site
"Usable Information Technology": Usability and Web Design.
Jakob Nielsen, Ph.D., is the guru of Web usability.
Alertbox: Current Issues in Web Usability,
Bi-weekly column by Dr. Jakob Nielsen.
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Web Design from Scratch
Free web design course - basics, layout, free tutorials, case studies,
how-to guides and examples.
Basics, Design process, Opinion, Business, Goal-oriented design,
Graphic design, Site architecture, Accessibility, Usability, Copy writing,
Production, HTML, CSS, JavaScript / DHTML, Recommended.
Web Project & Design
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Yale C/AIM Web Style Guide
By Yale's Center for Advanced
Instructional Media (C/AIM). A great, comprehensive and well-designed
style guide, with the following topics:
Process, Interface Design, Site Design, Page Design, Typography,
Editorial Style, Graphics, Multimedia.
There's also an option to
Download or view manual in Acrobat (PDF) format.
First Edition Manual site.
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World Wide Web Design Issues by W3Consortium
Design Issues: Architectural and philosophical points, Original design issues.
- Web Page Design for Designers
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Web Pages That Suck
Where you learn good Web design by looking at bad design. By Vincent Flanders.
Fixing Your Web Site.
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lynda.com by Lynda Weinman
Web design training, books, videos and tips.
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BBC Visual Language Guidelines
All bbc.co.uk web pages MUST adhere to the new Visual Language Guidelines.
The document is aimed at producers and designers who need to know how to
design bbc.co.uk web pages, detailing the new design grid and page layout
guidelines to be used across the site. But it can also be useful as a general
web design guideline reference for content-intensive portals.
bbc.co.uk Design
& Editorial Standards & Guidelines.
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Composing Good HTML
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Web Design - More than Meets the Eye
Great tutorial.
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Internet Professional Publishers Association - Design Excellence
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Metodologia Moebius [In Portuguese]
I-Group Conhecimento Estrat�gico.
Moebius Methodology: Diagnostics, Prognostics, Production, Proactive
Monitoring. By prof. Ricardo Almeida, Brazil.
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Web ProMotion - Web Development and Design
- HTML Programming, Custom Image, Icon, Button, Banner and Animation Designs
Web ProMotion -
Fresh graphics, colorful 3D animation and professional websites.
Web Design Books
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Web Design in a Nutshell (826 pp.)
Author: Jennifer Niederst Robbins
Publisher: O'Reilly Media,
3rd Edition, February 2006
ISBN: 0-596-00987-9.
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Web Style Guide: Basic Design Principles for Creating Web Sites (176 pp.)
Authors: Patrick J. Lynch;
Sarah Horton
Publisher: Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2nd Edition, March 2002
ISBN: 0300088981.
First Edition site.
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Son of Web Pages That Suck: Learn Good Design by Looking at Bad Design (320 pp.)
Authors: Vincent Flanders,
with Dean Peters and a Cast of Hundreds
Publisher: Sybex, April 2002
ISBN: 0-7821-4020-3.
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Web Pages That Suck: Learn Good Design by Looking at Bad Design (288 pp.)
Authors: Vincent Flanders, Michael Willis
Publisher: Sybex, March 1998
ISBN: 0-78212-187-X.
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Creative HTML Design.2 (544 pp.)
A hands-on web design tutorial.
Authors: Lynda Weinman;
William Weinman
Publisher: Waite Group Press, April 2001
ISBN-10: 0735709726.
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Designing With Web Standards (432 pp.)
Author: Jeffrey Zeldman
Publisher: Peachpit Press,
2nd edition, July 2006
ISBN: 0321385551.
Designing with Web Standards: Structural Healing, Jun 6, 2003.
- See also:
Interaction and Usability: Books
Writing for the Web
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Writing for the Web
By Dr. Jakob Nielsen, useit.com.
Concise, SCANNABLE, and Objective: How to Write for the Web,
by John Morkes and Jakob Nielsen (1997).
Applying Writing Guidelines to Web Pages,
by John Morkes and Jakob Nielsen (January 6, 1998).
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Sun: Writing for the Web
Official Sun Microsystems guidelines booklet by Jakob Nielsen, distinguished engineer;
PJ Schemenaur, technical editor; and Jonathan Fox, editor-in-chief, www.sun.com.
HTML Color References
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VisiBone Webmaster's Color Laboratory
Color Lab: VisiBone's Online Color Picker for Webmasters.
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The Browser Safe Color Palette
Non-Dithering Colors in Browsers, By Lynda Weinman,
Lynda.com.
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The Colors of HTML
"Ooh, look at the colors! (an HTML-safe color palette)"
A listing of hexadecimal codes and colors for HTML formatting.
Huge table displaying all 216 of the browser-friendly (hex combos of 00, 33, 66, 99,
CC, FF) colors in HTML.
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Microsoft MSDN Library - HTML and CSS - Color Table
CSS Attributes: Color and Background.
- ZSPC Super Color Chart
This tool allows you to select a background color and
place fonts of different color, size, and type face on top of it.
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The Color Specifier For Netscape
Fonts for the Web
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ClearType Web interface
Microsoft Typography:
TrueType &
OpenType
Microsoft Free TrueType fonts and utilities:
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Windows 95 Font Smoother: smoother utility for
fonts on screen which integrates Microsoft Plus!
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Core fonts for the Web: Andale Mono (formerly Monotype.com),
Arial, Arial Black, Comic Sans MS, Courier New, Georgia, Impact,
Times New Roman, Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Webdings, Adobe Minion Web
- TrueDoc - Bitstream Dynamic Fonts
"What you see is what they get"
TrueDoc technology from Bitstream for fonts dynamically loaded and displayed in Web pages
by the browser, using Dynamic HTML/CSS format and Portable Font Resource (.pfr) files.
This technology aims to provide web authors ways to create pages using the fonts they
have on their systems, with the assurance that the text will display in a
browser with its font formatting intact, independently of
default fonts that users have installed in their systems.
The TrueDoc technology is natively supported by Netscape Communicator 4Win,
but there are some differences in its support by Internet Explorer 4.
Netscape Communicator: Dynamic Fonts Support
Internet Enabled Embeddable
Fonts - TrueDoc by BizFonts / IDautomation.com.
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Will-Harris House: WebFonts
Will-Harris House - Typofile Magazine.
- Web Pages Font Faces
Compare Windows, Macintosh, and Microsoft Typography Web font faces in
your computer/browser against their appearance in a PC and a Mac (GIF samples).
- CSS and Font-family
By CSS Pointers Group. See dozens of commonly available font-families appearance
in your browser.
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