- useit.com
By Jakob Nielsen. Includes Alertbox, a bi-weekly column on web usability and user interface design.
www.useit.com
- @Websites
Offers web design resources for beginners including HTML tutorial, clip art, fonts, backgrounds, forums where pros answer your questions, and more.
www.atwebsites.com
- 12 Design Decisions Your Organization or Business Will Need to Make
An interactive article designed to help small business people make correct design decisions the first time. Returns an e-mail copy of decisions made.
www.wilsonweb.com/articles/12design.htm
- 123 ClipArt.com
Resource for new web developers containing articles focusing on web graphic creation, and free clip art.
www.123clipart.com
- Best Designs, The
Features design examples, articles, resources, and more.
www.thebestdesigns.com
- Best Web Gallery
Inspiration for CSS Flash Design Inspiration.
bestwebgallery.com
- bk2k.com
Includes free web graphics, HTML tutorials, tools, java applets, design tips, and book and software reviews.
www.bk2k.com
- Boxes and Arrows
Peer-written journal dedicated to discussing, improving, and promoting the work of the design community through the sharing of exemplary technique, innovation, and informed opinion.
www.boxesandarrows.com
- BrainJar.com
Features technical articles, tutorials, and examples of programming for the Web.
www.brainjar.com
- ByCorene.com Design Tips
Step by step instructions for using Netscape composer, Internet resources, and articles about good web design.
www.bycorene.com/class/webpage.htm
- CAUGHT
Consortium Against Unnecessary Graphics and Hypertext Tags.
www.jetcafe.org/~npc/caught/caught.html
- ConceptShare
Online design collaboration made easy.
www.conceptshare.com
- CoolHomePages.com
Scan and view thousands of the best site designs for inspiration via this fully categorized and searchable gallery.
www.coolhomepages.com
- createBlog
Layouts, scripts, tutorials, and help for Blogger, Livejournal, Myspace, Xanga, and other sites.
www.createblog.com
- Design Is Kinky
Intelligent discussion about web design.
www.designiskinky.net
- Design Not Found
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Usability critique looks at the best and worst examples of contingency design through a series of site snapshots.
www.37signals.com/dnf
- Design Project
Design examples, interviews with leading designers, tutorials and so on.
www.design-agency.com/project
- DesignersTalk
Forums for designers to talk about website design.
www.designerstalk.com
- DesignSquare
Includes downloadable graphics, interfaces, templates, and scripts, plus HTML tutorials and a forum.
design.s-q-u-a-r-e.com
- Eightfold Path to Enlightened Websight, The
Distillation of Web design principles from teknozen @ction web sites.
www.teknozen.com/tekfiles/8.html
- Elegant Hack
Guide to articles and books on information architecture, interface design, usability, user centered design, and more.
www.eleganthack.com
- GeniusShack.com
Offers a place for website owners to connect and get design tips and advice, find articles, and access message boards.
www.geniusshack.com
- Graphic Design Resources
Categories include fonts, cgi, web design guidelines, image collections, image viewers, sound libraries, validation, and web tools.
www.lightlink.com/xine/graphics.html
- Halfproject
Gathering of artists to create new ideas and promote collaboration and communication among local and foreign design scene.
www.halfproject.com
- Head-Space
Cooperative project of several web designers, dedicated to pushing boundaries that aren't approached in commercial design.
www.head-space.com
- JErmExpress
Offers tutorials, discussion forums, and interfaces.
www.jermexpress.com
- Kaliber 10000
A gallery of web design and typography.
www.k10k.net
- Light on Dark
Promotes web design formats with light text on a dark background to enhance the site's usability. Includes a gallery of web sites with dark backgrounds, related resources, and news.
www.lightondark.com
- Make Your Own Personal Web Site
Learn about creating a website, buying your own domain name, HTML and WYSIWYG editors, web page hosting, and search engine optimization.
www.makepersonalwebsite.com
- My Cute Graphics
Resource page offers free layouts, backgrounds, icons, glitter graphics, and animations for Myspace, blogs, and email.
www.mycutegraphics.com
- Netmaking.com
Webmaster resource site with tutorials, articles, and site reviews.
www.netmaking.com
- Operation Web
Provides resources for webmasters.
www.operationweb.com
- Page Resource.com
Tutorials on HTML, JavaScript, and other information for creating web pages.
www.pageresource.com
- Patrick J. Lynch
Site of the co-author of the Yale Web Style Guide and the Design Director at the Yale University School of Medicine's Web Design and Development Unit features the biweekly column visualLogic.
www.patricklynch.net
- Pirated Sites
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Showcases side-by-side comparisons of web sites that are suspected of borrowing, copying, or stealing copyright-protected content, design, or code without permission.
www.pirated-sites.com
- Reencoded
[Re]Encoded provides web design and development resources, including tips, tutorials, and inspiration.
www.reencoded.com
- Review Web Design
User-generated review of web sites to understand new design technologies. Features suggest a site and links to design guide.
www.review-webdesign.com
- Site2You
Contains a collection of high quality design templates. Includes FAQs on using the service and a company blog with updates. Also provides 24/5 webmaster support to help customers deal with website builder service.
www.site2you.com
- Sizzling HTML Jalfrezi
Comprehensive guide to writing web sites.
www.htmlbyexample.com
- Student Web Awards
Nationwide Web design contest just for high school students.
www.studentwebawards.com
- Studio Smackdown
Five contestants, four weeks, one graphics design winner.
www.studiosmackdown.com
- Techude's Claris Home Page Tutorial
Provides step-by-step instructions for web page layout in Claris/Filemaker Home Page, focusing on the use of tables.
www.easygreen.net/design/lessons
- Textbased.com
Minimalistic web design, theory, and discussions by Jarrod Piccioni.
www.textbased.com
- Typetester
Online application for web designers to compare font sizes on screen.
typetester.maratz.com
- U Creative
Resource site for web designers, graphic designers, imaging companies, and amateur design enthusiasts. Features tips and how-tos for using different designing software.
www.ucreative.com
- Usable Web
Contains links and information about human factors, user interface issues, and usable design specific to the Web.
www.usableweb.com
- ventilate
Reviews Canadian and international web design, photography, and music through interviews, links, and more.
www.ventilate.ca
- Viewable With any Browser
Campaign for a non-browser specific WWW ; site also offers graphics and information for use in joining the campaign.
www.anybrowser.org/campaign
- Void3.com
Offers critique on the design and style of various web sites.
www.void3.com
- Web Creme
Blog featuring daily examples of the cream of the crop in web design.
www.webcreme.com
- Web Design From Scratch
Ben Hunt takes you through the basics of good web design with tutorials, case studies, and how-to guides.
www.webdesignfromscratch.com
- Web Design Library
Provides tutorials, articles, basics, tools, tips, and more for web designing.
webdesign.templatemonster.com
- Web Design Practices
Devoted to helping designers understand what design practices are currently in use on the Web. Also gathers research about the usability of commonly-employed design practices.
www.webdesignpractices.com
- Web Page Design for Designers
With an emphasis on graphic design and content rather than on technology.
www.wpdfd.com
- Web Site Design
An online course in designing web sites.
www.shire.net/learnwebdesign/index.html
- Web Style Guide
Provides a thorough and accessible guide to Web design for developers around the world. Covers graphic and information design, page layout, site organization, navigation, and multimedia content.
www.webstyleguide.com
- Wigglebits
Features a guide on how to build a school web site using HTML and a web editor.
www.wigglebits.com
- WildMag 256b.htm Compo
Competition to create a nice static or dynamic web site in just 256 bytes.
wildmag.de/compo.php
- Write Market, The
Articles, resources, and tutorials on design, search engine promotion, ezines, writing for the web, and Internet marketing, also offers free art gallery.
www.thewritemarket.com
- Yale C/AIM Web Style Guide
Takes into account graphic design, user interface design, information design, and the technical authoring skills required to optimize HTML code, graphics, and text.
cal.bemidji.msus.edu/webtraining/yalemanual
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