WWW Design Considerations Links

• Web Style Guidebooks
• Web Design Standards
• Usability and Accessibility
• Language/Style Basics
• Cascading Style Sheets
• Graphics Design Style
• Bad Web Style
• Miscellaneous

Web Style Guidebooks

New York Public Library Online Style Guide

http://www.nypl.org/styleguide/

Web Style Manual (Yale C/AIM, Patrick Lynch)

http://www.webstyleguide.com/

Web Design Standards

A List Apart (Jeffrey Zeldman)

http://www.alistapart.com/

Developing with Web Standards (Roger Johansson)

http://www.456bereastreet.com/lab/developing_with_web_standards/

HTML Dog (Patrick Griffiths)

http://www.htmldog.com/

Open Source Web Design (Francis J. Skettino)

http://www.oswd.org/

The Web Standards Group

http://webstandardsgroup.org/

The Web Standards Project (Jeffrey Zeldman)

http://www.webstandards.org/

W3Schools

http://www.w3schools.com/

Usability and Accessibility

The Access Board

http://www.access-board.gov/

Accessify (Ian Lloyd)

http://www.accessify.com/

Advanced Common Sense (Steve Krug)

http://www.sensible.com/

Adaptive Path (Jesse James Garrett)

http://adaptivepath.com/

Alertbox: Current Issues in Web Usability (Jakob Nielsen)

http://www.useit.com/alertbox/

DO-IT HTML Guidelines

http://www.washington.edu/doit/

Knowbility

http://www.knowbility.org/main/

Pat's Webmaster Resources [particularly w3c accessibility]

http://www.mhric.org/pat/resources.html

Usability.gov

http://www.usability.gov/

Usable Web: Guide to Web usability resources (Keith Instone)

http://www.usableweb.com/

WebAIM - Web Accessibility

http://www.webaim.org/

Web Semantics Resources

http://www.websemantics.co.uk/tutorials/

Web Usability (Bob Bailey)

http://webusability.com/

Language/Style Basics

The Elements of Style (William Strunk, Jr.) [1918,but applicable!]

http://www.bartleby.com/141/

eNormicom [design satire]

http://www.37signals.com/enormicom/

Cascading Style Sheets

A List Apart (Jeffrey Zeldman)

http://www.alistapart.com/

CSS 2 Reference (Eric Meyer)

http://meyerweb.com/eric/css/references/css2ref.html

CSS 2 Reference with Examples (Miloslav Nic and Jiri Jirat)

http://www.zvon.org/comp/r/ref-CSS_2_1.html

CSS - A Guide for the Unglued (Owen Briggs)

http://www.thenoodleincident.com/tutorials/css/

CSS Discuss wiki

http://css-discuss.incutio.com/

CSS Edge (Eric Meyer)

http://meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/

CSS Pointers (Toby Brown, Jan Roland Eriksson, and Sue Sims)

http://www.dev-archive.net/articles/pointers/

CSS Shark: The CSS Know-How Site (MaKo)

http://www.mako4css.com/

CSS Table Gallery (Chris Heilmann)

http://icant.co.uk/csstablegallery/tables/19.php

Dynamic Drive CSS Library

http://www.dynamicdrive.com/style/

glish.com - CSS Layout Techniques (Eric Costello)

http://glish.com/css/

House of Style

http://www.westciv.com/style_master/house/

Layout Reservoir (Rob Chandanais)

http://www.bluerobot.com/web/layouts/

MeyerWeb CSS Work(Eric Meyer)

http://meyerweb.com/eric/css/

Position is Everything [browser bugs re CSS](John and Holly Bergevin)

http://www.positioniseverything.net/

QuirksMode (Peter-Paul Koch)

http://www.quirksmode.org/

Style Sheets and Guides (Alan Richmond)

http://www.wdvl.com/Authoring/Style/Sheets/

WestCiv - CSS Resources

http://www.westciv.com/

Web Style Sheets (W3C)

http://www.w3.org/Style/

Zen Garden (Dave Shea)

http://www.csszengarden.com/

Graphics Design Style

Jeffrey Zeldman Presents

http://www.zeldman.com/

Web Design Library

http://www.webdesign.org/

Web Page Design for Designers (Joe Gillespie)

http://www.wpdfd.com/

Bad Web Style

Stupid Web Tricks (Tony Karp) [1998]

http://www.tlc-systems.com/stupid01.htm

Web Pages that Suck (Vincent Flanders)

http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/

Miscellaneous

Art and the Zen of Web Sites (Tony Karp)

http://www.tlc-systems.com/webtips.htm

Good Documents - "How to write for the INTRAnet" (Dan Bricklin) [1999]

http://www.gooddocuments.com/homepage/homepage.htm

Pointers on how to create business web pages that work (J&E Copywriting) [1995+]

http://www.viacorp.com/pointers.html