Chapter Eight: Designing an Effective Web Site
Resources for Chapter Eight:
Web Site Design
Web Site Design
- Web Design Guide
- The Web Design Guide's concise web design tutorials will help you build
a faster-loading, more effective website. Our Beginner's Guide gives step-by-step
instructions for creating your very first webpage. Web design resources describe
and refer you to the tools needed by sitebuilders. Our daily eZine brings
you the latest trends, techniques, and resources in web design.
http://dreamink.com/
- World's Best Websites
Hall of Fame
- Here are some of our favorite sites for your surfing pleasure. Many of them
are at the "leading edge".
http://www.worldbestwebsites.com/fame.htm
- Webmonkey
- The web developer's resource. Topics on site
building include site organization, usability, and design theory.
http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/index.html
- A Shaker Approach
to Web Site Design
- It is the contention of this paper that the three key attributes of Shaker
artifacts: Simplicity, Elegance, and Quality, along with the overriding
Shaker emphasis on utility, can serve as the guiding principles for designing
and developing World Wide Web sites
.http://www.bls.gov/ore/htm_papers/st970120.htm
- Elements
ofWebpage and Website Design
- From the Columbia University Institute for Learning Technologies, a list
of sites on Page Design (Formal Elements), School Website Development, and
Web Page Examples & Hotspots.
http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/k12/livetext/resources/wwwdes.html
- WebSite
Goodies - A web developer's resource
- A list of articles to help you build your web site.
http://www.websitegoodies.com/learn/articles.shtml
- Website
Design
- Lists of articles, guides, tutorials, and cool sites.
http://www.websitegoodies.com/learn/articles.shtml
- lynda.com
- inspirational sites
- Links to sites that are inspirational in the following areas: color, background
tiles, frames, navigation, rollovers, simplicity, animation, flash, experimental,
typography, illustration and photography.
http://www.lynda.com/resources/inspiration/index.html
- useit.com: Usable Information Technology
- Home page for the book Homepage Usability: 50 Websites Deconstructed
by Jakob Nielsen. Columns and reports on web usability.
http://www.useit.com/
- Creating Killer Web Sites
- Core page for the book Creating Killer Web Sites by David Seigel.
Design tips and example sites.
http://www.killersites.com/
- Web Pages that Suck
- Home page for the book Web Pages that Suck by Vincent Flanders. Good
examples of bad web sites.
http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/
- Art and the Zen of Web
Sites
- Tips on site design.
http://www.tlc-systems.com/webtips.shtml