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