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Web Design Resources

As you embark on the long and often frustrating journey into the world of webdesign you will often come to a stumbling halt as when a carefully planned design collapses in front of your very eyes.

You could of course contact me for help but should you wish to try and fix it yourself, here are some resources that might help.

Usability and Design Advice

The only design forum you'll ever need: cre8teasiteforums.com.

Jacob Nielson's usability guides: useit.com.

Accessibility advice from the WWW consortium: w3.org

UK accessibility guidelines: acc.nics.gov.uk

Comprehensive design guidance: webstyleguide.com.

Making your Links Work: seoresearchlabs.com.

Writing Content for the Web: useit.com.

How to use Metatags: searchenginewatch.com.

Superb Navigation and Orientation tips from nics.gov.uk.

Positioning Primary Navigation topic at cre8asiteforums.com

Make your own Favicon: ekstreme.com.

Colours

Websafe Colours: mandarindesign.com.

Color Names: w3schools.com.

Websafe colors: web-source.net.

Colours Theory: colorsontheweb.com.

Link Colours: marketingexperimentsblog.com.

Fonts and Typography

Typography tutorial: webmonkey.com

Text sizing: thenoodleincident.com

Free fonts: webpagepublicity.com

Browser Issues

Browser bugs: positioniseverything.net.

Browser compatibility: anybrowser.com or browsercam.com

Search Engine Optimization Guides

Webmaster guidance: Yahoo Guidelines | Google Fact and fiction | Google Guidelines | Microsoft Guidelines | Ask Webmaster Information

SEO Quick Start Guide: cre8asiteforums.com

101 SEO Tips for 2006: seobook.com

Beginner's Guide to SEO: seomoz.org

AN SEO Directory: seodictionary.net

Search Engine Information

Industry monitors: SearchEngineWatch | Pandia | SearchEngineGuide.

Page rank explained: webworkshop.net.

Search Engine Spider simulator: www.searchwho.com

Backlink checker: searchenginegenie.com | iwebtool.com

Cascading Style Sheets

CSS Tutorials: w3schools.com | hotwired.lycos.com | maxdesign.com.au | htmldog.com.

CSS Experiments: csszengarden.com.

Expert CSS help: mayerweb.com.

Cutting edge CSS design: meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge.

CSS Creator Forum: csscreator.com.

CSS guidance: thenoodleincident.com.

Styling for Print: alistapart.com.

Rounded CSS Borders: rounded-borders.

Tools

Testing download speeds: websiteoptimization.com.

Page Validator: validator.w3.org.

Google site map builder: gsitecrawler.com

General Articles

What We Saw Through Their Eyes: poynterextra.org.

Blink then Think: strategicmarketingmontreal.ca.

How to get it wrong: webdevelopersjournal.com.

Corporate stupidity here: webpagesthatsuck.com.

Interviewing Web Developers: seomoz.org.

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