WWW Resources

Design Resources

• Browser-Safe Color Table
  Browser-safe colors in online table; requires browsers that can read colored cells in tables such as Netscape Navigator 3.0 (colored tables are not standard HTML).
• Color and Readability
  From Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas, to be published in the Proceedings of the 11th National Conference of Undergraduate Research.
• Lynda Weinman's Home Page
  Coined the phrase browser-safe color; download CLUTs from her pages.
• Victor Engel's Color Palette
  An explanation and a tool for authors to use to improve their pages.

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• Alternate Text and How to Write It
• Anchor Text Should Be Meaningful In Isolation
• Bad Style Page
  Clear opinion on what "not to do."
• Designing for Netscape and IE can lead to headaches
  Interviews with web developers lead to plea for browsers to treat HTML consistently, across platform (Windows, Mac,Unix) and companies (Netscape, MS). March 1997 WebWeek.
• Dmitry Kirsanov's Top Ten Tips
  Excellent design tips from abroad.
• Marketing and Design Daily
  Archives include articles on design, webmaster secrets, tools.
• Tips for Writers and Designers
  From David Siegel (warning: no ALT tags on his GIFs).
• Web Review Design Studio,
  "for people who make the web work." Head to the Design Studio
• Web Page Design for Designers,
  for "people who are already involved with design and typography for conventional print and want to explore the possibilities of this new electronic medium."
• What Makes a Great Web Site?
  "Well-organized, edited, and timely original content set in an attractive, interactive, and consistent format are some traits of great Web sites."
• Why Frames Suck (Most of the Time) and Top 10 Mistakes in Web Design
  By Jakob Nielsen, Sun usability guru

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• Pam Byte's Art
  Custom backgrounds and other art for downloading.
• Windy's Fashionable Page Designs
  Backgrounds galore!
• Web Places, Clip Art Searcher
  Search forms optimized to find graphics files.

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• Bare Bones Guide to HTML
• The HTML Primer, NCSA's classic.

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• Adobe.Mag
  The sister publication to Adobe Magazine, a bimonthly print magazine for owners of Adobe products.
• Computer Mediated Communication Magazine
  About people, events, technology, public policy, culture, practices, research, and applications of computer-mediated communication.
• Internet World
  The Magazine for Savvy Internet Users."
• Navigate!
  Each issue features interviews, software, plug-in, and site reviews, and tips on Web publishing.
• The Net
  Monthly printed and on-line magazine about the Internet. Breezy style covers Web design issues, new software, books and more.
• WebDeveloper.com
  Home of the Web Developer's Journal.

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