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=Designing for the Web=

Also see Accessible Web Design, Web Colors, CSS, Instructional Design Basics, Designing for Online Instruction, UDL

Web Style Guide (2nd Edition) http://www.webstyleguide.com/index.html?/contents.html This appears to be the online version of a book by Patrick J. Lynch and Sarah Horton. Design Guidelines for the World Wide Web (by Ann E. Barron et al) http://www.coedu.usf.edu/inst_tech/resources/WWWDESG_1.htm Multimedia Authoring Web [|www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/authoring] This searchable site from the Maricopa Community Colleges is very useful for a variety of topics. HINT: Choose the [explanation of categories] button - or scroll all the way down the choices before you “Select a category” - or you might miss the Media Resources categories. Ten Good Deeds in Web Design http://www.useit.com/alertbox/991003.html This article by Jakob Nielson (in his Alertbox, which you can subscribe to at http://www.useit.com/alertbox/) discusses the “original top ten mistakes of web design”, the top ten “new” mistakes of web design, and the top ten mistakes of web project management. Ten Tips for WebMasters http://www.cyberbee.com/master.html “Keep it simple, small, and short” – and this site is! Art and the Zen of Web Sites http://www.tlc-systems.com/webtips.shtml Optimizing Web Graphics http://webreference.com/dev/graphics/ “The Great Bandwidth Shortage” Colors and the Web http://www.cookwood.com/html/colors/ This includes a link to the color table from the Visual Quickstart Guide: HTML for the World Wide Web (5th Ed) by Elizabeth Castro and a table of web-safe colors and sixteen pre-defined colors. Top Ten Web Design Mistakes of 2005 http://www.useit.com/alertbox/designmistakes.html Research-Based Web Design & Usability Guidelines http://www.usability.gov/pdfs/guidelines.html US Dept of Health and Human Services Usability.gov http://usability.gov/ “Your guide for developing usable & useful Web Sites” Quick Tips to Make Accessible Web Sites http://www.w3.org/WAI/quicktips/ A Brief History of Website Design by Natalie Aranda http://ezinearticles.com/?A-Brief-History-of-Website-Design&id=500936 Web Pages That Suck [|http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com] This site is by one of the authors of the book Web Pages That Suck: Learn Good Design by Looking at Bad Design, Vincent Flanders. The area “The Original Web Pages That Suck Circa 1996-1998” walks you through many of the graphic design “rules” that should be considered by web page designers. I used to assign an activity based on this site! Dave's Web Site Design Tutorial http://www.davesite.com/webstation/web-site-design/ Web Page Design and Layout > Bad Style – links http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Design_Arts/Graphic_Design/Web_Page_Design_and_Layout/Bad_Style/ Webmaster / Design Articles http://www.pageresource.com/zine/index.html Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox: Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9605.html Learning with Agents http://www.cited.org/index.aspx?page_id=142 ’Agents are the lifelike characters in multimedia software and online applications that pop up on the screen to explain rules, provide hints, or prompt the user to use the program’s features. They can be human or nonhuman, animated or static. What is their role in learning? This article presents the research behind the use of pedagogical agents and strategies to make the most of their learning potential.” The Do’s and Don’ts of Web Site Design (There are 3 parts) http://www.killersites.com/articles/articles_dosAndDontsWebDesign.htm Killer Sites http://www.killersites.com/ Web Style Guide (2nd Ed) http://www.webstyleguide.com/index.html?/sites/site_design.html Interface Design and Optimization of Reading of Continuous Text By Paul Muter [|http://psych.utoronto.ca/~muter/pmuter1.htm] The World’s Worse Website http://www.angelfire.com/super/badwebs/ Web Page Design for Designers: Web Design Archive http://www.wpdfd.com/index.htm What Makes a Good Home Page http://werbach.com/web/page_design.html Requirements for Accessible Electronic and Information Technology Design http://www.ed.gov/fund/contract/apply/clibrary/software.html