This page provides useful links to sites with information about website design, with an emphasis on usability issues.


      * Webmonkey.com: the Web Developer's Resource: Archive of articles by and for          web developers. A search on "usability" will generate a list of related articles.
         webreview.com

      * Web Style Guide: Nice, design-oriented, readable explanations of principles of          website design.
         info.med.yale.edu/caim/manual/index.html

      * Usability First: A broad selection of usability resources.
         www.usabilityfirst.com

      * Usable Web: Guide to Web Usability: A large set of links related to designing          usable websites.
         www.usableweb.com

      * The Usability Methods Toolbox: A nearly-comprehensive set of usability methods          each described in simple and useful terms.
         www.best.com/~jthom/usability/

      * Designing Web Graphics
         By: Lynda Weinman
         This and other books by Lynda Weinman are practical sets of web graphics          techniques.
         www.lynda.com

      * The Elements of Style
         By: William Strunk, Jr.
         Classic tips for good writing, written in 1918 but still as relevant today.
         www.bartleby.com/141/
         

      * The Jargon File
         By: Eric s. Raymond
         The online version of The New Hacker's Dictionary, Raymond calls this site the          "network culture's museum of itself, an evolving encyclopedia of Internet slang          that has chronicled what's hot and what's not since 1973." Good for learning          hacker usage.
         http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/
         

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