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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