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Why Should I Build a Website?
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How Do I Start?Answer these questions:
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What Are The Elements Of a Well-Designed Site? |
Creating a Successful Web Site: http://successful.pagehere.com/web.htm |
Creating Killer Web Sites: this site contains excerpts from a book of the same name, and valuable links to other sites. http://www.killersites.com/ |
Designing Web Pages: Has some information on writing for the web that may be relevant. http://www.ash.udel.edu/ash/tutor/design/index.html#Writing%20on%20the%20Web |
Factors in Good Web Design: From Northwest Missouri State University. http://www.nwmissouri.edu/library/courses/computers/factors.html |
Five Principles of Good Web Site Design: This is from a college course and the site contains many links to valuable web design resources. http://www.raritanval.edu/departments/cis/jsullivan/websited.html |
Five Steps to Good Web Site Design: http://www.weblens.org/fivesteps.html |
10 Principles of Good Web Design: http://www.peckwebs.com/principles.htm |
Web Design Features: This site is by Robin Williams, author of Web Design for Non-Designers. Concise list of good and bad things to consider when designing a site. (good book, too; worth checking out) http://www.ratz.com/features.html |
Webmaster Mac:This site is designed for Mac users but it has a lot of information you might find useful if you're just starting out…such as basic web terminology . Most important part of the site covers web design do's and don'ts. http://www.webmastermac.com/beginner/ |
Web Pages That Suck: Learn about good web page design by looking at bad pages: http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/ |
What Is Good Web Design? This is part of a larger site about designing a school web site, so there are a lot of other resources on the site on storyboarding and assessment rubrics. Good information. Definitely worth reading. http://www.buddyproject.org/tool/design/2goodes.asp (The buddy project has to do with making your site accessible to handicapped users…especially those who are visually handicapped.) |
What Defines a Well-Designed Web Page? 25 Tips. (This is from a commercial web design firm. Even if you don't care for the design of their page, you might consider what they have to say. http://www.cyberfirms.com/design.html |
Yale University Web Style Guide: Excellent basic reference book on the subject. http://info.med.yale.edu/caim/manual/contents.html |
Helpful Online Resources |
Web Page Authoring: Information on HTML and much more, organized in lessons. http://www.forefrontleaders.org/resources/tech/html/index.htm#Table of Contents |
HTML Goodies: Tutorials, primers, free images, java and lots of other stuff. http://www.htmlgoodies.com/ |
Learning HTML Quickly and Easily for Free: http://freeinternetservice.hypermart.net/html_Index1.htm |
WebMonkey: a webmaster's reference: Includes articles on web design and LOTS more. http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/ |
Webreference: This is a VERY handy site for webmasters or others wanting to learn more about the technical skills associated with running a website. It calls itself the Webmasters Library and contains all sorts of info about cgi, vrml, java, watermarks, tutorials, examples. One example: Know the domain name and need the IP address? Check here. Go here only if you have a LOT of time! http://www.webreference.com/ |
Writing for the Web: Part of a larger site on multimedia design that also has helpful information. http://home.earthlink.net/~atomic_rom/web.htm |
More Goodies |
Art.com: More than 100,000 art images, perfect for webpage wallpaper, or just pictures http://www.art.com |
Banner Generator: Lets you create banners for your web page, online. http://www.coder.com/creations/banner/ |
Barewalls: Thousand of art images to choose from. http://www.barewalls.com |
Fishing Net provides all sorts of handy tools for people who "weave webs" including clip art, java applets and cgi scripts. http://intergate.cccoe.k12.ca.us/snorkel/fishnets.htm |
Multilingual Web: Links to multilingual computing resources on the Internet, tools for browsing and publishing on the Web in Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swahili and Turkish. http://www.nyu.edu/acf/multilingual/ |
Webby Awards: Sites chosen as award winners by industry professionals.http://www.webbyawards.com/ |
Test your site's accessibility: an interactive online test: http://www.masseynet.com/interactive_test.html |
Professional Organizations |
HTML Writer's Guild: Largest international organization of Web authors; 85,000 members in 130 countries.http://www.hwg.org |
International Webmasters Association: http://www.iwanet.org |