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Top Ten Mistakes
in Web Design

Top Ten Mistakes
of Web Management

Jakob Nielsen authored the above two "Top ten" and provides excellent guides.
(24 November, 1998)

Helpful tutorials/getting started with design:

http://davesite.com/webstation/html/index.shtml

http://www.kevjudge.co.uk/index.htm

 FrontPage Resources

Web Style Guide
Patrick Lynch, Yale Center for Advanced Instructional Media; and Sarah Horton, Dartmouth Curricular Computing, Dartmouth Didactic Web.  One of the best comprehensive guides to the design of websites (http://info.med.yale.edu/caim/manual/contents.html) (24 November, 1998)
WebSiteGarage.COM
AtWeb, Inc. (automated Web site promotion, maintenance and communication) When you submit your URL, this service e-mails an evaluation of your website for browser compatibility, indexes for search engines and directories, load time check, dead link check, link popularity, spelling check, HTML design. One free check is available through this website garage (http://www.websitegarage.com/) (24 November, 1998)
The basics and the latest on HTML
World Wide Web Consortium [W3C] http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/) founded in 1994 to develop common protocols for the evolution of the World Wide Web.  Here you will find pointers to specifications for HTML, guidelines on how to use HTML to the best effect, and pointers to related work at W3C
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/ (24 November, 1998)
Alta Vista:
Who links to your website?  How popular are you?  Search for these links using Alta Vista's search.  Type "link:" and your address (don't include http://www). Remember any check of this sort only searches the database of the particular search engine, in this case Alta Vista) (24 November, 1998) 
The basics of color
The Browser Safe Color Palette, by Lynda Weinman
http://www.lynda.com/hex.html (3 December, 1998)

Color selector
Lindsay MarshalA Website that automates and illustrates your color selection, but does not demonstrate the color safe palette or their values.  Handy nonetheless.  (http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Lindsay/colours.html)
(24 November, 1998)

Library of Congress Guides to the Web
(24 November, 1998)

Human-Computer Interface
and Web Site Design

(May 27, 1999)

HTML Tidy
Dave Raggett:  When editing HTML it's easy to make mistakes.  HTML TIDY is a free utility for fixing (HTML) mistakes automatically and tidying up sloppy editing into nicely laid out markup. http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett/tidy/   (24 November, 1998)
Internet Guides, Software, and Tools
ERIC Clearinghouse on Higher Education  (24 November, 1998)
Sun on the Web:  Guide to Web Style
Rick Levine, Sun Microsystems:  This is a cookbook for helping people create better web pages.
http://selfpromotion.com/
Robert Woodhead, AnimEigo   SelfPromotion.com automates the process of registering your website with search engines and indexes.. You decide what sites you want to register with, and the site will generate a custom form that asks for exactly the information needed to register with those sites. (24 November, 1998)

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