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Other Tutorials:

web.design101
• This site's predecessor, created by Adam Fuller. It has some good details but no pictures or screenshots that explain the concepts.

UNC-CH Web Style Guidelines
•The intent of these guidelines is simply to help you write pages that present information effectively to the audience that you are targeting. Contains some useful tutorials, and style guidlines for UNC-CH such as its official web color.

BunnyFoot Design
• Article that relates design and credibility.



Sites to Look At for Examples:

Cool Homepages.com
• Generally decent pages assorted by categories such as "clean" and "hip."

Webpages That Suck.com
• Look at what not to copy.

Really Bad Websites.com
• More truly bad and disgusting webpages...


About Design:

Making Color Choices
•Talks about strategies for using color.

Poynter.org
• Tutorial on color, contrast & dimension in news design.

ThinkQuest
• About color and the world around you.

Ergogero
• A great site that details color and design with psychology.

IBM User Engineering
• Designing easy to use user interfaces.

Wilson Web

• Designing a business website.

Design
• Web page design for deigners.

Include Design
• Site on user-centered design.


Some Old Pages:

Wendy's Web Design Lecture
• This page contains some cool concepts, but needs updating.

How to Make a Web Page Out of Nothing
• Good page, but several outdated links.

 


Books to Look Into:


Homepage Usability: 50 Websites Deconstructed

Designing Web Usability: The Practice of Simplicity

Coordinating User Interfaces for Consistency