This page contains a collection of sites and resources a site designer or webmaster may find useful. There is an overlap between the subject of this page and other aspects of site development. However, I've tried to make a distinction between general site design, and specific aspects of it. If you don't find what you need here, check the other pages linked from the Internet page.

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• The 216 web safe colours
• All About Your Own Website
  Steps to site creation, promotion, and maintenance.
• Anybrowser
  Validators; link checkers; site promotion; screen size test.
• Apache HTTP Web Server
• Alertbox
  Tips for site design
• Barry's Free Clip Art
• "Best Viewed with any Browser" campaign
  One person's attempt to not use browser-specific HTML
  Many links to HTML resources.
• CIE
  Commission Internationale De L'Éclairage
  International Commission On Illumination
  Internationale Beleuchtungskommission
  International standards for colour and human vision (CIE XYZ)
• Colour blind design tips
  • About Colour Blindness
  • Choosing web colour schemes
  • Colour Blind Design
  • Designing user interfaces for the colour blind
• The Complete Resource for All Web Builders
  reallybig.com
  Counters, graphics, Perl, Clip Art, HTML editors, Java, Backgrounds, Textures
• Database Central
  Resource for webmasters, DBAs, developers, and IT professionals.
• Design & Publishing Centre
  Pointers and tips for typography, design, graphics, illustration, writing ...
• Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI)
  PDF of the recently approved standard set of fifteen metadata elements for resource description.
• Graphic Design & Web Page Design Terms
• HTML Writers Guild
• Jakob Nielsen's Website
  Excellent site for designers and coders. Required reading especially are his articles on "usability". He is also the author of Alertbox, another excellent source of design guidelines.
• prana3
  Metasite of design, script, ecommerce, promotion, usability resources.
• Publishing on the Web Forum
• Site Experts
• Style Guide for Online Hypertext
  Tim Berners-Lee
• Style Sheets
  • Cascading Style Sheets. Level 2
  • House of Style
    Tutorials, specifications (CSS1 and CSS2), resources.
  • The Master List
    Compatibility charts, tutorials.
  • Style Sheet Reference Guide
  • Style Sheet Tutorials
• Tips, Tricks, How-to, and Beyond
• TRUSTe
  Privacy issues on the Web
  Note: An article at slashdot raises some issues about TRUSTe's trust.
  Read the article.
• The Ultimate Spot for Webmasters
  A metasite where you can find all the services needed to start and maintain a web site.
• Usable Web
  Keith Instone's meta-site for designing 'usable' web sites.
• User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 1.0
  W3C
•   Web design glossary
• Web Developer's Virtual Library
  An alternative location - same content, different layout.
• Web Pages That Suck
  What *not* to do, and how to fix it.
• Web Site Development Information
  HTML, layout, style sheets.
• Web Site Garage
• Web Techniques
  The online version of this excellent magazine.
• Webmaster's Notebook
  Intranet Case Studies
  Links to employment resources
• WebMonkey
• Webtools
  University of Rochester
• What is a Webmaster?
  From the folks at The Web Developer's Virtual Library
• Wotsit's File Formats
  Programmer's resources.
• WWW8 - 1999
  World Wide Web Conference - Toronto
  Refereed Papers
• Zuberlinks
  Organized into topical sections: registration and hosting, design, legal issues, e-business, etc.