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The Basics

12 Web Page Design Decisions Your Business or Organization Will Need to Make

http://www.wilsonweb.com/articles/12design.htm
This is step one! This quick survey will help you clarify what you are trying to accomplish with your website. (By the way, our rates are lower than the consultant who put this together!)

Crash course on writing documents for the web

http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/eamonn/crash_course.html
Just the facts; this is the quickest, dirtiest guide we've seen to putting up a web page.

NCSA -- A Beginner's Guide to HTML

http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/General/Internet/WWW/HTMLPrimer.html
This is a comprehensive guide to HTML authoring, written for beginners; in no sense is this one quick or dirty!

Bare Bones Guide to HTML

http://www.werbach.com/barebones/
This is an easy to print reference to HTML tags. It's due for an update, but is still the most useful reference I've found.

Yale Style Manual

http://info.med.yale.edu/caim/manual/index.html
This is a comprehensive guide to web page design; great for beginners with a bent for research, but with plenty of depth for seasoned designers as well. (Requires JavaScript)

 

Advanced Topics

Web Site Garage

http://www.websitegarage.com
This site offers a useful set of free tools to help optimize your website including analysis of HTML design, load time, and browser compatability; META tag generation; site registration; graphics optimization; and, dead link, spelling, and link popularity checking.

Position Agent

http://www.positionagent.com/free.htm
This service finds where your site shows up in several popular Internet search engines - useful for checking where you rank relative to your competition.

ZSPC Super Color Chart

http://www.zspc.com/color/index-e.html
This site provides an interactive color picker with RGB to HEX conversion. It allows you to test various combinations of text and background colors and to generate HEX codes for particular colors.

BrowserCaps

http://www.browsercaps.com
This site provides data on which HTML and JavaScript features work with what versions of what browsers. Useful for increasing cross-platform compatability.

Builder.com

http://www.builder.com
"The Site for Site Builders." This site contains countless useful articles and tutorials on advanced website authoring topics such as DHTML, JavaScript, and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).