Website Design

Overview

Navigation Basics

3 Top Tips

Best Practices Checklist

Search Engine Friendly Website Design Best Practices - Collaborint

Buttons

Web Application Design

Beautiful CSS Designs

Usability Articles

Testing

Browser Market Share

Video on your Web site

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Website Design

Tab 0 -- Overview

Website Design Resources

This is a growing collection of websites that focus on website design, navigation standards, and best practices.

Click on the tabs above to read the articles. Be sure to check the subtabs above as well for related articles.

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Subtab 0 -- Branding

http://www.sitepronews.com/archives/2009/jan/14.html

Subtab 1 -- CSS Opacity and Transparency

http://www.mandarindesign.com/opacity.html

Subtab 2 -- Successful Website Design Criteria

http://www.sitepronews.com/archives/2009/oct/7.html

Tab 1 -- Navigation Basics

http://www.efuse.com/Design/navigation.html

Subtab 0 -- Bread Crumbs and Left Side Navigation

http://www.directoryone.com/articles/website-navigation.html

Tab 2 -- 3 Top Tips

See the Subtabs above for other good articles

http://www.entireweb.com/newsletter/archive/2008/ISSUE428.html

Subtab 0 -- 50 Ways Your Web Site Is Discouraging Conversions and How to Fix It

http://www.insidecrm.com/features/50-ways-discourage-conversion-040808/

Subtab 1 -- Top Ten Reasons Websites fail to Perform

http://www.sitepronews.com/archives/2008/may/9.html

Subtab 2 -- 24 Essential Pages to Include on Your Website

http://www.sitepronews.com/archives/2009/feb/6.html

Subtab 3 -- eBook on Website Design

http://www.zeldman.com/2009/04/16/taking-your-talent-to-the-web-is-now-a-free-downloadable-book-from-zeldmancom/

Tab 3 -- Best Practices Checklist

http://terrymorris.net/bestpractices/

Subtab 0 -- Elements of a Good Design

http://www.sitepronews.com/archives/2009/jul/15.html

Tab 4 -- Search Engine Friendly Website Design Best Practices - Collaborint

This is a good overview of designing a website for search engine optimization. Be sure to check my SEO binder for more detailed articles and how-tos on search engine optimization.

http://www.collaborint.com/resources/seo/search_engine_friendly_website.asp

Tab 5 -- Buttons

http://designlibrary.blinkinteractive.com/buttons/index.html

Tab 6 -- Web Application Design

http://www.digital-web.com/articles/user_interface_design_for_web_applications/

Tab 7 -- Beautiful CSS Designs

http://piepmatzel.de/

Subtab 0 -- 15 Blog Designs that Inspire

http://www.conversationmarketing.com/2008/06/15_blog_designs_that_inspire.htm

Subtab 1 -- Color Scheme Designer 3

http://colorschemedesigner.com/

Subtab 2 -- All About Floats | CSS-Tricks

http://css-tricks.com/all-about-floats/

Tab 8 -- Usability Articles

http://www.useit.com/alertbox/designer-user-differences.html

Subtab 0 -- Low Cost Usability Testing

http://www.usertesting.com/

Subtab 1 -- Sample Chapter from "Don't make me think"

http://www.sensible.com/chapter.html

Subtab 2 -- We are Colorblind » Patterns for the Color Blind

http://wearecolorblind.com/

Tab 9 -- Testing

http://www.entireweb.com/newsletter/archive/2008/ISSUE449.html

Subtab 0 -- Check Browser Compatibility, Cross Platform Browser Test - Browsershots

http://browsershots.org/

Subtab 1 -- User Testing

http://www.usertesting.com

Tab 10 -- Browser Market Share

It is important to track market share of the different browsers so that you are developing for the majority of people who will visit you. Here are current statistics:

http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=2

Tab 11 -- Video on your Web site

http://www.jamestower.com/popups/popup.php?id=minute_popups/importanceofvideo.html

Subtab 0 -- Pew Internet: Online Video

http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/219/report_display.asp

Subtab 1 -- Tubemogul.com - Why should Video Marketing be included in your marketing mix?

http://www.tubemogul.com/research/video_marketing_101.php

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