Site Optimization Tutorial
Is your Web site lean and mean? The battle of the bulge starts here. We help you get your images and tables in shape. Updated 13 Dec 2002
Site Redesign Tutorial
Five experts give you the benefit of their very different experiences and perspectives on the process of redesigning a site. 8 Sep 1998
Site Organization:
Information Architecture Tutorial
It's all about figuring out your site's purpose and audience, then building an intelligent structure and navigation from that. 13 Jul 1998
Controlling Who Sees What on Your Site
Is Mom digging up dirt on your site? Heidi's quick fixes allow family, business folk, and potential mates to see only what you want them to see. 7 Jan 1999
Organizing Your Site
If you want a low-maintenance, low-stress Web site, name your files intuitively, and keep your backend tidy. 8 Oct 1999
Usability:
Market Research on the Web
Figure out just who your visitors are and what they want with focus groups, usability testing, and behavioral tracking. 29 Apr 1999
The Web Isn't for Everyone ... Yet
The HTML 4.0 spec looks to make the Web universally accessible, especially for people with disabilities. 27 May 1998
Accessible HTML
Is cutting-edge design worth excluding part of
your audience? It depends on your definition of "cutting edge." 21 Mar 1997
Bad Bandwidth, Good Design
When it comes to good site design, big bandwidth may be too much of a good thing. Jeff Veen takes a look. 19 Oct 1998
Building a Better Webmonkey
Jeffrey shows how we redesigned our site from top to bottom
in four (not-so) easy steps. 14 Nov 1997
Design Theory:
The Foundations of Web Design
Jeffrey Veen explores the history and future of Web design, concluding that you can never go wrong with speed, simplicity, and clarity. 16 Feb 1998
Mark Hurst, Ease-of-Use Evangelist
Mark Hurst wants to make the Web (egad!) easy to use. Jeff interviews him. 15 Sep 1997
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 Off-site Recommendations |
Useit
This is the Web site of Jakob Nielsen (whom The New York
Times has
knighted
"the guru of Web page usability"), and it serves as Mecca to the thought
leader's many opinions about usability. |
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Usable Web
Get lost in this list of an ungodly number of links to sites that take on
user interface issues and promote usable Web design.
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The Association for Computing
Machinery's Special Interest Group on Computer-Human
Interaction (ACM
SIGCHI)
This is where all the people working on "the design, evaluation,
implementation, and study of interactive computing systems for human use" hang.
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