Resources
A collection of links covering design, usability, and other geeky stuff.
Design
- Colours on the Web
Did you ever wonder why most TV network sites use so much black, or why all the major news sites have a white background? - lynda.com
- another color scheme generator
- Identifont.com
Usability/Accessibility
- Useit.com
Jakob Nielsen’s site. This is probably the second-ugliest website of all time (#1 is obviously Larry Wall’s) but Nielsen makes some valid arguments. - W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
- Usability.gov
National Cancer Institute’s guide to designing usable, useful, and accessible websites and user interfaces
Geeky stuff
- whatismyip.com
IP Address detector - Bandwidth Speed Test
- Yale Web Style Guide
Covers everything from interface design to typography and editorial style - New York Public Library Style Guide
Excellent resource for info on XHTML, CSS, and why valid code is so important - Molly.com
Blog of author, instructor, and web designer Molly E. Holzschlag - ONLamp.com
O’Reilly’s portal for open source web development (Linux, Apache, and Perl/Python/PHP) - Deja Vu Browser Emulator
A fun site for anyone who has been on the web for a while. Browse today’s sites as they would have looked on Netscape 1.0, IE 2.0, or Mosaic 1.0! - Evolt Browser Archive
The one place where you can actually download copies of Netscape 1.0, IE 2.0, Mosaic 1.0, and many more forgotten web browsers.
