Must Read:

"Elements of Effective Web Design" at About.com http://webdesign.about.com/library/weekly/aa091998.htm Web Design - More than Meets the Eye at the Web Developer's Virtual Library http://www.stars.com/Authoring/Design/MoreThan/ "Amateur Web Sites - the Top Ten Signs" at Web Developer's Journal http://www.webdevelopersjournal.com/columns/abc_mistakes.html

Nice to Read:

"The Foundations of Web Design" by Jeffrey Veen from Webmonkey http://www.hotwired.com/webmonkey/98/07/index0a.html?tw=design The Alertbox: Current Issues in Web Usability by Jakob Nielsen http://www.useit.com/alertbox/ Which article should you read? ALL OF THEM! But since there are time constraints, of particular usefulness here are: Top ten mistakes of Web design The top ten new mistakes of web design Ten good deeds in web design "Eye Candy from the Underground" by Curt Cloninger at Lab404  http://www.lab404.com/dan/ "This Man Can Save Your Website" by Susan Casey from eCompany http://www.ecompany.com/articles/mag/1,1640,6739,00.html The Yale C/AIM Style Guide http://imc.iit.edu/internet.access/manual/

Resource Sites and Lists:

About.com > Internet/Online > Design > Web Design http://webdesign.about.com Ask Dr. Web http://www.zeldman.com/askdrweb/index.html An alternate and nearly all different Ask Dr. Web (same guy, though) http://www.zeldman.com/maqf.html Creating Killer Web Sites http://www.killersites.com/ Dmitry's Design Lab http://www.webreference.com/dlab/ Eternal Beta: A Resource for Web Authors http://www2.whidbey.net/jmwallin/ Infodesign: Presenting Information on the Web http://www.accessone.com/%7Ejdwest/infodesign/index.html The Sevloid Guide to Web Design http://www.sev.com.au/webzone/design.htm Suzanne and Carla's Mega Links List http://www.wpdfd.com/wpdres.htm Usableweb.com: Design http://usableweb.com/items/design.html Useit.com: Jakob Neilsen's Web site http://www.useit.com/ WebWonk: Net Tips for Writers and Designers http://www.dsiegel.com/tips/ Web Page Design for Designers http://www.wpdfd.com/wpdhome.htm Web Pages That Suck http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/ Writing for the Web http://itwebmaster.iit.edu/resources/webwriting.html ZDNet > Business & Tech > E-Commerce > Best Practices http://www.zdnet.com/ecommerce/filters/sublanding/ 0,10385,6006111,00.html

Single-Pixel .GIFs

A set of single-pixel .gifs to save and use (shown at 25X25 pixels so  you can see them well...):
000000.gif black	000099.gif dark blue	0000ff.gif blue	009900.gif dk green	009999.gif dark cyan	00ff00.gif green	00ffff.gif cyan	transparent.gif transparent
990099.gif dark purple	999900.gif olive	999999.gif med grey	cccccc.gif light grey	ff0000.gif red	ff00ff.gif purple	ffff00.gif yellow	ffffff.gif white

To save these .gifs, just click on them with your right mouse button (in Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator) and select "Save image as" or "Save picture as" from the drop-down menu. To use them, just include them where desired in your project and ensure that you include HEIGHT and WIDTH tags in your document to set them to the desired size; see the code for the rules included in the table above for an example.

Pagesize Background
This background file for Windows (pagesize.bmp) gives you a template on your screen for sizing your browser to the available space on a 640x480 and 800x600 display. © Page content Copyright 2000 Webmaster Sources LLC; used by permission.