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Nielsen, Jakob: Print design vs. Web design
Dr. Jakob Nielsen highlights key differences between designing for print and designing for the web.

Nielsen, Jakob: Site Map Usability
Most site maps fail to convey multiple levels of the site's information architecture. In usability tests, users often overlook site maps or can't find them. Complexity is also a problem: a map should be a map, not a navigational challenge of its own.

Nielsen, Jakob: Web design vs. GUI design
Designing for the Web is different from traditional user interface design. Fundamentally, the designer gives up a lot of control to the user - get used to it: WYSIWYG is dead

Norman, Don: Human Centred Design
Don Norman discusses the approach to usability when building his own website. This includes links to related content by Jakob Nielsen

Pointafter.com - 20 Do's and Don'ts of Web Usability
Tips from George Prociuk.

Principia Hypertextica: Introduction
A mathematics educator's view of web design. Encourages speed, accessibility, validity, and navigability. Discusses difficulties of math typesetting on the web.

Publish.com - Five Usability Principles For Web Design
Ilise Benun elaborates on the principles of consistency, interaction, instruction, choices and control. (August 30, 2003)

Publish.com - Flash and Usability
Guidelines for usable Flash, By Ilise Benun.

Publish.com - Usability Matters
Article by Marcia Ludkin. "Again and again... usability experts discover that real people may not understand what may be obvious to a site’s designers." (February 11, 2003)

Readability Of Websites With Various Foreground/Background Color Combinations, Font Types And Word Styles
1997 psychology research project by Alyson L. Hill at Stephen F. Austin State University. Participants scanned simulated websites for a target word; readability was inferred from reaction time.

Roger C. Parker - Eleven Common Web Page Design Frustrations and How To Cure Them
How to keep web page design from interfering with communication to visitors.

Rosenfeld, Lou: Is Less Really More?
When it comes to the usability factor of tables of contents, is less really more?

Rosenfeld, Lou: Yahoo! is Dead. Long Live Yahoo!
Discussion on the inevitable collapse of Yahoo directory due to its size and complexity. He Predicts mini-yahoo sites within corporate intranets.

Royal National Institute for the Blind: Web Access Centre
Web accessibility resources.

Schaffer, Eric: How to Develop a Corporate Intranet Standard -- PDF File
From the consultants of Human Factors International (www.humanfactors.com). Requires Acrobat Reader.

Schaffer, Eric: How to Develop an Effective GUI Standard -- PDF file
From the consultants of Human Factors International (www.humanfactors.com). Requires Acrobat Reader.

Schroeder, Will: Testing Web Sites with Eye-Tracking
Describes an experiment carried out to monitor the eye movements of visitors to a prototype web site.

Scottberkun.com
Expert columns on web usability, interaction and web design.

Seattletimes.com: A primer for a good Web page
Users want indicators of how good (e.e., current, accurate, credible) the page's information is. (March 29, 1998)

Section 508 Accessibility - Extreme Cross-Browser Compatible Menu and Navbar System
Section 508 Accessible Menu and navbar system for those wanting compatibility with the widest group of browsers. Uses Dreamweaver MX and above.

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