Web Page Design Resources - Web Center

• Ohlone College Web Style Guide - Our very own style guide for Ohlone College websites.
  
  
• Usability.gov - Research Based Web Design & Usability Guidelines - Over 50 of the top Web design and usability guidelines based on research studies and supporting information from the field. Very nice. (resource)
• Usable Web (resource)
• Web Style Guide - This is an excellent reference about designing pages for the web. It is also available as a printed book. (The first edition of the Yale Style Manual: Web Style Guide was published in 1997.) (tutorial)
  
  
• saila.com - Steadfast Suggestions for Web Design (reference)

Examples of Bad Design

• How to Make an Annoying Web Page - Excellent examples of what not to do! (resource)
• Internet.com - Repent from Flash Sin (article)
• Web Pages That Suck - Mystery Meat Navigation (article)

Content is King

• Web Reference - That Darned Content: Hey, Wait! That's What It's All About (tutorial)

Usability

• Jakob Nielsen - UseIt.com - The Alertbox: Current Issues in Web Usability (articles, resources)

Books

• Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, by Steve Krug - available in the Ohlone College Library and at Amazon.com
• Designing Web Usability: The Practice of Simplicity, by Jakob Nielsen - available in the Ohlone College Library and at Amazon.com