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Web Design LinksUseful tips, tools, and tutorials.
Opinion page by Duane Alan Hahn.
I only link to sites here that have useful information or tools. If you are a web designer, please do not ask me to link to your site here. This page is not for promoting web design services. If you have a site that has web design info or cool tools, I'll be glad to link to that. Just contact me and if I think your site is useful, I'll add a link to it on this page.
Free Tools Palettizer CSS Color Contrast Picker Easily and quickly try different text and background colors to see how they look together. After you click on a color, you can move up and down the list using the cursor keys (arrow buttons).
Text Gradient Maker by Brian Stanback Quickly make gradient text for your web site.
Free HTML validation.
Free CSS validation.
Checks for HTML code errors, bad links, and how long it takes for your page to load.
Free web site speed test to improve performance.
A freeware web editor for Linux, Macintosh and Windows. I don't like it as much as Namo WebEditor, but it is better than those crappy site builders that most hosts provide.
You can download a free Microsoft Word document from the page above called Model Privacy Policy Disclosures that tells you how to create a privacy policy. It's kind of a fill in the blanks tutorial. It's one of the best things I've seen so far. If you want to try various affiliate programs, you will need to make a privacy policy sooner or later. Some affiliate programs require it.
Although this is not freeware (30 day free trial), I had to list this here since it's so good. It simulates the various connection speeds from super-slow 1200 bps, all the way up to LAN speed. You don't have to be online to use it either. You can check out your web site locally, straight off your computer. The company claims that the program does not interfere with your machine setup or network, and it seems to be true. I tried it on my web site (locally) using various speeds, including 56 Kbps (V.90), and it worked great. The program helped me find a couple of trouble spots. I'll probably buy it whenever I have some extra money.
Google Gadgets For Your Web Site They have a lot of useless crap, but there are some useful items you can add to your web site that your visitors might enjoy.
LinkChecker add-on for Firefox Firefox users don't have to use those boring, tedious, inadequate link checkers. We have a better, faster alternative. The LinkChecker add-on by Kevin Freitas allows you to browse your web site and check your inks right there on each page. Broken links are highlighted as red and good links are highlighted as green. No more looking at a list and hunting down the broken links on a page; immediately see where the broken links are!
Among other things, you can see what your pages look like using different browser sizes with the Screen Size Test.
Free online tool for color matching and palette design.
The Law and Your Rights Chilling Effects aims to help you understand the protections that the First Amendment and intellectual property laws give to your online activities.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation Protecting our civil liberties in the networked world.
Copyscape empowers you to defend your site against the threats of online plagiarism. Copyscape provides a free service that allows you to easily search for plagiarism and identify instances of content theft.
An easy to read, easy to understand page from Penn State.
From Stanford University Libraries.
Web Design Tips and Guidelines These guidelines will help you in many ways including helping you to avoid "illicit practices" that some might try to talk you into. Don't fall for scams and people secretly wishing to use, drain away, or destroy your Google PageRank.
The Motive Web Design Glossary Just about every web design topic can be found here.
148 Mortal Sins That Will Send Your Site to Web Design Hell A checklist to find out if your web site sucks.
Shows you bad design techniques so you'll realize what they are and not use them.
JWalk: Web Browsing Pet Peeves Things that make Web browsing more annoying than it should be.
Design elements for webmasters from James G. Lewis.
Media College: Design & Construction Simple tips for designing and making your web site.
Web Design Tutorials contributing to a solid web designer tutorial resource for new to advanced designers to solve web design issues via reading online tutorials.
Webmaster articles on web design, html, dhtml, usability, javascript, search engine optimization, web site promotion, accessible web pages, css and more.
Amateur Web Sites - the Top Ten Signs If your experience of the Web is limited, you may not realize that something that looks neato to you may strike more experienced Net denizens as passé, trite, amateurish, annoying, or worst of all — deprecated!
Web Design For the Fiction Author Various tips.
Articles, tips, and resources for webmasters.
From the archive of Kianta's newsletter, Passing Notes.
Top 10 bad web design tips and web site problems.
Guidelines to help you create a quality, professional, and well-designed web site.
For all those who wish to publish durable content on the Web.
Gadwall Group: Is your Web site poorly designed? 25 ways you can evaluate your site.
STIMULUS Internet 101: Web Design Opinions on web design.
Designing web pages for dyslexic readers Web-page design elements for dyslexic readers.
The 12 Most Common Mistakes Made by Beginners These no-nos are usually what divide websites that people don't take seriously from the good quality sites that are visited time and again.
Ways to Avoid Having a Lame, Annoying, or Clueless Website DON'Ts and DOs in Web Design.
Is content king? How much graphics, animation, Java applets should I put on my page?
The world's worst website was designed to demonstrate the most common mistakes in web page design
How To Make Annoying Web Pages Learn what makes bad web design annoying and see how to avoid it.
HTML Author's Guide to the Robots META Tag The Robots META tag is a simple mechanism to indicate to visiting Web Robots if a page should be indexed, or links on the page should be followed.
CSS CSSCheck (Stylesheet Checker) Free stylesheet verification.
Ten CSS tricks you may not know Learn something new and see how many tricks you already know.
(The Only) Ten Things To Know About CSS A getting-started list to make sense of CSS.
Tutorials and Reference Their goal is to provide the most helpful and complete guide to creating web pages anywhere.
One of the best CSS references out there, but they also cover HTML, XHTML, XML, JavaScript, PHP, ASP, SQL and more.
They have turtorials for web design, 2D art, 3D art, and a lot more.
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