Resources generally relating to web design, computing and related technology plus cybersecurity. Including How Tos and Tips & Tricks plus Tools related to web design and computing.
Nielsen Norman Group, 2013
Design
By Don Norman
“In this entertaining and insightful analysis, cognitive scientist Don Norman hails excellence of design as the most important key to regaining the competitive edge in influencing consumer behavior.”
The Design of Everyday Things Read More Nielsen Norman Group, August 22, 2010
Strategy
By Jakob Nielsen
“Summary: Although successful websites typically have high usability, average sites can hurt their business by copying design elements that don’t work well in other contexts.”
Should You Copy a Famous Site’s Design? Read More
Search Engine Land
Third Door Media
Editor: Pamela Parker
“Search engine optimization seems like alchemy to the uninitiated. This guide to success factors, best practices and potential pitfalls can build the framework for your SEO strategy.”
The Periodic Table of SEO Factors (updated for 2019) Read More
Facts and figures
Internet Society
Who uses the Internet? How is it used? How does it affect us? The Internet is constantly changing, and understanding and measuring it is a challenge. We’ve collected a variety of resources for Internet statistics, trends, and demographics.
Internet Society – Internet Stats, Trends & Demographics Read More
ACE: A Colour Palette Design Tool for Balancing Aesthetics and Accessibility
Journal: ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing, January 2017
By Garreth W. Tigwell, David R. Flatla, and Neil D. Archibald
This websites contains a web development tool, which can be found under the heading Palette. The purpose of the tool is to assist web designers and developers in selecting a range of colours to use on a website and quickly reveal which pairs will pass or fail at the three different WCAG 2.0 contrast ratio values.
ACE: the Accessible Colour Evaluator Read More
When we think about it, our whole industry depends on our faith in a handful of “black boxes” few of us fully understand: browsers. We hand over our HTML, CSS, JavaScript, cross our fingers, and hope they render the experience we have in our heads. But knowing how they work can really get you out of a jam when things go wrong. That’s why we’ve assembled a handful of incredibly knowledgeable authors to take us under the hood in this four-part series. Join us on this trip across the web, into the often foggy valley between code and experience.
From URL to Interactive Read More
What you see is what you get. Great stuff to fill that space as you build out that website with filler text, and have some fun with it…
Shotgun approach we want to see more charts for knowledge process outsourcing and we’ve got to manage that low hanging fruit organic growth.
The World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) commitment to lead the Web to its full potential includes promoting a high degree of usability for people with disabilities. The Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) is an initiative of the W3C.
WAI develops its work through W3C’s consensus-based process, involving different stakeholders in Web accessibility. These include industry, disability organizations, government, accessibility research organizations, and more.
Web Accessibility Initiative Read More
Information Architecture is a key foundational aspect of effective web design. Web Design in a Nutshell is a great overall primer on Web Design. Regardless of when they were published, they remain applicable and provide a good foundation on the subjects.
Information Architecture and Web Design in a Nutshell Read More
Two indispensable references that will help you at your desk as you learn and then refresh your memory on all the intricacies of Cascading Style Sheets and Hyper-Text Markup Language code.
O’Reilly Pocket References: CSS & HTML Read More
Can it be more retro just do what you think. I trust you anyway, you are the designer, you know what to do. Do less with more. We exceed the clients’ expectations just do what you think. I trust you, and just do what you think. I trust you, the website doesn’t have the theme i was going for yet im not sure, try something else can you make the logo bigger yes bigger bigger still the logo is too big can you rework to make the pizza look more delicious.
Learning Web Design Read More
One of the things that you can do to customize your website is to add custom code. This resource will provide you with information you need to get started. If you are not comfortable with HTML, CSS and/or JavaScript coding then take a look at a couple of the other resources I’ve listed: Learning Web Design (book) and W3Schools.com which provides a wealth of info on those forms of coding.
Adding Custom Code Read More
“The World’s Largest Web Developer Site.”
Highlights include: Browser Statistics, Color Converter, HTML Color Picker & W3Schools Online Web Tutorials featuring tutorials on HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Server Side, Web Building, XML, SQL, PHP, jQuery, Python, Bootstrap & W3.CSS.
W3Schools Read More “Nielsen-Norman Group is a UX research and consulting firm trusted by leading organizations world-wide to provide reliable guidance on user experience.”
Nielsen Norman Group Read More
“O’Reilly Media (formerly O’Reilly & Associates) is an American media company established by Tim O’Reilly that publishes books and Web sites and produces conferences on computer technology topics. Their distinctive brand features a woodcut of an animal on many of their book covers.”
– Wikipedia
Featuring 6 titles for Web Design.
O’Reilly Media – Titles for Web Design Read More
Published by Apress.com, 2017
By Sarah Martin
“Most up-to-date Squarespace book in the market to definitively cover every aspect of Squarespace development.”
“Teaches the principles of working with Squarespace’s tools and how to do advanced customizations not covered in any documentation.”
The Definitive Guide to Squarespace: Learn to Deliver Custom, Professional Web Experiences for Yourself and Your Clients Read More
Using My Head, Updated March, 2018
By Miko Coffey
“Try to see past the shag carpets: look beyond the demo site’s purpose, content and style and try to imagine your own stuff in that template.”
— Miko Coffey. UsingMyHead.com
The Squarespace Template Bible Read More
A List Apart (ISSN: 1534-0295) explores the design, development, and meaning of web content, with a special focus on web standards and best practices.
A List Apart Read More
“We’re setting the new standard of trust online, empowering people to take control of their information. Search privately. What you search for is your own business. Switch to the search engine that doesn’t track you.”
Duck Duck Go – Search Engine Read More