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The Wayback Machine is a digital archive of the World Wide Web and other information on the Internet. It was launched in 2001 by the Internet Archive, a nonprofit organization based in San Francisco, California, United States.

Nielsen Norman Group, January 17, 2016
Writing for the Web
By Hoa Loranger

“Summary: The right words can make or break trust; they affect your tone of voice and how people perceive your site.”

Nielsen Norman Group, August 16, 2015
Mobile & Tablet, Navigation
By Amy Schade

“Summary: Mobile sites that use the hamburger or three-line menu need to support navigation activities throughout the site, in case users don’t locate or use the main site navigation.”

Nielsen Norman Group, February 21, 2016
Branding, Visual Design, Web Usability
By Kathryn Whitenton

“Summary: Users are 89% more likely to remember logos shown in the traditional top-left position than logos placed on the right.”

Nielsen Norman Group, May 4, 2014
Mobile & Tablet, Web Usability
By Amy Schade

“Summary: Responsive design teams create a single site to support many devices, but need to consider content, design and performance across devices to ensure usability.”

Nielsen Norman Group, June 26, 2016
Design Patterns, Mobile & Tablet, Navigation
By Kara Pernice and Raluca Budiu

“Summary: Discoverability is cut almost in half by hiding a website’s main navigation. Also, task time is longer and perceived task difficulty increases.”

Nielsen Norman Group, March 6, 2016
Persuasive Design, Credibility, Trust & User eXperience
By Kate Sherwin

“Summary: Sites must meet users' basic trust needs before they demand that visitors enter information or engage with them. The trust pyramid has 5 distinct levels of user commitment, each with separate design requirements before users will give a website what it wants from them.”

Nielsen Norman Group, February 24, 2017
Credibility, Trust, User eXperience
By Kate Sherwin

“Summary: …”

Nielsen Norman Group, December 29, 2016 & January 12, 2017
Web, Usability & User eXperience
By Jakob Nielsen

“Jakob Nielsen presents a rare longitudinal study of 12 years' evolution in web usability: what's gotten better, and where we still need to improve, and discusses how to base design changes on valid UX research methods and gain the biggest ROI from the usability investment.”

Nielsen Norman Group, July 3, 2016
Branding, Interaction Design
By Kate Kaplan

“Summary: While branding has been around since people began buying and trading goods, the definition has evolved in the Digital Age. Consumers now have a wider range of interaction with companies and greater choice in product selection. Today, brand is the holistic sum of customers’ experiences, composed of visual, tonal and behavioral brand components, many of which are shaped by interaction design.”

Nielsen Norman Group, July 23, 2017
Web Usability, Navigation
By Hoa Loranger

“Summary: A site logo linking to the homepage is not enough. Logo design and placement, as well as the presence of a text link to the homepage affect success of navigation to homepage.”

Nielsen Norman Group, April 24, 1994
Heuristic Evaluation, Human Computer Interaction, Web Usability
By Jakob Nielsen

“Summary: Jakob Nielsen's 10 general principles for interaction design. They are called "heuristics" because they are broad rules of thumb and not specific usability guidelines.”

Nielsen Norman Group, October 17, 2010
Psychology and UX Interaction Design
By Jakob Nielsen

“Summary: What users believe they know about a UI strongly impacts how they use it. Mismatched mental models are common, especially with designs that try something new.”

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.”

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.”

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."

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

“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.

“Nielsen-Norman Group is a UX research and consulting firm trusted by leading organizations world-wide to provide reliable guidance on user experience.”

“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.

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."

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

For People Who Make Websites

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.

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