Interaction design: 14 useful links

• homepage layout
• sub-level pages layout
• navigation support

There are many good and bad things you can do in web design. This page lists some options and how you should deal with them.

This manuscript is an extract from the book: Designing Web Usability. Topics include: home pages and navigation; cross-platform design; what visitors respond to, and how they respond to it; and more.

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Articles related to experience design issues: Finding The Sweet Spot, The End of Usability Culture, Brand Value and the User Experience, Brand Experience and the Web, Experience, and more.

Human-edited directory related to best of the web issues: reviews, selective link, lists, site awards, top lists, and more.

This web site is dedicated to the graphic design and creative aspects of web design: advanced techniques, background images, colour, cross platform issues, fonts, frames, graphics, HTML, Java and Javascript, layout and design, linking, META tags, Real Audio, RGB, tricks and tips, and more.

This web site explores the design, development, and meaning of web content, with a special focus on techniques and benefits of designing with web standards.

Poynter study confirms web content studies from 1994 and 1997: plain headlines work best; users hunt for info, often ignore graphics, and interlace sites.

This article illustrates how to make text that breaks every rule. This is text as art, and as such, is not bound by tight rules such as being easy to read. Often, the text serves double duty - beauty and function - which is very efficient. But for the best results, you must be prepared to make someone look twice at a word to know what it says.

From content and page design to designing for ease of navigation and users with disabilities, this article delivers direction on how to connect with any web user, in any situation.