- Engineering Writing Centre: Writing for Electronic Media
From the University of Toronto Engineering Writing Centre, this Web site aims to help engineering students write for electronic media such as Web sites and other online documents. It also includes some useful information about Web usability studies.
- Web Style Guide
This Web site—compiled by Patrick Lynch and Sarah Horton of Yale University, co-authors of Web Style Guide: Basic Design Principles for Creating Web Sites—is an excellent reference for various Web style issues including interface design, site design, page design, Web graphics, and Web multimedia and animation.
- World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
The World Wide Web Consortium was founded in 1994 to develop standards for the Web to "ensure its interoperability." Hence, this organization's Web site is a good source for HTML and other Internet-related standards as well as general information, resources, and news related to the Internet. Of special note is W3C's HTML validation service, which "checks HTML documents for conformance to W3C HTML and XHTML recommendations and other HTML standards."
- useit.com: Jakob Nielsen's site (Usable Information Technology)
Usability expert Jakob Nielsen offers news, articles, and his own (sometimes controversial) original research on online usability.
- Writing the Web: A Step-by-Step Guide, with Resources
Originally written for Professor Mike Palmquist's course Writing the Web at Colorado State University, this Web site features a thorough guide to planning, creating, designing, and coding Web sites.
- Webmonkey: The Web Developer's Resource
Webmonkey offers a vast collection of web-development resources on a variety of topics such as HTML authoring, Web design, Web programming, and much more. Its How-to Library also features plenty of tips and resources for building Web sites.
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