Effective Web Design

"Progress is nothing but the victory of laughter over dogma."
- Benjamin DeCasseres




Name that Generation!

  1. The Internet Archive Wayback Machine       [ Pioneering Web Sites ]
    1. International Monetary Fund Home Page       [1997]      Present
    2. U.S. State Department       [1996]       Present
    3. Yahoo!       [1996]       Present
    4. Microsoft      [1996]      Present
    5. Internet Archive: Moving Image Archive
  2. Ghost Sites: Where Dead Web Sites Live On
  3. CyberCemetery
  4. Welcome to the IAU World Wide Web page!
  5. Quadrophenia.net
  6. Leo Szilard Online
  7. a "low-tech" website
  8. Tomalak's Realm
  9. Mike's Master Classes
  10. JH Campbell Online
  11. America at Work / America at Leisure, 1894-1915
  12. NBCOLYMPICS.COM
  13. The Miniature Earth
  14. Furby Dot Com
  15. maintained for archive/historical purposes only
  16. Sonoran Desert: 5000 Square Miles of Silence
  17. DigitalConsumer.org
  18. The Hierarchy of Internet Metaphors

Useit.Com: Top Ten Web Design Mistakes

  1. Web design mistakes (1996)
  2. Web design mistakes (1999)
  3. Good deeds in Web design (1999)
  4. Top homepage usability guidelines (2002)
  5. Web design mistakes (2002)
  6. Most violated homepage guidelines (2003)
  7. Top Ten Web Design Mistakes of 2003

Samples / Examples

  1. Introduction / "Splash " Page
    1. Let the User Skip the Splash Page
    2. <skipintro - skipintro 98>    [Perhaps, we should!]
    3. And if you don't skip intro?
    4. Global Computer Enterprises
    5. Lights on...No one home.
      1. Hi. This site is on a break.
      2. joeblade will return one day
    6. Sullivan Higdon & Sink
    7. EYE4U active media web design (Shockwave Flash)
    8. Grand Canyon West
    9. Qorvis Communications
    10. The U.S.-Mexican War (1846-1848)     
    11. The English Civil Wars
    12. NASA
    13. The Common Market    
    14. K2 Bike    [Horizontal Flash]
    15. Life of Pi     [High / Low Quality]
    16. Ocala Today    [Click here to enter our site]
    17. Local Computer Solutions    [what choice?]
    18. Splash Page
    19. BBG - Broadcasting Board of Governors
    20. maintained for archive/historical purposes only
    21. Vivienne Westwood  [Choice of "Broadband" or "modem" frames]
    22. Accelerated Computer Training    [Choice of  Individual / Corporate and "fast" or "slow"]
      1. YouTube hosted commercial
    23. Devices of Wonder (Getty Exhibitions)    [Choice of "fast" or "slow" connection speed]
    24. Universal Design Education Online     [Choice of "learn" or "teach" ]
    25. Please Touch Museum       
    26. International Children’s Digital Library   
    27. Pastimes and Paradigms: Games We Play    [Splash]   [Click and Play!]
    28. Bad Fads Museum
    29. Noritsu   [no skip intro]
    30. Marconi Calling
    31. The Dymaxion House
    32. http://www.korea-dpr.com    [http://www.korea.com/]    DPRK
    33. Heuristic Solutions Splash Page       [TRY: Ultra Sensory Version]
    34. JH Campbell Online
  2. <title>:
    1. <title>: the most important element of a quality Web page
    2. David's Scrolling Title Page    [scrolling title]
    3. And if I don't use a title?    [.gif image]
    4. Template without comments
    5. It's all Alt to me
    6. Welcome to barefootboy.com John M. Brown Yurt Log Cabin Solar Picaxe Glenville, WV
    7. Microcontent: How to Write Headlines, Page Titles, and Subject Lines
    8. Create a picture postcard for a fun way to stay in touch. 
    9. A page with no title
    10. Post hoc ergo propter hoc    [no title]
    11. designer-info.com    [Designer-info master frameset]
    12. <acronym title="h t m l">HTML</acronym>: HyperText Mark-up Language
    13. New Page 1
    14. home page   [one 95k image]
    15. Find State Department Untitled Pages
    16. Create your own multilingual Web site     [English page French title]]
    17. Concentration in Community Studies <HEAD><BODY><HTML><TABLE WIDTH="100%"
    18. YOUR TITLE HERE
  3. <meta>
    1. Ericsson
    2. Rapid Pump & Meter Service  [keywords]
    3. Wrexham County Borough Council    DC Meta-Tags
    4. Heaven's Gate Website
    5. prints are memories
    6. Metadata Generator for Kentucky Webmasters
    7. State Library of Queensland, Multicultural Services
    8. Make A Shorter Link   [meta http-equiv]
    9. Maranatha Photography    [refresh]
  4. <!-- comments -->
    1. OQO
    2. Dull Men's Club
    3. U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service:   National image library
    4. Software Engineering Information Repository
    5. Annoyances.org   <!-- Important:
    6. Peace Officer Training Academy  <!-- This source code is protected
    7. International Osteoporosis Foundation     Web design and programming by...
    8. X P R I Z E
    9. Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC)
  5. Text / Links / Backgrounds
    1. Maximum Scented   [links or just underlined]
    2. Computer Frustration Jokes    [background 935px - white text]
    3. Preservation issues in digitizing historical photographs   [background color/text]
    4. Edinburgh University Medieval Society - Perfidious Albion
    5. IN THE FUTURE...............
    6. Single Throw  [articles]
    7. Sign Me Up!     [...Code to improperly use...  hyperlink? ]
    8. Medieval Writing    [frames/text colors]
    9. Luciferous Logolepsy     [Gray background]
    10. Look but don't steal     [is this easy to read?]
    11. .: Acting Like Insects! :.    [Blue on Blue]
    12. WELCOME TO BETH EL SYNAGOGUE   [Blue on Blue]
    13. Oxford Jewish Congregation   [blue text/links]
    14. the background colour of this page...
    15. Printing on photo-sensitized material   [Dark Blue Background]
    16. Rob Frohne's Home Page      [Green background / Green links]
    17. Radio-List.Com     [Blue background / Blue links]
    18. Gentrification of Blue Jeans    [Blue background / white text]
    19. Lost Indiana     [Black background / white text]
    20. The Medium Is The Rear View Mirror   [Is this easy to read?]
    21. The Futuro house
    22. County Departments   [Which of the white text is a link?]
    23. Nexpoint    [blue text / not a link]
    24. Total Lighting Service, LLC   background image   [1258 X 8]
    25. BEST PREPAID TRAC PREPAID CELL PHONE    [Blue background / blue text]
      1. Web Page Repair
      2. Clogwild   [blue vlinks/red links ]
      3. LinkingStrategies.com   [blue text... you find the links!]
      4. Employer Information    [Find the hyperlinks]
      5. My Ego Page
      6. Classical Pianos.com Steinway Home Page
      7. Consolidated Listing of Evaluation Criteria and Quality Indicators
  6. Left or Right?
    1. Images of  "Obregon Villa Pershing"
  7. Communications
    1. Frederick Maryland Wedding and Portrait photographer
  8. Navigation
    1. :: King County Snapshots - A Photographic Heritage ::      [Right navigation]
    2. Zippori Village   [Color for Navigation / bilingual]
    3. Solemates : The Century in Shoes  [Time Navigation]
    4. nextwish.org
  9. Mouse / Cursor / " Mouse Trails"
    1. ««««edderkop net»»»»       [Warning! Spiders!]
    2. Virtual_Max's Cafe [eyes]
    3. I'll Fly Away   [birds w/music]
    4. Rose City Rollers     favicon
    5. JavaScript Clock   
    6. http://birdsworld.itgo.com/      
    7. Welcome To The Clog Central Station
  10. Layout / Design
    1. Learning the Ropes
  11. <pre>
    1. The Unchangeable
    2. File Systems in Unix
  12. Tables
    1. ASCII Table
    2. ‹pre› formatted table
    3. layout table
    4. I N T E R N A T I O N A L . S P Y . M U S E U M
    5. Chautauqua County Government    [image quilt - layout table]
    6. Giving to Northern    [layout table]]
    7. Statistics of U.S. Businesses: 1999     [data table]
    8. UCC home page  
  13. Frames
    1. Are frames ever appropriate?
    2. Jeff Russell's STARSHIP DIMENSIONS
    3. The Annotated XML Specification
    4. "Photoshop Masking & Compositing" by Katrin Eismann
    5. Vivienne Westwood  broadband/modem
    6. Twingine   [search results in frames]
    7. Tahnee.com!
    8. Ole Virginia Hams Amateur Radio Club
    9. VII Photo Agency
    10. The Web Page from Hell   [good - bad example]
    11. The Wonders' Home Page
    12. Welcome to Office of Indian Education Programs
    13. Software Engineering Information Repository
    14. TC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism
  14. <IFRAME>
    1. Free HTML Template
    2. Virtual_Max's Cafe
    3. CSS Scrollbar Color Demo       Gray Version
    4. Ducki On-Line: Quack   [text area in an IFRAME]
  15. Homepage
    1. Altavista: "homepage": 44,161,094      "home page": 51,671,174
    2. Index of /  [no home page]
    3. The City of Hagerstown's Home Page
    4. Homepage Usability: 50 Websites Deconstructed
    5. Top Ten Guidelines for Homepage Usability
    6. Cool Homepages, Best Web Designs
    7. Jim Jacobson's Home Page
  16. Images
    1. Please don't spend my money...  [linking to others images]
    2. American Audio-Video: Video Demos
    3. Digital Picture Postcards   [All Image no Alt]
    4. On the Media   [images for rounded corners]
    5. Amateur Packet Radio, net 44, and AMPR.ORG
    6. Philip and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing
    7. GIF not JPG
    8. Directory of Women's Media    [gif not jpg]
    9. MobileStar
    10. The Castles of Wales
    11. home page      lowsrc
    12. Nafta Dothan   [jpg]
    13. Sliced images / “Image Quilt”
      1. Chautauqua County Government
      2. forwarding message     nps.gov   no alt
    14. Animated GIFs
      1. The city of Vernon (Normandy - France)
      2. Northern Virginia Photographic Society  [ gif vs jpg ]
    15. Rollovers
      1. Indy Greenways: The recreational trail system
      2. Learning Peaks  [Title -no rollover]
    16. Compression and Optimization Tips and Tutorials
    17. A Word on Graphic Image Resolution
    18. Horizontal Rules With No Image
    19. Alt Text
      1. Use of ALT texts in IMGs   The Art of ALT
      2. Guidelines on alt texts in img elements
      3. ALT background materials
      4. Textual Equivalents
      5. Dietary Guidelines Topic Page   [alt="bullet"]
    20. Image for text
      1. No Maps for these Territories - William Gibson
      2. Welcome to Color.com   [70k image w/o alt ]
      3. An Example of HTML-Abuse
      4. Venture School Digital Photography
  17. Image Maps
    1. National Forest and Grassland Locator
    2. Site Map: Montgomery County, MD
    3. The Million Dollar Homepage - Own a piece of internet history!
      1. The Zero Million Dollar Homepage
    4. Orientation to the U.S. Department of the Interior
    5. Welcome to A Sightseer's Guide to Engineering
    6. The Virtual Guidebooks Home Page
    7. Healthy Forests Initiative   [142k and no alt tag]
    8. Kaiser Permanente: Our Locations
    9. Janee's Photoshop Resources
    10. British Tourist Authority
    11. Microsoft's USA Map
    12. Image map with added JavaScript
  18. Flash / SVG
    1. Honda Accord Ad
    2. Frans Lanting | LIFE A Journey Through Time
    3. Stray Dogs: Danijel Zezelj
    4. 10x10
    5. designomatic
    6. British Road Signs Sing Gloria Gaynor
    7. Froguts
    8. Satyam Computer Services Ltd.
    9. The Miniature Earth
    10. Welcome to the City of Vernon, California Official Web Site
    11. Cirque du Soleil
    12. Must have flash!!!!
    13. 2Advanced Studios [Prophecy]
    14. Multimedia Alert
    15. The Official PURE Nightclub in Las Vegas  
  19. JavaScript
    1. L.S. Rhoads   [firework display]
    2. The Statesman    [Scrolling Status Bar Text]
  20. Marquee
    1. The Deluged Civilization
    2. Marquee Madness
  21. Sound
    1. In the Beginning: Bibles Before the Year 1000
    2. ExtremeDC       <bgsound src="redoubt.mid">
    3. Fly me to the Moon
    4. Sputnik I
    5. The Official PURE Nightclub in Las Vegas 
      1. Music Player
  22. The Ugly!
    1. The Web Page from Hell  
    2. How to make an Annoying Web Page
    3. Web Pages That Suck      Frames       Real Homepage
    4. B U D . U G L L Y . D E S I G N
    5. Building Really Annoying Web Sites
    6. Untitled Document
    7. 10dollarpayroll.com   [BLINK!!!!]
  23. Download
    1. the5k.org : home page
    2. Download our Inventory in Excel/CSV format
  24. Pop Up/Under/Over/Around      Blocking
    1. Web Businesses
    2. Amazingpopups.Com   
    3. http://sa.nextwish.org/
  25. Oops!
    1. Oops!
    2. "Husband restroom" in shopping square
    3. grammar gotchas
    4. Type Books: Titles Index   [Try an X,Y or Z]
    5. Telephone Directories on the Web  [CSS]
    6. berkeleyspringscottagerentals.com/
    7. Ken Storch Welcome    [%20]
    8. Media Outlets   [drop down navigation blocked by form]
    9. Place image here
    10. Photo and Digital Classes  [Layer Overlap]
    11. HTML error
  26. Legal Notices
    1. EPA: External Links Disclaimer
    2. Privacy and Security Notice
    3. Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P) Project  
      1. Web Sites using P3P
      2. Make Your Web Site P3P Compliant
      3. P3P Policy Editor     [IBM]
      4. Search Google for w3c/policy.html
    4. Privacy Policy   [WFTW]
    5. Visitor Agreement   [ By using this site, you accept the terms of our Visitor Agreement.]
  27. Screen Size
    1. Informal Education Products
    2. Low End Mac:  WebTV/Small Screen Version
    3. Canto - Digital Asset Management with Cumulus    [600x800?]
  28. 404 Not Found:
    1. The Perfect 404
    2. 404 Not Found Homepage
      1. 404 Not Found Homepage   [view source - no </style>] 
    3. 404 Research Lab
    4. Customize Your 404 Error Message
    5. Custom 404 Error Message Prevents Customer Loss
    6. Improving the Dreaded 404 Error Message
    7. Whats so funny about a 404 Error message?      [Fred Langa] 
    8. 404 Errors
    9. 300 Multiple Choices
    10. Eric has left the building.
    11. Vincent's CASABLANCA HomePage has moved -- new address: www.vincasa.com
    12. non-existing domain landing service
    13. Oops!

A look at.....

  1. How to write summaries for web and intranet pages, and why
  2. Good Experience: This Is Broken
  3. The SPLEEN
  4. Burglar
  5. History of the Life of Anton T. Julseth
  6. Global Stupidity Advisory 
  7. Welcome to Gilmer County, WV
  8. The Flaming Lips
  9. all things William
  10. Freddie Mac
  11. Visual Thesaurus
  12. U.S. Centennial of Flight
  13. Ingram Micro
  14. Bombing Science: Graffiti Pictures
  15. The Mosque of Djenne, Mali
  16. Official Salvador Dali Museum Web site
  17. Online Humanities Projects     Decameron Web
  18. Jim Jacobson's Home Page
  19. Crooked Cucumber--Suzuki Roshi Bio & Archive
  20. Ghost Town Gallery
  21. A.L.I.C.E. AI Foundation
  22. Hadrian's Wall web site
  23. Europa - The European Union On-Line
  24. Beard research
  25. Betsy Ann Chocolates
  26. Shut Up Already    [download pdf]
  27. National Museums & Galleries of Wales
  28. The NEW LUDDITE   [status bar]
  29. An Online History of the Mighty Towboat
  30. Worst of the Web       [A - C]       [D - G]       [H - O]       [P - Z]
  31. WebGoast
  32. the sibl project : : songs inspired by literature
  33. Paula Edmiston
  34. Big Lots       Gabriel Brothers       Ollie's Bargain Outlet    
  35. TenLinks.com - Ultimate Directories for Technology Professionals
  36. 37signals >> Visual Interface & Experience Design
  37. Shoshkeles      demos
  38. Shoshkele: What Is It, and What Can It Do for You?   demo
  39. Fifties Website Home Page
  40. First World War.Com
  41. Welcome to Earthdata
  42. Infrared Zoo Gallery
  43. ExpressFashion.com
  44. International Belt Sander Drag Race Association.
  45. Government Without Boundaries
  46. Will-Harris House, Graphic Design, Web Design, Writing and Typography
  47. Stories From the Web
  48. Welcome to the Virtual Sky!
  49. quixotic :: scattered light
  50. v-2.org | beauty utility balance
  51. bluishorange - letters and sodas
  52. ::--------object not found --------::
  53. Biblical Curse Generator
  54. Entropy and the Second Law of Thermodynamics
  55. Land Transport Safety Authority
  56. Metasyntactic Variable
  57. BetterDogFood.com
  58. Samuel F.B. Morse Papers
  59. Heaven's Gate Website
  60. Monuments and Dust:The Culture of Victorian London      Crystal Palace
  61. text-e
  62. People
    1. David J. Farber       Farberisms
    2. Leo Szilard Online
  63. December Communications   [Simple / Fast Loading Design]
  64. Stefan Landsberger's Chinese Propaganda Poster Pages
  65. THE JULIAN OF NORWICH ~ HER 'SHOWING OF LOVE' AND ITS CONTEXTS ~ WEBSITE    [blue text / design]
  66. Iwan Baan Photography and Multimedia
  67. TrustedCasions.com   [Simple Interface]
  68. KillFrog.Com
  69. NSW Police Service On-Line   [Design]
  70. IC3D Jeans WebSite  [Design / Navigation]
  71. Confessionalism - Don Juan or Don Knotts?       [Weblog]
  72. Strictly hey-wake, heywood wakefield, haywood wakefield  [Design / Navigation]
  73. Cedar Hill's Home Page
  74. A Rocky Mountain Getaway at Creek Side Lodge  
  75. South Florida Water Management District Welcomes You
  76. NYC.Gov
  77. City of Normandy Missouri
  78. Syncros 
  79. KCSL Inc.
  80. Photographer to the Tsar: Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii
  81. Britney Spears
    1. Britney's Guide to Semiconductor Physics
    2. Stacey Allemeier - the USA's #1 Britney Spears Lookalike & Impersonator
  82. Lift Every Voice   [UVa Library: Exhibit]
  83. Felix's Home  [Free Cat for your Desktop]
  84. Origins of American Animation   [RealPlayer, MPEG, Quicktime]
  85. The Web Standards Project: Resources    CSS
  86. Inventing Entertainment  [MPEG, Quicktime, RealPlayer]
  87. World Famous San Diego Zoo [DC meta tags/tables to hold images/navigation]
  88. HTML Editor Choosing the Right Tool For the Right Job  [Massive Graphics/loads forever][JavaScript Image Demo]
  89. Ultra Fractal Easter Egg Decorating Contest
  90. The Museum of E-Failure

Better Read That Again!

  1. Better Read That Again: Web Hoaxes and Misinformation
  2. Evaluating Quality on the Net
  3. Web credibility: The basics
  4. The Web Credibility Project - Stanford University
  5. Consumer Reports WebWatch
  6. Captology - Computers as persuasive technology
  7. propaganda critic
  8. Kaplan and Sinko
  9. Shards O' Glass
  10. Intelligent Design Network     Intelligent Design
  11. Godsend Institute :: Using Life to Create Life
  12. Face on Mars: Surprising New Analysis
  13. Gallery of Hoax Websites   Hoax Photo Test
  14. Aluminum Foil Deflector Beanie
  15. Black Market Babies.com
  16. TASS.NET
  17. CarpSoft Key Solutions
  18. Lake Michigan Whale Watching
  19. Man Will Never Fly Memorial Society
  20. Cardas: Golden Reference Power Cord with Built-in Filtration
  21. Neowhig - The Smart Party
  22. Win a date with Tim Root
  23. Psychedelic Republicans
  24. Poker ... Online Poker. Primate Poker   Primate Programming(tm) Inc
  25. Monkeyphonecall.com
  26. Pole Shift Preparation
  27. Origami Boulder Company -- Original Origami Gifts!
  28. Landover Baptist: Where The Worthwhile Worship
  29. martinlutherking.org
  30. A TRIBUTE TO DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
  31. Ten Fundamental Truths About Learning
  32. Roadkill Cafe
  33. http://www.whitehouse.gov
  34. http://www.whitehouse.net
  35. http://www.whitehouse.org
  36. http://www.whitehouse.com
  37. Ladies against women
  38. Nigeria Advance Fee Fraud - scam - 419 - email hoax - con - confidence scheme
  39. 99.9% of Proper Grammar Is Obsolete
  40. Feline Reactions to Bearded Men
  41. PinealWeb
  42. Lip Balm Anonymous Home Page
  43. City of Mankato, Minnesota   
  44. The Institute for Historical Review
  45. Home Web page of Arthur R. Butz
  46. DreamTech International   [Clones R' Us]
  47. AlterVistas BIZZARE - WIERD - STRANGE
  48. Brain Transplantation
  49. PawSense catproof your computer
  50. The Mind Reading Markup Language  
  51. Cover Pages: Mind Reading Markup Language (MRML)
  52. Some XML Language, DTD and Schema proposals:
  53. A Concise Grammar of Feorran
  54. Dihydrogen Monoxide Research Page     Ban Dihydrogen Monoxide
  55. buydehydratedwater
  56. ACME KLEIN BOTTLE
  57. World Trade Organization (WTO):   http://www.gatt.org/    http://www.wto.org/

Writing for the Web:

  1. Writing for the Web     [useit.com ]
  2. Writing on the Internet     [webreference.com]
  3. What is good hypertext writing?
  4. Web Writing for Many Interest Levels   [e-gineer.com]
  5. How Users Read on the Web
  6. Speling Errers in You're Sights
  7. Why Web Users Scan Instead of Read
  8. Concise, SCANNABLE, and Objective: How to Write for the Web
  9. How to Handle Longer Copy
  10. Applying Writing Guidelines to Web Pages
  11. Be Succinct! (Writing for the Web)    Be concise
  12. Inverted Pyramids in Cyberspace    Write newspaper style

Style Guides

Resources

  1. http://www.ntlf.com/html/pi/9708/reinsmith2.htm
  2. Failing Grades For Many Fortune 100 Web Sites
  3. Notes on Visual and Interactive Design
  4. Writing for the Web
  5. Reading, Writing and Research
  6. Five criteria for evaluating Web pages
  7. Links to Evaluating Sites pages    [ Library Web Manager's Reference Center ]
  8. The Alertbox    [Current Issues in Web Usability]
  9. Five Centuries of UI Design
  10. Web Pages That Suck     [The web site version of the book]
  11. Ghost Sites
  12. Does your site scream "rookie"?
  13. Fluff & Contenders 2000  [Good and bad examples]
  14. Tog's First Principles of Design
  15. Good Documents
  16. The Good Web©
  17. CONTENTIOUS
  18. creativepro.com
  19. Web Development Quality
  20. OCLC Human-Computer Interaction    Web Resources
  21. Tomalak's Realm :   [Daily Links to Strategic Web Design News]
  22. Creating Killer Web Sites Examples    [1997]
  23. An Online Guide to Good Web Design
  24. Intranet Journal: The Top 10 Intranet Design Mistakes
  25. Developing Web vision
  26. Web-Peer-Review Email List
  27. Creating and Documenting Electronic Texts: A Guide to Good Practice
  28. The Paradox of the Active User   [PDF]
  29. DECONSTRUCTING...
  30. Minimalist Web Design
  31. Some Advice on Writing, Web-style
  32. Successful Web Pages: What Are They and Do They Exist?        Abstract W/Screenshots
  33. Designing for Multiple Browsers Without Being Bland
  34. Online-Writing  [email discussion group]
  35. Web Page Design for Designers    [Joe Gillespie]
  36. PageResource.Com
  37. e-Commerce Topics   [IBM]
  38. ahref.com    [a thang for web developers]
  39. A List Apart    [Jeffrey Zeldman]
  40. Zuberlinks    [a Resource Guide to Links for Web Site Builders]
  41. Website Tips for Designers
  42. Web Design and Web Review
  43. Designing for Multiple Browsers Without Being Bland
  44. How to Make Your Web Offerings Useful to the Most Visitors
  45. Washington Independent Writers
  46. A Modular Approach to Teaching/Learning the World Wide Web
  47. websiterevamp.org

International Considerations
Internationalization or I18N / Localization or L10N

  1. [I18N because of the 18 letters between the I and the N; similarly L10N]
  2. Language
  3. Rosetta Project
  4. English - the universal language on the Internet?
  5. Babel: Towards communicating on the Internet in any language
  6. Centrelink Home Page: We speak your language
  7. Intercultural Issues
  8. Globalization
  9. LOTEit
  10. Web Internationalization Links
  11. Entering International Markets
  12. How can I make my site more appealing to international users?
  13. Notes on a multilingual web
  14. Multilingual.Com
  15. All the Web's a Stage - GLOBAL E-COMMERCE     Good Timing (guddotaimingu) in Japan
  16. Global Web Sites Prove Challenging
  17. Web addresses go multilingual
  18. Character Sets / Font Face / Unicode
    1. Earl's Font Face Test Page
    2. Language Identifiers in the Markup Context
    3. HCI Bibliography : HCI Webliography : Intercultural Issues CHARACTER_SET Information
    4. Unicode Home Page Unicode  ISO 10646
    5. Unicode Character Set Test Page
    6. Unicode and Multilingual Support in HTML,Fonts, Web Browsers and Other Applications
    7. Fontboard: Fonts & Keyboards
    8. Fonts and Keyboards
    9. Every Known Font Site - True Type Resource
    10. Fonts in Cyberspace
    11. Sample Pages for Various Character Sets
    12. Speaking in Charsets: Building a Multilingual Web Site
    13. Chinese, Japanese and Korean characters in English Windows
  19. Demo: Windows 2000 International and Multilingual Support
  20. IBM Global Solutions Directory - Language Selector
  21. Is Globalization Right for You?
  22. International Trade Administration - U.S. Department of Commerce - 1-800-USA-TRADE
  23. Al Bawaba [English]     Al Bawaba [Arabic]
  24. Alibaba Manufacturer Directory   [China]   [Japan]
  1. Global Business Magazine
  2. EBSCO Information Services
  3. Cisco Systems
  4. E*TRADE
  5. boo.com::
  6. Resources for Internationalization
    1. Language Translation
    2. Language translation software: Words for words   software chart (PDF)
    3. The Soldiers are in the Coffee – An Introduction to Machine Translation       MUROOKA BEDDING ONLINE SHOPPING
    4. Web Site Translation       Preview your translated site
    5. Bowne Global Solutions iTranslator
    6. InterTran / Internet Translator
    7. Berlitz GlobalNET : The launch pad for Going Global
    8. Bowne Global Solutions
    9. Tango Multilingual Web Browser
    10. eTranslate, the Web Globalization Company: consulting, technology & translation services
    11. GlobalSight
    12. Idiom Technologies
    13. Lernout & Hauspie: The Speech and Language Company
    14. Lionbridge Multilingual Internet Solutions
    15. Seagull International
    16. Trados
    17. Uniscape web globalization and ebusiness globalization solutions
    18. WorldPoint (TM) - Be Global (TM)
    19. Transparent
  7. Scrabble
    1. Welcome to WorldWide Scrabble
    2. Scrabble: US/Canada
    3. Scrabble: Outside US/Canada
    4. Alteon
  8. AltaVista Around the World
    1. Altavista USA
    2. Deutschland
    3. France
    4. India
    5. Italy
    6. Korea
    7. Nederland
    8. Sweden
    9. United Kingdom
  9. Welcome to Kodak Worldwide
  10. eBay Around the World
    1. eBay Australia
    2. eBay Canada
    3. eBay Germany
    4. Japan Bridge Page   eBay Japan
    5. eBay UK
    6. eBay USA

Books:

  1. Net Words: Creating High-Impact Online Copy
  2. Weaving the Web     by Tim Berners-Lee
  3. Designing Web Usability: The Practice of Simplicity    by Jakob Nielsen
  4. Homepage Usability: 50 Websites Deconstructed
  5. Cluetrain
  6. Building Really Annoying Web Sites
  7. Web Design in a Nutshell : A Desktop Quick Reference     by Jennifer Niederst
  8. Philip and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing    by Philip Greenspun     Online Version
  9. Writing for the Web  by Crawford Kilian
  10. Web Style Guide     Yale C/AIM Web Style Guide   Online Version
  11. Web Navigation: Designing the User Experience     by Jennifer Fleming
  12. Information Architecture for the World Wide Web    by Louis Rosenfeld, Peter Morville
  13. Cascading Style Sheets: Designing for the Web    by Håkon Lie and Bert Bos (Addison Wesley)
  14. Stop Stealing Sheep & Find Out How Type Works    by Erik Spiekermann, E. M. Ginger
  15. Creating Killer Web Sites   by David Siegel
  16. HTML 4.0 Sourcebook    by Ian S. Graham
  17. Washington Writer: Books: References and Tools
  18. The Victorian Internet

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