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Nielsen, Jakob. (1996). Inverted Pyramids in Cyberspace.

Nielsen, Jakob.(1999). Top Ten New Mistakes of Web Design .

Nielsen, Jakob.(2000). Content Creation for Average People .

Ray, Deborah S. and Eric J. Ray. (1999). The HTML document life cycle. From Mastering HTML 4. Sybex: San Francisco.

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Design: Basics

Bernard, Michael L. How can I make my site more accessible to children?  

Bernard, Michael L. How should information be positioned in a typical website?

Bernard, Michael L. How can I make sure that my site follows general web conventions?

Flanders, Vincent and Michael Wills. (1998). Web pages that suck: learn good design by looking at bad design. San Francisco: Sybex.

Flanders, Vincent. Web pages that suck.  

Note: some internet filters will not allow you to access this site because of the word "suck" in the title. It is still worthwhile to look at the site but you may have to turn off the child safe features to get there. 

Krug, Steve. (2000). How we really use the Web from: Don't make me think: a commonsense approach to web usability. Indianapolis, IN: Que.

McCloud, Scott. (1993). Understanding Comics. Northhampton, MA: Kitchen Sink Press.

Nielsen, Jakob. (2000). Designing web usability. Indianapolis, IND: New Riders.

Nielsen, Jakob. Useit.com.

Waters, Crystal. (1996). Web concept & design: a comprehensive guide for creating effective Web sites. Indianapolis, IND: New Riders Publishing. 

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Writing HTML

Castro, Elizabeth. (1998). HTML for the World Wide Web. Berkeley, CA: Peachpit Press.

CBC4kids. Tech Tips: How to Build a Web Page.

Frontpage 2000 in the Classroom.

HTML Basics

HTML Cheatsheet.

Lynch, Patrick and Sarah Horton. (1997). Web style guide.

Maricopa Center For Learning. (1994-1999). Writing HTML: A tutorial for creating web pages.  

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Javascript

Javascript Library from Webmonkey.

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Color

Browser Safe Color Palette

Koy Software's Color Selector 2.0

Morton, J.L. (1995-2001). Computer Color Matters.

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HTML Generators

Microsoft FrontPage

Adobe GoLive

HotDog Pagewiz

Shareware or Freeware tools: Tucows.com, search "web design" or "HTML tools". 

Freeware: HTML Workshop 2.0 or HTML Tutor Pro 2.0
 
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What Great School Sites Look Like

Bland County History Archives.

Kingston: A Window to Our Past. 

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