PROCESS
SITES
Creating Good Websites 
Class notes from a course designed to take beginners through the steps of building a website. Covers site organization, content, page markup, design, etc.
Watchfire.Net - Your Portal to Total Web Quality
Links to articles, programs, and other resources related to ensuring website quality, and web design in general.
Web Design - MetaGrrrl
"A proposal and resources relating to design standards on the world wide web."
Web Design References
Links to references about accessibility, information architecture, labels, navigation, usability, testing, and tools dealing with design; as well as comprehensive sites and articles.
Web Producer's Mailing List
Join this list for web producers, hosted by Studio Verso.
ARTICLES
'ReDesign' is not a Dirty Word
Advice on redesigning your site: figuring out what's wrong; figuring out what to improve on; planning for future expandability; and making sure things integrate well. (3/6/2001 at WebmasterBase)
Building Web Sites - 7 Pointers That Will Help You Get Started
A quick overview of how to build a website. (3/14/2000 at Web Builder 101)
Design Nightmares
Four creepy classes of monsters that can ruin your website: architecture spooks, interface demons, content monsters, and usability horrors. (10/31/2000 at builder.com)
Designing Distributed Sites
Building distributed sites, which span locations and maybe organizations, requires re-examining several parts of the design process: content management, content distribution, monitoring, site development, and security. (9/14/2000 at Web Techniques)
Elephants in the Living Room
The personnel problems that nobody talks about, but will stop your website from being done right. (9/1/2000 at AskTog)
Founders of the Web Standards Project Take a Hiatus
The members of the Web Standards Project, having worked fairly successfully to get browser makers to adhere to web standards, plan to refocus next year on influencing web designers and developers. (12/14/2001 at Computer World)
Fundamentals of Web Application Development
The four most important parts of a web application: security, maintainability, usability, and performance. (3/4/2001 at PHPBuilder)
How To Create Flexible Sites Quickly Using Standards Like CSS and XHTML
A methodology for building a large number of web pages quickly, using CSS, XHTML, and server-side includes, by breaking projects into "chunks." (9/13/2001 at IBM)
Juggling Chaos: The Gentle Art of Prototyping
Why you might want to build a prototype for your web project; determining your goals; and fulfilling your goals. (12/31/1999 at A List Apart)
Looking at Web Portals
Planning to build a portal? Learn how to define your portal, determine what software and services you can use to build it, and a look at the future of portals. (12/14/1999 at builder.com)
(Serious) Playtime
By letting users test-drive website features and applications, companies can fine-tune their offerings before putting them forth as finished products. (1/24/2000 at The Industry Standard)
Ten Resolutions That Will Wring More Results From Your Website
10 suggestions for improving your website this year. Make sure customer email gets answered; find out how long it takes the site to recover after a crash; test your search engine with actual queries; etc. (1/2/2002 at Darwin Magazine)
Top 5 Headaches
The top 5 operational problems faced by major websites - focused on "human capital," management, Internet speed, and security. (9/15/2000 at Internet World in Print)
The Toughest Site You Will Ever Build
Advice on building your own site - when you don't have a client to tell you what to do, it can be hard coming up with the right vision. (2/25/2002 at WDVL)
Web Site Upgrades: Build or Buy?
Companies dealing with their online sites often find that off-the-shelf solutions that worked well at first fail to meet customization and personalization needs as their sites grow. (1/17/2000 at Computer World)
Working With Other Design Shops
Advice on working with other design teams on websites. (2/1/2000 at designshops.com)
Wrenching Decision
Various web "experts" talk about the tools they use to write HTML, program, manipulate graphics, etc. (9/14/2000 at Web Techniques)
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