Design and Promotion

The pages in this section will help you to make a more effective site - both in terms of design (the appearance and flow of your site) and promotion (making your site accessible to the world).

Design

• Web Design Guidelines Basic guidelines for creating practical, professional sites.
• Web Accessibilty An introduction to Web accessibility issues and tools.
• Yale Style Guide A comprehensive guide to simple, elegant Web design.
• Web Developer's Journal Lots of information on design, graphics, programming, etc.
• Webmonkey A Web developer's resource journal.

Promotion

• How to promote your Web site This step-by-step tutorial gives an excellent overview on Web site promotion. Topics include:
  • Why bother promoting your site?
  • Options for promotion
  • What matters to search engines
  • Registration mechanics
  • Getting people to come back
  • Other publicity options
  • Summary and Resources
• Web site usage statistics (webstats) Find out how people are using your Web site -- page hits, where they are coming from, etc.