Website Resources & Tools
Those who know me know I’m a resource junky. I’ll continually adding to this page as time allows. Check often and please make suggestions…
User Science
Beyond IA "Memorymapping: Web Designer as Cartographer" – a post in A List Apart describing an alternate metaphor. The A List Apart link takes you to the page titled "User Science" where they nicely describe it’s three components (Accessibility, Information Architecture, and Usability), each linking to 50 or so articles.
Accessibility
Site Organization (AKA Information Architecture or IA)
Wikipedia’s description.
Usability First’s outline of Information Architecture.
Site Usability
Top Ten Guidelines for Homepage Usability: Check out his other lists, too.
Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
Comprehensive Guide to Keyword Research in Search Engine Guide.
Tutorials, How To’s
W3Schools – comprehensive, well done set of tutorials on most anything related to web building.
Web design from Scratch’s tutorials & articles: basic web design, usability, IA, resources and more
The Web Book. A 330 page downloadable pdf book on how to create websites.
"Here you’ll find all sorts of HTML, Javascript and web authoring tutorials, from absolute beginner stuff to more advanced material" ~ PageTutor.
"Tizag was designed to teach beginner web programmers how to use HTML and CSS."
Tools (Please suggest others you find useful)
Where I put notes, save web pages, store about everything: Evernote
Markup validation: W3C Markup Validation Service
But I use Web Developer, a Firefox add-on which includes W3C Markup Validation.
Scott Hanselman’s 2009 Ultimate Developer and Users Tool List for Windows
Screen recording & video editing tools:
Camstasia Studio
Windows Media Encorder
Avidemux 2.5
FormatFactory