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For general information on web design and web design strategies, try the following:

Builder.com (a CNET site)
http://www.builder.com
Offers fantastic articles on all aspects of website planning and design (and basic and advanced HTML programming). Also offers links to related sites of interest. Just a fantastic site. Download articles of interest to you; they often change location or are deleted once they get rather old. Since there are so many articles on this site, organisation is not always the best, but once you find the sections/articles of interest to you, you will not really mind.

Web Page Design for Designers
http://www.wpdfd.com
Covers major aspects of web design, including layout, graphics, and typography. Well-organised site.

WebReference
http://www.webreference.com
Excellent repository of articles on website design, style, and authoring.

Yale Web Style Guide
http://info.med.yale.edu/caim/manual/
Very thorough documents which cover all major aspects of web design. Easy to read.

Other Resources
You should definitely visit other university websites, as well, since they tend to offer excellent introductions to elements of web design and style. Carnegie Mellon University (http://www.cmu.edu), the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (http://www.uiuc.edu), and the University of Michigan (http://www.umich.edu) are good sites with which to start. When you reach the homepages of these sites, just visit their site guides to locate their computing services, electronic publishing, or library sections, in which you will usually find the web design and programming documents.

The search engines (located under my Psychology Resources page) are also a good place to find information on these topics, as are Microsoft (http://www.microsoft.com) and Netscape (http://www.netscape.com).

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For detailed information on the mechanics of HTML, Java, Javascript, and other Internet-related programming languages, try out the following sites:

World Wide Web Consortium
http://www.w3.org
This is the official worldwide organisation that develops common protocols for Internet use, including common standards for the HTML language. On this site, you will find all sorts of information about HTML, as well as the complete series of W3-approved industry-standard HTML commands (including the commands from older versions of HTML). When in doubt about HTML, go here first! Also contains an excellent introduction for those new to HTML. Includes an HTML validator (checks your HTML pages for errors).

NCSA Beginner's Guide to HTML
http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/General/Internet/ WWW/HTMLPrimer.html
Offers one of the most popular introductions to HTML. Perfect for all types of beginners. NCSA created one of the first web browsers for the Internet: Mosaic. As such, it is a veteran in the Internet communications field. If the above address does not work, go to http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu and search for the Guide from the menus (usually under "Archives"). In case you were wondering, yes, Mosaic is still in use today.

HTML Goodies (Joe Burns, Ph.D.)
http://www.htmlgoodies.com
This ultra-informative site introduces all areas of HTML programming, in plain, easy-to-follow language. Well-organised. Includes a fantastic quick reference listing of important HTML codes. Download the list, print it out, and keep a copy by your desk.

Builder.com (a CNET site)
http://www.builder.com
Superb articles on all aspects of HTML. Perfect for beginners and more advanced users alike. Due to the large number of articles, organisation may not be the best; but this aside, it is a site well worth the visit. Contains links to other related sites of interest. Make sure to save or print those articles of interest to you, as they may changes directories or be deleted if they reach a certain age.

Developer.com (a CNET site)
http://www.developer.com
This site should be visited in conjunction with Builder.com (http://www.builder.com) It provides detailed information on more advanced aspects of Internet programming, including Java and Javascript. Contains links to other related sites of interest. Great site with free code to download!

WebReference
http://www.webreference.com
The web developer's online reference library. Excellent repository of articles on various aspects of authoring.

Web Robots Pages (Martijn Koster)
http://www.robotstxt.org or http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/robots.html
If you need details on how to make sure that web robots are "well-behaved" when visiting your site, look at this site. Contains information on the robots.txt Robots Exclusion Standard.

Other Resources
Once again, you should definitely visit other university websites, as well, since they tend to offer excellent introductions to elements of web design and style. Carnegie Mellon University (http://www.cmu.edu), the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (http://www.uiuc.edu), and the University of Michigan (http://www.umich.edu) are good sites with which to start. When you reach the homepages of these sites, just visit their site guides to locate their computing services, electronic publishing, or library sections, in which you will usually find the web design and programming documents.

The search engines (located under my Psychology Resources page) are also a good place to find information on these topics, as are Microsoft (http://www.microsoft.com) and Netscape (http://www.netscape.com).

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