Resources
Useful web design and accessibility resources
On this page:
- Web accessibility
- Resources for government
- Website marketing
- For web design beginners
- For print designers learning web design
Resources for web accessibility
- An introduction to accessibility
- Web developer toolbar
- Accessibility toolbar
- HTML / XHTML validator
- CSS validator
- Color contrast ratio test
- GrayBit greyscale conversion
- Fangs screen reader emulator (Firefox)
- Webbie screen reader emulator
- HTML table linearizer
- Web page speed analyser
- Download time calculator
- SMOG readability calculator
- Accessibility is about giving a damn
Resources for government
- eGovernment Resource Centre
- An introduction to accessibility
- How to make government internet sites more accessible
- Australian Government web publishing guide
- Jakob Nielsen - Do government agencies and non-profits get ROI from usability?
- Quick start beginner's guide for government Twitter use
- Queensland Government web writing guide
- Queensland Government CUE standard
- Tourism Queensland image gallery
- Accessibility is about giving a damn
- 10 best intranets of 2009
- How to survive IT lockdown
- First impressions count in web design
- Usability, the key to successful design
- Home page goals
- Human-to-human design
- Flywheels, kinetic energy, and friction
- An introduction to card sorting (usability testing)
- Userfly online usability testing tool
- Google Public Sector tools
Resources for website marketing
- Give your website away
- eMarketing and email newsletters
- Search engine optimisation (SEO)
- Protect your site from unethical search engine optimisation
- Google AdWords
- Conversion optimisation
- Marketing your website offline
- 60+ unique ideas for marketing your business offline and locally
- Marketing your organisations website
- Simple offline marketing strategies to boost website traffic
- Offline marketing for website promotion
- 4 offline marketing tips to increase website traffic
Resources for web design beginners
Design
- The principles of design
- Design Guy design principles podcasts
- The Design View Show podcasts
- Design psychology
- Color theory for Designers - Part 1
- Color theory for Designers - Part 2
- Give your website away
- Human-to-human design
- Designing a guided tour
- A guide to wireframing
- How to make a website
- Home page goals
- No!Spec
- The employable web designer
- The personal web design degree
- Web design from scratch
- A Practical Guide to Designing for the Web
- WaSP InterAct web design and development curriculum
- Web design industry jargon: Glossary and resources
- Introduction to typography basics
- 50 Essential Web Typography Tutorials, Tips, Guides and Best Practices
- Learning about contrast
- Photoshop non-destructive editing
- iStockphoto stock photography
Accessibility
HTML / XHTML
- Use Dreamweaver as an application, not a skill
- W3Schools online web tutorials
- What beautiful HTML code looks like
- HTML prototyping and agile development
- Lorem ipsum dummy text generator
- Browsershots cross platform browser testing
CSS
- Mastering CSS: Getting started
- 10 tips for writing better CSS
- CSS – frequently asked questions
- Dynamic Drive CSS library
- How z-index works
- Relative and absolute positioning
Web hosting
Resources for print designers learning web design
- Transitioning from a Print to a Web Designer
- Print Design to Web Design: Comparative Analogies
- The web is not print
- Pixel Perfect Design Does Not Necessarily Equal Good Web Design
- Web design industry jargon: Glossary and resources
- Don't forget to also check out the resources for web design beginners (above)
