What's Stopping You - Websites that WOW Resources
Below are a list of resources covered during the Websites that WOW presentation.
You can also download the full Websites that WOW presentation in PDF format (6MB) at: http://www.eventskent.co.uk/presentations.
Website Style - visual design, layout, colour scheme, typography
- Cranford University & Customer Web Watch :
http://www.consumerwebwatch.org/dynamic/web-credibility-reports-evaluate-abstract.cfm - First impressions :
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4616700.stm - Divine Proportion :
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/05/29/applying-divine-proportion-to-web-design/ - Colours explained :
http://www.uxmatters.com/MT/archives/000069.php - Colour scheme generator :
http://www.wellstyled.com/tools/colorscheme2/index-en.html - Typography :
http://bloggingbits.com/54-typography-resources-every-designer-should-bookmark/
Website Style - stock photography
- iStockphoto :
http://www.istockphoto.com/ - BigStockPhoto :
http://www.bigstockphoto.com - Dreamstime :
http://www.dreamstime.com/ - stock.xchng :
http://www.sxc.hu/
Usability
- Jakob Neilson. Designing Web Usability :
http://www.useit.com/ - Steve Krug. Don't Make Me Think! A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability :
http://www.sensible.com/ - Usability :
http://www.usabilitynet.org - Don't use "click here" as link text :
http://www.w3.org/QA/Tips/noClickHere - Web content accessibility Experiences Shared by People with Disabilities and by People Using Mobile Devices :
http://www.w3.org/WAI/mobile/experiences-new - BBC NEWS | Technology | New guidelines boost web access :
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7789622.stm
Design
- Top ten mistakes in web design :
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9605.html - Design: 15 Important Research Findings You Should Know :
http://meiert.com/en/blog/20070113/web-design-15-important-research-findings-you-should-know/
Legal Requirements
- Displaying your business name :
http://www.businesslink.gov.uk/bdotg/action/detail?type=RESOURCES&itemId=1073788946
and http://www.companieshouse.gov.uk/about/gbhtml/gbf3.shtml - Companies to update websites and email footers before 2007 | The Register :
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/21/new_web_email_regulation/ - The UK's E-Commerce regulations | OUT-LAW.COM :
http://www.out-law.com/page-431 - The UK's Distance Selling Regulations | OUT-LAW.COM :
http://www.out-law.com/page-430 - Excerpts from the Disability Discrimination Act - Web Access Centre :
http://www.rnib.org.uk/xpedio/groups/public/documents/publicwebsite/public_legaldda.hcsp - Case against Target.com :
http://www.pai-ca.org/news/Target_National_Claims_Notice.htm
SEO
- WordTracker: Keyword Tool :
http://freekeywords.wordtracker.com/ - Google Adwords: Keyword Tool :
https://adwords.google.co.uk/select/KeywordToolExternal - Latent Semantic Indexing :
Lexical database : http://wordnet.princeton.edu/
Google AdSense sandbox : http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/adsense-sandbox/
Other tool : http://www.gorank.com/seotools/ontology/
