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Guidelines and Checklists Header area provides usability guidelines and quick fix checklists for designing usable Web sites.

Provides usability guidelines and quick fix checklists for designing usable Web sites.

Web Site GuidelinesWeb Site Guidelines

Research-Based Web Design & Usability Guidelines
http://usability.gov/guidelines/guidelines_notice.html

  • Provides guidelines for improving Web design, navigation, functionality
  • Includes findings from Web design and usability literature identified by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and provides references

Web Design Guidelines: Design in Action
http://www-3.ibm.com/ibm/easy/eou_ext.nsf/Publish/572

  • Provides guidelines on Web site planning, design, production, and maintenance
  • Offers guidelines on e-commerce

Web Style Guide
http://www.webstyleguide.com/index.html

  • Presents an online manual on interface design, site design, page design, Web graphics, and Web multimedia and animation

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Writing for the Web GuidelinesWriting for the Web Guidelines

Writing for the Web
http://www.sun.com/980713/webwriting/

  • Provides guidelines for writing for the Web, including scannability, navigation, and the difference between paper and online presentations

Web Site CredibilityWeb Site Credibility

Stanford Guidelines for Web Credibility
http://www.webcredibility.org/guidelines/

  • Provides a 10-point plan for boosting Web credibility
  • Based on three years of research

ChecklistsChecklists

Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Quick Tips Reference Card
http://www.w3.org/WAI/References/QuickTips/

  • Presents an accessibility quick tips checklist
  • Provides key concepts of accessible Web site design

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What's New area includes New usability Lessons Learned, More Tech companies see the value and profitability of usability, New W3C guidelines.

Moving Forms to the Web - Thursday-Friday, October 14-15, 2004

Goal Oriented Planning and Testing October 21, 2004

New Research-Based Guidelines Sorting Tool: Sort Guidelines by Importance, Strength of Evidence, and Other Options

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