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	Alertbox URL: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/ ODP description: Jakob Nielsen's bi-weekly column on current issues in Web usability, focusing on simple and minimalist design based on real user needs. Page title: Alertbox: Jakob Nielsen's Newsletter on Web Usability Page description: Design guidelines for Web and intranet usability, user research summarized, Top-10 mistakes of Web design, how to write for the Web, response time limits, small sites as Web's killer apps, Web project management
	Hot Text: Web Writing That Works URL: http://www.webwritingthatworks.com/ ODP description: Articles from trainer-writer team Jonathan and Lisa Price. Ideas and services for web writers, editors, and content managers. Page title: Resources atÂ Hot Text -- Web Writing that Works
	Bohmann Usability URL: http://www.bohmann.dk/observations/ ODP description: News weblog covering web usability in Europe. Page title: Bohmann's Usability News Page description: News on high-quality user experiences by Kristoffer Bohmann.
	Usable Webs URL: http://www.usablewebs.com/ ODP description: Information on basic web usability principles, including hints on helping search engines find your site. Web usability assessments and content development are available.
	Tognazzini, Bruce: First Principles URL: http://www.asktog.com/basics/firstPrinciples.html ODP description: Bruce Tognazzini discusses basic prinicples of usability for both traditional applications and web services. Page title: AskTog: First Principles of Interaction Design Page description: Basic principle of human-computer interaction, from AskTog, the Webzine for Computer Professionals, their Family, and Friends
	Web Pages That Suck URL: http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/ ODP description: Learn good web page design by looking at bad web pages. Page title: Web Pages That Suck learn usability and good Web design by looking at bad Web design Home Page Page description: Web Pages That Suck -- learn good web design by looking at bad web design
	HTML Authoring Tools URL: http://www.delorie.com/web/ ODP description: Provides free services to assist web authors who wish to make their information available to the largest audience. Page title: Web Stuff
	Designing a More Usable World URL: http://trace.wisc.edu/world/ ODP description: Trace Research and Development Center at the University of Wisconsin. Excellent guidelines for universal web design. Page title: Projects & Programs - Trace Center Page description: Links to information about Trace Center projects and programs, including current and past work.
	Jeffrey Veen: The Usability of Subscribing to Feeds URL: http://www.veen.com/jeff/archives/000733.html ODP description: RSS feeds are surprisingly difficult for the average user to use. Page title: The Usability of Subscribing to Feeds, by Jeffrey Veen
	Something 4 Nothing Web Pages URL: http://www.webdeveloper.com/html/html_something_4_nothing.html ODP description: Tips for building pages which are visually pleasing, and yet still download quickly and make information easy to access. From Webdeveloper.com. Page title: Something 4 Nothing Web Pages [Part 1] / WebDeveloper.com Â® Page description: WebDeveloper.com Forums, Where Web Developers and Designers Learn How to Build Web Sites, Program in Java and JavaScript and More!
	7 Debilitating Diseases of Business Websites URL: http://www.wilsonweb.com/articles/7diseases.htm ODP description: Illnesses make websites inefficient. The cures, by Dr. Ralph F. Wilson:Web Marketing Today, Issue 41, February 1, 1998. Page title: 7 Debilitating Diseases of Business Websites (and their cures) Page description: Explains the most common maladies of business website design and how to heal them. Problems 'treated' include business clarity, image size, 640 x 480 monitor standard, frames problems, background recommendations, too many buttons, and navigation inadequacies.
	Norman, Don: Human Centred Design URL: http://www.jnd.org/dn.mss/gratuitous_grap.html ODP description: Don Norman discusses the approach to usability when building his own website. This includes links to related content by Jakob Nielsen. Page title: Don Norman's jnd.org / Gratuitous Graphics and Human-Centered Website Design Page description: books by Don Norman, personal web page for Don Norman, of the Nielsen Norman Group and UNext, champion of human-centered design. Publications, papers, sample chapters and writings, list of students.
	Fifth Conference on the Human Factors and the Web URL: http://zing.ncsl.nist.gov/hfweb/index.html ODP description: A forum for sharing information among a community of human factors engineers, designers, and developers who are interested in producing web sites that are more useful and usable. Site contains proceedings of the most recent (3/Jun/1999) conference and archives of all previous conferences. Page title: 5th Conference on the Human Factors & the Web -- The Future of Web Applications
	Web Development URL: http://www.december.com/web/develop.html ODP description: A summary of the complete life cycle of web development: planning, analysis, design, implementation, and promotion. Key practices and online resources are given for each process. By John December, author of numerous material for web development methodology. Page description: This web summarizes the complete life cycle methodology for web development: planning, analysis, design, implementation, promotion, and innovation. Key practices and online resources are given for each process.
	Morville, Peter: Building a Synonymous Search Index URL: http://www.ddj.com/184412944 ODP description: Help users find the documents they're looking for by incorporating a 'thesaurus-like' hierarchy for your site. Page title: Dr. Dobb's \| Building a Synonymous Search Index \| January 1, 2002 Page description: Building a Synonymous Search Index
	The WDVL: Designing Attractive Web Pages URL: http://wdvl.com/Authoring/Design/Pages/ ODP description: Before you can design avant-garde Web pages, you have to know what the rules are before you try to break, bend or amend them. Page title: WDVL: Designing Attractive Web Pages
	User-Friendly Web Sites for All Ages, Microsoft PressPass URL: http://www.microsoft.com/PressPass/press/1999/May99/GuidelinePR.asp ODP description: Guidelines for businesses, developers and web designers on how to make their web sites more user-friendly and accessible for the adult community. A white paper issued by Microsoft, "Effective Web Design Considerations for Older Adults." is available for download. Page title: Microsoft Issues Guidelines for Making User-Friendly Web Sites for All Ages: With PC Purchases for Those Over 55 Increasing 150 Percent in the Last Year, Microsoft Hopes Its Research Will Help the Industry Better Serve Seniors Page description: With PC Purchases for Those Over 55 Increasing 150 Percent in the Last Year, Microsoft Hopes Its Research Will Help the Industry Better Serve Seniors
	Morville, Peter: Virtual Documents: The Challenges of Chunking URL: http://www.ddj.com/184412896 ODP description: Advice for determining a level of granularity in breaking up documents for online viewing. Page title: Dr. Dobb's \| Virtual Documents \| January 1, 2002 Page description: Virtual Documents
	Usability.gov URL: http://www.usability.gov/ ODP description: Provided by the National Cancer Institute. Includes information and resources on making web sites and other user interfaces more useful, usable, and accessible. News and current publications and additional links are provided.
	eShopability URL: http://www.eshopability.com ODP description: Provides design and usability information and advice on how to convert browsers into buyers and keep them, analysis and trends. Free fortnightly newsletter. Page title: eShopability.com - Web usability that sells - eCommerce analysis and trends Page description: eShopability web usability that sells homepages