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Web Style Guides

Web style guides are a great way to understand what works and what doesn't on the Web. Style guides can be very specific to a certain Web site or they can be very general giving you overall tips to creating great pages.

Web Style Guide

This Web style guide is intended to help Web designers and Web developers work within a Web style format that is easy to edit and use. Web style guides help you maintain consistent code and thus consistent pages.

Yale C/AIM Web Style Guide

This style guideline describes the way people interface with the Web and how to design Web pages to that specification.

Making a WWW Flop

Sarcastic advice on how to make your Web site cool.

Style Guide for Online Hypertext

This long document gives a great overview of what HTML should look like.

Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design

When creating a Web site, there are some things that many people do that create sites that are unusable or just plain ugly. Usability expert, Jakob Nielsen explains ten of them.

W3C Style Guide

Find out what the creators of the Internet view as good HTML style.

WDVL Style Guide

This style guide gives a sample for how to order even the look of your HTML so that it is easily read and evaluated. Further on it gives recommendations for the content and layout of pages.

What Makes a Great Web Site?

More than just thoughts on great sites, this article has some excellent tips for improving your site.

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