AMTEC Presentation - All the Design Guidelines We've Seen So Far

ALL THE DESIGN GUIDELINES WE'VE SEEN SO FAR

Well -- everything we've remembered to put on the list when we saw it. Please note that the purpose of this list is to demonstrate how tough it is to sort out all the design guidelines on the Web.

The list is not meant to be --

a comprehensive guide to Web design guidelines
an organized list except in the more general way
a starting place for Web designers who want a few pointers
a list of all the guidelines anyone else has seen (although if you find something we've missed, we'll be more than happy to go see it and add it here ... send us mail

Site-Specific & Organization Guidelines
Guidelines From Individuals -- Famous & Modest, Designers & Not
General Guidelines Published For Everyone
Reverse Guidelines

Site-Specific & Organization Guidelines: These pages appear to be developed by an organization or a Webmaster specifically to assist the people in that organization or Webspace.

Apple Web Design Guide
http://applenet.apple.com/hi/web/intro.html

Ameritech Web Interface Standards & Guidelines
http://www.ameritech.com:1080/news/testtown/library/standard/web_guidelines/introduction.html

BFN SIG Home Page Design Guidelines
http://freenet.buffalo.edu/sigs/menu-design.html

CAAIS Web Screen Design Guidelines
http://caais.psu.edu/WebDesign.html

CedarNet Style Guide
http://www.cedarnet.org/provider/style/index.html

CUL Web Design Document
http://www.library.cornell.edu/design/dsigndoc.html

DECS Style Guide for Publishing on the Web
http://www.nexus.edu.au/help/styleguide.html

Design Guidelines
http://www.cis.temple.edu/isworld/des_guid.html

Design Guidelines for ULiX pages
http://www.ul.ie/Help/Design.html

Design of Hypertext Pages
http://www.cedarnet.org/provider/style/web.html

Home Page Guidelines: Witchita State Universtiy
http://www.twsu.edu/interfac.html

IBM Web Design Guidelines
http://www.ibm.com/IBM/hci/guidelines/web/web_design.html

Indiana University Basics of Web Design
http://www.indiana.edu/iuinfo/guides/basics.html

Internet Home Page Design Guidelines
http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/webmaster/WebDesign/guide/

IP Handbook: Style and Document Design Guidelines
http://www.ithaca.edu/web_admin/IP/ip_handbook/design.html

Niagara College WWW Site Standards Manual (Index)
http://www.niagarac.on.ca/is/webstds/manual.htm

No Title
http://www.lynchburg.edu/public/docs/userguid/design.htm

NPL:Design Guidelines - Introduction
http://www.npl.co.uk/npl/administrivia/guidelines/

OU PUBLICATION GUIDELINES
http://www.law.uoknor.edu/disclaimer/pub-guides.html

Page Design Guidelines
http://www.educ.iastate.edu/guidelines/pageguid.htm

Pomona College Web Design Guidelines
http://www.pomona.edu/home/designguide.html

RSCCD Page Design Guidelines
http://www.rancho.cc.ca.us/ad/pg_guid.htm

Site Design Guidelines
http://techreports.larc.nasa.gov/design/

Standards Manual - Design Guidelines
http://www.niagarac.on.ca/is/webstds/design.htm

TCJC Web Page Design Guidelines
http://www.tcjc.cc.tx.us/webpage.html

Temple University Web Style Guidelines
http://www.temple.edu/documentation/style.html

UMR Home Page Guidelines
http://www.umr.edu/guidelines/

Web Guidelines
http://nimrod.mit.edu/staff/garp/wguide.html

Web Manuals [1.6] Premises for guidelines
http://www.for.gov.bc.ca/tasb/manuals/gm/gm1-6.htm

Web page design and development
http://www.lgu.ac.uk/lgu/wwww/wwww210.htm

Web Page Standards & Guidelines
http://uog2.uog.edu/uog/guidelines.html

Web Site Design Guidelines
http://www.iuinfo.indiana.edu/homepages/1025/1025text/guide.htm

Yale C/AIM Web Style Guide
http://info.med.yale.edu/caim/manual/index.html

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Guidelines From Individuals -- Famous & Modest, Designers & Not: These pages appear to be compiled by individuals, a few of whom are the Web-gurus for their organizations. They do not, however, appear to be Official Style Guides for any organzation. A few of these pages might qualify as "Pages Published for Everyone," but when they have an individual flair - we put them here.

@design: media musings: Style Guide
http://www.atdesign.com/content/base/at/webcraft/05/index.html

5 Essentials of Effective Interactive Web Design
http://www.netscapeworld.com/nw-03-1997/nw-03-techniques.html

12 Web Page Design Decisions Your Business Will Need to Make
http://www.wilsonweb.com/articles/12design.htm

Art and the Zen of Web Sites
http://www.tlc-systems.com/webtips.htm

Ask the Master Chefs (Horton)
http://www.csn.net/~whorton/chap10/chap10.htm

Crafting a Nifty Personal Web Site
http://www2.hawaii.edu/jay/styleguide/

Creating Your Home Page
http://www.azstarnet.com/~joanna/hptutor.htm

design guidelines.current
http://www.en.utexas.edu/~tonya/Tonya/more/guidelines.html

Designing for Multiple Browsers Without Being Bland
http://www1.shore.net/~straub/wprmultb.htm

Elements of HTML Style
http://www.book.uci.edu/Staff/StyleGuide.html

The Holmes Page: Web Design Tips
http://www.region.net/~gregh/web/webtips.htm

HyperContent, HyperJunk: Hypertext Theory as if the WWWeb Matters
http://www.mcs.net/~jorn/html/hyper.html

Lynda's Homegrrrl Page
http://www.lynda.com/

Style Guide
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/gdr11/style-guide.html

Style Guide for Online Hypertext by Tim Berners-Lee
http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/Provider/Style/Overview.html

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General Guidelines Published For Everyone: These pages are either giving guidelines in a general way, so that it seemed to us they were adressing "everyone," or they are not classified under one of our other categories!

Best Viewed With Any Browser
http://server.berkeley.edu/~cdaveb/anybrowser.html

Building a Better Web Site -- An InterNotes Experience Report
http://www.csc.ibm.com/petrol/228e.html
Creating Killer Web Sites Core Page
http://www.killersites.com/core.html

charlotte: Design Guidelines
http://edx1.educ.monash.edu.au/projects/charlotte/archive/0011.html

Design Guidelines
http://www.peru.edu/~lindsay/designhome.html

Design Guidelines
http://www.prodworks.com/design.htm

Design Guidelines
http://rexio.uci.agh.edu.pl/~dot/man/1D.html

Design Guidelines for Frames
http://search.netscape.com/comprod/development_partners/private/viewsource/desgingu.html

Design Guidelines for the World Wide Web
http://www.coedu.usf.edu/fcit/workshops/WWWDESG.HTM

Design Issues and Conventions for Web Pages
http://www.indiana.edu/%7Eiirg/ARTICLES/AAIM/DESIGN.HTM

Good Web Design
http://www.rpi.edu/~goodsd/docs/goodweb.html

Guide to Web Style from Sun Microsystems
http://www.sun.com/styleguide/tables/Welcome.html

Guidelines for Web Document Style & Design from Berkeley Digital Library
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Web/guidelines.html

HTML Layout and Design Guidelines
http://webschool.dprcssb.edu.on.ca/layout.htm

My Favorite Web Design Guidelines
http://neptune.space.und.nodak.edu/design/page2.html

Tips for Accessible Web Page Design
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/2122/webpage.html

Untangling the Web: Accessibility for All
http://hyped.com/planetnews/planetnews/disabled/design.htm

Visual Design
http://livid.vivid.com/form/theory/visual.html

Web Design tips
http://www.ochin.on.ca/webdesign/

Web Page Design
http://www.stat.mq.edu.au/doc/WebDesign.html

Web Page Design for Designers
http://ds.dial.pipex.com/pixelp/wpdesign/wpdintro.htm

Web Page Design Guidelines for Public Libraries
http://www.tiac.net/users/mpl/guidelines.html

Web Site Design Guidelines
http://205.174.240.20/montclaire.www/m2Guidelines.html

Wobble Web Design - Page Design
http://worf.albanyis.com.au/aol/wwd/wwd_page.html

Writing for the Web - A Primer for Librarians
http://bones.med.ohio-state.edu/eric/papers/primer/webdocs.html

WWW Page Design Guidelines
http://137.142.42.95/HomePageGuide.html

W3C Disabilities Developments
http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/Disabilities/

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Reverse Guidelines: These are the "learn what to do by learning what not to do" pages and the pages that simply tell designers what to avoid in Web page design.

Common Problems in Web Design and How to Avoid Them
http://www.cire.com/patrick/design/

Web Pages That Suck
http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/

Why Bad Web Sites Happen to Good People
http://www.organic.com/staff/Tom/jupiter.html

Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9605.html

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AMTEC 1997 Conference, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada
Elizabeth Boling, Barbara Bichelmeyer, Kurt Squire, Sonny Kirkley
Indiana University
Last updated 1 June 1997
URL: http://www.indiana.edu/~iirg/ARTICLES/AMTEC97/urls.html