Useful Links

We want you to share our knowledge. We think the links below will benefit you and allow you to develop your website in new ways by learning from others. We recommend that you read as many of these pages as you can so that you get a good understanding of all areas of web page building. If there are some links you feel would be good to see on hear, let us know by sending us an email and we'll try and we'll add them on!

Content

http://www.useit.com/papers/webwriting/

A selection of articles on how to write for the web by usability guru Jakob Neilsen

http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9710a.html

How users read text online

Browsers

http://www.e-janco.com/browser.htm

A report on Internet browser market share at June 2005. Not everyone uses Internet Explorer!

http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp

Month by month breakdown of browser stats. These figures are slightly distorted as the users of the site come from a ‘techie’ background so will not reflect the wider Internet audience.

Accessibility

http://www.webbie.org.uk/webbie.htm

Blind people and the web. An article on how blind users surf the web.

http://web-accessibility.co.uk/types-of-disability.asp

A list of disabilities users face when using the Internet.

http://www.tsi.enst.fr/%7Ebrettel/colourblindness.html

A demonstration of how colour blind users see your images

http://www.webaim.org/simulations/screenreader.php

Screen readers are what blind surfers use to find there way are the net. A demonstration is available here.

http://www.andybudd.com/archives/2004/01/the_business_case_for_web_accessibility/index.php

If you don’t think accessibility is important for your website, think of the business benefits

Search

http://www.webpronews.com/ebusiness/seo/wpn-4-20050214WhatAretheTop10SearchEngines.html

A list of the top ten search engines. This is pretty much definitive so don’t be fooled by the scammers!

http://www.bruceclay.com/searchenginerelationshipchart.htm

Very useful Flash movie showing how all of the search engines are linked.

http://www.rankforsales.com/n-ay/720-seo-aug-18-04.html

An article from 2004 which says that 85% of users find what they want using a search engine.

http://www.searchengineworld.com/cgi-bin/sim_spider.cgi

See how a search engine views your website.

http://www.alteredimpressions.com/Usability101/Good_Web_Page_Title.htm

Why your page titles are very important