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Yale's C/AIM Web Style Guide
One of the best guides to web design. The advice is aimed at the practical concerns of bending and adapting HTML for purposes of graphic page design.

New York Public Library Online Style Guide
Style guide for the New York Public Libraries. All NYPL projects must be authored in valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional and styled with valid Cascading Style Sheets.

Style Guide for Online Hypertext
Good introductory guide to creating online hypertext documents. Written in the early days of the Web, its basic points are just as valid today. It has not been updated to incorporate recent developments.

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

Stanford Guidelines for Web Credibility
Provides a 10-point plan for boosting Web credibility.

Information Quality WWW Virtual Library
An extremely useful electronic archive for exchange of information dealing with guidelines, standards and operational procedures for evaluation, development and administration of high quality information systems.

Web Page Development: Best Practices
The Safari development team at Apple has develop a short "best practices" rubric for web development.

Web Development Guidelines
Martybugs.net takes you through the process of designing a web site and tells you how to avoid "bugging" people. Very well done.

Web Design and Review
Web site with information and discussion on web design, typography, graphics, and usability issues. Submit a site for review.


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