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Style GuidesWhat works and what does not work? Not the easiest question to answer and maybe it should not be answered. In our experience, it is experience that really teaches the rules of web page design. Looking at other examples with a critical eye helps. As yourself questions. Is it easy to understand? Can you find what you need quickly? Is it pleasing to look at?
Yale University HTML Style Guide Virtual Library / Cyberweb Style HTML Author's Guild Style Manual (work in progress) World Wide Web Consortium's HTML Style Guides The Ten Commandments of HTML Top Ten Ways to Tell if you have a Sucky Home PageA few more comments may be in order. As you look over the above guides, remember that they are for different audiences. The W3 Consortium is going to be geared more to academic audiences. These pages tend to have little flash. The goal is to provide the maxium information with the minimum of bandwidth. Depending on the sort of page you are trying to put together, you may opt for more flash.
That is all I think we really need to go over regarding style. Just have some
fun with it!
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