Client Websites (partial list):
- Charity Partners of Austin:
website design and development, logo design - Energy Market Exchange:
website design and development, logo design, Flash animation - Ines Batllo Paintings:
website design and development - Southwest Energy Services:
website design and development, logo design - Texas Society of Sculptors:
website redesign and development, logo redesign - Texas Association of Appraisal Districts:
redesign of association website - Wayson Inc.:
new design and development of Chemical Firm website - William Wahlgren:
redesign of artist website
My Business and Personal Sites:
- Pixel Wranglers:
web design and development partnership with my husband - Marilyn Fenn Fine Art:
my fine art web site - Marilyn Fenn Decor:
my interior decoration website - In for a Penny:
portal for our public (and private) sites
Links to information about web design:
Not all usability experts agree on all points, as you will notice if you read the articles linked below.
The Good
The Bad
A number of top ten (or more) lists from usability guru Jakob Nielsen and others:
- Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design
- The Ten Most Violated Homepage Design Guidelines
- Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design 2003
- The Most Hated Advertising Techniques
- Biggest Web Design Mistakes in 2004
The Ugly
Some just plain useful links related to website design:
- How to banish junk mail from your inbox forever
- Email address encoder
- Password how-to
- Links to tips for creating newsletters.
- Create the perfect business or organization newsletter
- Writing style guidelines for the web
- Information on website marketing
- A basic color code table
- Color scheme generator
- Color blind image correction
- UX Magazine - The User Experience Magazine
- CSS Zen Garden - what can be accomplished visually through CSS-based design.
And some downright geeky stuff:
- Browser stats
- Explanation of Google PageRank System (Wikipedia)
- Essential web tools in one place
- W3C validation service.
- CSS validator
- CSS plus color contrast analyser
- View your site through Safari Screenshot Service
- Lynx viewer
- Bobby accessibility checker
- Cynthia Says accessibility checker
- W3C web accessibility initiative
- Color blindness viewer
- Color contrast checker
- Image analyser
- Test the readability of a website
- Web page speed analyzer
- SEO Mini-tester
- Google webmaster guidelines
- Keyword effectiveness index.
- Article on death of the keyword metatag
- W3C Index of Elements chart, including deprecated markup
- Does My Web Site Suck? Checklist 1 (Fatal mistakes)*
- Does My Web Site Suck? Checklist 2 (Mortal sins)*
*Checklists to determine if your web pages suck were designed for large companies or NPO's, so many items may not apply if you have a small personal, music, performance, art or other creative or experimental site, and even some small business or organization sites.