My Other Websites

• Marilyn Fenn Studio
• Marilyn Fenn Paintings Online Shop
• My Flickr Photostream
• Pixel Wranglers Web Design
• Marilyn Fenn Decor
• Marilyn Fenn Design (archive of version 2 – the one before this one)

Some Useful Web Links

Tips for anyone online, not just designers…

• How to banish junk mail from your inbox forever
• Email address encoder
• Password how-to
• Password generator
• ReCaptcha anti-spam tool for forms
• Writing style guidelines for the web
• Create the perfect business or organization newsletter
• A basic color code table
• Color scheme generator
• Another cool color scheme site
  
• CSS Zen Garden – what can be accomplished visually through CSS-based design

Usability in Web Design

Not all usability experts agree on all points, as you will notice in the articles linked below.

The Good

• Top Ten Guidelines for Homepage Usability
• Ten Good Deeds in Web Design

The Bad

• Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design
• The Ten Most Violated Homepage Design Guidelines
• The Most Hated Advertising Techniques

The Ugly

• Web Pages That Suck

More

• 10 Useful Usability Guidelines

Website Testing Tools

Web design and testing tools and info, that is.

• Browser stats
• More web stats
• Browser safe fonts
• W3C validation service
• CSS validator
• Lynx viewer
• Cynthia Says accessibility checker
• W3C web accessibility initiative
• Color blindness viewer
• Color contrast checker
• CSS plus color contrast analyser
• Image analyser
• Test the readability of a website
• Web page speed analyzer
• Google webmaster guidelines
• Explanation of Google PageRank System (Wikipedia)
• SEO mini-tester
• Keyword effectiveness index
• Article on death of the keyword metatag
• W3C Index of Elements chart, including deprecated markup