Resources

Here are resources related to Share­Point and other design con­cepts. This list is con­stantly being updated. The blank sec­tions will soon have content.

Acces­si­bil­ity

• How to Make Your AJAX Appli­ca­tions Accessible
• Fangs — The Screen Reader Emulator

CSS Tech­niques

• Lists with Rounded Corners
• A Killer Col­lec­tion of Global CSS Reset Styles
• Nine Tech­niques for CSS Image Replacement
• CSS Sprites: What They Are, Why They’re Cool, and How To Use Them

CSS Tuto­ri­als

• W3Schools — CSS (Start Here)
• CSS Short­hand Guide
• Learn CSS Posi­tion­ing in Ten Steps
• CSS Speci­ficity: Things You Should Know
• CSS Float Tutorial
• CSS List Tutorial
• CSS Media Types
• CSS 3 Selec­tors Explained

Browser Com­pat­i­bil­ity

• CSS Com­pat­i­bil­ity and Inter­net Explorer
• Con­di­tional CSS Com­ments for Inter­net Explorer
• CSS — Con­tents and Compatibility
• Web Browser Stan­dards Support
• CSS Selec­tors and Pseudo Selec­tors and Browser Support

Debug­ging Tools

• Fire­bug
• Web Devel­oper Toolbar
• My Debug­Bar
• IE Devel­oper Toolbar
• Tam­per Data
• X-Ray

Design Pat­terns

• User Inter­face Design Patterns
• Infor­ma­tion Design Patterns
• Design Pat­terns: Pat­terns for Effec­tive Inter­ac­tion Design
• Ele­ments of Design
• Pag­i­na­tion Gallery: Exam­ples and Good Practices
• Ajax Pat­terns
• Inter­ac­tion Design Pat­tern Library
• Yahoo! Design Pat­tern Library

Find­abil­ity

• Find­abil­ity Bliss Through Web Standards
• The Design of Brows­ing and Berryp­ick­ing Techniques

(X)HTML

• Pro­duce Per­fect Tables
• XHTML — Myths and Realities
• HTML5, XHTML2, and the Future of the Web
• HTML Design Principles

Infor­ma­tion Architecture

• Where Am I? (Navigation)
• Bet­ter Liv­ing Through Taxonomies
• Using Wire­frames
• Visio Wire­frame Toolkit
• The SEO Guide to Infor­ma­tion Architecture
• Flex­i­ble Fuel: Edu­cat­ing the Client on IA
• Infor­ma­tion Archi­tec­ture A-Z
• Cat­e­gories Ver­sus Tags

Search Engine Optimization

• The SEO Guide to Infor­ma­tion Architecture
• Search Engine Opti­miza­tion Analy­sis Tool
• Head­line Writ­ing for Google, Social Media and Profit
• Xinu — Check PageR­ank, Back­links, Indexed Pages, Rank­ings and more
• The Scru­ti­nizer — 283 Tools in One Place
• SiteMaps.org
• WriteMaps (Cre­at­ing Sitemaps)

Share­Point Data Form/View Web Part

• The Data Form Web Part (Dis­play­ing Data)
• Get­ting to Know the Data Form Web Part (Part 2)

Share­Point Designer

Share­Point & CSS

• Intro­duc­tion to CSS in Share­Point (Part 2, Part 3)
• Share­Point 2007 CSS Reference

Share­Point & Search

Share­Point Mas­ter Pages

• Enabling Error Reporting
• Cus­tomiz­ing Del­e­gate Controls
• Min­i­mal Mas­ter Pages
• Con­tent Place­holder Ref­er­ence
  
• Cre­ate Cus­tom Share­Point Themes
• CSS Friendly Adapters

Test­ing

• UITest.com — Val­ida­tors, Check­ers, Gen­er­a­tors, and Tools for Web Design and Development
• Browser Shots

Typog­ra­phy

• The Ele­ments of Typo­graphic Style Applied to the Web
• Web Style Guide, 2nd Edition
• 46 Resources & Tools to Improve Your Web Typography
• 12 Exam­ples of Para­graph Typography
• WhatThe­Font?
• Type­tester — Com­pare Fonts for the Screen
• A Les­son in Typog­ra­phy (Part 2)
• Font Matrix

Usabil­ity

• Intro­duc­tion to Eye­track­ing: See­ing Through Your User’s Eyes
• UserTesting.com — Low Cost Usabil­ity Testing
• Click­Heat (Click Tracking)
• Usability.gov

User Expe­ri­ence

• The Five Com­pe­ten­cies of User Expe­ri­ence Design

Web Stan­dards

• Acti­vat­ing Browser Modes with DOCTYPE
• Seman­tics in HTML (Part 2, Part 3)
• Get­Se­man­tic
• Cor­po­rate Web Standards
• The Seman­tic Web: A Primer
• ASP.NET 2.0: Enforce Web Stan­dards for Bet­ter Accessibility