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The bible of web site usability is undoubtedly Jakob Nielson's useit.com. For years Jakob has been writing about web site usability and putting that theory into practice.

The W3C publishes the standards documents that define how the web works. These documents are dull but essential reading for site designers who want to understand Cascading Style Sheets, HTML or even the HTTP protocol itself. Now, if only we could persuade browser manufacturers to adhere to the standards!

More of a web designer's club, A List Apart has some excellent resources on their site. Although they could learn something from Jacob Nielson about how to write for the web.

New York web site gurus Creative Good have published some scathing reviews of some popular sites. They also have a daily opinion column — the archive makes fascinating reading.

Microsoft has published some useful information about how they design their huge site to cater for their user's needs. I can't say I'm familiar with the MS site, but they have the theory down pat.

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