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Web design gets easier every year. The stats say that more than 1,000,000 new Web sites go live every day. If you want to compete in that traffic, you'd better do a good job on your site.

The good news is that anyone willing to learn the ins and outs can design a site that will make your visitors and the search engines happy. The tips and tricks you'll find here are helpful for beginners, master designers, or even those who just want an e-commerce page to sell their widgets. SEO optimization, good navigation, consistency and content that makes each page stand out are just a few of the topics you'll want to get familiar with to be an ace site designer.

Even if you use a pre-built template for your site's design, you'll still need to know what to put in it to make the visitors flock to your domain.

These sites are not selling you anything and they provide the information and resources to help you get up and running on the Web — with sites that people will actually come to visit...

Web Design Guide - A great place to start, this site has basic beginner's guides and tutorials, design tools, plus a great cache of more than 200 reviewed resources that will reveal design secrets for even the most Web savvy designers...

W3C - The World Wide Web Consortium site and required reading for anyone contemplating Web page design. The standard for recognized best practices...

The HTML Writers' Guild - Thousands of HTML gurus have put together a site for themselves and anyone else who needs to know about site design. This is not just for experts. Courses are open only to Guild members, but the rest of the Web design resources and FAQs are free, and priceless...

AnyBrowser.com - Three steps from concept to promotion are covered here with links to resources and a heavy focus on good design habits and browser compatibility. If you don't know what browser compatibility is...you really need to visit this site before you launch your own site...

Web Page Design for Designers - The gamut from design elements to plug-ins to news on the latest browsers plus a huge link list to related resources...

Web Wise Wizard - This site originally went live in 2000 with good info for what web design was back then. A much needed, major overhaul in 2005 has added excellent resources on writing CSS and javascripts along with plenty of other solid info and links to match.

Web Pages That Suck - One way to learn good design is to see bad sites in action. You'll find plenty to learn from here. Updated rants on sucky graphics/navigation and what to do about it from Vincent Flanders, the godfather of user-friendly design.

Web Designers Directory - The virtual Yellow Pages of web designers, developers, hosting firms, e-commerce solutions and related services worldwide.

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