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Web Design
Site	Rating	Description
WellStyled color scheme - The BEST!	10	Great tool for finding colors that work together.
Color Mixer	10	The best.
The Color Scheme generator	10	Creates color schemes based on base colors you choose.
Minn-Duluth Web Design Resources	9.5	Tons of resources for designers.
Color mappings	9	The hex and groupings of many different colors.
Color combos	9	3 and 4 set color combinations.
eVolt.org	8.5	Articles and news about trends in web design.
The Color Blender	8	Eric Meyer's color gradient generator.
CSS Pointers Group	8	How to practically use CSS's.
Yale Style Guide	8	Many general rules to follow in design.
Best Practices	8	This site has links to best practive guides and tools.
Goldray	7.5	Some good design examples.

Usabiilty
Site	Rating	Description
Gary McGovern	10	Lots of great articles.
UseIt	10	The definitive site on web usability.
UIE	9.5	Jared Spool's site. Articles, etc.
UXMatters	9	A user experience magazine.
EyeTools	9	This company has a tool for creating heatmaps of what users see when they visit a page. They also offer cheap tests, or more expensive testing. They have a blog where they go over some of their findings that is very helpful also. Here's a detailed report on home pages for news sites.
UsabilityNews	9	The lastest usability in the news.
GUUUI - Interaction Designers Coffee Break	9	A great site on interaction design.
WebWord	8.5	Usability articles
AdaptivePath	8.5	Articles, etc�
UsabilityViews	8.5	lots of links to authors and articles.
eShopability	8.5	Some great tips on usability for eCommerce sites.
Accessibility Design Guide	8	Rules for making your site accessible to the most users the fastest.
Usability.Gov	8	Government resource for usability research.
Web Pages That Suck	8	A study of web sites that suck for usability purposes.
UPA	8	The Usability Professionals Assocation has some good reference materials.
ClickZ	8	Articles on usability and conversion rates.
HumanFactors	8	Researched based usability site.
UIWeb	7	Articles on usability, design and IA.
Argus-Acia Center for IA	6	Outdated, but has some links to some good IA resources.
Usability First	6	Usability resources.

Tools and Utilities
Site	Rating	Description
Color Guide	10	The internet color guide in hex.
EyeTools	9	This company has a tool for creating heatmaps of what users see when they visit a page. They also offer cheap tests, or more expensive testing. They have a blog where they go over some of their findings that is very helpful also. Here's a detailed report on home pages for news sites.
W3 Validator	9	Put in a URL and it checks for conformance to W3C Recommendations and other standards.
Bobby	8	Test to see if how accessible your web site is to disabled users.

Research and Statistics
Site	Rating	Description
WebSpeed	11	All you needed to know about speed and web pages. Use the Stop Watch to see how fast a site is.
Keynote Research	9.5	Links to articles and presentations on performance.
The Counter	9	A product that you put in your web page and it takes statistics of your users.
InternetStats	9	Links to sites with internet statistics.
WebSiteOptimizatino	8	Articles and statistics on how to optimize the web experience.
CyberAtlas	7.5	Links to various statistics.