Summary of What makes a website good

[Libby Whitcomb]

I would like to thank everyone who so generously sent 
URLs and other resource information about this topic. I 
was truly overwhelmed with the responses. Ya'll are great.
Here is a summary of the sites sent in.  Have a great weekend!!
Thank you everyone!!!

Libby Whitcomb
Corporate Services-Information Technology Team
libby at ti.com
972-997-5277

Here's the list of great resources everyone sent in-

Hope Tillman's "Evaluating Quality on the Net" at 
http://www.tiac.net/users/hope/findqual.html

Web Design for Librarians 
http://scc01.rutgers.edu/SCCHome/web.htm

Yale C/AIM Web Style Guide 
http://info.med.yale.edu/caim/manual/index.html

Why the web sucks, II
 http://www.spies.com/~ceej/Words/rant.web.html

HTML Writers Guild 
 http://www.hwg.org  

Alan Richmonds archives and links to all things HTML and webrelated.
http://www.stars.com/

Sun's Style Guide
http://www.sun.com/styleguide/

Carolyn Caywood's article
Library Selection Criteria for WWW Resources
http://www6.pilot.infi.net/~carolyn/criteria.html

THE SEVEN KEYS TO EFFECTIVE WEB SITES
http://csis.pace.edu/~dsachs/7keys.html

Two sites that discuss the usability of a site
http://www.acm.org/sigchi/webhci/chi97testing/particip.htm
http://www-nlpir.nist.gov/~downey/

ALA's The Librarian's Guide To Cyberspace 
for Parents & Kids gives criteria:
http://www.ssdesign.com/parentspage/greatsites/select.html

Jeff Beck's evaluation of Internet resources
 http://www.wabash.edu/library/libgui/EVAINT.HTM

Web Developer's Virtual Library(lots of information)
 http://www.wdvl.com/

Web Evaluation:  Criteria 
 http://lib.nmsu.edu/staff/susabeck/evalcrit.html
The criteria are accuracy, authority, objectivity, currency, coverage - and includes examples

Evaluation Web Resources 
 http://www.science.widener.edu/~withers/webeval.htm
Provides materials to assist in the teaching of how to evaluate Web resources.  Useful evaluation checklists for Advocacy, Business/Marketing, Informational News, and Personal Web pages.

Evaluation of Information Sources 
  http://www.vuw.ac.nz/~agsmith/evaln/evaln.htm
A Webliography of sites that tell how to evaluate sites.

Evaluating Internet Research Sources  
http://www.sccu.edu/faculty/R_Harris/evalu8it.htm

All Things Web.  (Lots of Info)
http://www.pantos.org/ATW/

Bibliography on evaluating internet resources
http://refserver.lib.vt.edu/libinst/critTHINK.HTM 

WebPagesThat Suck
http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com>

Evaluating World Wide Web Information
http://thorplus.lib.purdue.edu/research/classes/gs175/3gs175/evaluation.html

How to Create Web Pages: a Webliography
http://infopeople.berkeley.edu:8000/Howto/htmlnote.html
            
Non Web Resources
 Library Journal 2/15/96, pgs.122-124. 
 Boyd Collins "Beyond Cruising:  Reviewing" article gives tips
for librarians to use in evaluating websites.

Nov/Dec. 1996 issue of Computers in
Libraries by Marsha Tate & Jan Alexander, "Teaching Critical Evaluation
Skills for World Wide Web Resources" (v. 16, no. 10, pp.49-55).