ADV-HTML (listserv@ua1vm.ua.edu)

Fairly high volume, frequent focus on CGI, Java, etc., but also of much use for technical HTML work.

web4lib (listserv@library.berkeley.edu)

An excellent list for web design issues.

Books:

Lemay, Laura. Teach yourself Web publishing with HTML in a week. SAMS Publishing, 1995.

My favorite HTML book. She has a nice web page too.

Williams, Robin. The Non-designer's design book: design and typographic principles for the visual novice. Berkeley, Cal.: Peachpit Press, 1994.

An excellent "short-course" in graphic design.

Articles:

McClements, Nancy, and Cheryl Becker. "Writing Web page standards," College & Research Libraries News, Jan. 1996, pp.16-17.

See also their referenced Web page.

Web sites:

Yale C/AIM WWW Style manual.

A standard resource.

Sun Microsystems Style Guide

An excellent guide to Web style.

Berners-Lee, Tim. Style Guide for Online Hypertext

The Father of the Web lays down the law.

Morgan, Eric Lease. World Wide Web Publishing

Eric emphasizes readability, browsability, searchability.

David Siegel's High Five

Siegel "rates" web pages based on his very definite ideas about what makes good design. He's worth looking at, if only to argue with.

Libweb

Thomas Dowling's big list of libraries with web sites. Invaluable for browsing

Web Design links

and the demo used for this talk.