Design Basics: Designing a site involves not just the way the site looks but the way it works. These design basics will get you started, then our more in-depth design coverage will help you make the most of what you've got.

• Top 10 web design do's - Post Toni Will-Harris's list on your wall and live by it.
• Navigation Basics - Keep your web visitors from being lost in cyberspace (Danger, Will Robinson!). Sean Timberlake tells you how.
• Web graphics 101 - All text and no graphics make for a very dull page. Web-designer Mark Bakalor covers the essential software you need.
• Web Type Basics - Most of the web is made up of words, and whether you know it or not, all your words are set in type. Daniel Will-Harris helps you choose the fonts that are best for your words. Take a look at our font embedding example pages!
• Web Writing Basics - The web has some special requirements to keep in mind, and some pernicious myths to forget. Learn about both from Daniel Will-Harris.
• Coloring outside the lines - Color can be a complicated, and confusing topic. But Mary E. Carter, artist and writer, makes it easy to get started right now selecting colors for your site.
• Web Safe Color: Lynda Weinman, reigning queen of web graphics, makes the mystery of color on the web as simple as Red, Green and Blue. Read all about it...
• Web Background Basics - A web site background can be one of the simplest and most "economical" ways to make your site stand out. Yet the way backgrounds work mystify a lot of people. Toni Will-Harris explains background graphics with such rare clarity that you will understand it, or your money cheerfully refunded.
• Designing for WebTV. Surprise! More and more people are viewing the web on their TV! For these folks, what looks good on Navigator and IE may not look so good on TV. But you can design a site that works on both major browsers--and on WebTV--and Gary Priester tells you how.