Looking for stock photos?

From time to time, WebTopia will call attention to sites that provide services that you might want to utilize towards building your web site. Today we look at istockphoto.com. iStockphoto is a premier royalty-free stock photography community, where designers can search and download over 85,000 images, starting at just $0.50 each. It's an international community of photographers and administrators work tirelessly to bring over 1,000 new images each week!

Keep It Simple regarding web design

Keep It Simple is just what it says, a call to keep web design and web development as simple as possible. In this series of columns, Peter-Paul Koch [Columnist & Contributing Writer for Digital Web] will explore the reasons why some people think simple sites are boring sites and will explain how to find simple solutions for seemingly complex problems.

IDEO: Redesigning internet presence

Here's a short article on how IDEO, a top design company, took steps to recreate their web site.

Dreamweaver lovers

For those who favor Dreamweaver in building their web site, you can find Web templates that are created by experienced and highly talented web designers. Lynda - design web templates provide users with original design layouts that standout from the ordinary.

Running short on time?

If you're in a hurry and just don't have the time to design and build your web template to display your information, check out TemplateMonster. This site provides Website templates that are pre-made and that can be easily customized to reflect your company's branding. Website templates are available in Photoshop and HTML format. Pay per one template to get rarest design. Compatible with FrontPage, DreamWeaver, GoLive, and other software.

Web Page Design...for designers

Web Page Design For Designers, offers a good primer for the basic techniques and principles involved in designing and building Web pages.The site offers tips covering typography, navigation, Dynamic CSS animation and more.

Tips, Tricks, How-To, and Beyond

An intuitive web site to help you design "a better web page". Below you will find the answers for most of your web design problems.

Site Redesign Tutorial

Suddenly that first-generation site just ain't up to snuff - it's time for a redesign. Web Monkey offers it's insights to redesigning a web site.

Web Standards Project

The Web Standards Project is a grassroots coalition fighting for standards that ensure simple, affordable access to web technologies for all.

Frog Design: Study in extensible design systems

Hire.com, a leader in "talent" acquisition and management, asked frog to help them visually redesign and structurally combine three products, two that had been acquired recently and which supported redundant functionality.

Jakob Nielsen: Color of Visited Links

At Jakob Nielsen's web site, useit.com, is an article explaining how people get lost and move in circles when websites use the same link color for visited and new destinations.

Zelman.com

If you're looking for a great book to read about what utilizing clean web standards can do for your web site, please read Jeffrey Zeldman's Designing With Web Standards

Taking your web site to the next level

Great article found at Digital Web regarding steps dealing with renovating one's web site.