Your own website
Intranets and extranets
Jakob Nielsen’s usability website www.useit.com
has a number of good articles about intranets and usability.
Paper by a consultant explaining more about portals: http://www.redrock.net.au/articles/WhatIsAPortal.doc
Basic static site
Examples of web page creation applications: Dreamweaver or Frontpage
A useful list of free resources about building web sites in HTML:
http://www.barebones.com/support/resources/html_resources.shtml
The classic ‘Bare Bones’ Guide to HTML http://werbach.com/barebones/
A beginner’s guide to building simple websites http://webmonkey.wired.com/webmonkey/frontdoor/beginners.html
An introductory guide to html and constructing web pages http://www.make-a-web-site.com/
A review of review online web page creation applications http://www.websitebuildersreview.com/
Standard site with content management system (CMS)
Some internet service providers, like Telstra or Optus, provide customers with facilities to build their own small websites. Alternatively, a range of special purpose ‘hosting’ sites also provide software to set-up a small site for a monthly rental. An example is the SiteBuilder tools at Yahoo’s GeoCities and Wanadoo.
iSport.com.au is a popular private online sports results site that provides content management software that allows amateur associations to publish their results and news as part of the iSport site.
Systems suitable for smaller or medium-sized websites include open source systems like Mambo.
Other systems, like Squiz’s MySource or Microsoft’s Content Management Server, are designed for larger sites.
Free website for arts nonprofits:Collections Australia Network (CAN) portal http://www.collectionsaustralia.net .
Accessibility standards developed by the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative.
How to find lower-cost CMS software: Open Directory Project, the CMS Directory, the CMS Matrix, The Google Directory, and the Yahoo Directory.
A full discussion of different types of systems can be found at http://www.techsoup.org/howto/articlepage.cfm?ArticleId=540
CMS Watch is an independent source of information, analysis, and reports about web content management solutions. CMS Watch puts out a comprehensive, if expensive, report on the commercial CMS industry each year.
AMP is a free content management systems suitable for activist web campaigns. It integrates basic web publishing with email list management.
Gilbane.com contains many links to more information about CMS.
Step Two Designs has many useful articles about CMS. Step Two has a very good How to Evaluate a CMS whitepaper.
Semiotic Pixels.com is a CMS wiki.
CMSreview.com has lots of information about CMS, and CMS projects, including a feature list.
opensouceCMS allows you to ‘try out’ a wide variety of open source CMS software before deciding which one to choose to install and use.
Testing your website
Use online testing services such as Bobby.