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10 Principles Of Effective Web Design – Smashing Magazine

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/index.php/2008/01/31/10-principles-of-effective-web-design/

Usability and the utility, not the visual design, determine the success or failure of a web-site. Since the visitor of the page is the only person who clicks the mouse and therefore decides everything, user-centric design has established as a standard approach for successful and profit-oriented web design. After all, if users can’t use a feature, it might as well not exist.

95 SEO Tips and Tricks – Over 90 Factors that Impact Your Sites Placement in Search Engines

http://webdesign.about.com/od/seo/tp/seo_tips_and_tricks.htm

I nearly thumbed this down because a couple of the things I thought were wrong and I hate the title “95 SEO Tips and Tricks”. Mostly however it’s a conservative list and one wouldn’t go too far wrong following the advice.

You’d be much better off though, getting the SEO book and reading the popular SEO blogs.