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Web Design and Development

Web Design and Development guides users to subcategories which contain all resources and services having to do with designing, developing, maintaining, and promoting Web sites.

Incomplete or broken sites will not be listed. Please check your site link and description.

All sites are listed with the company name as the Title. Submissions to a Regional Web Design and Development category should include the business location in the description.

Designers and Developers:

We invite you to submit alphabetically to the Designers subcategory. No sites are listed in the main category.

Note the Regional categories for business and services which are not international or world wide.

If you provide more than one service (i.e. Hosting, Promotion, Marketing), be sure to mention each of the services in your description.

Accessibility

This category is for sites related to Web Accessibility only. Business related services can be found here: Computers/Internet/Web_Design_and_Development/Accessibility/Companies_and_Consultants Sites for web usability can be found here: Computers/Internet/Web_Design_and_Development/Web_Usability Sites for assistive technology (non-web related) can be found here: Society/Disabled/Assistive_Technology Other related categories are listed below.

Submission Notice: Please review the sites already listed in this category before making your submission. This may help you to create a more acceptable description and site title for the editor to review.

If your site is related to business activities (eg. Consultancy services), please submit your site to: Computers/Internet/Web_Design_and_Development/Accessibility/Companies_and_Consultants

Authoring

Resources and information for web authoring, which includes page creation, design, content, and markup.

If you are a designer or design company looking to list your business' page, it belongs in: Computers/Internet/Web_Design_and_Development/Designers/

Please do not submit websites directly into this category, but rather select the most appropriate subcategory for your site.

The editors reserve the right not to list your site, and to delete it after its addition. Multiple submissions, especially to inappropriate categories, will not be tolerated.

For general information on how to submit sites to the Open Directory Project Click Here and read the ''How to'' guide and ODP submission policies.

By Region

This category only contains links to World Regions and Countries with Web Design and Development categories.

Please submit all sites to their correct location and category.

Chats and Forums

Sites offering communities where web authors can get help and share their views and opinions.

Sites offering chats and forums along with other resources, such as tutorials, news, and code samples, will not be listed here and should instead be submitted to Computers/Internet/Web_Design_and_Development/Authoring/Webmaster_Resources.

Designers

This category is separated into 4 major sub categories:

Basic Service,

Full Service,

Dynamic and Multimedia,

Freelance
as well as several areas of specialty design.

If you are indeed a web designer or developer who does work in the global market, do not submit to this broad category, but to the appropriate sub category beneath it. Use your company name -- which in this category will determine your site title.

Guidelines for submitting sites:

Only submit sites that are in English. Non-English sites should be submitted to the appropriate country under World.
Do not type in capitals, nor capitalize all nouns.
Do not include a list of keywords.
Do not include your products.
Do not write a sales pitch.
The description should be a brief summary of the services your company offers:
- Do NOT include superlatives ("We're the best, "The greatest website...", "We're #1..., etc.).
- The description should be in English, in coherent sentence form, and free from mistakes.
- Do not submit a list of keywords.
- Do not use unnecessary capitalization, or include HTML tags.
- Submit to only ONE category.
- Submit to the one best category possible.

Please submit general web design companies to the proper sub category, based on services offered, and the appropriate letter under that category.

FAQs, Help, and Tutorials

The editors reserve the right not to list your site, and to delete it after its addition. Multiple submissions, especially to inappropriate categories, will not be tolerated.

Submissions that include a referal ID will not be reviewed.

The title should be the name of your site that appears on the web page, or your company name.
- Do not type in all caps.
- Do not include a list of keywords in the title.
- Do not include your products in the title.
- Do not write a sales pitch in the title.

The description should be a brief summary of your site''s purpose or products and services.
- The description should be in English and in coherent sentence form.
- Do not include superlatives or a sales pitch.
- Do not submit your company history.
- Do not submit a list of keywords.
- Do not use unnecessary capitalization, or include HTML tags.

Submit to only ONE category
- Please check that your site does not have a sub-category dedicated to it already. If it does submit to that category, but not both.

Hosted Components and Services

Hosted components for web sites and hosted services for web site owners. These don't require software to be downloaded or installed on a web server. The component or service must be hosted on the servers of the site providing the component or service. If the component or service is hosted on the web site owner's server or the web site owner's hosting company server then the site can not be listed in this category.

Some of these are intended only for the site owners, though most are intended for visitors to the site. In the case of the latter, the site owner usually just needs to link to the site or copy and paste some script or markup.

Services listed here can be pay, ad-supported, or free.

Submit sites offering a specialized hosted service with no appropriate subcategory, or sites offering services that span multiple listed categories.

Sites offering non-commercial online tools in multiple areas of web site development, or provide a usable service to webmasters to help design/build/maintain a website will not be listed here -- they should be submitted to the appropriate subcategory underneath Computers/Internet/Web_Design_and_Development/Authoring/Online_Tools/.

Sites selling software to help design/build/maintain a website will not be listed here -- they should be submitted to the appropriate subcategory underneath Computers/Software/Business/.

Sites offering hosted promotion services will not be listed here -- they should be submitted to the appropriate subcategory underneath Computers/Internet/Web_Design_and_Development/Promotion.

Sites offering web hosting plans will not be listed here -- these should be submitted to the appropriate subcategory underneath Computers/Internet/Web_Design_and_Development/Hosting.

sites offering web design, development, and programming services will not be listed here -- these should be submitted to the appropriate subcategory underneath Computers/Internet/Web_Design_and_Development/Designers.

Hosting

These are sites and companies that primarily offer web site hosting services.

Companies that primarily offer web design and development services are listed under Designers under the appropriate letter.

Linkrot

The web is continuously changing: websites may disappear, they may be replaced by redirects to other sites or they change content. Links pointing to changed or disappeared websites break, or become incorrect because the content they were supposed to point to got lost. This phenomenon is called linkrot.

News and Media

The Authoring News category lists sites which offer current news of interest to web authors, designers, developers, and webmasters.

The editors reserve the right not to list your site, and to delete it after its addition. Multiple submissions, especially to inappropriate categories, will not be tolerated.

Submissions that include a referal ID will not be reviewed.

The title should be the name of your site that appears on the web page, or your company name.
- Do not type in all caps.
- Do not include a list of keywords in the title.
- Do not include your products in the title.
- Do not write a sales pitch in the title.

The description should be a brief summary of your site''s purpose or products and services.
- The description should be in english and in coherent sentence form.
- Do not include superlatives or a sales pitch.
- Do not submit your company history.
- Do not submit a list of keywords.
- Do not use unnecessary capitalization, or include HTML tags.

Submit to only ONE category
- Please check that your site does not have a sub-category dedicated to it already. If it does submit to that category, but not both.

Organizations

An association is defined as an organized body of individuals or groups who share a common interest or cause; usually identified by the presence of "association" in the title. Most often requires membership for access to benefits and resources.

Professional, business, academic, and non-profit associations orientated towards web design and development are encouraged to submit here.

Companies offering commercial services such as site creation, graphic design, or website promotion should search for the proper sub-category from the Web Design and Development tree. Foreign-origin sites written in languages other than English should search for the proper sub-category from the World tree.

Promotion

This category is for sites providing information or services relating to website promotion. This includes search engine placement, advertising, link exchanges and traffic marketing. PLEASE NOTE, most firms will fit into a subcategory of Promotion and WILL NOT be listed at this level.

Web site Design firms DO NOT belong in this category. If your site offers Design, Hosting and Promotion, please submit to the appropriate letter in the Designers section.

Search engine optimization and submission firms should be submitted to the appropriate letter in the Search Engine Optimization Firms section.

If you have a general marketing agency that goes beyond the scope of Internet marketing, please look for the appropriate subcategory in the Business: Marketing section.

All other firms specifically related to website promotion, please look for the subcategory that best fits your site services.

Failing to submit to the proper subcategory may cause delays in your site being listed.

Weblogs

Weblogs about web design and development.

This category is for weblogs about web design and web development.

Web Usability

Resources for web-page authors who want to make their sites easier for visitors to use.

This catgegory is for informational sites on the topic of "Web Usability" (ie resources for authors and designers to help them make their sites easier to use). Commercial sites from people and companies offering related services should be suggested to Computers: Human-Computer Interaction: Companies and Consultants rather than here. Sites with more general information for web authors (not just focussing on usability) should be suggested to Computers Internet Web Design and Development: Authoring rather than here. Suggesting inappropriate sites to this category will only delay their review and potential listing by editors.