Web Authoring & SEO

SEO (Search Engine Optimisation - the free lunch), tools, usability, SEO articles, related interface design links.

Usability is like cooking: everybody needs the results, anybody can do it reasonably well with a bit of training, and yet it takes a master to produce a gourmet outcome.

Usability
The father of usability - this site is legendary
http://www.useit.com/ especially http://www.useit.com/alertbox/
Usability is much more than enabling blind people to read a website. It can be very subtle, and it goes to the heart of how to create quality content.

SEO Tools - seomoz
http://www.seomoz.org/
Some useful articles & tools - Rank Checker, Term Target (Find out what keywords your page is targeting), Page Strength, Crawl Test Diagnose, Keyword Difficulty (Determine how difficult it is to rank for a term).

SEO Trends
An excellent resource for understanding the latest in SEO trends - http://www.sitepronews.com/
especially the archive http://www.sitepronews.com/archives.html

SEO Articles & Tools
http://www.seochat.com/
A very large collection of resources from many different freelance authors. Look down the left for the categories, and then for the large list of SEO tools.

User Interface (UI) - Account Sign-in: 8 Design Mistakes to Avoid
www.uie.com/articles/account_design_mistakes/
www.uie.com/articles/

Web Form Design Patterns: Sign-Up Forms
Analysis of a survey
www.urlfan.com/local/web_form_design_patterns_signup_forms/89646165.html