Dr. Ralph Wilson has been one of my mentors in simple to understand web marketing and overall web design. So when he speaks up, I pay at least a little attention!
Wilson has listed Five Capabilities Your Web Designer Must Possess:

Graphics software ability and an artistic sense
HTML ability
Navigation and usability design experience
Basic […]

In plain words and easy to follow explanation, here’s the answers to the following questions:
How does Google know what parts of a website the site owner wants to have show up in search results? Can publishers specify that some parts of the site should be private and non-searchable?

Sitemaps are good. They can serve two purposes:

to help users understand and navigate the basic structure to your site
to help search engines know what is most important on your site to index

So if you create one, don’t do what some do. Make sure each item actually links to something! If you don’t, […]

Are you the guy that thinks your blue socks match your black shoes and tan slacks? Do you constantly wear a yellow tie with a purple shirt?
Or does your color-blindness only apply to your web design?
Well stop it! There are too many good color pallet generators out there. I just found a […]

Merrion Computing Ltd - Seven Secrets of Successful Programmers
1. Code for human consumption
2. Comment often and comment well
3. Layout code to increase legibility
4. Expect the unexpected and deal with it
5. Name your variables to aid readability
6. Keep your functions and subroutines simple
7. Scope functions and variables appropriately

Ever been to a website where images take forever to load? And when they do, they look horrible? This is more common on blog and discussion forums. Please don’t be that person who is responsible for doing this.
For heaven’s sakes, please, if you aren’t able to resize images before you email or […]

Not a bad little comparison of Current Trends In Web Design (with examples).