Before you can design avant-garde Web pages, you have to know what the rules are before you try to break, bend or amend them. http://wdvl.com/Authoring/Design/Pages/
Experiment by the Bureau of Labor Statistics(BLS)finding a large number of usability problems that were identified and suggestions for correction. http://stats.bls.gov/ore/htm_papers/st960160.htm
WWWSIA is a subgroup of the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI). It focuses on the human factors of the World Wide Web. http://www.acm.org/sigchi/webhci/