It is commonly said that a pattern, however it is written, has four essential parts:
a statement of the CONTEXT where the pattern is useful,
the PROBLEM that the pattern addresses,
the FORCES that play in forming a solution, and
the SOLUTION that resolves those forces.
                                                            Fowler, 1999, p.6.

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Patterns

• The Hypermedia Design Pattern Repository for WWW. A general resource for hypermedia patterns. An initiative of ACM-SIGWEB in collaboration with the University ofItalian Switzerland (the Garzotto / Paolini group). To download the Hypermedia Patterns Repository (HPR) Editorial and Management Policy Statement (Word format). Not very informative, though.

• Patterns and Software: Essential Concepts and Terminologyl by Brad Appleton. Looks like a good intro to key issues.

• http://www.eng.uts.edu.au/~dbl/HypDev/ht99w/ Design Patterns in Hypermedia in Proceedings of the HT99 Workshop on Hypermedia Development. PDF or HTML papers, some of which might be relevant.

• Patterns Home Page

• COMMON GROUND: A Pattern Language for Human-Computer Interface Design by Jenifer Tidwell. A good source for semi-formal examples of HCI-related patterns.

• Experiences -- A Pattern Language for User Interface Design

• The Gang of Four's template. Includes examples of useful HTML formatting commands.

• Web Ressources on Patterns. Links to patterns sites.

• Anupriyo on the Web. Lots of links. Looks like a site with OOO (OO Orientation).

• Web Patterns - Capturing Requirements and Knowledge. Use pattern language to to "identify our assumptions and rationale for the "browsing in context" model."

• Towards a Pattern Language for Interaction Design: A CHI 97 Workshop. "This report describes a CHI 97 workshop which explored the utility of pattern languages for interaction design. We discuss the workshop's rationale, the structure and process of the workshop, and some of the workshop's results. In particular, we describe some patterns developed as part of the workshop, and our consequent reflections on the use of patterns and pattern languages as lingua franca for interaction design. This report concludes with a bibliography on pattern languages and related matters that spans architecture, software design, and organizational design."

Web Design

• Yale Style Manual

Bibliography

Fowler, M. Analysis Patterns: Reusable Object Models, Addison-Wesley, 1999.