Some Useful Information/URL's by hciidc Group.

Web Application Patterns
http://designinginterfaces.com/
http://www.welie.com/patterns/index.html
http://harbinger.sims.berkeley.edu/ui_designpatterns/webpatterns2/webpatterns/home.php
http://developer.yahoo.com/ypatterns/
http://www.webstyleguide.com/index.html
http://www.uie.com/articles/webforms/

Color Scheme
http://www.colorschemer.com/
http://www.firewheeldesign.com/widgets/
http://www.tigercolor.com/http://kuler.adobe.com/
http://colorblender.com/
http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/color-blend/
http://wellstyled.com/tools/colorscheme2/index-en.html

some of the
Universities which offer HCI courses in US are:
Carnegie Mellon http://hcii.cmu.edu/
Georgia Tech http://www.gvu.gatech.edu/education/hcicourses.html
Michigan, Ann Arbor http://si.umich.edu/msi/hci.htm
Indiana Bloomington http://www.informatics.indiana.edu/academics/hcid.asp
Maryland, College Park http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/
Virginia Tech http://www.hci.vt.edu/

Cool Links
http://www.microsoft.com/surface/
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18928656/
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/gallery/mstabletop/flash.
http://silverlight.net/showcase/
http://artpad.art.com/artpad/painter/
http://www.brazilianartists.net/home/flags/
http://www.drawingsofleonardo.org/
http://www.farnsworthhouse.org/
http://readymech.com/
http://www.housesofthefuture.com.au/hof_houses04.html
http://darmano.typepad.com/logic_emotion/2007/06/experience_desi.html
http://worrydream.com/MagicInk/#contextsensitiv
http://www.kayodeok.btinternet.co.uk/favorites/webdesign.htm
http://www.studygs.net/genius.htm
http://rubenswieringa.com/nhl/the-secret-sales-pitch
http://www.virtualdali.com/
http://www.thinkingwithtype.com/
http://web2.socialcomputingmagazine.com/
http://popurls.com/
http://www.amazingincredible.com/show/64-500-years-of-female-portraits
http://www.mrpicassohead.com/create.html
http://www.wordperhect.net/
http://www.mrwong.de/myhouse/
http://www.populair.eu/
http://www.orionondemand.com/
http://www.reeddesign.co.uk/test/points-pixels.html

on Font sizes and conversions:
http://www.multimedia-engineer.nl/2006/01/18/font-sizes-in-css-em-ex-px-mm-cm-in-pt-pc/ http://www.mail-archive.com/wsg@webstandardsgroup.org/msg28691.html
Changing font size on the fly by detecting the resolution:
http://alistapart.com/articles/fontresizing
http://www.unintentionallyblank.co.uk/2007/02/12/

how-to-size-your-font-based-on-your-readers-screen-resolution/
Discussion on setting font sizes in browsers:
http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200602/setting_font_size_in_pixels/

Some CSS pointers:
http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/
http://www.dezwozhere.com/links.html
http://www.westciv.com/courses/index.html

Wireframe Creation & Interactive Prototyping tool
While searching for interactive prototyping tool on the net, I came accross Axure RP Pro 4.0. I found it very simple, quick & easy to use. Some advantages I have figured out are... 1. Builds Interactive Prototype in HTML format.2. Easy to draw and add interactivity to wireframes.3. Exports detailed Functional specifications as .DocOn the other hand, if compared with Visio, it has a very tiny stencil or library and we can not add elements to it as we go on using it. But if we invest little time initially then richer & re-usable library items can be created.You can download trial version of the tool from http://www.axure.com./