Just the other day I was looking around for information on creating a business plan. I know that some of you are interested in starting your own businesses, so you may find this Guide To Writing A Business Plan useful.

Patterns

In essence, patterns are structural and behavioral features that improve the “habitability” of something — a user interface, a Web site, an object-oriented program, or even a building. They make things more usable, easier to understand, or more beautiful; they make tools more ready-to-hand.
Source: http://time-tripper.com/uipatterns/About_Patterns

Design Patterns are used to help to solve design issues. Patterns provide solutions to reoccurring design issues. These patterns will hopefully serve as a learning tool for web development students.

Web Design Patterns by Martijn van Welie - Is an excellent site on user interface patterns in web design. It offers a variety of site patterns with problems, user expectations, solutions, and discussion. I think that this site will be very valuable in the planning process. You may also find his article Patterns as Tools for User Interface Design (PDF) very informative.

UI Patterns and Techniques by Jenifer Tidwell should also be useful during the design process.

Ryan Singer, 37signals, has a good article on An Introduction to Using Patterns in Web Design.