Graphics and Web Design Based on Edward Tufte's Principles
http://www.washington.edu/computing/training/560/zz-tufte.html

University of Washington-Seattle
1999

Abstract:

This is an outline of Edward Tufte's pioneering work on the use of graphics to display quantitative information.  It mainly consists of text and ideas  taken from his three books on the subject along with some additional material of my own.  This page is in  text only format: in order to understand the concepts you need to read the books because the concepts cannot really be grasped without the illustrations, and current video monitor technology is too low in resolution to do them justice. His work has been described as 'a visual Strunk and White.'