With 08 behind us, let’s take a look at the fifteen most essential resources for designers and developers.
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CSS MANIA
When you have designer’s block and those creative juices are not flowing, where do you look? Many choose CSS Mania; a CSS gallery that is regularly updated. All sites are split into unique categories.
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BEST WEB GALLERY
Whereas CSSMania takes a wide range of sites, BWG is update less regularly and for good reason; it only accepts the very best. Similar to CSS Mania, a quick browse through here will yield dozens and dozens of ideas.
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NETTUTS
Nettuts has quickly established itself as one of the best tutorial sites on the net. You can expect 5 posts per week on a variety of topics. To avoid mentioning all of them separately, I would also check out psdtuts.com and vectortuts.com.
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WEB DESIGNER WALL
This site is run by the owner of Best Web Gallery, Nick La. Although the tutorials posted are not as regular, when they do come, they’re superb. Nick covers many topics, writing about both front and back end designs.
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MASHABLE
Mashable is a Web2.0 blog that posts articles on saving money, where to get your business cards, ways to improve your business - to name a few.
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KILLER SITES
Killer Sites was founded by Stefan Mischook as the site to support the book “Creating Killer Web Sites”. It has since grown into a fantastic community with excellent tutorials. Primarily for beginners, the tutorials cover HTML, CSS, Flash and PHP (posted on the sister site killerphp.com.)
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SMASHING MAGAZINE
SM is still one of the best places on the net to find inspiration. The site focuses more on “round-ups” (ie “40 top CSS tips”) and also contains many interviews with the best minds in the business.
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W3 SCHOOLS
It might not be the nicest looking resource out there, but it has to be one of the most thorough. It boasts tutorials for every web language available.
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CSS TRICKS
CSS-Tricks provides a plethora of tutorials related to web design. Be sure to watch his weekly screencast each Thursday (Friday for some of you).
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WP HACKS
Wordpress is the blogging platform of choice for many. Over 600,000 people have downloaded Wordpress 2.7 already! WP Hacks provides a range of tutorials and articles: quick tips, theme reviews, tutorialsm, and everything in between.
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GOOGLE
Nope, you didn’t misread that! Google is the best resources for any web developer.
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TWITTER
Twitter is another app that I love using. Every time that I need to know how to do something, I just post a quick Tweet; and it works. It’s an excellent networking tool.
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DESIGNM.AG
For designers only - DM.ag provides excellent, and free resources: textures, vectors, buttons and much, much more. Additionally, they regularly post showcases on different styles.
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VEERLE’S BLOG
Veerle’s blog has become very popular among web designers. It’s not hard to see why - Veerle posts regular, high quality tutorials primarily based on Photoshop or Illustrator, with the occasional HTML tutorial thrown in for good measure. You simply must follow this blog.
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NOUPE
Noupe is a high quality blog with tutorials and articles on everything a web designer or developer could dream of - superb lists of inspirational sites, free resources, top notch tutorials.
What are your favorites?
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Jack F
January 9th, 2009
Thanks TF!
Brenelz
January 9th, 2009
These are all great resources.
Some others that I like Are:
SEOmoz
Woork
Size Revisions
WPCandy
Vasili
January 9th, 2009
I’ve been subscribed to about half of those for a month now and absolutely love them. I recommend all of them.
Andy Gongea
January 9th, 2009
Good list although I don’t know if Twitter and Google are suitable for this list.
Jack Franklin
January 9th, 2009
Thanks Andy - I just realised a bit of the text for the google bit got edited out - basically I find it great for figuring out what errors mean, especially in programming languages. And friends on Twitter always help me out.
M.A.Yoosuf
January 9th, 2009
its nice, but i have book marked them already!
Brian
January 9th, 2009
Not bad, although it’s kinda lame to include a sister site of yours into your own “Greatest” list don’t you think?
AdrianMG
January 10th, 2009
I write tutorials & articles about web development foy http://www.yensdesign.com check it out
Özgür
January 10th, 2009
Excellent Collections, Thanks!
最新电影
January 10th, 2009
Good
Jhay
January 10th, 2009
Fantastic! Thanks for sharing
Omar
January 10th, 2009
nice list got them all added.
got a site that lists wp tutorials over at http://www.wp-tutorials.org just to let you know
Johnny
January 11th, 2009
thanks as always… but i can’t stand the resolution of the stock image (and the image itself) at the top of your sidebar. please change! http://themeforest.s3.amazonaws.com/featuredCollection.jpg
Andris
January 12th, 2009
My sources of inspiration:
http://www.smashingmagazine.com
http://www.cssglobe.com
http://www.webdesignerwall.com
http://www.noupe.com
http://www.justcreativedesign.com
http://www.nettuts.com
http://www.psdtuts.com
http://www.vectortuts.com
http://www.themeforest.net
Eric Shafer
January 12th, 2009
Tracked back to from here: http://www.presidiacreative.com/web-picks-7/
Dan Wellman
January 13th, 2009
I think Twitter is a perfectly valid site for this. You can visit the other sites to get inspiration and then discuss your ideas with like-minded individuals at Twitter for feedback. Great list, great article
Maxi
January 15th, 2009
The best W3 SCHOOLS ,Google
Danny
January 20th, 2009
A few of my favorite sites when it comes to designing:
dafont.com - Huge collection of free fonts. With preview function!
sxc.hu - Very complete collection of free, high resolution stock photo’s
deviantART - Probably already known. Great source of inspiration.
custom icon design
May 19th, 2009
yeh, great list and I bookmarketed all of those. except google, cause google is easy to type.
Дин
May 22nd, 2009
+1. Подписался.
ranjit
June 15th, 2009
Thanks! Very useful links…
Also see…. http://sixrevisions.com