January 23rd, 2009
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Keeping Current with Trends and Technology
Keeping current with web standards, trends, and the latest technology can be a lot of work and a bit overwhelming. Figuring out where the “good” resources are can be a drag, whether it’s online or print. It took me a while to find which sites were worth visiting for web related articles and tutorials, so I’ve created a list of my favorite sites to share.
If you’ve ever looked for magazines about web design and developing you would’ve found that there aren’t any out there unless you stumbled upon Practical Web Design or Web Designer. These two magazines are printed in the U.K., so they’re a little pricey, but worth buying every now and then.
Daily Reads
- Smashing Magazine – showcases the latest trends and provides free icon and font round ups.
- NETTUTS – great tutorials for web design and developing. All posts have live demos and source code.
- A List Apart – provides content relating to design and development and a focus on web standards.
- Freelance Switch – number one source for information relating to freelance.
- Think Vitamin – inspires, teaches and tests web designers and developers.
- Ajaxian – check out posts on a wide variety of topics including web 2.0, security, accessibility, and much more.
- PSDTUTS – has a very large variety of photoshop tutorials.
Inspiration
- Design Melt Down – this site really is a meltdown of every category you could think of in terms of web site design and more.
- CSS Beauty – showcase to the css design community.
- Web Designer Wall – a wall of design ideas, web trends and tutorials.
CSS
- CSS Play – this site has tons of CSS examples on layouts, boxes, menus and more.
Javascript
Stock Photography
- Stock.xchng – get access to hundreds of thousands of high quality, hand picked stock photos and graphics – for free.
Blogging
- WordPress – create your own blog and personalize it with our own theme and plugins.
Learning
- Alvit Handbook – 100s of sites relating to color, design, developing, CSS, Javascript, Ajax, SEO, usability, fonts and so much more.
- W3C Schools – a great place to learn everything relating to web design and developing.
- Practical Web Design and Web Designer – if you want something to hold and flip through this is definitely a great magazine filled with articles, tutorials, interviews, site examples and other resources.
Enjoy!
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