39 Addictions – Designers just can’t stop
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In order to stay focused on web standards and best practices, we have to know which trends are coming up and which technologies will become big in the future. Today we are highlighting the Top 39 established design , copywriting, SEO, Ajax and tech-related Communities that delivers the latest trends and techniques in various fields that interest many of us.
Quality of ideas is what makes them stand out as they have some of the best web designers, developers and entrepreneurs in the web industry today.
Noupe has the honor to spend time finding those treasures and talking about those people who put love and thoughts into creation.. Lets take a look about what we consider inspiring and we think will excite you too,
Design/Tech Magazines
1) Smashing Magazine – maintained by Two incredible Guys: Sven Lennartz and Vitaly Friedman to deliver useful and innovative information for designers and web-developers. They Realy smash us with every new post.
2) Devlounge -web designer and developer resource, featuring articles, interviews, and more related to building a better web and improving content.
3) Digital Web Magazine -is an online magazine intended for professional web designers, web developers and information architects.
4 ) A List Apart -explores the design, development, and meaning of web content, with a special focus on web standards and best practices.
5 ) Think Vitamin -Vitamin will inspire you, teach you, advise you and sometimes test you with its in-depth features, audio interviews, training sessions and reviews.
6 ) Site Point – has a vast variety of web design tutorials and articles coupled with a vibrant and well informed community.
7) Web Design From Scratch -A complete guide to designing web sites that work.
Design Feed
8 ) Design-Feed -Hand-picked Design-Feed aggregator, showing the most interesting design related RSS feeds and present them in an easy-to-browse format.
9 ) Design Float -is a Digg style, community driven news aggregator dedicated to the design industry.
Copywriting Advice
10) Copy Blogger – Copywriting is the Key to Successful Online Marketing and Copyblogger is all about helping you get traffic, gain subscribers, attract links and sell something!
11) NorthxEast -is a blog about blogging that presents a series of weekly articles that no blogger can afford to miss.
12) Chris Garrett -E-business, online marketing and new media consultant. Information on skills, blog and technical writing.
Freelancers Resources
13) Freelance Switch -Covers all the topics freelancers need to know, they run a freelance job board and have regular. At FreelanceSwitch they’re always looking for new ways to help and entertain freelancers.
WordPress Must Read
14) Lorelle -On Lorelle on WordPress, she writes about everything WordPress and blogging, covering more than you may want to know about how all this blogging business works.
SEO and Marketing Tips
15) Alexa
16) SEOMOZ -News, Tips and highlights from the Search Marketing Industry
17) SEO Book -A leading SEO resource focused on helping successful webmasters make money and increase their profits through driving targeted traffic to their sites.
18) Performancing -Helps Bloggers Succeed, discussing SEO tips, adsense, copywriting, etc…
19) SEO Chat – All you need to know about Search Engine Optimization, Google Optimization.
Personal Weblogs
20 ) Snook -is the site of web designer, developer, writer and speaker, Jonathan Snook. The articles on this site focus on web development, design, and freelance.
21) Web Designer Wall -is all about design, ideas, web trends, and tutorials. It is designed and maintained by Nick La.
22) Max Kiesler
23) 456BereaStreet
24) Shaun Inman
CSS Galleries
25) Best Web Gallery
26) CSS Mania
27) CSS Remix
AJAX Resources
28) Ajaxian -Highlights Top Ajax Examples and techniques.
29) Learning jQuery -Learning jQuery is a multi-author weblog with the aim of sharing information about jQuery library.
30) Dynamic Drive
31) ExtJS Blog -A Incredible JavaScript-Framework with numerous modules and components such as tables, trees, windows, layouts, forms, and tabs.
Social Bookmarking
32) del.icio.us
33) Dzone
34) Stumbleupon
35) Digg
Images Manipulation
36) Vector Magic – the online tool for precision bitmap to vector conversion
Miscellaneous Stand Outs
37) Tech Crunch
38) Lifehacker – the Productivity and Software Guide.
39) Zen Habits
41) The FWA
42) Kirupa
Andrew: Design Float is one of many designers favorite site to check the latest tutorial, new tool, showcase, etc…
I couldn’t miss it :)
That’s a real cool list of sites.
Most of them i know of, but you guys have unearthed some real gems. Thanks.
I’m gonna spend the next few hours exploring these cool resources. Keep up the good work.
Thanks for the nice compilation!
Hehe nice list, you forgot http://www.cssartillery.com
Nice list !
CSSArtillery
CSSArtillery is one of the best CSS galleries and it will be attacked this week :)
That would be great! :)
Very happy to see Sitepoint and Performancing there.
But what about
Digital Point Forums
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/
and
Wicked Fire
http://www.wickedfire.com
Any designer worth their pay already knows about these resources. I don’t know how this got to the front page of delicious…
Yes, Digital point forums should be here. I dont think we can live without That
and another link for inspiration design: http://www.thefwa.com Thank you for this post :)
its funny because its true
Images, stock photos and a wealth of resources for your designs: http://www.bluevertigo.com.ar/bluevertigo.htm
Very nice list. What about these:
design:related
http://designrelated.com/
stumble upon
http://stumbleupon.com
coudal partners
http://www.coudal.com/
kirupa
http://www.kirupa.com
tutorial outpost
http://tutorialoutpost.com/
web developers handbook
http://www.alvit.de/handbook/
Nice selection !
Wow!
I really appreciate everyone’s suggestions. I have added 3 more great sites per your suggestion.
Wow what a decent post. You feature some brilliant sites here.
Hello webmaster…Man i love reading your blog, interesting posts ! it was a great Friday . Sasha Cohen
Good collection.
I have bookmarked your site.
I hope its ok if i add my site to your list ? :) More than 1400 rescources for webworkers & webdesigners: http://sharebrain.info
I hope you like it :)
very interesting, but I don’t agree with you
Idetrorce
I love your list of sites. I’ve seen many of them before, but nevertheless it is a very accurate summary of useful well sites out there for webmasters. :) If you ever want to include my new gallery: http://www.cssfirst.com in such a list I’d really appreciate it. Of course this is optional, but it is currently the most updated css gallery in the world and I’m trying to make it a genuinely useful resource for designers everywhere :).
Cheers!
Hi Tom,
I will definitely add it to the “CSS Gallery Attack” post as it will be grouped with other great CSS Galleries.
Have fun :)
Hi, thank’s for your great blog, major informations. I send to you my personal website WC Fonts. Best regards
Nice site keep it up!
http://www.dasofte.com
Nice tutorial
Very nice! Thx!
this was really good info, came back to this site for this info a few times…
very good, Valuable info
Thanks a ton.
This must be an old post. I get here from search engine and all the snapshot pictures are off. Too bad, well, I’m gonna have to go to each and everyone of them.
Thanks for the post
Very good post, but your images just got deleted :(