39 Addictions - Designers just can’t stop

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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.