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A selection of useful sites for both designers and developers

Interesting Reads

Creative Behavior - Online Design Magazine, Design Articles, Designer Interview, Design Events and Competitions, Typography Articles
Creative Behavior is an online design magazine that provide design information for new media designers, graphic designers, creative people, and any of you who take a keen interest in the area of creative industry and its aspects, from articles, interviews, typography, news and links to other related web sites
design.Principles:
» fadtastic - a multi-author web design trends journal
web design trends - fadtastic - the multi author web design journal
Design Meltdown
Design elements, trends, and problems in web design.
Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design
PingMag - The Tokyo-based magazine about “Design and Making Things” » Archive » Web 2.0 in Japan
Authentic Boredom ~ Delivered weekly by Cameron Moll
Andy Budd::Blogography
UX Magazine - The User Experience Magazine
UX Magazine sets out to explore, promote & discuss the multiple facets of user experience one article at a time. It is built upon the foundations of ProjectNeo, a global interactive design community.
Stylegala - Web Design Publication
Smashing Magazine
Digital Web Magazine
Digital Web Magazine
Devlounge : A resource for designers and developers
The ultimate web designer and developer resource, featuring articles, interviews, and more related to building a better web and improving content.
Bite Size Standards
Bite Size Standards aims to offer concise web development tutorials, tips and tricks. Written by designers and developers who are passionate about web standards.
Design Observer: writings about design & culture
LOUNGE72™ - Design portal & ezine
456 Berea Street: Articles and news on web standards, accessibility, and usability
Articles and news on web standards, accessibility, usability, and other things related to web development and web design.
Vitamin - A resource for web developers, designers and entrepreneurs
A List Apart: A List Apart
CR Blog
CR Blog - news and views on visual communications from the writers of creative review
Computerlove™ - Connecting Creative Talents
Connecting Creative Talents™ Computerlove is a community of digital artists, designers and photographers. Meet creative people, find design jobs, build your portfolio and hunt for inspiration / trends.
Brand Spanking New: It's about design, web development, art, usability, CSS, JavaScript and some other stuff
It's about design, web development, art, usability, CSS, JavaScript and some other stuff. Written by Timothy Groves, a designer working in Munich, Germany
Creative Design ::
The weblog for David Airey
Designorati
Designorati: A 360-Degree View of the Creative World

Design showcase

Welcome to the Big Chip Awards
DesignCharts // Weekly Top 40 Website Design Charts // Because Web Designers Are The New Rockstars // Best Website Designs Updated Weekly
DesignCharts compiles a weekly chart tracking the best website designs.
Website Design Awards - awarding progressive interactive web design
Website Design Awards is a new media design portal that features a digital magazine awarding and showcasing the latest winning web designs.
» screenspire.com | the leading full( )screen inspiration [2470 screens and counting] :: www.kallegraphics.com
screenspire.com is a no-embellishment, no-comments, no-technology-favored source for recent website-designs collected from various portals and handcrafted by thomas marban
Design Snack / The web design showcase that you control.
Design Snack is a user-controlled web design showcase, providing the members with the power to decide which sites are showcased and which sites are not. We believe this concept gives the visitors and especially the registered members much more control over the content they would expect to see on a web design showcase.
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Stylegala - Web Design Publication
http://www.webcreme.com/
Styleboost - showcasing outstanding websites since 2001
Styleboost has been exemplifying outstanding visual design since January 2001. The goal is to collect the very best design links on the web.
» screenfluent | the web's most favorite collection for zeitgeist of screen design | by thomas marban
thomas marban's handpicked collection of fine screendesigns. the most favorite no-embellishment, no-comments, no-ratings, no-technology-favored source for the recent zeitgeist of screen design.
InspirationKing - Web design inspiration
Design Shack - Inspirational CSS and Blog Design
Offering inspiring CSS and Blog designs, to help spark some creativity
Design Meltdown
Design elements, trends, and problems in web design.
CSS Vault » The Web's CSS Site
CSS Remix
A Fresh Blend of the Best CSS Web Design
CSS Beauty | CSS Design, News, Jobs, Community, Web Standards
CSS Beauty focuses on providing its audience with a database of well designed CSS based sites, as well as news and happenings on the CSS Design Community. It showcases designers work and serves as inspiration for those looking to build CSS based websites.
css Zen Garden: The Beauty in CSS Design
A demonstration of what can be accomplished visually through CSS-based design.

Useful Tools

script.aculo.us - web 2.0 javascript
swfIR: swf Image Replacement
swfIR (swf Image Replacement) gives you the ability to apply an assortment of visual effects to any or all images on your website.
Fonts by Appearance
Typetester – Compare fonts for the screen
Browse Web and Developer Tools :: Firefox Add-ons
Google Analytics
Crazy Egg – visualize your visitors
Crazy Egg will help you improve the design of your site by showing you where people are clicking and where they are not
colr.org
ColorJack: Sphere (Color Theory Visualizer)
COLOURlovers Coup.0 :: Palettes
Browse the hottest color palettes of the month and find out what color schemes people are in love with right now.
Protolize.org - Essential web tools in one place
Ultimate collection of web tools
kuler
The Daily Slurp
A daily listing of beautiful sites.
Photo Widgets for Websites, Blogs and Myspace - Good Widgets
Good Widgets provide sophisticated flash photo widgets for myspace pages, websites, and blogs.
moo.fx - size does matter
moo.fx, a superlightweight javascript effects library
Stu Nicholls | CSSplay | Experiments with cascading style sheets | Doing it with Style
CSS ~ Cutting edge Cascading Style Sheets. Experiments in CSS
Tempinbox.com - ENGLISH - FREE, RECEIVE ONLY, TEMPORARY, THROWAWAY, E-MAIL ACCOUNTS
Carbonmade: Your online portfolio.
Carbonmade helps you build and manage an online portfolio website. Use Carbonmade to show off your design, illustration, art, or any other type of creative work.

Web Design

Max Kiesler- Strategic Designer
Max Kiesler is an award-winning web and interface designer with extensive experience in website development and internet communications. He is currently a co-founder and Partner at Ideacodes located in the SOMA district in downtown San Francisco.
data visualization & visual design - information aesthetics
a weblog about data visualization, visual culture & information design, showing the most beautiful applications of information visualization
famfamfam.com: Home
famfamfam is the personal website of Mark James
Computerlove™ - Connecting Creative Talents
Connecting Creative Talents™ Computerlove is a community of digital artists, designers and photographers. Meet creative people, find design jobs, build your portfolio and hunt for inspiration / trends.
BD4D - A blog about life and working in the web design and development industry
aetherworld.org
The aetherworld is the personal website of graphics- and webdesigner Alexander Graf, currently living and working in the beautiful city of Innsbruck, Austria
Most recent entries | Abduzeedo by design
Personal blog about design, internet, CSS, standards, XHTML and stuff like that
The creative and technical vents of Scott Schiller
Web Design from Scratch - Free web design course - basics, layout, free tutorials, case studies, how to guides and examples
Veerle's blog 2.0 - Webdesign - XHTML CSS | Graphic Design
Veerle's blog 2.0. Webdesign talk - XHTML CSS , Graphic Design tutorials.
SimpleBits
Hand-crafted pixels and text by Dan Cederholm.
Simple software to help you get organized: 37signals
Goodbye to bloat. Simple, focused software that does just what you need and nothing you don't
Clearleft Web Design and Accessibility Consultants
ShaunInman.com
The glasshouse of designer Shaun Inman featuring insights on websites, css and design accompanied by original music.
ryan werth design : web and print design : blog
Ryan Werth Design : Blog : Insight, Information, and resources regarding Accessible Appropriate Web Design : XHTML, CSS and Flash/Actionscript
Journal : Mark Boulton
Mark Boulton is a designer based in Cardiff, UK. Specialising in usable, functional and elegant design acquired through rigorous problem solving.
hicksdesign: design for print and new media
Hicksdesign is a small creative agency based in Witney, Oxfordshire, UK. We create web sites and user interfaces built with web standards, as well as designing for print (we like branding in particular).
Design by Fire
Design 2.0 - by Luke Stevens
Design 2.0 - telling it like it is about next generation design on the web.
mezzoblue § Home
mezzoblue: a weblog by dave shea, a web designer in vancouver, b.c., canada.
Design View / Andy Rutledge
The personal site of Andy Rutledge. Website design, standards compliant code and css development.
9rules Blog: The latest news, member announcements, and dance videos from the 9rules Team.
9rules is the world's largest blog community, comprised of hundreds of authors from around the globe, writing on dozens of interesting topics.