Nowadays, there are tons of useful blogs for web design and web development on the internet. We have saved you so much time hunting down the following most useful ones. It covers the topics of Web Design, Web Development, Typography, Photoshop Tutorials, Web Icons, Inspirations and Website Galleries. Please feel free to suggest your favourite websites we have missed!
Web Design
UX Booth
The UX Booth is a blog by and for the user experience community. Their readership consists mostly of beginning-to-intermediate user experience and interaction designers, but anyone interested in making the web a better place to be is welcome.
We Function
As a fresh faced design studio they are eager to get our teeth into some interesting projects. Although a new company we’ve had many years experience between us, and are very aware of current trends, possibilities and potential of Web Design and Development.
Web Designer Wall
Web Designer Wall is designed and maintained by Nick La, who also runs N.Design Studio and Best Web Gallery. Web Designer Wall serves as my public blog where I post my design ideas, tutorials, and talk about modern web design trends.
Veerle’s Blog
Veerle is a graphic/web designer living in Belgium. Her personal journal reflects my journeys through design, the web, and life, and she shares them here with us.
Smashing Magazine
Smashing Magazine aims to inform their readers about the latest trends and techniques in Web development. They try to convince you not with the quantity but with the quality of the information we present. They hope that makes us different. Smashing Magazine is, and always has been, independent.
Web Designer Depot
Webdesigner Depot is an exciting new platform designed to explore different web and graphic design techniques, great examples and best practices. They love design and are passionate about it in all its shapes and forms.
Noupe
Noupe passionately delivers stylish and dynamic news for designers and web-developers across the globe on all subjects of design; ranging from CSS, Ajax, Javascript, web design, graphics, typography, advertising & much more!
Line25
Line25 is a weblog based around the topic of web design, and is the home to a range of posts that aim to give ideas and inspiration to web creatives. Whether you’re a seasoned web professional or someone learning the basics of web design there’s a range of posts to feed your creativity.
Web Development
Web Monkey
Webmonkey is an online resource for web developers. Here, you’ll find tutorials, tips and advice for designing and building websites and programming web applications.
WebAppers
WebAppers is a blog dedicated to share top quality open source resources for web developer and web designer daily. As a web designer, you’ll find some of the best free icons, stock photos, brushes, fonts and design inspirations. As a web developer, you’ll also find some of the best Javascript and Ajax components like modal windows, menus, galleries, tooltips, charts, calendars plugins and a lot more.
Ajaxian
You can get the latest news, technical resources from Ajaxian. It includes Browser Plug-ins, Client-side Frameworks, Interaction Design/ Graphic Design/User Experience, Programming Techniques and Security.
Woorkup
Woork Up is a blog for internet lovers and technology enthusiasts.
Think Vitamin
Think Vitamin hit the web in 2006 with the express aim of being a valuable resource for web professionals. With contributions from all-star authors it quickly became a popular destination. In 2007 it won a SXSW award for “Best Educational Resource”.
Snook
First and foremost, this site is a resource—for Snook and the community. It’s also his personal design and code playground, a place to experiment, and therefore, a site that is in a constant state of flux.
CSS Tricks
CSS-Tricks share Tips, Tricks and Techniques on CSS, User Interface, and Web Design in general.
Blog Perfume
We love and enjoy blogging as much as you do. Blog Perfume aims to collect all the useful WordPress themes, plugins, and blogging resources for pro-bloggers. Makes Bloggers life a lot easier.
Leanring jQuery
Learning jQuery is a multi-author weblog providing jQuery tutorials, demos, and announcements. They have tutorials for all skill levels, and each entry is categorized by level of difficulty.
Freelanceswitch
FreelanceSwitch is a community of expert freelancers from around the world. The blog covers a vast array of topics about life as a freelancer, from Tax Tips for Freelancers to Determining Your Hourly Rate, Transitioning from Fulltime work to Freelancing to Where to Find Freelance Work and much more.
A List Apart
A List Apart Magazine explores the design, development, and meaning of web content, with a special focus on web standards and best practices.
Typography
Typography Served
Typography Served features top work in categories such as typeface design, lettering, illustrated typography, or any piece with a strong typographic treatment.
I Love Typography
I love Typography (ILT) was born on August 7, 2007. It exists because I have a passion for typography, type design, and lettering, and for the words born of those disciplines.
Photoshop Tutorials
PSDtuts
Psdtuts+ is a blog/Photoshop site made to house and showcase some of the best Photoshop tutorials around. They publish tutorials that not only produce great graphics and effects, but explain the techniques behind them in a friendly, approachable manner.
Photoshop Lady
Photoshop Lady aims to collect the best and free photoshop tutorials around the internet. All of the high quality photoshop tutorials are categorized into 3D Effect, Abstract Effect, Drawing Effect, Photo Effect, Text Effect, Texture & Patterns and User Interface Design.
Abduzeedo
Abduzeedo is a blog about design. There are all sorts of articles for those who want to look for inspiration. Also you will find very useful tutorials for the most used applications out there, with a special selection of Photoshop Tutorials and Illustrator Tutorials.
Tutorial9
The new Tutorial9 has been built around one central idea: They want to share only the best resources for designers, every day. combines our own frequent original content, and aggregates outstanding content from other publishers.
Web Icons
Web Icon Set
Web Icon Set aims to provide the professional and great web icons to web designer and developer. You can find some of the quality Application Icons, Blogging Icons, E-Commerce Icons and Mobile Icons for your website. All of them are in PNG format with 64px, 48px and 32px sizes.
Icon Finder
Iconfinder provides high quality icons for webdesigners and developers in an easy and efficient way. The site launched in 2007 as the first search engine focused on icons.
Icon Dock
IconDock is brought to you by N.Design Studio. They know your time is valuable, that is why they offer stock icons in vector and pixel format that you can quickly snap in your projects to speed up the development. And, they let you choose to buy icons individually or a complete icon set.
We Love Icons
We Love Icons is a project by designers Dan Wiersema and Nando Albuquerque. The purpose is to provide you with ONE place to go to find links to the BEST freeware desktop icons on earth.
Inspirations
The Design Inspiration
The Design Inspiration is created by a group of designers who are seeking various design inspiration every day. To make every designer’s life easier, they decided to feature the best logos, illustrations, websites, photos and patterns from the most talented designers from all around the world.
Creative Ad Awards
Creative Ad Awards is one of the best advertising archive, serving all the advertising fan and others who need it. All the collected ads follow the concept of SIMPLE (Simple, Involving, Memorable, Purchase Intention, Linkage with brand, Enjoyable), so that they will, absolutely, intoxicate rather than revolt you.
Fubiz
Since 2005, the Fubiz site is a platform centered on the subjects of the graphic world, the urban culture, the products tendencies and numerical arts. A baseline Daily off proportions inspiration, a version available in 2 languages with nine galleries and a collaboratif space.
Behance
Behance Network is the world’s leading platform for creative professionals across all industries. Members create multi-media portfolios that showcase their work within the Network, as well as throughout partner sites and organizations, and the industry-specific Served Sites.
Website Gallery
CSS Mania
CSS Mania is currently the most updated CSS Showcase in the world, using a mixed perl/php/mysql script. A CSS Showcase is a website that showcases web sites developed using XHTML & CSS (Tableless).
CSS Remix
CSSREMIX showcases only the best-designed css-based websites. Started in early 2006, CSS Remix has a dedicated and passionate fan-base of creative web professionals including designers, developers, entrepreneurs, freelancers, and more.
FWA
FWA stands for Favourite Website Awards, an industry recognised internet award program and inspirational portal, established in May 2000. FWA is the most visited website award program in the history of the internet, with over 100 million visits as of August 2010.
Design Shack
Design Shack showcases inspiring web design, alongside resources and tutorials for you to succeed in the same way. They only offer the cream of great design, filtering through lots of the redesigns that occur every day across the Internet, and cataloguing the greatest projects out there – perfect for getting that spark of creativity going again.
Oriental Gallery
Oriental websites and European websites are so different, because the designers have different culture and experience. You should be very familiar with European design style by now. It is a good idea to get some inspiration from oriental style websites as well. Oriental Gallery features some beautiful oriental websites you have never seen.
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