As we all know that just by typing a word into Google and it shows that there are 23+ million results for your search, there are quite a few websites out there. Unless you’re some kind of power, you won’t have time to check out many of them, even in a relatively niche area such as web design. Therefore, I have come up with a list of 21 essential sites every web designer should bookmark, unless they’re some kind of idiot—and that’s not you, is it?
1 . alistapart.com
Its a online magazine with hundreds of articles from industry’s very best, A List Apart should be your first port of call for in-depth insight and analysis into code, content and design.
2. smashingmagazine.com
Smashing Magazine fires web design and development techniques into your brain by way of news, opinion pieces and practical tutorials. It’s also quite fond of lists, making it a handy site for discovering additional resources.
3. uxmovement.com
With UX increasingly a big concern within web design, it pays to keep informed. UX Movement is a blog dedicated to working with UX, providing insight into wireframing and usability concerns relating to forms, hover components and other web-page elements.
4. designbombs.com
Blog that recommends a free resource every day, encompassing scripts, icons, frameworks, images and more. The subscription’s also full-feed, so you can bung the site into your RSS reader and only grab the things that interest you.
5. cssplay.co.uk
CSSPlay is primarily a playground for CSS experiments. However, rather than concentrating on flashy effects, Nicholls often grounds his demos in practical application. Chances are, if there’s something you’re keen to do in CSS, you’ll find a demo showing how on this site.