M's Blog

Web Typography and Design:

http://www.thegridsystem.org/

http://www.blueprintcss.org/

http://24ways.org/2006/compose-to-a-vertical-rhythm

http://24ways.org/2009/make-your-mockup-in-markup

http://cufon.shoqolate.com/generate/

http://wiki.github.com/sorccu/cufon/about

http://typekit.com/

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/01/introducing-new-rich-snippets-format.html

http://grid.mindplay.dk

http://designreviver.com/articles/website-accessibility-and-usability-ten-tips-on-how-to-make-your-website-more-viewer-friendly/

http://www.pixelperfectplugin.com/

Color:

http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_colornames.asp

PSD to HTML Services:

http://www.rapidxhtml.com

https://w3-markup.com/order

https://www.psd2html.com/order-now.html

CMS:

http://goodbarry.com/

Debug HTML/CSS in the browser:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/60

http://getfirebug.com/

Cross-browser stuff:

http://quirksmode.org/

Image cropping tool:

http://deepliquid.com/content/Jcrop.html

http://code.google.com/p/jcrop/

Ecommerce:

https://payments.amazon.com/sdui/sdui/index.htm

http://www.shopify.com/

http://www.bigcommerce.com/

E-mail campaigns:

http://www.mailchimp.com

Recording streaming video:

http://www.screenr.com

Working with Clients:

http://www.conceptshare.com/

http://www.mavenlink.com/

Nice Sites

http://www.zipdesign.co.uk/3AM

http://www.methodhome.com/

Geek out!

http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2009/2/3/calling-all-rails-savvy-designers

http://alistapart.com/articles/gettingrealaboutagiledesign

Funding:

http://paulgraham.com/startupfunding.html

Big picture:

http://www.motochan.com/2009/11/30/neoteny-labs/

via Design Reviver by Chris on 5/7/09

As a web designer you must stay up-to-date with trends and techniques. A good way to do so is to subscribe to web design blogs and get updates regularly. In the following list, you will find some great web design blogs that publish showcases, techniques, tutorials, resources and in-depth articles. If it is your first visit on Design Reviver, I suggest that you also subscribe to the blog’s RSS feed.

1. A List Apart

2. Smashing Magazine

3. ColourLovers blog

4. SitePoint web design blog

5. DevLounge

6. Noupe

7. We Function

8. Six Revisions

9. NetTuts

10. Woork

11. SmashingApps

12. Web Designer Wall

13. ShareBrain

14. Vandelay Design Blog

15. CSS Tricks

16. Fuel Your Creativity

17. Tutorial9

18. David Airey

19. Web Design Ledger

20. Design Meltdown

21. Design Mag

22. BittBox

23. CSS Vault blog

24. Design Shack

25. Apples to Oranges

26. Unmatched style

27. Mezzoblue

28. Stop Design

29. Boxes and arrows

30. Ajaxian

31. UX Booth

32. 24 Ways

33. The Design Cubicle

34. Line 25

35. 1st webdesigner

36. The Design Superhero

37. Creattica Daily

38. My Ink Blog

39. Webdesigner Depot

40. In the Woods

41. Creative Briefing

42. SpoonGraphics

43. CSS Globe

44. Brian Yerkes

45. Stylized Web

46. Colorburned

47. SimpleBits

48. From the Couch

49. Viget Inspire

50. SpeckyBoy

after losing all the data on my 3-yr old 500 gb hard drive (i.e. 10 years worth of work), it’s time to start afresh.