Awesome and Useful Resources – Web Design Blogs
Johnny Lee
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For the past few years, there have been hundreds of thousands of new web design blogs launching online. A small percentage of these sites are still online today, and just about a handful still continue to publish amazing content. We think it’s a good idea to dig deep into the web design industry and collect some amazing resources where you can get useful information.
Today, we’ve put together some of the best online magazines and blogs for web designers. Topics range from web design to Photoshop tutorials, freebies, UX design, and even web development techniques and trends.
We hope you’ll find it useful for your future web projects!
Artatm
Artatm is a creative art magazine with articles that cover just about everything you’d expect to find with other web content. Almost all of their articles feature showcase galleries but the ideas are very rare in comparison. These topics include WordPress dashboard plugins and Photoshop texture brushes, among many others.
Inspire Monkey
This site has been around for years, and their posts range from showcases, tutorials, opinion pieces, and lots of customizable freebies. We enjoy their tutorials for the breadth and depth of each step in the process. It’s an excellent resource for web developers looking to pick up new ideas and concepts for their projects. Have it bookmarked now!
Top Design Magazine
Top Design Magazine has an amazingly beautiful web layout that makes navigation super smooth. You’ll surely enjoy the small breadcrumb feature right underneath the navigation links. Their articles are mostly on inspirational galleries for various types of graphics and branding effects.
Downgraf
This website offers all the bells and whistles you’d expect in a typical web design online magazine. They have a lot of tutorials, free codes, free graphics, and a lot of inspirational posts related to design aesthetics. The site’s layout is clean and easy to navigate around, and the text is also easy to read. They also publish a large number of categories which is worth a quick look over.
Expert Developer
Expert Developer is a fully dedicated web development magazine which caters towards frontend web developers. Their posts boast a considerable amount of traffic and provide great solutions for a lot of common web layout problems. They also cover topics on backend programming, including setting up dev environments for PHP, Rails, Python, etc. You should definitely have this bookmarked for future reference.
WebExpedition18
WebExpedition18 was originally launched in 2008. Their articles are fantastic, although they sometimes lack a bit of content. The website’s layout is clean and simple, and you can easily find the articles you’re looking for. Each post is categorized by tags which are numbered and listed off conveniently in the sidebar.
Range
This WordPress development studio also publishes the latest web design trends and tips on their design blog. It’s not updated on a daily basis but their content is original and worth checking out if you’re interested in WordPress development techniques. They also have articles on areas like responsive design and open source GPL code licensing.
UXDE
This site publishes a lot of web design resources for inspiration galleries. These include web layouts and WordPress themes, as well as useful resources for web designers. There may not be a lot of solid tutorials here but it’s still a great online magazine for web designers looking to get some inspiration or free web resources for download.
Phire Base
Phire Base is a popular portfolio website that has recently expanded to include freebies and a blog section. You’ll find hundreds of articles related to design inspiration and unique roundups. It’s worth poking around for a couple of minutes, but a lot of their showcases follow the same concepts and ideas as other web design blogs.
Demortalz
This inspiration blog is aimed towards web designers and webmasters. It has a lot of unique content which you won’t find elsewhere. There are a lot of showcase roundups, including concept artwork and sketches, as well as digital artwork likes drawings and logo concepts.
