CSS-Tricks: (Chris Coyier)
www.css-tricks.com
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| CSS-Tricks with Chris Coyier |
If you are into designing for web i.e. CSS HTML Javascript and don't know where to start. Make this a bookmark and check back daily. Even if you don't find his style worthy he has opened up so many doors to other web developers/ designers, authors, etc. That it is really worth a minute of your time to do some searching through this site. This site alone got me to learn HTML, CSS, and start into Javascript not only creating sites but understanding the RIGHT way of managing sites from the ground up. He has a new series right now called "The Lodge" where you can go step by step with him on redesigning a site from scratch to Wordpress, where I am now making all my sites 100% responsive do to the 12 dollar one month subscription.
CodePen (Chris Coyier, Tim Sabat and Alex Vazquez)
www.codepen.io
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| CodePen with Chris Coyier Tim Sabat and Alex Vazquez |
This is a great place to "sketch" out some css/javascript/html5 new technologies on the fly. You don't have to get a server started and create html pages to get going. This site is also great to reference if you want something flashy on your site but don't know where to start.
Shop Talk Show (Chris Coyier, Dave Rupert)
You probably know where my main influence is from by now...
www.shoptalkshow.com
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| Talk Shop Show with Chris Coyier Dave Rupert and other special guests |
If you sit in an office/apartment/home all day and don't get much interaction with designers/web dev dudes and chickas, but still fill like your part of a community this podcast is great to hear Chris and Dave along with other special guests answer questions and concerns about the web today. It's great to be able to connect and relate with leaders in the industry and you'll soon find out that most of us out there are all the same. Most web peeps don't have huge egos or live in mansions, we all love to create things we love and love to teach others how to pursue that passion.
Hoefler and Frere-Jones
www.typography.com
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| Great Typography |
If you are as serious about fonts as these guys and don't have a problem spending some money for some great typography this is the place to go. I've been in college and realize spending money on anything other than food and gas is about all you got the budget for, but if you do have some moolah hanging around check it out, you won't be disappointed. Plus how awesome is it that they have (typogrpahy.com) <-- legit enough.
Subtle Patterns
www.subtlepatterns.com
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| Great Textures with a great UI website |
I reference this...Everyday. This is a one stop shop for Patterns for your website. They come as .png or .pat for Photoshop. I am more of a design in the browser guy so I will wire frame my site in what ever I want and build the site in my text editor and just place the .png in my image folder and just add it as I feel, but the .pat files can be downloaded in its entirety at Github. (There's a link on the site) and you can have the full collection to date sitting in Photoshop for you to mess with. Check back regularly as more are updated everyday.
Lost Type
www.losttype.com
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| Great Pay what you want fonts |
Great fonts for what ever you want to pay for them. If you just want to mess with them and see if the fonts work with your ideas feel free to download it for free. Not a lot of fonts to choose from but they are hand crafted and used a lot through the design industry.
Smashing Magazine
(Great reference for great authors and articles)
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| Smashing Magazine Great for articles and news in web |
www.smashingmagazine.com
For me this is the first thing I got a hold of as a web designer, This is a great place to find the web community, everybody that is worthy of anything is mentioned on this site, I actually got in contact to a local design firm due to Smashing Magazine since they posted a contact form that the company designed. Who knows if you come up with something clever or worth mentioning it could very well be mentioned on this site.
Treehouse (Tutorials and Quizzes)
www.teamtreehouse.com
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| Tree house is great for Tutorials if you are learning something and don't know where to start |
I am pretty sure I have followed this site from the beginning before it was called Treehouse but nonetheless I have watched this site grow into a fascinating site that covers pretty much anything from opening a text editor to PHP, Ruby, and other server side languages. If I'm not mistaken students of universities get a membership for 9 bucks. Great value. Normal is something like 25 bucks so start digging in if you can.
CodeSchool (Tutorials and Quizzes)
www.codeschool.com
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| Great for a more advanced approach at learning more difficult concepts |
This is a very intriguing tutorial site. Much more concentrated that Treehouse as it digs more into a technical background of CSS Jquery Ruby and server side languages but they have a way of making what could be very dry information very informative. The last one I got my hands on was something like "Rails for Zombies" so you could only imagine the analogies accompanying the tutorial. Great site 25 bucks a month.
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