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rsz_webdesignerdotnetThe Internet has been one of the most used medium. People now go online for information with the primary objective of learning and getting inspiration. During the days when most people were not as active on the Internet, magazines and books were the main sources.

The benefit of subscribing to design magazines and design resource blogs are tremendous. You not only open your world to fantastic tutorials, freebies, inspiring portfolios, but you also get a glimpse on the insights of designers. What works for them, the tried and tested.  What is also great is that they have special sections that tackles the news, design trends, artist tools.

They are also laid out in a manner that is easy to read and ease of navigating  through the articles is what makes them a very ideal source of information.

We have handpicked 10 web design magazine| resource blogs with awesome style for your reference and inspiration.  We recommend you visit and check them all out.  We guarantee that you will have an astonishing range of learning tools that will keep you up to date and in the loop of what is happening in the design community.

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rsz_smashingmag Smashing Magazine

Founded in September 2006, Smashing Magazine delivers useful and innovative information to Web designers and developers. Our aim is to inform our readers about the latest trends and techniques in Web development. We try to convince you not with the quantity but with the quality of the information we present. We hope that makes us different. Smashing Magazine is, and always has been, independent.

Perhaps the most remarkable yet overlooked aspect of the design community is its friendly, enthusiastic spirit. Every day, literally thousands of talented, hard-working folks out there gain new insight from their work, come up with brilliant ideas and then share their experience with fellows designers.

rsz_webdesignermag WebDesigner Magazine

The WebDesigner Magazine is part of Imagine publishing.  Imagine Publishing is one of the UK’s fastest-growing consumer specialist magazine publishers, with over 20 print magazines and 20 websites published worldwide within the entertainment, computing, digital photography and video games market sectors.

And all this since 2005!

Web Designer is the premier magazine for aspiring online creatives and industry professionals. The monthly title offers cutting-edge practical projects spanning XHTML, CSS, Flash and WordPress as well as hosting features and interviews with the web community’s most influential people. Each issue also has a dedicated Industry section covering news and views from the trade, website showcases featuring the finest design talent and a free CD of valuable resources. The official blog site at webdesignermag.co.uk offers additional editorial, exclusive interviews, reader support plus a series of entertaining podcasts from the magazine team.

Web Designer: Defining the Internet through beautiful design…

sixrevisions Six Revisions

Six Revisions is a weblog that provides practical, useful information for the modern, standards-compliant web designer and web developer. It seeks to present exceptional, noteworthy tips, tutorials, and resources that the modern web professional will appreciate. You’ll find a variety of content from tools that can speed up your work flow processes to showcases of beautiful designs for inspiration and tutorials on JavaScript frameworks like jQuery and MooTools.

The creator and primary author of Six Revisions is Jacob Gube, a web developer and designer who works with PHP, .NET, Flash/ActionScript, XHTML, JavaScript/jQuery/MooTools, and MySQL. His work environment includes: Windows XP, Adobe Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, Notepad++, Firebug, Web Developer tool, and on occasion puTTY. His passion is anything involved in the creation of beautiful, standards-compliant, accessible websites and applications.

rsz_fuelyourcreativity Fuel Your Creativity

Most people find that true creativity isn’t a constant presence in their lives, no matter how much you fool yourself into thinking that. We’d like to introduce you to Fuel Your Creativity. This gem is the place to turn to when you’re having one of your “I’m-going-to-implode-if-I-don’t-get-an-idea-soon” moments. Don’t lie. You know you have them.

Check us out when you need some inspiration. We have some pretty cool articles and even cooler links to various sites that will keep you informed on how other creatives like yourself get things done. There are even interviews with said creatives that give you a glimpse into their world. There are some cool worlds out there.

speckyboymag SpeckyBoy Design Mag

Speckyboy Design Magazine launched in October 2007, as my personal web design homepage. I was just taking (what felt like) a giant leap into freelance design and consultancy, and needed a home base for my potential clients to get in touch with me… Somewhere over the following months this site changed direction, when I realized I was getting more and more visitors.
It started with an article called Top 25 Free Icon Resources for Web Designers, and it did very well on delicious, and the visitors increased. By then I had caught the blogging bug.

From that initial article I have tried to cover every aspect of web design and development offering FREE and HIGH QUALITY RESOURCES as well as attempting to inspire through our showcases. I am not a graphic designer (I still use Adobe Fireworks), but do love it and certainly appreciate it, the same goes for typography and photography.

rsz_indesignmag InDesign Magazine

InDesign Magazine is a bimonthly periodical devoted entirely to Adobe InDesign and to the thriving community of InDesign professionals. With editorial direction by page-layout guru and author David Blatner and CreativePro.com editor in chief Terri Stone, InDesign Magazine brings you the in-depth features, reviews, and tutorials you need to master Adobe InDesign.

InDesign Magazine is published in the PDF format only. You’ll love the electronic format–click on a URL and Acrobat opens the page in your Web browser. Cut and paste complex scripts. You can even watch movies in the PDF! You can also print out single pages or an entire issue if you prefer paper to monitor.

InDesign Magazine is an independent publication, not an Adobe product. InDesign is a registered trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated.  The magazine features the hottest designers works.  One will get a peek at what designer’s are up to and what InDesign is capable of.

rsz_webdesignerdepot Web Designer Depot

Webdesigner Depot is an exciting new platform designed to explore different web and graphic design techniques, great examples and best practices.

We love design and are passionate about it in all its shapes and forms. Our vision is to make WDD a great showcase for this passion and feed a worldwide audience of savvy designers eager to learn more and share their knowledge with the design community.

The blog is a joint effort and collaboration between leading designers around the world which contribute a wealth of expertise on all fields of design, such as coding, typography, Photoshop tutorials and more.

If you’d like to become a contributor to this website by either writing a post or tutorial or by providing some freebies to our users, do not hesitate to email .

rsz_noupe Noupe

NOUPE passionately delivers stylish and dynamic news for designers and web-developers on all subjects of design, ranging from; CSS, Ajax, Javascript, web design, graphics, typography, advertising & much more. Our goal is to help you communicate effectively on the web with an engaging website or functional interface.

Whether you have an interesting tutorial or example that you would like to share on Noupe or just found an interesting website design , this is the place to get the word out.

  • All i ask is your subject should be Related to Web 2.o, WebDesign, Freelance, Ajax, Graphics or Blogging for it to be valid for submission
  • If your submission is approved be sure that you will get the credit by posting either your site’s link and/or name with in the article.
  • Well, that’s it, just fill out the form from their site and hit submit!

You can contact Noupe  via e-mail info[at]noupe[dot]com

rsz_abduzeedo Abduzeedo

This blog was created and developed by Fabio Sasso, a Brazilian designer living in Porto Alegre (south of Brazil).

My first contact with the Internet happened in 1995 and 1996 I started playing with it as a designer. I have a degree in graphic design and I’ve been working professionally since 1998, here in Brazil, at least in my town, I could say that it was the very beginning of the Internet.

The idea behind this blog is primarily to be a channel for me to write down some ideas, experiments, news, and a lot of thing that I see online and probably will forget in a couple of months. Basically it is an archive of my adventures online as a designer on the daily basis. Another thing that I want to do with this blog is to improve my English skills, as a Brazilian and non-native speaker of English, it’s a good way to practice it. By the way, you might find some English mistakes, maybe a lot sometimes, but I will try my best to make it as legible as possible.

“The blog’s name means abducted in Portuguese. I changed its spelling to add ZEE (my design company) instead of abduzido”

rsz_dotnet .Net Mag

.net is the world’s best-selling magazine for web designers and developers, featuring tutorials from leading agencies, interviews with the web’s biggest names, and agenda-setting features on the hottest issues affecting the Internet today. If you’re serious about web design, then .net is the magazine for you!

At Future, we base everything we do around clusters of like-minded individuals who are passionate about their interests. At this time of overwhelming choice, people want trusted editorial services more than ever before. And this is what Future does best. From computer games to films, from cycling to music-making, we provide magazines, websites and events that inform, entertain and unite these communities. We share the same passions as our consumers. These insights and our expertise are helping us to build and exploit our market-leading positions across different platforms in all of the core sectors in which we operate.

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  • gautam hans said:

    smashing magazine and specky boy are my favorites. Abduzeedo has got an immense readership and popularity. I have also seen many great articles from other magazines as well. great share richard! stumbled.

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  • Rahul Jadhav said:

    nice collection. I am a regular visitor of many of these blogs

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  • Diana Adams said:

    Misty, Whoah! This is another slam dunk post. You continue to blow me away with your creativity and writing talent. Great job! I’m bookmarking this one. =)

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  • Misty Belardo (author) said:

    Thank you guys.. glad you enjoyed it.. the resources are always wonderful for people to get info and learn more about how to improve their design and also a chance for designers to showcase their work by sending them in to the list above.

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  • Oyvind Hoie said:

    Great list! But you seem to have overlooked Layers Magazine . Great tutorials on all Adobe apps.

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  • Susana Liceaga said:

    Great selection! Thank you :)

    I agree, Layers Magazine is great for tutorials. Computer Arts is also a must.

    http://www.layersmagazine.com/

    http://www.computerarts.co.uk/

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  • Anders Bakfeldt said:

    You also forgot Photoshop user magazine (Napp/Scott Kelby)

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  • Michel Sébastien said:

    would like to suggest http://www.clickforwebdesign.com/webdesign-blog.html.html for this category

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  • Julian James said:

    And… (in a shameless self promotional stylie!)the happy happy NewSugar magazine.

    http://newsugar.co.uk

    Loads of interviews and artwork by creatives from around the world… not the most serious (content) magazine but it might put a smile on your face. ;)

    The mag is free too!

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  • Daro said:

    I’m a regular visitor of some of these sites. Great list. I also like a fairly new site http://www.grafikalmagazine.com
    It’s more of a gallery but has some great inspirational links.

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  • Roberto Blake said:

    Great post, I was aware of most of these but not all of them. InDesign looks really interesting, I haven’t seen a lot of blogs on the web that relate specifically to print design and desktop publishing.

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  • Manz said:

    There are many on this post that I visit often… and a few new to me! Bookmarked for future inspiration needs :)

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  • Kriffin said:

    I used to surf on Smashing and depot but never others !

    Thank you vey mutch ;) , Hop Delicious !

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  • Luke said:

    Nice list but…

    I have to say that, over perhaps the last 6-9 months, Web Designer magazine has become a bit pointless. They seem to feature very little useful information if you’re not interested in Twitter or the iphone.

    I’m not saying I’m not interested in either of those things (obviously they are key considerations in web design) but they could do with including a few other areas.

    Smashing Magazine is amazing though.

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  • Thomas Craig Consulting said:

    Nice collection, I follow them all with the exception of Indesign and .Net, which I’ll be checking out. If they are anything like the others mentioned then they will also be added to my daily read list.

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    I like http://www.instantshift.com alot.
    Nice articles for web designers like me. :)

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