A must-read list of websites, blogs, article collections and tools for web professionals worth their <salt/>.
Websites, magazines and article collections
- 24ways http://24ways.org
24 ways is the advent calendar for web geeks. Each day throughout December articles on web design and development are published. What makes 24ways.org special are the who's-who-of-web-design authors - Jeffrey Zeldman, Eric Meyer, Dave Shea, Molly Holzschlag, Andy Clarke, et. al.. Did I just give a lot more website links? - A List Apart http://www.alistapart.com
- WebMonkey http://www.webmonkey.com
- SitePoint http://www.sitepoint.com
- Scrunchup http://scrunchup.com/
The web magazine for young designers and developers.
Guru's of Web Design - Blogs and Personal Websites
This list, strictly in alphabetical order!
- Dan Cederholm
- Tantek Çelik - http://www.tantek.com
About Tantek Çelik: CSS guru and contributor to several W3C CSS and XHTML specs; co-founder of microformats.org community and the Global Multimedia Protocols Group; most remembered for the box-model IE hack and the idea behind BarCamp. (Links: Wikipedia on Tantek, Remembering the idea of BarCamp, Bio at webstandards.org - Andy Clarke
- Molly Holzschlag
- Eric Meyer
- Jacob Nielsen - Web Usability http://www.userit.com
Web usability guru Jakob Nielsen's website with the popular Alertbox column on Web usability. - Mark Pilgrim
- Dave Shea
- Jeffrey Zeldman
Movements, Projects and Initiatives
- http://webhistory.org/
- http://www.webstandards.org/
- http://microformats.org/
- http://www.csszengarden.com/
Tools
- Portable Apps http://www.portableapps.com
What if you could ditch your laptop and carry your entire set of tools and configurations in a pen drive with you? PortableApps packs GIMP, Notepad++, FileZilla, WinSCP, Putty, Firefox, Chrome Browser and much much more open-source and freeware apps in your pen drive so that you could do some urgent work from the nearby Internet cafe even during your vacation. Dive straight into the app collection. - Eric Meyer's Color Blender http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/color-blend/
The best way to get your different shades of purple, cyan, yellow or which ever color you want. Color blender helps you blend step-by-step variations between two colors in a slick online webpage. From CSS guru Eric Meyer.
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