October 14, 2024

12 Blogs That Can Expand Your Web Design Repertoire

Web design, much like any technology related field, requires those who make their living in it to stay on top of it’s ever evolving nature. To maintain a high level of work, a web designer must always be looking for ways to expand his or her repertoire. This can involve learning new techniques, finding new software to increase productivity, or staying up to date on the latest design trends. All of this can take a lot of time and effort, but the web design community if full of generous people who offer up their knowledge for free in the form of a blog.

Here are some of the best out there that are loaded with things you can add to your web design repertoire.

Web Designer Wall

Web Designer Wall is a great place to find in depth tutorials and articles about modern design trends. I would like for the posts to be more frequent, but that is overlooked due to the high quality of content.

Web Designer Wall

Noupe

Noupe covers everything from css to flex. It’s also a great place to find design resources such as brushes and icons.

Noupe

Astheria

Astheria isn’t your average web design blog. On it you won’t find tons of free phtoshop brushes, but you will find insightful articles and viewpoints about web design.

Astheria

Smashing Magazine

Smashing Magazine is easily the most popular web design blog. It is a great place to stay on top of the latest in web design.

Noupe

Six Revisions

Six Revisions has a perfect blend of web design and development articles, which makes it a great place for designers to expand their skills beyond Photoshop.

Six Revisions

Blog.SpoonGraphics

Blog.SpoonGraphics includes Illustrator and Photoshop tutorials, free vector resources and articles on the topic of graphic design.

Blog.SpoonGraphics

Web Resources Depot

Web Resources Depot is an ultimate resource for web designers. Posts range from Photoshop brush collections to jQuery tutorials.

Web Resources Depot

PSDTUTS

Photoshop is such an important tool for a web designer and PSDTUTS is a great place to learn new techniques.

PSDTUTS

Abduzeedo

Much like PSDTUTS, Abduzeedo is another blog that is loaded with amazing Photoshop tutorials.

Abduzeedo

WebAppers

WebAppers brings you the best applications to help you be more productive.

WebAppers

Fuel Your Creativity

Fuel Your Creativity is a frequently updated blog full of insightful design related articles.

Fuel Your Creativity

Vandelay Design Blog

Vandelay Design Blog is a well written blog with topics ranging from SEO to the design process. With frequent posts showcasing beautiful web designs it is also a great source for inspiration.

Vandelay Design Blog

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Henry Jones is a web developer, designer, and entrepreneur with over 14 years of experience. He is the founder of WDL and ThemeTrust.

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38 Comments

  1. Umut Reply

    Thanks very much for adding WebResourcesDepot to the list.

    I’m following Web Design Ledger too & love the content.

    P.S. And, your site has one of the most beautiful WordPress designs I have ever seen.

    Bests.

  2. adelle Reply

    Henry, great list and I feel honored to be included with some of the bigger sites on the list!

    This list will be great for newcomers to the industry as well. I’ve spread the love on twitter!

  3. JB Design and Photo Reply

    Some really great sites on this list, including some new blogs that I hadn’t seen before.

    I also have to agree that the Envato sites (PSD/NET/VectorTuts) are a really great resource, and can’t forget about SpoonGraphics, Web Designer Wall, oh and Freelance Folder is another great one for us freelance designers.

  4. Jacob Gube Reply

    Henry,

    Thanks for including me up there! I’m glad someone’s seeing where I’m going with Six Revisions – I do write development articles, but not overly complex stuff. My goal is for designers to pick up a few things about development, and developers pick up a few things about design. I’m a developer/designer, which is becoming more and more uncommon these days.

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