12 Blogs To Help Designers Learn Web Development
It is rare to find a talented web designer that is just as proficient at web development. Obviously, one can be successful at specializing in design only, but a web designer can only benefit from having a better understanding of what is going on behind the scenes. If you want to take steps in learning some code, here are twelve great blogs that can get you on your way.
Viget – Extend
Extend is the web development blog of Viget’s blog family.
NetTuts
NutTuts, part of the popular “Tuts” family of blogs by Envato, is a great place to find easy to follow tutorials on HTML, CSS, Javascript, CMS’s, PHP and Ruby on Rails.
456 Berea St
456 Berea St is written by Roger Johansson, a Swedish web professional. The content is mainly made up of articles on web standards, accessibility, or usability.
Woork
Antonio Lupetti is the web developer behind Woork. The blog contains posts about web applications, programming, and resources for web designers. It is also full of tutorials on topics such as PHP, Coldfusion, MySQL, JavaScript, Ajax, and CSS.
Vitamin
Vitamin is a multi-author blog with tons of useful articles. It won the SXSW Award for Best Educational Resource in 2007.
Snook.ca
Jonathan Snook has been writing articles on Snook.ca since 2001. The blog focuses on web development, design and freelance.
Signal vs. Noise
Signal vs. Noise is a blog by 37Signals, the people behind Ruby On Rails and numerous successful Web Apps. Although you won’t find many tutorials on the site, it does provide great insight into the thought process of web development.
Ajaxian
With Ajax being a technology that is so closely connected to the UI and front end design of a web site, it is something that designers want to know how to do. Ajaxian is a great blog to read to stay on top of all things Ajax.
StyleGrind
StyleGrind is written by Peter Dorsi and is full of great tips and tutorials on jQuery, Ajax, CSS, and more.
Boxes And Arrows
Boxes and Arrows is full of informative articles on interaction design, information architecture, and the business side of things.
CSS Globe
CSS Globe is a community driven blog on web standards.
Six Revisions
As I mentioned in 12 Blogs That Can Expand Your Web Design Repertoire, Six Revisions is the perfect blend of Web Design and Web Development content. So I didn’t have a choice to include it here as well.
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25 comments
Nikki - Logo Design Guru
December 23, 2008web design is a difficult process for some people so thanks for posting some outlets to learn from.
Tom Wilson
December 24, 2008Thanks. Woork is one of my favorites.
Chip
December 24, 2008For someone wanting to learn more about programming like myself, this is great.
Schalk
December 25, 2008An awesome list, thanks. You may also want to introduce your readers to the web builder zone. css.dzone.com
FM
December 26, 2008Good information. Thanks for the help!
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Mathieu
December 26, 2008The last post on Style Grind has been made on May 23, 2008 ….
Dhane
December 27, 2008What a great post. It’s good to know that I have been following some of the best sites on the web to help me develop my skills.
Web Designer
December 29, 2008Good resources for web designer in different aspects.
Antonio Lupetti
January 1, 2009Thanks for the mention!
Pokrate
January 4, 2009gr8 list and gr8 site too.
astorix
January 13, 2009These sites are great! I’m one of those designers who started off with no clue about designing for the web, and learning how has been a long process. I’m always glad to find new resources like these.
vasanth platoon
January 19, 2009Well lists thanks.
Sean Delaney
February 3, 2009This is a really nice list of sites!
Thanks
Website Designing
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Web design and development
March 3, 2009Wow!.. Nice information to all designers to learn about development. This is very helpful to me. Thanks for this post.
Webdesign
March 7, 2009Great list! thanks!
Regards,
Mark
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Web Design and Web Development
May 5, 2009An excellent post. Thanks for sharing.
netultimate
May 15, 2009Excellent article – I really appreciate your knowledge about web development, I have bookmarked it for later viewing and forwarded it on. Thanks
Jen Diaz
June 18, 2009This is exactly what I needed!
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THEOSOFT
January 8, 2010I appreciate your Web Informative blog. I think its helpful for a new generation.
Thanks.
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March 1, 2010Thanks for sharing such a great article. Very informative for the beginners who intersted in development. Keep writing on such subjects.
Construction Materials
March 1, 2010Great post.I found it very useful and i never noticed these site before.
neil
April 24, 2010Hat’s off. Well done, as we know that “hard work always pays off”, after a long struggle with sincere effort it’s done.
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Janna
May 19, 2012I’d also suggest http://www.studentguidewebdesign.com! Nice article though