CrazyLeaf Editorial
One of the greatest benefit websites and blogs have over research thesis and books, is that they’re always updated with fresh content.
No matter how much of the latest information you pack into books, it will surely get outdated by the time it reaches the bookshelves.There’ s an average span of about a year and a half between finishing the manuscript and getting it published. Sad, I know, but this is how traditional publishing works.
On the other hand, blogs and websites are fluid. Content can be written within a couple of minutes on the latest news in the industry. Subscribe to an RSS reader and you’re able to read it within minutes.
For a designer, when trends literally change overnight, reading a lot of books and journals is great, but in order to stay in sync, you should follow some blogs.
There are literally thousands of blogs and websites on the web so we’ve narrowed it down for you. If you’re just starting out, here are four sites that we think you should bookmark.
1) IM Now
IM Now is the official blog of the company IM Creator. This is a regularly updated blog with fresh insights on the design and development industry. For example their article titled Free Business Tools For Your Web Design Business provides useful information and links to relevant resources which will help you in your business.
Should you use WordPress as your site platform or go for some other website builder tool? Where on the Web will you get high quality professional fonts every month? Although Twitter has millions of users and thousands of designers on it, which of them should you actually follow and pay attention to?
You will find answers to these and similar questions on this blog.
2) Noupe
Noupe regularly delivers news for designers and web developers across the globe on topics related to design which include CSS, Ajax, JavaScript, web UI, graphics, typography, advertising, and more. Still, they target the average reader hence the articles are not difficult to understand.
The blog is updated almost every day with a fresh article, adding to their archives of information on a broad range of topics. For example, their latest article (as of writing of this piece) was about some of the most creative 404 error pages on the web. Now designers and developers can go through it and take inspiration from the different designs.
3) A List Apart
This blog is really one of the best of its kind. It started in 1997 as a mailing list with a website that formally launched in 1998. So it is almost an 18 year old site, a long time for a website to exist.
Now we are digging deeper because A List Apart is one of the most trustworthy resources for web standards since the days when the web was a baby. The site’s content are contributed by seasoned web professionals, which cater to their readership of professional designers and developers, so you may find it difficult if you are starting out.
This website was launched in October 2007 as the personal freelance web design homepage of Paul Andrew. They took on a different direction later and evolved into the design resource magazine that they are today.
The site offers a range of insightful articles ranging from tutorials, time-saving techniques, fresh resources, inspirational art covering web design and development, and graphic design.
I hope you will find the above four resources useful. Drop in a comment below if you know of any other good website which may be added to this list.
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